History Characters / TheHeavenCycle

A list of characters in ''Literature/TheHeavenCycle''.

Due to the twist-heavy nature of the series, '''all spoilers are unmarked'''.

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* [[Characters/TheHeavenCycleApplicants Applicants to the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program]]
* [[Characters/TheHeavenCycleTheAssociation The Association]]
* [[Characters/TheHeavenCycleHeavenAndHell Heaven and Hell]]
* [[Characters/TheHeavenCycleImmunes Immunes]]
* [[Characters/TheHeavenCycleOthers Others]]
* [[Characters/TheHeavenCycleAlternateEarths Spoilers]] [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Alternate Earths[[/labelnote]]
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* [[Characters/TheHeavenCycle Others]]

* '''[[Characters/TheHeavenCycleAlternateEarths SPOILERS]]''' [[labelnote:Click to expand]]Alternate Earths[[/labelnote]]

* '''[[Characters/TheHeavenCycleAlternateEarths SPOILERS]]'''[[labelnote:Click to expand]]Alternate Earths[[/labelnote]]

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!!Applicants

[[folder:"Tango"/Jenny “Jen” Waits]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A mute, snarky teenager who wakes up in a run-down room in Paradise, and the main protagonist of the series. Their pre-amnesiac self is Jenny Waits, the daughter of Charles and Tara Waits.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Tango's an excitable dork with no shame in adorably awkward habits and hugs in public, much as they might try and deny it.
--->'''Tango''': ''I'm not fucking cute.''
--->'''Maxine''': Kid, you give out hugs like candy on Halloween, you cry over cereal mascots, and you literally have no shame in wearing a sweater that's three sizes too big for you. I don't think there's another word for you.
* AmbiguousGender: Tango wakes up not even knowing their ''own'' gender, although they're revealed as a female come the big reveal of them being the Director's daughter.
* AnArmAndALeg: Their right arm is completely non-functional at the beginning of the story and Harlow later cuts it off. This, alongside their lack of a voice, is Ash's fault.
* TheAntiNihilist: For as much that happens to them, Tango ''refuses'' to give into despair, saying it best in the final chapters: "Fuck cynicism."
* ApocalypseMaiden: As an immune, Tango's the key to absorbing the knowledge from Heaven Chayne and Ash mean to use to become gods – in doing so, breaking open the Boundary and letting Heaven flood into Earth.
* BadassAdorable: Tango can be a sweetheart, and a total dork on certain subjects. Hurt their friends? You will ''pay''.
* BattleCouple: With Mint. Both have taken enough badass levels to qualify.
* BerserkButton: The song “That's the Way I Like It” ends up absolutely pissing them off at first. They eventually grow to like it, however.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Tango can be a real sweetheart, but doesn't always have compunction in delivering a nasty, deserved fate to someone who's earned it. Just ask Alice.
* BigDamnKiss: Delivers one to Mint at long last, but notes that with them being disembodied at the time, it wasn't exactly earth-shaking as they were expecting.
* BrokenHero: Tango, from the moment of their conception, has been kicked around, stomped on, and their entire existence summed up as an accident. Even in spite of this, Tango still remains perpetually and utterly upbeat at their core.
* ChastityCouple: With Mint, due to Tango being underage and Mint being uncomfortable with the concept of sex. The relationship is utterly genuine and loving regardless and Tango regards a sexual relationship as nothing more than a trivial "bonus."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Tango's a bit eccentric, as evidenced by their tendency to space out, their random fixation on a rusty key and a cutout of the face of Toucan Sam, and their tendency to cry over trivial things.
* CompanionCube: A cutout of Toucan Sam of Froot Loops fame serves as this to them during ''From Heaven's Door'', where they find him in the very first room they wake up in and keep him around for the rest of the ride.
* CuddleBug: Tango is quite physically intimate with their friends, especially Mint.
* CuteMute: An excitable, dorky fifteen-year-old kid with a propensity for hugs who can't speak -- at least, not [[{{Telepathy}} vocally]].
* DamselInDistress: Taken hostage by Chayne and Ash for the last act of ''From Heaven's Door'' to open the portal to Heaven.
* DeadpanSnarker: ''Incredibly'' so, [[SilentSnarker even with their inability to talk]].
* DeclarationOfProtection: They tend to give this, ''especially'' to Mint. And they mean it.
* TheDeterminator: No matter what's thrown at them and no matter the circumstances, Tango always, always, ''always'' gets back up to finish the fight
* DisabledSnarker: Tango is both completely mute (until they gain {{Telepathy}} thanks to Celia) and lacking the use of their right arm – which eventually ends up cut off – and remains playfully snarky throughout the entire series.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Their true name, pre-amnesia, was Jenny “Jen” Waits. Tango prefers to remain as “Tango” and lets go of their old life, and gives their father a DeathGlare after he accidentally calls them “Jen.”
* ExistentialHorror: Tango's ''constantly'' had people tell them their existence is an accident at best and they don't deserve to existence, or they have no purpose to their life. It's a continuous source of {{angst}} for them, although like all the rest of it, they refuse to let it get them down. In their words: "you know, of all the bullshit I've had lobbed at me to try and discourage me? I've still yet to hear one good reason as to why I should stop."
* FirstPersonSmartass: As they're unable to speak normally for half of the series, most of their snark is delivered through the narrative.
* ForcedToWatch: Pluto kills Tango's father as they and Jenny watch helplessly.
* HandicappedBadass: Only has one working arm, is possibly brain-damaged, and is mute for a good portion of the series, but Tango is still determined, resourceful, and turns out to have a whole ''slew'' of useful psychic powers that allows them to directly defeat many, significantly more able threats.
* HeroicBSOD: Breaks down and goes into a five-day coma after it's revealed what Ash did to them in ''From Heaven's Door'', and nearly hits the DespairEventHorizon after the attack on Haven commences in ''The Touch of Heaven''. Both times, Tango manages to get back up.
* HeroicSacrifice: At the end of ''The Touch of Heaven'', Tango plunges themselves into Hell to drag Jango down with them in a last ditch effort to save what's rest of Haven and their friends. They don't die, however, and their quest to get out of Hell sets up their part of the story in ''The Ambition of Hell''.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Revealed to think as themselves as little more than a “stubborn idiot” when Mint talks to them in Heaven. Even afterwards when they start to give themselves a little more faith to do the right thing, Tango still has a tendency to beat themselves up whenever they fail.
* HeroicSpirit: Tango has enough to fuel an armada. Their defining trait is their spirit and how much they simply ''refuse'' to give up, pressing on even against impossible odds.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Mint – until the end of ''The Touch of Heaven'', where they graduate to an OfficialCouple.
* HiddenDepths: For as loopy, eccentric, and easily torn down as they are, Tango is surprisingly mature and wise when it comes to it beyond simply being determined. It's telling that while Tango is usually the one who has to be picked up and motivated themselves, the climax of ''From Heaven's Door'' involves Tango subtly picking up on the various insecurities Mint holds and gently reassuring them with some sage advice.
* TheImmune: Tango is immune to the Phantom virus and, consequentially, the energies of Heaven. This revelation is what prompted Paradise Association into using them in the simulation, and Chayne wants to use them into storing the knowledge they gain from Heaven. The reason ''why'' is revealed in ''The Touch of Heaven''; Tango has a mind naturally more evolved than most other humans, and is one of a few who represent humans who are more in harmony with their own mind than everyone else – an early sign towards mankind's next evolutionary step.
* KidHero: Only fifteen years old. Because of [[YearOutsideHourInside time shenanigans while they're marooned in Hell]] after ''The Touch of Heaven'', Tango remains the same age even after the TimeSkip and returns to Earth after Mint (who was a year ''younger'' than them to start) has grown up into a young adult.
* LetsGetDangerous: In the war? Tango gets ready to fight back and take down both sides, along with Chayne.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Part of the big reveal in ''From Heaven's Door'' is that Director Charles is their father, and the Vice President Tara is their mother.
* MoralityChain: Tango is really the one, along with Mint, holding everyone together.
* NiceGuy: Although they can be playfully snarky and crude, Tango never means it in a way that's offensive and they're otherwise probably one of the nicest, most selfless people one could ever hope to meet otherwise.
* OfficialCouple: With Mint, after ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* RapeAsBackstory: Ash raped and tortured them before they were sent out into Paradise, resulting in their arm being paralyzed and them losing their voice. In a nice touch, Tango refuses to let this define them.
* PluckyGirl: At the end of the day, this is Tango's strongest attribute. Tango goes through a TraumaCongaLine capable of reducing most people to broken shambles, experiencing rape and torture in their past, being thrown in the way of potentially world-ending cataclysms ''numerous'' times, and seeing their friends suffer and die around them almost constantly – but Tango ''refuses'' to ever give up, and even when the Preceptor reveals Tango isn't TheChosenOne meant to save the world at the beginning of ''The Ambition of Hell'', Tango vows to find a way anyways.
* PrematurelyBald: The effects of Mint's Ascension scorch off Tango's hair -- and most of their skin, but that ends up regenerating. Their hair, on the other hand? Doesn't, leaving Tango essentially bald.
* PsychicPowers: Tango's got a wealth of potentially extremely useful powers as part of being able to harness the energies of Hell (the ability of which being called “Mylotheia”).
* SilentProtagonist: Completely mute as a result of Ash's rape and torture. They get over this by learning telepathy with help from Celia in ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* SilentSnarker: Unable to talk ([[{{Telepathy}} for a good chunk of the series]]) and yet still incredibly sarcastic.
* SirSwearsALot: Quite foul-mouthed in the narration, especially in comparison to Mint.
* TheSpeechless: They're restricted to vague grunts for most of the story. They ''can'' talk normally through their Shade, and eventually manage to overcome not being able to actually speak through telepathy.
* {{Telepathy}}: Manages to gain a telepathic voice courtesy of Celia as part of their Mylotheian dossier of powers.
* TenderTears: Tango has a tendency to cry quite a lot, sometimes over comically trivial things but just as often because of the fact they're incredibly sensitive -- ''especially'' where their friends are concerned.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tango is the Tomboy to Mint's Girly Girl.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tango ''loves'' Froot Loops and is even more obsessed with Toucan Sam, who serves as their CompanionCube in ''From Heaven's Door''. Months after breaking out of Paradise, Tango eats virtually nothing ''but'' Froot Loops.
* UndyingLoyalty: Towards their friends. Tango will never, ''ever'' give up trying to protect their friends and always puts them before themselves.

!!Tropes specific to Jenny
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
* AmnesiacResonance: Although there are several marked differences between Jenny and their amnesiac personality, Tango (Tango, for starters, seems to lack Jenny's anxiety and is ''significantly'' nicer and more outgoing from the start), the strongest of Jenny's traits -- her selflessness -- lives on just as powerfully in Tango.
* AnnoyingLaugh: To Tango, anyways, who notes Jenny's laugh is "sort of smug" and doesn't like it as a result.
* BeneathTheMask: Jenny is anti-social, aggressive, and almost impossible to talk to or reason with at first glance, but underneath that, Jenny's just a scared kid acting out the way she is due to immense pressure placed on her as a result of the Association's actions. At her core, Jenny is ''incredibly'' selfless and kindhearted, traits that live on in Tango long after.
* BreakTheCutie: Coarse as she is, Jenny's just an innocent kid put into harm's way who's incredibly spirited and friendly when her mask is broken by Jackson – which makes it all the more tragic when Ash rapes and tortures her into catatonia for nothing more than giggles.
* DaddysGirl: Tango remarks that Jenny self-admitted she preferred Charles over Tara -- presumably, until the former sold her out to the experiment, causing the entire family to fall apart.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not ''quite'' as sarcastic as Tango (or even Jackson), but she has her moments.
* TheImmune: The first of such in the series; Jenny has a genetic immunity to the Phantom, reasons being that she's actually slightly more evolved than most other humans and can withstand the energies of Heaven and Hell as a result, although that doesn't come to realization until Tango is born.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rude, aggressive, and anti-social as could be... and, underneath that, incredibly loyal and grateful to her friends for sticking with her childish escape plan and determined to find a cure to the Phantom through much less revolting means as the Association.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Downplayed. While Jenny isn't exactly a "minor" character, she's a supporting one at best; she has an important role in ''Before Heaven'' where Tango doesn't exist yet, but even then, she isn't the POV character, and her appearances afterwards in Tango's mind are sporadic. Jenny's screentime is awfully disproportionate for someone who's the previous identity of the ''main protagonist'', especially in comparison to Alice.
* PosthumousSibling: Jason Waits. Although Jason died when Jenny was three instead of before she was born, Jenny admits she barely remembers Jason anyways -- but feels a connection to him regardless and understands it's his death and the resultant grief this caused Charles and Tara that fuels their decision to try and use ''Jennny'' as a means to procuring a cure to the Phantom.
* RapeAsDrama: Jenny's attempted escape from the Nest ended up with her rape and torture at the hands of Ash, which is played for maximum horror and the effects of which lingering throughout the entire series.
* SirSwearsALot: Incredibly foul-mouthed, just as much so as her amnesiac personality.
* SharingABody: After being regressed to Tango's mind due to the neurochip's effects, Jenny's revealed to very much still be alive within Tango's mind – and, in direct contrast to Alice, has been cheering Tango every step of the way through their journey and gives them the motivation they need to get back up and confront Jango and Alice at the end of ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* ShrinkingViolet: Jenny is implied to have crippling social anxiety and is unwilling to talk to anyone else save Jackson and Alice, whom she relates to.
* TalkingToThemself: Toward the climax of ''The Touch of Heaven'', Jenny herself talks to Tango when the latter is on the verge of the DespairEventHorizon and gives them the motivation to pick themself back up and finish the fight. After Tango returns to Earth in ''The Radiance of Heaven'', Tango and Jenny start talking more frequently.
* TankTopTomboy: Outside of the occasional tee, Jenny seems to only prefer tank-tops and she's ''quite'' tomboyish on top of that.
* {{Tomboy}}: Coarse, foul-mouthed, rebellious, and no regard to her own physical appearance, with a voice even regarded as quite boyish by Jackson.
* UnwittingPawn: Of Alice, who seamlessly manipulates her into a botched escape attempt even after Jackson wises up.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives a scathing one to her own father as a result of his decision to use her in the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program calling him out on using her against her will without having ever asked for an alternative solution.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Jenny tells Tango this toward the end of ''The Touch of Heaven'', stating Tango has a drive and a determination not even she has and Tango is more capable of stopping Alice and Jango than she would ever be.
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[[folder:"Mint"/Alison “Alice” Witzenberg]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

An optimistic, albinistic teenager Tango finds shortly after waking up. They join Tango in their quest to escape Paradise. Their pre-amnesiac identity is Alison Witzenberg, a teenager who was living on their own in Quebec when they signed up.
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!!Tropes specific to Mint
* AGodIAmNot: After they gain god-like powers in Heaven alongside Chayne, Mint fervently denies Chayne's claim of becoming a god and instead opts to simply use their powers to kill Chayne and return to the real world.
* AmbiguousGender: Similarly to Tango, Mint's completely androgynous the first time they're seen in the story.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: With the neurochip inducing amnesia in them, the innocent, childish NiceGuy Mint is is a ''stunning'' contrast to how they originally were as Alice.
* AntiHero: Eventually evolves into one of these after a pronounced TraumaCongaLine through ''The Touch of Heaven'', becoming cold, more pragmatic, much more willing to tap into [[BreakingSpeech Alice's means of self-defense]], and climaxing with the first part of ''Heaven & Hell'', which ends with them nearly resorting to cold-blooded murder to avenge the death of Jilton. Tango coming back after that incident knocks some sense back into them and they mellow back into their old, non-murderous self, to the point where they become hesitant to shoot a very clearly murderous Tex.
* TheAtoner: After they regain their memory back, Mint decides to spend the rest of their life atoning for everything they did as Alice.
* BadassAdorable: A young, bespectacled, optimistic sweetheart who singlehandedly destroys an omnicidal misanthrope after gaining the powers of Heaven and almost ''destroys the world'' thanks to their Ascension-capable powers.
* BattleCouple: As this point, Mint qualifies for this with Tango.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mint, at their core, is an unhesitatingly selfless person who would risk their own life for their friends. It is ''not'' a wise idea to push them or hurt those they care for; they singlehandedly manage to kill both Chayne and Ash in the first story when they try and use Tango to destroy the world. As the series progresses, this ends up deconstructed; the further Mint goes to get back at those who have hurt their friends, the less nice they become as a result. They are ''especially'' dangerous without their neurochip as well.
* BlindWithoutEm: Utterly helpless without their glasses, to the point where they can't even see Jilton's indication she's playing a ReverseMole in the climax of ''From Heaven's Door''.
* BreakTheCutie: Breaks after the events of ''The Touch of Heaven'' and spends most of ''Heaven & Hell'' as a depressed, quiet wreck.
* BrokenBird: In the first part of ''Heaven and Hell'', Mint is a world-weary young adult losing their hope and slowly slipping into pessimism as a result of both external circumstances and Alice's lingering influence.
* ChastityCouple: With Tango, due to Tango being underage and Mint being uncomfortable with the concept of sex. The relationship is utterly genuine and loving regardless. They do discuss a potential upgrade after Tango is physically legal.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Although they're a teenager (fourteen) they're still naive, idealistic, and decidedly innocent. This is a trait of theirs Chayne singles out as an imperfection, and it's ultimately Mint's optimistic mindset that allows Mint to defeat her. The decay of this trait come ''Heaven & Hell'' after Tango's sacrifice signals just how bleak things have become.
* DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally as a kid (mostly in response to [[TheGadfly Jilton's]] antics) but they become ''much'' snarkier post TimeSkip.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: To Tango. They end up switching to the role of TheHero for the last act of ''From Heaven's Door'' after Tango is captured, complete with a POV switch, and end up being the one to take down Ash and Chayne themselves, and ''The Ambition of Hell'' similarly is more their story than Tango's.
* DoNotCallMePaul: In a similar vein to Tango/Jenny, Mint's true name – Alice – agitates them after they learn of their true identity, especially after the events of ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* DroppedGlasses: Mint has a tendency to lose their glasses or otherwise have them knocked off their face. This does, however, end up useful when Mint deliberately [[ExploitedTrope exploits this]] to get Ash's guard down.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from a harmless, innocent kid into a sociopathic monster who manipulates Jango into attacking Haven after their neurochip is removed. Ditto when the original Chayne destroys their conscience, which results in them using their innate powers to nearly ''destroy the entire planet''.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Became the person they are through the effects of the neurochip blocking out their original personality. As soon as the neurochip is removed, Mint immediately reverts back to their old self and it takes physically destroying the Alice half of them to make them stay as Mint.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Mint starts out as a monstrous sociopath when they're still Alice, doing a one-eighty once they have a neurochip implanted through their head which gives birth to the Mint personality. After their neurochip is removed in ''The Touch of Heaven'', Mint goes right back to their old self and becomes the BigBad of the story, spends most of ''Heaven & Hell'' flirting with the slippery slope and becomes the final antagonist of the first part when Chayne destroys their conscience, and finally reverts back to their good self permanently once Tango fuses their own mind with them.
* HeroicAlbino: Albinistic, but one of the most heroic and selfless characters in the series -- a major contrast to how they [[EvilAlbino originally were as Alice]].
* HeroicBSOD: Nearly goes insane and almost completely gives up on stopping Heaven's approach after their head passes through a weak spot in reality in a Mad Room. Jilton's there to talk some sense into them.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tango – until the end of ''The Touch of Heaven'', where they graduate to an OfficialCouple.
* HiddenDepths: Mint can seem cowardly and weak at times, but under that? Mint is kind, compassionate, selfless and much stronger than they initially appear.
* IHatePastMe : Mint absolutely reviles their identity as Alice and devotes themself to making up for Alice's crimes when they're flown out of Haven.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Admits to Sarie that beyond anything else, the reason why they continue to fight against impossible odds is the prospect of simply settling down with their friends and living a normal life after everything is said and done.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Utterly incorruptible, even with the powers of gods at their disposal? Mint remains gentle and sweet.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Like most of the kids in the heaven Project, Mint had their mind wiped and builds a brand new identity.
* LetsGetDangerous: When Mint brings out that godly power? ''Watch out.''
* {{Meganekko}}: Gains glasses after being captured by Red Clover in place of contacts, and is a complete sweetheart to compliment them.
* NiceGuy: Mint's selfless, kind, thoughtful, supportive, and thinks nothing of risking their own life to save their friends, and while it takes a hit post-TimeSkip, Tango's return seems to mostly instill this trait back into them. This is a ''major'' contrast from their original identity as Alice.
* OfficialCouple: With Tango, after ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* SuperiorSuccessor: To Alice, and they both know it. The crux of Alice's ThanatosGambit is to take away Mint's conscience to make them better and more efficient than Alice ever was.
* SweetTooth: Stockpiles on junk food in the grocery store section of Paradise and guzzles down four bottles of root beer in a few minutes.
* TeensAreShort: Fourteen years old pre-TimeSkip, and stands a paltry 4'10.
* TheTeetotaler: Is averse to alcoholic drinks. Pressure from Darby and Tango ends with them reluctantly drinking a few things of alcopop, and... [[IntoxicationEnsues they end up feeling it]].
* TenderTears: Mint breaks into tears rather easily, almost as much as Tango. Constant pounding on them as they grow up during their TraumaCongaLine means this trope hasn't gone away even when they become an adult.
* ThatManIsDead: Mint is ''not'' Alice. Absolutely, 100 percent not.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Gender neutrality aside, Mint is the Girly Girl to Tango's Tomboy.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Tango after they save their life twice, going as far as to risk their own life fending off Suits in Paradise after Tango goes comatose for five whole days.
* WideEyedIdealist: Despite all the horrible reveals about Red Clover and even some of the other applicants – themselves included – and all the horrors of Heaven, Mint is still adamant that they and the other runaways will be able to break out. Tango's HeroicSacrifice and subsequently spending years as TheChewToy breaks this trait of theirs, however.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Literally at the end of ''The Ambition of Hell'', where years of being TheChewToy – coupled with an extra shove from Chayne and Naberius by means of literally stealing their conscience then forcefully trying to Ascend them – results in Mint nearly being driven insane by their new power and nearly destroying the world itself as a result of finally letting all their pent-up anger go. Tango, thankfully, manages to put some sense back into them.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Doesn't know what “subtlety” means, much to Jilton's amusement (even gaining a name drop to [[Film/ThePrincessBride the film in question]]) and uses it in a way similar to “cool.”

!!Tropes specific to Alice
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')
* AmbiguousGender: It's remarked Alice puts quite some effort into looking as androgynous as possible.
* AmnesiacDissonance: The most notable case in the series. It's remarkable how much the sociopathic Alice contrasts with Mint.
* ArchEnemy: To Tango and Mint; not only their most personal adversary, but easily the most persistent and affecting within the plot.
* BigBad: For the first half of the series. Alice's manipulations are what leads to Jenny's rape in the first place, and they become the villain for both ''Before Heaven'', ''The Touch of Heaven'', and (most of) ''The Ambition of Hell''. As soon as Alice carks it, the BigBad of the overall series, the original Chayne Summers, reveals herself.
* BlindWithoutEm: In a similar vein to their amnesiac counterpart, Alice's glasses are knocked off by Andrew and they spend the next bit helplessly feeling around on the ground before Ash steps on them.
* BreakingSpeech: Their favorite tactic, often combined with MindRape whenever they're able to; they started in the habit by driving a homeless man to suicide through one of these, and proceeded to give another ''scathing'' one to Tango once they reawaken in ''The Touch of Heaven''. They lambast Mint with the same in their final appearances in ''Heaven & Hell'', but Mint manages to turn them back on Alice instead.
* CameBackWrong: Upon their resurrection as a thought-form in ''Heaven and Hell'', Alice is a decaying, twisted revenant driven purely by vengeful hatred, barely holding onto the thin vestiges of sanity they've retained.
* CessationOfExistence: During their BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with Tango, Tango manages to overpower them and erase them completely, restoring their body to Mint's control. This happens yet again once they allow the Never-becoming keeping them alive in the next story to seep out of their body – meaning they completely cease to exist as a result.
* TheChessmaster: While not quite on the level of Chayne, Alice's plan in ''The Touch of Heaven'' is still a remarkably proficient example of Alice taking this role; Alice manages to pin the blame on their torching of a hospital on the raiders, before manipulating Jango and his entire tribe into decimating the entire town of Haven for them, ultimately planning to leave the Association to clean up the mess while they walk away free.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: As a user and abuser of pawns as well as a person who utterly loathes to be controlled in any way, Alice unfortunately happens to fall into this rut a lot, murdering Niles after he goes a little too far in his advances on Alice, trying to strangle Jackson while he's still under the impression he and Alice are “friends,” and trying to have Jango and his entire tribe wiped out by the Association after using them to decimate Haven.
* ControlFreak: Due to a severe complex they developed after years of brutal abuse at the hands of their father, Alice snapped and decided they always wanted to be in control of their own life from that point onward (and to never be ''controlled'' by anyone again). As a result of having never come to peace with their own weaknesses and instead devoting every part of their life to distance themself from them, Alice has something of a tendency to exact [[DisproportionateRetribution extremely nasty retaliation]] to anything that puts them “out” of absolute control of their own life, repeatedly murdering and torturing anyone that threatens their individuality and eventually resolving to obliterate an entire town to permanently erase any trace of their good counterpart, Mint.
* DeaderThanDead: Forcefully sealed within their own mind before ''From Heaven's Door'', almost completely erased from existence by Tango in ''The Touch of Heaven'', revived and then dies a ''second'' time once the Never-becoming keeping them alive are transferred to Mint, and their final posthumous attempt to take over Mint's body is stopped once and for all. At the end, Alice is not only dead, but has ''completely ceased to exist''.
* EvilAlbino: In a stark contrast to their entirely heroic amnesiac counterpart, Alice is a cruel, vindictive sociopath willing to murder thousands of people to assure they aren't seen as weak.
* EnemyWithin: To Mint, playing this role most directly in ''Heaven & Hell'' where they attempt to psychologically torture Mint out of their body from within.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: How they approach their final death; instead of breaking down and crying like in ''The Touch of Heaven'', Alice dies laughing and grinning as they attempt to destroy Mint's conscience in their own death, fading away with no regrets.
* FalseFriend: Serves as this to Jackson and Jenny during pre-simulation, manipulating them into an ill-fated escape attempt which ends with Jenny being raped and tortured by Ash and Jackson poisoned and nearly killed by Alice themselves. When they return in ''The Touch of Heaven'', they only briefly pretend to be this to Tango before giving them a nasty BreakingSpeech and leaving them to die, instead implicitly posing as this to Jango during his attack on Haven.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts up an excellent appearance of being a supportive, helpful friend. Even after they reveal themselves as a manipulative scumbag, they still act chummy and cheerful with people. They completely lose this trait after they're resurrected, though, this time making no bones about how much of a vindictive monster they are.
* FreudianExcuse: Alice's father Sheldon was ''horrible'' to both them and his wife, physically abusing the both of them and being implied to have gone as far as threatening to ''kill'' Alice to terrorize Mary into having sex with him. This, alongside Alice's non-stop paranoia and anxiety, finally led them to snap at the age of twelve and poison their own father, fleeing from home after.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Their defining motivation. The only thing they care about is how they can benefit in the long run and how they can entertain themselves. They might ''act'' like they care about someone's well-being, but ultimately, everything falls to their interests alone.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Downplayed in that Alice was already a villain – but one with realistic insecurities and a [[FreudianExcuse reason for their villainy]]. When they destroy Haven and sentence almost its entire populace to [[AndIMustScream horrific eternal torture]] out of ''spite'', however? Absolutely nothing can save them after that.
* KickTheDog: Attempting to strangle Jackson after he's worn out his use to them and forcing Tango to relive their own rape for kicks rank pretty high, as does driving a homeless man to suicide after spending months acting as a FalseFriend to him.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Killing Niles was probably the one good thing Alice ever did.
* KilledOffForReal: After having been seemingly erased from existence by Tango and temporarily restored by Naberius, what remains of Alice's mental form finally dies for real at the mid-way point of ''The Ambition of Hell'' when they let the Never-becoming within them pass onto Mint in an effort to forcefully reshape them in their image – which never comes to fruition, meaning Alice is ''never'' coming back this time.
* KnightOfCerebus: Unlike Ash and Chayne, Alice's introduction of CerebusSyndrome into the setting ''sticks'' after they come back in ''The Touch of Heaven'' with their actions [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore leaving a permanent change to the status quo]] and not a single thing about them being played for comedy at any point.
* ManipulativeBastard: Their forte. They trick both Jenny and Jackson into believing they're their supportive friend and convinced them into undertaking a risky break-out mission from the Nest, and they convince Jango into attacking Haven to erase any part of their old life in the process.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: The mindset that fuels their ControlFreak tendencies. As a result of having lived their entire childhood in constant fear, misery, and abuse at the hands of their father, Alice finally escaped their home and resolved to ''never'' lose control and know that pain again. They react ''badly'' when they experience those feelings again.
* NonActionBigBad: As the result of being a tiny albino kid scrawny even for their young age, Alice tends to rely more on manipulation rather than physical combat. It's a different story in their [[MentalWorld mind]], however.
* OverarchingVillain: Although they're not the BigBad of the series as a whole, they're the closest thing to it for the entire first half of the series, serving as Tango and Mint's personal archenemy with the true BigBad only revealed after their death -- and Alice's influence continues to haunt the plot ''long'' after they finally die.
* TheParanoiac: Alice is incredibly paranoid and has been all their life, and always has something of a tendency to immediately assume the worst possible scenario when facing adversity. [[DisproportionateRetribution Unfortunately, they tend to respond in kind as a result.]]
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: After Mint's neurochip is removed, Alice takes central command again.
* SmugSnake: A high-functioning example, but Alice, at their core, is nothing more than a vindictive, spiteful monster who, upon dropping their [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly facade]], is contemptuous, fond of a BreakingSpeech or two, and perpetually confident in their own invulnerability up until Tango finds a way to bypass harming Mint by destroying Alice's mind which leaves them ''pleading'' for undeserved mercy.
* TheSociopath: Alice is a hedonistic, paranoid, and somewhat impulsive psychopath who flatly admits that people are “funny little objects” to them, drawing no moral quandaries from murder, torture, [[MindRape metaphorical rape]], and having an entire town devoured by eldritch monsters so long as they gather some sort of benefit from the end. This is even made into a plot point in ''Before Heaven''; Alice is ''physically incapable'' of changing their nature, a trait that makes them unable to understand Jackson and Jenny and ultimately drives them to try and murder the former.
* TeensAreMonsters: The youngest of the applicants, excluding Jackson, and bar none the most unrepentantly evil of them.
* ThanatosGambit: Their final plot once every other option of theirs has been exhausted in ''Heaven & Hell'' is to simply allow the Never-becoming keeping them alive to leave their form with one more order to destroy Mint's conscience -- killing them in the process but turning Mint into an even better mirror of Alice in the process.
* VillainousBreakdown: It's brief, but Alice breaks down into desperate pleading and crying once Tango finally manages to gain the upper hand on them and erase them from existence in ''The Touch of Heaven''. This is subverted upon their final death in ''Heaven & Hell'', however, where they calmly accept their own death comfortable in the knowledge their ThanatosGambit is dooming Mint anyways.
* WalkingSpoiler: Their role as the true BigBad in ''The Touch of Heaven'' is one of the biggest twists of the series.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Hair as white as a blizzard because of their albinism, and a heart just as cold.
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[[folder:”Darby”/Billy Mackel]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A sarcastic, but nevertheless determined runaway Tango and Mint meet soon after their initial breakout. His real name is Billy Mackel, a vagrant from America who signed onto the program to dodge responsibility for his previous murders.
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* AmbiguousGender: Like Tango and Mint, he's completely androgynous when they first meet and it takes until his file is read (alongside a complete makeover from the scruffy, childlike appearance he had before) for his gender to become clear.
* AmnesiacDissonance: While Darby's rough and easily excitable, he's nowhere ''near'' as much of a bastard as his past self and the revelation of [[SerialKiller what he did]] before he had his memory wife horrifies him.
* BetaCouple: With Lavender, to Tango and Mint.
* BloodKnight: Very eager to throw himself into harm's way in ''From Heaven's Door'' and takes bids on exacting revenge on Jilton personally after she seems to betray him and the applicants.
* DeadpanSnarker: Just as dry and sarcastic as Tango, and generally even more acerbic with his quips.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: A tragic casualty at Yonkers, dying in Lavender's arms after comforting her.
* DisneyDeath: Thought dead alongside Lavender before Tango and Mint first meet Director Charles – turns out he was just chucked back into Paradise and rejoins his friends alongside Jilton in time to stop Chayne and Ash's master plan from unfolding.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: It may not be as much as others, but he dies inspiring the others and having them go on, even to the last.
* EtTuBrute: Darby takes :Jilton's apparent betrayal ''very'' harshly.
* HandicappedBadass: Darby's missing an eye from when the Suits cut it out, but he's no less effective a survivor as his friends – something he lightly jostles the comparatively-untouched Lavender about in Paradise.
* IHatePastMe: Darby ''loathes'' his past self and the deeds he committed, adamantly swearing he isn't a sociopath when the topic is brought up.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: One of the more loathsome applicants to the program initially; there's almost no similarity between the brash but kind-hearted Darby and the thuggish psychopath Billy.
* KilledOffForReal: Dies at Pluto's hand in the Battle of Yonkers, and the second of the original heroes from ''From Heaven's Door'' to do so.
* OfficialCouple: With Lavender in ''Radiance'', after having spent some time as an ImpliedLoveInterest.
* SirSwearsALot: Rivals Tango in this department, although even he falls flat compared to Ash.
* TheOneGuy: To the main five applicants, Darby is the only major male of the group.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Subverted. Darby initially has purple hair in Paradise, but this turns out to be dye with his natural hair being blonde.

!!Tropes specific to Billy
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/BeforeHeaven''

* TheBully: Serves as this to many of the applicants during pre-simulation alongside Leliah.
* {{Jerkass}}: A murderer and a ''callous'' asshole who treats almost everyone around him with contempt except for fellow thugs like Leliah and Ash.
* {{Metalhead}}: Seems to evoke this general image, with the long hair, thuggish attitude, and love for metal bands, among them Music/MotleyCrue.
* SerialKiller: Murdered at least three homeless vagrants when he still lived in America, the reasons why he seems to cycle through.
* TheSociopath: A diagnosed psychopath who doesn't seem to have any true empathy. He's one of the few people Ash gets alongside during pre-simulation for this reason.
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[[folder: “Lavender”/Gladys Steele]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

Another applicant to the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program, a determined woman who's been alive the entire eight weeks of the simulation. Her true name is Gladys Steele.
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* BetaCouple: With Darby, to Tango and Mint.
* TheDeterminator: Surviving for eight weeks in a horrifying EldritchLocation takes a significant level of determination, ''especially'' since every indication was Lavender did it herself for the vast majority of her time there.
* DisneyDeath: Thought dead alongside Darby before Tango and Mint first meet Director Charles – turns out she was just chucked back into Paradise and rejoins her friends alongside Jilton in time to stop Chayne and Ash's master plan from unfolding.
* HumansAreSpecial: Wholeheartedly believes this, as she reveals to Mint.
* MysteriousPast: Unlike the others, who Lavender was before her amnesia and why she registered is a complete mystery.
* NiceGirl: Easily one of the nicest of the applicants. Lavender is endlessly supportive and encouraging to her friends and polite to everyone else she meets.
* OfficialCouple: With Darby in ''Radiance'', after having spent some time as an ImpliedLoveInterest.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Survived for ''eight weeks'' in Paradise, apparently on her own until she met Darby, without so much as a scratch.
* OnlySaneWoman: Compared to the other applicants, who are varying shades of bizarre and eccentric, Lavender is comparatively normal and levelheaded.
* TeamMom: Functions as this to the applicants, especially the significantly-younger Tango and Mint whom Lavender is always there to support and give advice to. She's even described as motherly on various occasions.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Lavender's demeanor and appearance suggests she's potentially much older than any of the other applicants, but she's actually in her early-to-mid-twenties, around the same age as Jilton and Darby.
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[[folder:”Jilton”/Maxine Thompson]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'')

A theatrical young woman obsessed with acting and comedy and another runaway who ends up in Red Clover's service after she sees too much. Her true name is Maxine Thompson, a student from an acting school from Wales.
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* AmnesiacResonance: Almost completely identical to her pre-amnesiac self, Maxine.
* CloudCuckoolander: Jilton doesn't exactly seem to be on the same plane her friends are, with the random tangents about pop culture derailing many conversations she has with people.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: To the Maxine on the Earth Tango ends up on after ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* FakeDefector: Appears to betray Mint and the others at the end of ''From Heaven's Door'' – to get close to Chayne and turn the tides to the applicants' favor.
* GenreSavvy: Jilton has an extremely innate familiarity with stories and pop culture and works this to her advantage in ''From Heaven's Door'', even taking the role of a “villain” to exploit the ''actual'' BigBad of the story.
* GuileHero: A ManipulativeBastard and master actor par excellent -- especially in the original ''From Heaven's Door'', where she's willing to play ''everyone'', even her own friends, for chumps to assure she and her allies manage to break out and thwart Chayne's plan to take over the world.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: From the side of Red Clover, to the side of the runaways, then back to Red Clover, and finally back to the runaways in ''From Heaven's Door''.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Ash intended to kill her after she accidentally found out about the surveillance systems in Paradise, but she sweet-talked him into letting her stay aboard as a monitor – although Ash still intends on killing her regardless.
* KilledOffForReal: In ''The Ambition of Hell'', suffering a fatal stab wound from the original Chayne Summers in her attempt to protect Mint. Although the alternate version of Maxine is still alive, the Jilton that was first part of the runaways isn't coming back.
* ManipulativeBastard: Maxine's completely willing to play both her friends and her enemies for fools if it means an advantage for the “right side,” even falsely betraying the runaways in the last act of ''From Heaven's Door'' – although she remarks that she genuinely had ''no idea'' that Mint and the others thought the betrayal was legit.
* NiceGirl: Incredibly pleasant to be around if one can get past the constant metaphors and pop culture references and endlessly supportive and helpful to her friends. Tellingly, Jilton's almost immediate to accept Celia as an ally even though she knows Celia is a wanted fugitive who'd ''kidnapped'' Tango days earlier.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever Jilton drops the hammy theatrics and pop culture references, such as when Mint has their mind pulled into Heaven, things are ''dire''.
* ReverseMole: Pretends to join the side of Chayne in the end of ''From Heaven's Door'' – only to screw Chayne's entire scheme once she promptly turns right back, having played for the “right side” the entire time.
* SacrificialLion: In ''The Ambition of Hell'', Jilton is the first major casualty of the story to demonstrate the new BigBad is ''not'' screwing around.
* SpannerInTheWorks: To Chayne's plan in ''From Heaven's Door'', pretending to join her scheme and undoing it with her further unprecedented betrayal.
* TheStoner: Becomes something of a pot addict from ''The Touch of Heaven'' onward, a trait of Maxine that shows up in her.
* TalksLikeASimile: Almost ''everything'' Jilton says is peppered with metaphors and similes, almost all of them in reference to movies and theater.
* {{Troll}}: Has something of a tendency to screw with her own friends for giggles, although she's ''far'' from malicious about it.
* WildCard: Jilton spends so much time with dubious allegiances and motives in ''From Heaven's Door'' that it's almost impossible to ascertain who's side she's really on until the very end, where she does confess that everything she's done ''has'' been for the safety of the applicants.

!!Tropes specific to Maxine
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/BeforeHeaven''
* AmnesiacResonance: As far as the contrast goes between the applicants and their original selves, Maxine and Jilton are almost completely identical.
* NiceGirl: From the little with see of her, Maxine's one of the only candidates completely and openly polite to Jackson.
* TheStoner: Has something of a liking for pot edibles – much to Harlow's annoyance.
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[[folder:Jackson Winters]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The son of the famous magnate couple the Ice Couple and one of the surviving applicants to the Paradise program.
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* AbusiveParents: Betty and Hilson are neglectful to him at the absolute ''best'', but if his nightmares are anything to go by, they may even by physically abusive as well.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: As opposed to Mint or Tango, ''Before Heaven'' is told entirely through his point-of-view.
* KidHero: One of the youngest characters in the story and the youngest applicant alongside Mint/Alice.
* LossOfIdentity: Come ''Heaven & Hell''.
* PrecisionFStrike: Jackson only ever lets out one use of the F-word in the series when he's telling off Alice for manipulating him and Jenny.
-->“Get the ''fuck'' out of my room and stay out.”
* TrueCompanions: After escaping Paradise with the lot of them, Ken and Arno become these to him.
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[[folder:Arno Conde]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

One of the surviving applicants, and one of Jackson's companions. A lifelong companion of Ken.
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* TheAtoner: Seemingly repentant about various atrocities that may or may not have happened in his past.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: The "Big" to Ken's "Little."
* BoomHeadshot: Killed this way in the Battle of Yonkers, dying instantly.
* CloudCuckoolander: A little eccentric after he gets the neurochip in, with a tendency for non-sequiturs and fairly bizarre mannerisms.
* FatAndSkinny: The "Fat" to Ken's "Skinny."
* GentleGiant: An ''enormous'' man who's also a complete and utter softie who, despite a professed history of violence, doesn't seem willing to so much as a harm a fly.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Alongside Ken, Arno survives the entire duration of the Paradise experiments even after the entire place starts collapsing into Heaven.
* PutOnABus: Entirely absent alongside Jackson for ''The Touch of Heaven'', but returns for ''Heaven & Hell''.
* TheQuietOne: Rarely says anything, usually stammering it out anyways. He ''still'' says more than Ken.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Has almost ''no'' time to react before he's gunned down in the Battle of Yonkers.
* TrueCompanions: After escaping Paradise with the lot of them, Ken and Jackson become these to him.
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[[folder:Ken Rokuru]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

One of the surviving applicants, and one of Jackson's companions. A lifelong companion of Arno.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: The "Little" to Arno's "Big."
* FatAndSkinny: The "Skinny" to Arno's "Fat."
* HiddenDepths: Apparently made some good money through smart investments.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Alongside Arno, Ken survives the entire duration of the Paradise experiments even after the entire place starts collapsing into Heaven.
* SilentSnarker: As quiet as he is, Ken does seem to react often with silent, deadpan irritation to Jackson's repeated awkward moments in ''Heaven & Hell'' onward.
* TheStoic: Doesn't seem to emote much beyond the occasional irritated glance or smile.
* TrueCompanions: After escaping Paradise with the lot of them, Arno and Jackson become these to him.
* TheVoiceless: Throughout every single one of his appearances, Ken has never had a single spoken word of dialogue; he's remarked, even in ''Heaven & Hell'', to immensely struggle with the English language. He has approximately one entire line of dialogue just before the Battle of Yonkers: [[LetsGetDangerous "Let's kick ass."]]
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!!The Association

[[folder:Mason Summers]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'')

Chayne's husband and the CEO of Paradise Association.
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* AffablyEvil: Incredibly cheerful and charismatic -- until he casually lets a bit of his veiled hatred for Mint slip and is further revealed to have made a deal with the original Chayne Summers under enigmatic circumstances to kill or otherwise use Mint.
* TheAtoner: Explored; he wants to be this, but he admits he can't make up for what he's done.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Although he does at least ''mean'' well if Aria is anything to go by, Mason's business practices are highly, ''highly'' questionable to say the least, with the cover-up of things like horrible human experimentation and the enforcement of a "shoot first ask questions later" policy with those infected by the Phantom being just a few of the things his tenure as CEO of Paradise Association has led to.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ruthless and amoral as he is, Mason genuinely loves his daughter Aria and his wife Chayne, and it's the death of the latter that fuels what's implied to be a ''very'' intense grudge towards Mint.
* EvilRedhead: A man with bright ginger hair who's also the CEO of a highly amoral supercorp with its own paramilitary, and beyond that a broken, grieving, spiteful monster towards Mint.
* FinalSolution: To Australia after the outbreak of the Phantom; after the Phantom had spread across Australia to a point where those remaining on the island couldn't be saved without allowing the spread of the Phantom further, Mason ordered a series of airstrikes to kill everyone still in the country and reduce it to a bomb-out hellhole.
* GreaterScopeVillain: For the entire first half of the series, Mason simply serves as a background presence, with the measures he takes to find a cure to the Phantom and his sanction of his monstrous wife's proposed experiment allowing the plot of ''Before Heaven'' and ''From Heaven's Door'' to happen alongside the creation of all the runaways, and his extremist policies push the BigBad of ''The Touch of Heaven'', Jango, to measures that lead him going off the deep end. It's only until ''The Ambition of Hell'' where he finally steps down from this position and makes his first onscreen presence -- and shortly after this, the true BigBad, beyond even him, reveals herself.
* HappilyMarried: Used to be this with Chayne. The apparent death of his daughter Aria started to put strain on this until Chayne made a HeelFaceTurn as a result of her grief and estranges herself from her husband. Aria does eventually come back, but by that time, Chayne is long dead.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Has only appeared in one chapter thus far in ''The Ambition of Hell'' with little truly revealed about his motivation and true personality, but him being the CEO of the Association makes him in one way or another [[GreaterScopeVillain responsible for almost everything that's happened in the series]].
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Mason's motto, and as a result, the Association's, is "for the greater good." This ''is'' a fairly reasonable stance to take in a world ravaged by an incurable, lethal disease capable of spreading like wildfire -- but it does ''not'' justify wiping out millions of people and covering up ''horrible'' experiments in the process.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Downplayed. Mason is noted to be an ''extremely'' controversial figure in the world of the Phantom for the actions he's facilitated through the Association -- which only worsens as the Association is forced to try and explain more and more -- but Mason has kept his position for over fifteen years, and Mint suspects it's almost entirely because Mason is extremely charismatic.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The CEO of an entire group of well-intentioned extremists; Mason has ordered ''millions'' of deaths to save billions, and the stress of which coupled with the loss of his wife and (for a time) his daughter are heavily implied to have broken him.
* YouKilledMyFather: Double-subverted; Mason ''seems'' to hold no ill will towards Mint for the murder of his (omnicidal) wife even though Mint fears it, but later abruptly lets it slip that he ''hates'' Mint and the rest of the world for it.
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[[folder:Charles Waits]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The manager of the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. Program, the CEO of Red Clover – a division of the Association responsible for the events of ''From Heaven's Door'' – and Tango's father.
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* AntiVillain: Barely a villain at all; the extent of Charles' evil deeds stop at signing up Jenny to an experiment to be exposed to energies she's naturally immune to anyways – albeit, without her consent – with everything following that, including covering up Jenny's subsequent rape, literally forced on him by Chayne and Ash.
* ArchnemesisDad: Subverted. For a few chapters, Charles is made out as a monster who sold out Jenny to be raped and used for a horrible experiment, but every single part of this was manipulated as part of Chayne and Ash. Charles' actions still permanently shatter his relationship with Tango and Jenny, tragically.
* TheAtoner: Has become this by the time of ''From Heaven's Door'', with the consequences of having signed up his daughter for the program have spiraled into events that utterly destroy him and every relationship he has, leaving a pitiful shell who merely yearns for things to go back the way they were while utterly hating himself for having had a part in it all in the first place.
* BigBad: Seemingly this for ''From Heaven's Door'', made out to be behind Red Clover and, consequentially, everything the runaways go through. That's what it seems, at first; Charles has long given up on the project and all of his worst actions are at pressure from either Paradise Association, Ash, or Chayne.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when Pluto is crushing Charles' neck into paste, Charles simply tells Pluto to "save it" when he tries to gloat and dies refusing to beg or whimper before Pluto, instead letting himself cry a few simple tears of ''pride'' for his daughters.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Charles has utterly no say in what happens to the applicants and his own daughter during the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program, overseeing the horrible program solely because Chayne and Ash are using Jenny as leverage.
* GoOutWithASmile: Even when he's had his throat crushed into paste, Charles still has a small smile on his face after he's killed.
* HeelFaceTurn: For as little of a heel he was in the first place, Charles definitively switches sides after Chayne and Ash are defeated.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: This is his motivation for a lot of his more questionable deeds revolving around the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program, including signing up Jenny for the program against her will – but this motivation stops dead when Ash violates Jenny and forces his compliance after he attempts to sever ties with the program by threatening her life. From that point forward, everything Charles does is just as a figurehead and pawn of Chayne and Ash.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The major twist in ''From Heaven's Door'' is that the mysterious “Director” is actually Tango's ''father'' and the CEO of Red Clover itself.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Leaves all the direct work to his subordinates and doesn't even directly appear until halfway through ''From Heaven's Door''. There's a good reason for this; Charles is infected with the Phantom to a point where he can barely move.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Charles lost his first son, Jason, to the Phantom years ago. This is a major, ''major'' factor in the lengths he takes to try and find a cure to the Phantom, having been utterly destroyed by his son's death and even volunteering his own daughter, whom he finds out is immune, so nobody ever has to experience the grief he did when Jason died.
* PutOnABus: Charles isn't seen onscreen during ''The Touch of Heaven'' or ''The Ambition of Hell'', remarked to have been flown into a quarantine zone and kept alive through the donation of Aria's blood.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Although he's directs the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program itself willingly, although hesitantly, the only reason he's overseeing the lethal aspects of the experiment and the deaths of the applicants is because Ash promises to kill Jenny if he doesn't.
* SecretlyDying: It's not revealed until he's finally seen in person in ''From Heaven's Door'' that he's infected with the Phantom, and it's all but explicitly stated he's keeping it a secret from his coworkers in ''Before Heaven''. By the time of ''The Touch of Heaven'', it's no longer a secret – but the “dying” bit has been put on hold as the effects of the Phantom are frozen by Aria's blood.
* TragicVillain: Charles was once a completely upstanding man with a happy family who was forced to increasingly desperate measures after his son died and his responsibilities as the CEO of Red Clover grew. When it was time to commence the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program and he was forced to use his own daughter, Charles did so extremely hesitantly, putting immense strain on his relationship with both his daughter Jenny and his wife Tara, the former of whom ''furiously'' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chewed him out on]] to which he had no defense. After this? Not only is Charles infected with the Phantom Jenny is raped and tortured into catatonia by Ash, who then forces a furious Charles to continue the program and oversee dozens more deaths of completely innocent people against his will by threatening to murder Jenny. By the time Tango reaches him, all the unnecessary pain, death, and manipulation has destroyed Charles and every relationship he once had, leaving him a sad, broken shell near death who's completely given up on everything he once strove for.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: A textbook example of this, and he's only been forced into the “extremist” category; Charles is desperate for a cure so nobody has to experience the grief he and Tara had to face after his son Jason died, even reluctantly volunteering his own daughter for a potentially dangerous experiment against her will. Once Ash has his way with Jenny, however, Charles snaps and tries to break off from the project and only continues when Chayne and Ash hold Jenny's life over his head as motivation for him to continue. When Tango finally finds him, Charles is just a broken old man who's choices have utterly destroyed him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tara Waits]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

Charles' wife, the Vice President of Red Clover, and Jenny's mother.
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* AbusiveParents: Not to Jenny or Jason, but for all intents and purposes, Tara ''is'' Tango's mother and they make sure to let Tara know -- which doesn't stop Tara from letting Tango know to their face that she doesn't want ''anything'' to do with them.
* BrokenBird: By the time of ''The Radiance of Heaven'', Tara's devolved into a quiet, apathetic woman with seemingly no more true motivation to cure the Phantom as a result of the Association crumbling and her becoming one of the lightning rods for all the people's hatred in the wake of Mason's disappearance, as well as her daughter Jenny returning from seeming death only to have been replaced [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild an alternate personality]].
* ChekhovsGunman: One of the very first characters to ever be physically described as her face is one of the few memories Tango retains in the beginning of ''From Heaven's Door'', but her true importance as Tango's mother and one of the highest-ranking members of the Association doesn't come to light until much later.
* TheGhost: Up until ''The Touch of Heaven'', Tara's only physical appearance in the series was through a painting and a recurring memory of Tango's.
* IHaveNoSon: Tragically forms this attitude by the time of ''The Radiance of Heaven''. When Tango finally returns, Tara so adamantly refuses to accept that Tango is now in her daughter's body that she disowns Tango, somberly telling them she just wants Jenny back.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Forms one with Mint; despite being a few decades the latter's elder, Mint and Tara bond as Mint is one of the last living links to Jenny she has up until Tango's return in ''Radiance'', although there's no indication the friendship suffers in spite of that and [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild Tara's thoughts on Tango]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Although Jenny/Tango is still very much alive, Tara and Charles' first child, Jason, died of the Phantom scant months after it broke out, something which serves to motivate them both into using Jenny in the program as a hope to divine a cure to the Phantom.
* ParentsAsPeople: Implied to have been a very good mother to Jenny, but the stress of her job put significant stress on her relationship with both her and Charles.
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Tara views the "Tango" personality with disdain and aversion, having attempted to motivate them to extract their neurochip and bitterly telling them to their face they are not her daughter.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Comes with the territory of working for the Association, but she is noticeably ''significantly'' less extreme than many of her colleagues, leaving the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program in disgust once her daughter comes into legitimate harm.
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[[folder:Chayne Summers]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/BeforeHeaven''

The supervisor of the two-month pre-simulation process and one of the chief executives of the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program.
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* AGodAmI: Intends to become a god with Heaven's energies with the intention to recreate humanity. She ends up getting her wish – [[KarmicDeath for all of a few minutes]].
* AlasPoorVillain: Mint, at the least, seems to regard Chayne's death as this; Chayne dies without ever coming to peace with her grief over the loss of her daughter and her misanthropic hatred of humanity, which Mint considers a "forlorn tragedy" as they destroy Chayne.
* BadBoss: Her experiments with Tango end up catching and likely killing – or [[NothingIsScarier perhaps worse]] – the other members of Red Clover in the process, and she casually brushes off Ash being driven to vegetative insanity a few minutes before the experiment starts.
* BigBadDuumvirate: In this with Ash for ''From Heaven's Door'', hijacking this position from the Director after he gives up on the project. While Ash is mostly the one who dirties his hands the most and is the one actually manipulating the Director, the plan is all Chayne's and she's ultimately the final one to be fought.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: It's why the entire story even ''begins''...the Heaven Project, brainwashing, all to allow Chayne to rise to the top and remake the world.
* BrokenPedestal: Admits that she looked up to the Director for the longest time, and ended up disappointed when he didn't have the heart to finish the project.
* TheChessmaster: Manipulates events so that no matter what happens, the portal to Heaven will end up opening. If she hadn't let [[SpannerInTheWorks Jilton]] into her service, she would have won – and [[NearVillainVictory comes within a hairsbreadth of victory]] even with Jilton's presence.
* CrazyPrepared: Aside from the sheer persistence of her own manipulations, Chayne also happens to have a body double she utilizes just in case there ends up being a threat to her own physical well-being. Surprisingly, the body double ends up being a good idea.
* DragonInChief: To the Director. While Charles is ostensibly responsible for running the program as a whole, Chayne is directly ordering Ash and does most of the dirty work herself. Ultimately, it turns out the Director's already given up on the project and Chayne's been using him as a figurehead the whole time, leaving Chayne to backstab him and take control of the project herself.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She dearly loved her daughter. One of her most humanizing traits.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Chayne's furious reaction to Ash's rape of Jenny might be construed for [[PragmaticVillainy fury Ash nearly derailed their entire scheme in a blind, drugged lust]], but her inner monologue shows she's decidedly repulsed by it on a ''moral'' level as well, with the possibility of Ash's ParentalIncest towards his son horrifying her further.
* FakingTheDead: Believed dead for a brief time after her body double is gunned down.
* FamousLastWords: “[[VillainousBreakdown Be quiet! You can't comprehend this! You can't comprehend me!]]”
* FauxAffablyEvil: She's excellent at putting up a cheerful, professional facade in public, but once her true intentions are revealed, she addresses everyone with the callousness she ''really'' considers everyone with.
* FreudianExcuse: Her daughter Aria was supposedly lynched after she caught the Phantom virus and her home was destroyed by a mob that also happened to consist of Chayne's friends. This incident drove Chayne to misanthropic grief and convinced her humanity was violent, thus pushing her to the extremes she undertakes in the story.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Realizing she is still flawed and all-too human despite her newfound power drives Chayne to ''snap.''
* HiddenDepths: As shown in ''Before Heaven'', Chayne's character goes far beyond simple misanthropy. Chayne's grief over her daughter is shown in greater detail in her POV chapter, including breaking down over a picture of her daughter (made worse by Ash's [[AssuranceBackfire “attempt”]] to console her) in private and admitting to herself she still regrets everything she is about to do.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Albeit an unconscious one, as a god-like being in Heaven, Chayne proclaims herself a god and free of everything she's dubbed flaws. Mint points out Chayne ''isn't'' free of imperfections, as her own grief for her daughter – something she's previously ruled as a flaw – is still deep within her. The realization of this in her perfect state is what causes Chayne to finally snap.
* InTheirOwnImage: Her ultimate goal is to simply destroy and recreate Earth anew to her picture of paradise.
* IronicDeath: Mint uses the very energies Chayne sought to make herself a god to obliterate her.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Her defining motivation is her absolute hatred for humanity as a whole, which motivates her into trying to destroy mankind so she can recreate them free of what she deems flaws.
* MotiveRant: Gives one to Mint in the final confrontation, which also serves to reveal her own past.
* NonActionBigBad: Ash does most of the heavy lifting for her, and Chayne remains waiting in the background for much of the story.
* OmnicidalManiac: Her ultimate goal is to utilize Heaven's energies into destroying all humanity and becoming a god so she can create the world more to her liking. She briefly decides to let all humanity die once she's defeated the first time.
* OneWingedAngel: After physically passing through the Boundary into Heaven, the energies of Heaven turn her into a towering, seraphic god-like being dubbed the Black Queen of Heaven.
* PetTheDog: As callously as she speaks of his ([[NotQuiteDead apparent]]) death later, Chayne does truly seem sincere and personable with Jackson Winters during their talk in the Nest, urging him to ease Jenny's anxiety and father issues as she ''knows'' she'd trust Jackson more to do so and cluing in she's genuinely regretful for not being able to tell Jackson of her EvilPlan.
* RedBaron: ”The Black Queen of Heaven.”
* TheSociopath: Subverted. Although she's still a callous human being with little a care for the applicants or even her own subordinates, unlike Ash, it turns out Chayne had a daughter she cared for once, and it was her death that triggered Chayne's StartOfDarkness. Chayne mentions she's learned to suppress her empathy for others, but regardless, Chayne still grieves for her daughter deep, deep down, and it's this fact that Mint uses to defeat her. ''Before Heaven'' shows she still grieves in private, to the point of breaking down over a picture of her daughter – but [[IveComeTooFar decides it's too late to chance anything anyways]].
* TheStarscream: Backstabs the Director once he gives up on the project and takes matters into her own hands.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: Decides to drag all humanity with her to the grave after she's foiled. After being powered up from Heaven's energies, Chayne quickly forsakes that and returns to her original goal.
* SunkCostFallacy: Gone too far, can't stop now.
* TakingYouWithMe: After Jilton betrays her in the climax, Chayne decides to withhold the information on how to shut down the portal to Heaven, reasoning that if she can't recreate the world, [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum all of humanity should die with her]].
* TragicVillain: Although her tragic past is hinted at in ''From Heaven's Door'', it's ''Before Heaven'' that truly shows her as this. Chayne used to be a completely normal, pleasant human being with a husband and daughter she both loved dearly. After the Phantom arose in Australia, Chayne dedicated herself to helping to curb and stop it. After her daughter was murdered in a lynch after catching the Phantom, however, something in Chayne snapped and she was driven to depression – further worsened by her association with Ash at that point – which eventually caused her to shut herself away from her husband and gradually turn into the misanthropic, delusional woman who appears on page. Her POV chapter in ''Before Heaven'' still shows she ''truly'' regrets having to unleash such disaster on the world – she's just trying her absolute best to ignore those feelings.
* VillainBall: Chayne likely would have won if it hadn't been for the fact she happily let Jilton – an established traitor and someone who'd previously killed her body double under full assumption it was Chayne herself – onto her side without suspecting anything. Predictably, Jilton [[SpannerInTheWorks derails the entire plan]] once she's close to Chayne.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers two of them. The first is when Jilton betrays her, causing her to snap and try and doom all humanity out of spite, which ends with Chayne literally diving into the portal once it starts to close. Once Heaven powers her up, Chayne regains her cool, only to suffer an even larger breakdown once Mint points out even as a god, she's flawed, causing Chayne to devolve to angry protesting as Mint overwhelms and kills her.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite her twisted way of doing it (i.e. allowing Heaven to spill into Earth, annihilating humanity and twisting the universe into an eldritch nightmare) Chayne truly does seem to believe things would be better under her control.
* XanatosGambit: An absolute master of pulling these off, all correlating to her plan to open the portal to Heaven. If the Director opens the portal as part of the program, everything goes to plan. Circumstances make the only person immune to Heaven's energies barely functional? Emotionally manipulate their father into using them anyways. Said father gives up on the project? Chayne simply takes control of the project herself. Even when Jilton betrays her, Chayne simply decides to use her position to [[TakingYouWithMe drag humanity with her]] by refusing to close down the portal, and once she becomes a god through Heaven's energies, Chayne simply resumes her original goal.
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[[folder:Ashton Sharpe]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'')

The other chief executive of Red Clover and the first Red Clover official met in the story.
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* AddledAddict: In a bizarre instance of this, Ash is addicted to the energies of Heaven as a result of connecting his own mind to the world. This does ''not'' have a good effect on his already-loose sanity, to the point where Ash is barely functional at the best of times, forgets things at random, and abuses other drugs for the sole purpose of staying lucid. Ultimately, the energies consume him.
* AGodAmI: Fancies himself a god alongside Chayne and is willing to wipe out all life on Earth to achieve godhood with Heaven's energies.
* AndIMustScream: His final fate, trapped within Heaven in eternal agony while his body becomes a mindless vegetable.
* AxCrazy: A textbook example. He's a barely-functioning psychopath with horrid impulse control and a constant urge to hurt everyone around him, and by the end, he's devolved to trying to wipe out all humanity purely because he hates everyone.
* BadBoss: Ash verbally and even physically abuses his own compatriots at any given point, and has no hesitation in seeing them all exposed and likely slaughtered by the energies of Heaven when he attempts to tear open a portal to Heaven alongside Chayne.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ash sneers that he wants to murder every living person on Earth to experience his "perfect universe" in Heaven for eternity with nobody to bother him. He gets his wish in the end -- his mind hurtling through Heaven ripped from his body, for all eternity, [[AndIMustScream beyond even the purest state of agony known to man]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Chayne in ''From Heaven's Door''. Ash is still the first to be defeated plot-wise and Chayne is technically his superior, but when the Director gives up on the project, both Ash and Chayne take over responsibility of opening the portal together. Chayne treats Ash as more of an equal than an associate (although she's nevertheless apathetic to his fate).
* CloudCuckoolander: A particularly dark interpretation of this, as his eccentricities are incredibly disturbing and he only acts the way he does due to literally having been driven insane from Heaven's energies.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Or as Ash would call it "fun times."
* EyeScream: Suffers this at the hands of Tango, and tries to burn their face with hydrochloric acid later in retribution for it.
* FateWorseThanDeath: His mind is devoured by Heaven's energies, where it will exist in torment forever.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ash ''tries'' to be civil when it best suits him, although he does a horrible job. Other times, he just doesn't bother.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His underlying motivation and defining trait. Ash seeks stimulation alone and is willing to screw over anyone if it's to his benefit, conveniently forgetting about the effects later due to his own broken mind. This is ultimately what fuels his omnicidal tendencies as well, as the only reason he decides to help Chayne kill off all humanity is that he believes people are hogging too much room in his life and tainting his “perfect universe,” to the point where Ash calls out the people ''he's'' screwed over on being “single-minded and simple.”
* {{Jerkass}}: A complete asshole of a human being and the most vile character in the series, with exactly zero redeeming traits about him. His single attempt to be sincere with Chayne only makes things ''worse'' and he decides not to bother when she reacts.
* KickTheDog: An absolute master of this. Probably one of his cruelest moments is forcing the Director to continue the project and oversee the deaths of the other applicants by threatening to torture Jenny to death if he doesn't do as he says – and telling Chayne it'd be funny to him to kill Jenny afterwards regardless.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Let's face it. The guy who did so much in pursuit of opening the path to Heaven? Gets ''exactly'' what he earned...
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Director Charles. Chayne is mostly hesitant to confront Charles on using his own daughter in the simulation, as it turns out – due to her own issues with her late daughter – but Ash is more than happy to force Charles into running the simulation under the threat of Jenny's life, ultimately meaning everything Charles does can be traced back to Ash.
* ObviouslyEvil: A man who looks like a "goblin shark coming out of a garbage bag" always seen in a trench coat who spends most of his page time cursing up a storm, physically and verbally abusing everyone around him, and generally being as contemptuous and horrible as he can be. [[SarcasmMode Pretty trustworthy fellow]].
* OmnicidalManiac: Alongside Chayne, Ash is planning to wipe out all humanity with the energies of Heaven and become a god. ''Unlike'' Chayne, Ash isn't planning on bringing anyone back, and devolves to a state where he's willing to murder Chayne herself so he can have his perfect universe to himself.
* PetTheDog: Rather astoundingly subverted. Ash's ''one'' attempt to be sincere with Chayne by trying to comfort her over her daughter's death has him only makes things worse through his ''[[AssuranceBackfire horrible]]'' attempt to reassure Chayne and he ultimately decides not to bother once Chayne rightfully snaps at him.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: His rape of Tango/Jenny is one of the more personal and loathsome acts in the series and is a major reason Ash is as despicable as he is
* {{Sadist}}: Ash loves to inflict pain on others and picking on those who are weaker than him. Jilton even remarks the only things he finds funny are things of the ilk of “Vlad the Impaler sticking people's heads on spikes.”
* SanitySlippage: Although never exactly the most [[TheSociopath balanced or controlled individual]] in the first place, Ash hooking his mind to Heaven has a gradual but ''nasty'' effect on his already loose sanity; throughout ''From Heaven's Door'', Ash becomes more and more dependent on the stimulation Heaven's energies have on him and him continuing to allow his mind to drift through Heaven fractures his mind more and more as a result, leading to him forgetting things at random, his sadistic and violent tendencies being amplified, and what little impulse control he has dying as a result. By the time his mind is almost completely taken by Heaven, Ash has gone almost completely nuts and rants about how he just wants to kill ''everyone'' to have his "perfect universe" with Heaven alone.
* SerialKiller: Ash makes a hobby of purchasing slaves from traffickers, with a preference for [[WouldHurtAChild children]], for the sole purpose of raping and torturing them to death, with many, many victims behind him.
* SerialRapist: Has raped countless people during his life; while his only explicit victims are Jenny and his son Andrew, Ash is established to regularly purchase prostitutes from traffickers to rape, torture, and murder them at his whim, and Harlow Grave suspects he may have done similar to the other applicants as he did to Tango judging by some of their reactions to his presence.
* SirSwearsALot: Just about everything he says is sandwiched between a stream of curse words.
* TheSociopath: An extremely low-functioning example; he doesn't care about anyone or anything and only lives to gratify himself, doing ''remarkably'' stupid things over the course of the story to achieve that.
* TheStarscream: He wants to backstab Chayne and the rest of the Heaven Project for his own benefit, even if it does not work to that at all. Nobody ever said he was a particularly intelligent traitor.
* StupidEvil: Ash is ''resoundingly'' moronic despite his apparent brilliance in neurosurgery, exacerbated even further when he connects his own mind to Heaven and what little impulse control he has withers and dies as a result.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Exaggerated; Red Clover and the overarching Association is a cabal of extremists and mad scientists, but they're generally all working for the greater good at the end, with even Chayne's actions for the sake of what she sees as [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans a greater good]]. By contrast? Ash is a sneering, sociopathic ''monster'' who's easily the worst person in their employ and the most vile character in the series by a ''long'' shot, possessed of absolutely none of his colleagues' redeeming traits and existing purely to make everything and everyone around him miserable for the sole sake of his own stimulation.
* TooDumbToLive: Ash does things with absolutely no regard to the consequences, hooking up his own mind to another dimension purely to experience its effects on his mind with no care for his mental health in the process. Predictably, this is what does him in.
* WouldHurtAChild: Willing to rape and brutally murder the young Mint for nothing more than a giggle. ''Heaven and Hell'' confirms he's an outright pedophile as well.
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[[folder:Harlow Grave]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/BeforeHeaven''

One of the scientists in employ of Red Clover.
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* AscendedExtra: Gets a bit more screentime to talk and be developed in ''Before Heaven''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: For as much of an unbearable asshole he is, Harlow is ''horrified'' when he learns that Ash raped Tango and utterly disgusted when Charles and Chayne cover it up for the purpose of keeping the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program going.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Dies in ''From Heaven's Door'' after Tango defiantly sticks a knife into his neck after he offers a cash reward for Tango being let go from the project.
* {{Jerkass}}: Harlow is a smug, contemptuous jackass under a fairly shallow guise of concern and civility, and he's fully complicit in an experiment that will result in the deaths of every applicant he talks down to.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The perfect example of the Association's corrupt morals in exchange for “the greater good;” willing to experiment and sacrifice one-hundred people for the potential of gaining revolutionary knowledge and the cure to the Phantom from Heaven. Jackson even remarks he's the spitting image of everything wrong with the Association.
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[[folder:Lt. Donald Jones]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven''

The chief of security of Haven's military division, the security bureau, on behalf of the Association.
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* AntiHero: Jones is rough, stern, and willing to hand a young woman to a potentially dangerous raider – but at the same time, he has full reason to believe said young woman is a dangerous fugitive putting the security of the entire town at risk and he makes sure to note that Tango won't be in any legal trouble despite harboring her. Compared to the rest of the Association, Jones is a saint, and other characters speak highly of him long after his death.
* FourStarBadass: A decorated soldier responsible for curbing dangerous civil wars in the past. Unfortunately, Jones never gets much a choice to show it due to Jango completely blindsiding him with the powers of the Never-becoming and killing him as a result.
* HappilyMarried: To his wife, Amanda; while we never see them onscreen together, Jones keeps a photograph of his family on his desk at all times and cheerfully gushes over them to Miles when he's prompted.
* HeroAntagonist: To Tango; while Jones means entirely well for Haven, his attempt to pass Celia over to Jango for what he believes is the sake of the town's protection puts him at odds with Tango, who decidedly ''needs'' Celia to try and pacify Jango through alternative measures and can't talk to Jones telepathically due to Jones having a metal plate in his head.
* PosthumousCharacter: Surprisingly enough for such a relatively minor character, Jones' legacy is felt long after his death in ''The Touch of Heaven'', with his wife Amanda and his son Ruby becoming firm allies of the heroes and a feast held in his honor in ''The Ambition in Hell''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While an ObstructiveBureaucrat to Tango, Jones is entirely in the right to do his job and never does a single immoral thing in his post, even making sure to let Tango know that neither they or their friends are to come into any harm despite valid criminal charges being able to be placed against them. From his viewpoint, Celia is a danger to Haven.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Alongside Pleasance, Jones dies ''startlingly'' fast when Jango unveils the powers of the Never-becoming, quickly taking out Jones before he can even get a move in and massacring the rest of his men.
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[[folder:Alvira Yvette]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A bureaucrat in the Association, and the caretaker of Mint and Tango after Tango returns to Earth.
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* TheStoic: Strictly professional and hardly ever emotes at all. Even quick grins from her are noted to be atypical.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Like most of the Association, supporting their cause and defending their actions even when they're weeks from falling apart.
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[[folder:Debbie Everence]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven''

An employee of the Association in Haven and Miles' mother.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Debbie is suffocating to Miles and overly concerned with him, likely as a result of the nature of her job and her husband's death.
* NervousWreck: Even ''worse'' about this than her son, having a panic attack and throwing an utter fit when Miles goes missing and being responsible for a significant amount of Miles' own neurotic behavior herself.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Debbie is revealed to have survived the massacre of Haven early on in ''Heaven & Hell'' – but tragically, Miles did not.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reggie Weirs]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A guard under the employ of Red Clover.
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* BackForTheDead: Reggie returns to join the main cast in ''Radiance'' and even becomes a member of the main party for a short while despite the risks. He learns the hard way the sorts of trouble he's gotten into.
* TheBusCameBack: Rather unexpectedly during ''The Radiance of Heaven'' where it's revealed he survived the collapse of Paradise and is now a roommate of another ex-guard named George.
* HeelFaceTurn: Downplayed. Reggie was ''barely'' a heel, even when he was employed under Red Clover, but when he comes back in ''The Radiance of Heaven'', Reggie's no longer associated with the Association and is a firm ally of the heroes.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Gunned down almost instantly during the Battle of Yonkers.* PutOnABus: Entirely absent alongside Jackson for ''The Touch of Heaven'', but returns for ''Heaven & Hell''.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To Red Clover in ''From Heaven's Door''; Reggie's just a grunt and a security guard, but he takes pity on Tango and looks the other way when their friends expose the truth of Red Clover's conspiracies and lets them escape.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Reggie's fate at the end of ''From Heaven's Door'' is explored and it's hinted he's killed alongside the rest of Red Clover's faculty by Chayne and Ash. Turns out he managed to escape and he reappears in ''The Radiance of Heaven''.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Explored. Instead of just being another [[FacelessMooks faceless mook]] in Red Clover's employ, Reggie actually bothers to have a conversation and connect a bit with Tango, which Tango immediately notes puts him ''leagues'' above the monstrous heads of Red Clover.
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!!Heaven

[[folder:Uriel]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The lord of the archangels, commander of Heaven's forces, and the chief emissary of the Gods.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Assumes this during his first physical appearance, a guise Tango manages to see through due to their evolved mind.
* AngelicBeauty: To untrained human eyes, Uriel is described as having the grace of a “Greek statue” and looking like a beautiful man – but [[SubvertedTrope Tango quickly realizes]] this is just a cover for his horrifying true form.
* ArchangelUriel: Depicted, instead of a wise and patient angel, as a sneering, contemptuous asshole who banishes Tango and their friends to the deserts of Hell because they backtalked him.
* {{Archenemy}}: Considers Azazel, lord of Hell, to his greatest foe. After Azazel dies this gets shifted to Abaddon.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's an archangel. You don't get that rank out of a cereal box.
* AxCrazy: Under that angelic veneer of serenity, Uriel is ''nuts'' and eager to massacre everything around him at the slightest provocation.
* BadBoss: Insults his fellow archangels on a good day, slaughters unfathomable amounts of lower-ranking angels on a normal one, and incinerates ''hundreds'' of them in a brief bout of impatience.
* DirtyCoward: The moment he realizes Naberius has him outgunned and is making him look incompetent, Uriel turns tail and runs.
* TheDragon: To 'the gods'...Uriel is the top enforcer in heaven and the commander of their forces.
* DragonInChief: Despite being the Dragon to the gods, Uriel has the closest to full authority.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Willing to do anything to establish a hideous kingdom for himself, with endless pain and terror for all others.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Averted. He is angry at Azazel's murder of Michael...but only because he hates Azazel and considers Michael a pathetic weakling who got what was coming to him.
* FantasticRacism: Are you a human? Then be exterminated as you deserve you filthy ape.
* TheHeavy: The most prevalent threat of the Heaven Side.
* HumanoidAbomination: Looks like the stereotypical benevolent depiction of an angel, but... decidedly ''[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm isn't]]''.
* {{Jerkass}}: Uriel isn't just horrible, malicious, and arrogant; he's a pure and utter ''asshole'' who can't go two words without utterly demeaning and insulting every single thing around him.
* KnightTemplar: Utterly obsessed with the order and glory of heaven. Not so much with the betterment of anyone or anything, but just that extreme order.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Credit Uriel this: he does know when Naberius has him dead to rights and gets while the getting's good.
* LackOfEmpathy: To not only the life on Earth he proudly boast of having destroyed thousands of times over, but to his own fellow angels as well, having ''countless'' numbers of them killed for every minor transgression to his system.
* LightIsNotGood: Being an angel comes with all the shininess this entails, but Uriel is a petty, egotistical monster thoroughly unconcerned with wiping out all life on Earth thousands of times over, seeing all life as below him and the other Archangels.
* OhCrap: Subject to this when Nestor takes him out in a suicide attack.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Casually capable of vaporizing huge chunks of cities just by fighting someone.
* {{Pride}}: Defined. Even compared to the other archangels, Uriel is haughty and arrogant enough to "humble Lucifer."
* SmugSnake: Uriel talks a good game, but he's extremely arrogant, and something of a coward when the chips are against him.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Come home victorious or don't bother. It'll be better than what Uriel will do to you if you come home empty handed.
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[[folder:Raguel and Saraqael]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The angelic lawmakers of Heaven.
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* CoDragons: To Uriel, who himself is TheDragon to the Gods.
* CreepyTwins: Essentially twins and eerily in sync with everything.
* TheDividual: They speak, move, and act all simultaneously.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Evil they may be, but even they balk at how far Uriel is willing to go.
* SingleMindedTwins: Act more like one person in two bodies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:”God”/"Major Tom" ('''MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''')]]
!!Alison Witzenberg/"Mint" (Prime)
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/FromHeavensDoor'' | ''Literature/BeforeHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The mysterious eldritch horror lurking in Heaven that serves as the catalyst for the plot in ''From Heaven's Door''. They are, in actuality, the original Alison Witzenberg -- or, rather, ''Mint'', who accidentally created Heaven and decided to spend the rest of the Cycle slowly dismantling Chayne's plans to take down the Heaven Cycle.

* {{Adorkable}}: As the usual with Mint, but even ''more'' so considering they're a naive, ten-year-old kid by the time they've Ascended who's incredibly eager to make friends with the original Aria.
* BadassAdorable: One of the strongest characters in the setting, being a full God -- and also an adorable, dorky ten-year-old kid underneath that.
* BigGood: In their nature as a {{foil}} to the original Chayne Summers, and as it turns out, the biggest force going against her.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Cryne speculates that God may have wanted to enter Earth again because it was missing its human life, noting that's an anxiety that most Gods learn to get past once they Ascend -- even in spite of the fact it seemingly ''nearly destroyed Earth'' trying to get back to it. As it turns out, that was a major bit of foreshadowing; Mint ''doesn't'' subscribe to BlueAndOrangeMorality and rather wholeheartedly embraces their role as the BigGood of the setting.
* TheChessmaster: On the same level as Chayne (even lampshaded when Mint compares themself to a Queen on the board, opposite to Chayne's Queen) perhaps even ''more'' proficiently as they can't directly interfere with Earth without destroying it all. ''Unlike'' Chayne, Mint is thoroughly benevolent.
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: ''The Touch of Heaven'' reveals that God is one of many people who were capable of [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascending]] – that is, instantaneously evolving into a perfectly evolved organism in complete harmony with their mind. As we knew ''Mint'' could do.
* EldritchAbomination: Through human terms, God can no longer be described as anything more than a horrific, unfathomably cosmic presence capable of annihilating the entire universe just by ''existing''. They do, at least, take a [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith recognizable form]]
* GodWasMyCopilot: God was the ''original Mint'' the whole time.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Ashes to Ashes" is a persisting song throughout ''Radiance'' that goes hand-in-hand with the identity of the first God, with them even dubbing themself "Major Tom."
* TheReveal: Bits and bobs were dropped to foreshadow the mystery of God from the beginning of the entire, with it finally taking center stage in the last act of ''Radiance''. As it's revealed in the climax? The first God is ''the original Mint''.
* ShroudedInMyth: For the majority of the series, we know virtually ''nothing'' about it. Not who it once was a human, not why it wanted to come back to Earth (although Cryne speculates as early as ''The Touch of Heaven'' that it was missing its old life as a human), nothing except the utterly bizarre, lurid descriptions it gets in ''From Heaven's Door'' that are nothing short of a pure, unthinkable EldritchAbomination. This is all cleared up in the climax of ''Radiance'' where it's established God is actually the original Mint.
* SomeCallMeTim: 'Major Tom' to be exact. God's a fan of Bowie. As it turns out? Mint fell in love with "Ashes to Ashes" before they Ascended, even teaching the song to Aria.
* WalkingSpoiler: One of the biggest in the setting, right up there with the original Chayne.
* WasOnceAMan: Like all Gods. Speciifcally, "God" used to be the original Alison Witzenberg before they Ascended. What separates them from becoming a full-on EldritchAbomination is that Mint retained their humanity even after they Ascended.
* WhenSheSmiles: Unbelievably ''cute'' when they smile there.
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!!Hell

[[folder:The Preceptor/Belphegor]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The tulpa who initially greets Tango in Hell to tell them of their role in the upcoming divine war, serving as their mentor for the rest of the series.
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* CainAndAbel: The one Abel among a gigantic ''legion'' of Cains, though Naberius stands as a special one to him.
* CoolOldGuy: Positively ancient and rather chill for a Tulpa.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Occasionally dips into this towards Tango, being ''eons'' more evolved than them to start.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Preceptor is his only known name for a vast part of the series, until he's casually name-dropped as Belphegor by the Sect. Naturally, Tango's pissed off he apparently didn't even trust them enough to tell them his actual name.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: His final words are to tell Tango it has been an honor being their teacher.
* ManipulativeBastard: The Preceptor manipulates Tango up until the first part of ''Heaven and Hell'' to goad them into helping him save the world by lying that Tango is TheChosenOne. When Tango exposes the Preceptor, he does frankly seem guilty about it (which turns out to not mean much anyways as Tango is such a PluckyGirl they decide to try and stop the war anyways).
* TheMentor: To Tango, teaching them Mylotheian techniques to help them get used to their new abilities while they (or rather, their Shade) are in Hell.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Suffers the fate of many a mentor at the claws of Naberius.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Seems somewhere between a goat and a pug, with odd hands -- one furred, and one scaly, with lion-like claws.
* MrExposition: Since his role is primarily to introduce Tango to the bizarre, lengthy lore of Heaven and Hell and the powers of Mylotheia, the Preceptor serves this role in the series for the more fantastical elements.
* OnlySaneMan: Nestor notes he's the only Tulpa who's reasonable and sane.
* TokenGoodTeammate: To the tulpas. Belphegor is still unintentionally callous to humanity at times, but truly has the best interests for ''everyone'' in mind, including humanity -- whereas the rest of Hell could not be bothered to care less.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Azazel]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The Lord of Hell, Erebos' tulpa mentor, and one of the strongest tulpas in existence.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: You're not Lord of Hell unless you can back it up and Azazel damn well can.
* BatmanGambit: Azazel sits by and watches as Tango goes into Solomon to fetch the "Menhir" -- only to reveal the Menhir was fake and the entire mission was a set-up by Azazel to lure Naberius to Solomon and deal Heaven a crippling blow even before the war starts.
* CainAndAbel: He and Naberius have....differing priorities now. However, a rare example where Cain and Abel are as monstrous as one another. He also considers Uriel his 'once brother'...but same issue there.
* DemonicPossession: Engages in this liberally with Erebos to speak to the others, saying Erebos' body is as much Azazel's as it is his own.
* EvilMentor: To Erebos, having ingrained his BlueAndOrangeMorality firmly into him. Unfortunately, Erebos isn't ''quite'' as converted as Azazel may think when he's shown another perspective by Tango.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's vile and willing to use and manipulate even his own disciples, but he takes a calmer approach to it than Uriel and he smugly thanks Tango after they end up playing right into his hands.
* {{Foil}}: To Uriel. They're both godawful, horrible beings, but they approach it in different ways. Uriel is loud, bombastic, ''incredibly'' arrogant, and utterly and openly condescending towards everyone and everything that isn't himself. Azazel, by contrast, is understated, manipulative, subtle, and is much better at ''pretending'' to be civil.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Azazel's ComplexityAddiction finally gets the better of him, and wanting to drag out Tango and Erebos's defeats results in his obliteration.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Says part of his motivation in destroying Heaven is to keep his own safe, but casually sacrifices his own talented warriors as the "cost of doing business" and morbidly punishes those who defy him.
* ItAmusedMe: As he says, the only reason he's kept Tango alive? Sheer amusement.
* KarmicDeath: Obliterated by godly power, the same type he wanted to take, by the lower beings' he looked down on for so long.
* KickTheDog: Revealing all of Erebos's life was just part of his grand little project is damned ''low.''
* LackOfEmpathy: One of his ''similarities'' to Uriel in terms of their mindset towards Earth; Azazel has a innocent couple horribly killed by turning their apartment into a Mad Room... to get Mint and Tango's attention. Turns out he's even this to his own followers, too; across each Cycle, Azazel founds a cult of immunes loyal to Heaven solely for the purpose of leading the loyal among them to their death and picking out the few that rebel for their resolve -- and turning them into [[AndIMustScream agonized warrior-slaves]] by means of "transfiguration," bloating them up with the blended essence of demons to keep them under his control and swell up their power.
* ManipulativeBastard: Towards even his own disciples. Azazel lies and manipulates Tango in his first introduction to coax them into a DealWithTheDevil, then led them on a false flag mission to retrieve a Menhir solely to get Naberius' attention and have him deal Heaven a powerful blow.
* OhCrap: When Sarie channels Mint's power against him, Azazel is ''dumbfounded'' and frozen stiff.
* OmnicidalManiac: Anything not one of Hell's side? To be erased. Even the gods.
* OutGambitted: Azazel's one of the most brilliant, manipulative villains in the plot who anticipates any and all defiance against him, even exploiting it for his own benefit in the case of Solomon and the transfigured Shades. Azazel thinks he's dismantled Erebos' attempt at rebellion in Tartarus... only for Erebos to reveal that ''wasn't'' his true plan, ending with Sarie coming to the rescue and Azazel out-conned for the first and last time as he's subsequently obliterated in his moment of dumbfounded vulnerability.
* ParentalSubstitute: He raised Erebos. Which...explains ''so'' much.
* PetTheDog: He rescued a baby Erebos from Naberius's evil pleasures. Subverted in that it was done in cold, hard pragmatism.
* PragmaticVillainy: The only type he practices.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: You betray him, you die. Period. He's too pragmatic to ever trust one.
* SatanicArchetype: He's the Lord of Hell, a ManipulativeBastard and is out to take over existence. It just so happens GodAndSatanAreBothJerks here.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Abaddon]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')
Azazel's right hand Tulpa, and a powerful monster in his own right.
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* CombatByChampion: In the great war, he ends up engaging Uriel in single combat.
* DealWithTheDevil: Ironically, as lord of Hell, but he still treats with Chayne to keep Hell existing.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Just before Uriel crushes his skull, Abaddon simply sneers and tells Uriel that he'll reunite with his beloved master in oblivion -- but Uriel will have ''nothing'' waiting for him.
* DirtyCoward: Dives out of the way of a blast when he realizes it's targeting Azazel to save his own hide.
* TheDragon: Azazel's right hand, who has spent every cycle helping to wipe out the world at the side-and upon the shoulder of Azazel.
* DragonAscendant: Rises to become the leader of Hell with Azazel's death.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Of all the main villains, Abaddon takes his death the best, to be sure.
* FantasticRacism: Oh, he ''really'' dislikes angels and humans.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Considers the way Azazel was trapped and destroyed to be dishonorable even for demons.
** Even ''he'' is utterly disgusted by Naberius and his excessive atrocities.
* MoralMyopia: He takes a ''very'' myopic view on things...anything a demon does? Fine. But if humans trick demons? Dishonorable bugs. He also has nothing but contempt for Naberius and his pleasures.
* OmnicidalManiac: Erase everything that isn't a Tulpa. It all must die.
* OneWingedAngel: Usually assumes the form of a small bird on his master's shoulder. During the war, he shows his full power.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Just him ''clashing'' with a being of equal power vaporizes huge swaths of a city.
* UndyingLoyalty: Oddly loyal to Azazel his anger at humanity? Is for the death of his 'beloved master.'

[[/folder]]


[[folder:Adrammelech]]
One of the strongest tulpas and Horace's former teacher. A major player in the war.
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* EldritchAbomination: Described as a disturbing blend between bull and lamprey. His true form, per the norm of the tulpas, is even ''[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm worse]]''.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His taking the heroes too lightly results in him being utterly fried and incinerated.
* KarmicDeath: No tears shed when Horace sacrifices himself to allow Sarie and Zita to turn him into charcoal.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: A mouth with tons of very sharp teeth.
* YourSoulIsMine: Devours the souls of his victims.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Naberius ('''MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''')]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A rogue tulpa banished long ago to the deepest parts of Hell for his uncontrollable demeanor even compared to the other creations of the Gods. Serves as TheDragon to the original Chayne Summers.
* AndIMustScream: Inflicts this horrific fate upon countless beings; trillions in fact. Naberius forces them into endless, eternal toture with no respite of death.
* CardCarryingVillain: Admits that the sob story Chayne dreamed up for him holds no weight, and when Aria tearfully accuses him of being no better than Chayne, Naberius elatedly posits that he's "ten times worse than she'll ever be!"
* ColdBloodedTorture: Naberius has spent the entirety of the Cycle making this his specialty, having tortured countless people to death across thousands of Earths to entertain himself. Ironically, Chayne makes ''him'' the target of this as [[YouHaveFailedMe punishment for his failure to protect the second Menhir]] with a cool quip stating "so many centuries of dishing out pain -- one would think you'd be used to it."
* DealWithTheDevil: Naberius brought Alice back to life under the clause they bring Aria back to him, and then forces that deal to Mint once Alice attempts to destroy the former's conscience in return for preserving Mint's conscience – [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse while Mint is having their conscience chewed up by the Never-becoming.]]
* TheDragon: Serves as this to the original Chayne Summers, having had a major part in kickstarting the Heaven Cycle and working behind the scenes in ''Heaven & Hell'' on Chayne's behalf.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Naberius' priorities clearly extend beyond Chayne, as he's willing to undermine and pilfer Chayne's Godly power for his own interests, and he ultimately reveals that, while he's willing to spare Nirvana, ''his'' priority after the Cycle ends is simply to amuse himself for the rest of eternity in a pocket dimension of tortured innocents
* TheDreaded: Naberius' power is enough to dwarf even Uriel and Azazel, and his name is spoken in horror in both Heaven ''and'' Hell. As he demonstrates numerous times? The horror stories told about him may actually be ''downplayed'' to what he's truly like.
-->"''He knew he was a boogieman. He knew his name was still uttered in dread within Heaven's walls. He basked in that terror, and for once, I thought the stories had downplayed the reality of the monster before us.''"
* EldritchAbomination: A horrific amalgamation of body parts of animals, insects and human bits in a godawful shape.
* EvilGloating: Fond of engaging in this to his enemies.
* EvilIsPetty: Naberius isn't just evil, he's something of a total dick, fond of insults and nasty, petty little touches.
* ForTheEvulz: All that torture, 'collecting' and evil? He just enjoys it. Period.
* TheHeavy: Naberius is the most present threat, even with Chayne around.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Twofold:
** Naberius, ironically enough, ''cannot'' handle pain dealt to him (doubly ironic as he was literally ''spawned'' from God's suffering). Tango exploits this by looking into the memory he has of Chayne torturing him and using that to literally rewrite his existence to experience nothing but suffering -- which destroys Naberius' mind so thoroughly that he ''begs'' for death (which Tango grants a few minutes after).
** Adding to this, what allows Tango to rewrite Naberius? Naberius has been sneaking Chayne's Godly power to reign over the Garden of Eden -- and Tango promptly absorbs all of it from his own mind to give them the power necessary to get the upper hand on Naberius.
* IronicEcho: '''Free me!!!'''...just the same thing his little tormented 'pretties' scream.
* ItAmusedMe: His explanation for his tortures and pettier actions.
* KarmicDeath: He's forced to feel endless agony-all the pain he himself had inflicted upon others, that utterly obliterates his mind before Tango snuffs him out.
* MadArtist: How Naberius seems to view himself, with his "craft" being the countless people he's tortured to death.
* MadeOfEvil: Or of ''pain'', rather. Naberius is the embodiment of the first God's rage, frustration, and anguish, a being who decided, instead of fading away, to ''embrace'' the way he was created and spend all his time gleefully savaging everything around him.
* NervesOfSteel: To Naberius's credit, it takes a lot to even rattle him. Burles launching a powerful mental attack on him doesn't make him bat an eye.
* NightmareFace: Naberius' “face” is a horrifying mishmash of various body parts from humans, animals, and insects, twisted into a Picasso-esque picture of evil.
* NobleTopEnforcer: Inverted. While Chayne is a monster responsible for trillions of deaths, she has borderline understandable reasons for doing it, utopian motives, and genuine loved ones. Naberius, by contrast, is the most evil tulpa ever seen in the series, having gleefully had a central role in kickstarting the Heaven Cycle for no other reason than spite and amusement and happily admitting [[CardCarryingVillain he has none of Chayne's sympathies to Aria and he's happy to make her life a living Hell if she's fickle.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: One of the strongest in the setting and capable of doing ''massive'' amounts of damage.
* PragmaticVillainy: Bizarrely enough for a character that otherwise embodies ChaoticEvil at its finest, Naberius realizes betraying Chayne would be a move that would result in his utter destruction and is fully intent on letting Nirvana go so he can amuse himself in his own pocket universe.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The sick fucker sets up people farms in his pocket dimension where he conducts forced breeding to never, ever run out of toys.
* RedBaron: "The Fallen Savager."
* {{Sadist}}: Beats out every character in the series when it comes to the sheer, unmitigated ''glee'' he gets when perpetrating atrocities, callously remarking that the concept of all of reality being snuffed out in an instant is "boring" and lacks a certain pizzazz when it comes to the various ways he's found to kill people. Naberius's ultimate plan is a pocket dimension of endless agony for ''trillions'' of souls.
* TheStarscream: Subverted. Naberius is a DragonWithAnAgenda who's only serving Chayne out of mutual interest (as well as the immunity it gives him) who clearly seems to ''hint'' that he's ready to betray Chayne -- until near the end where it's revealed that he has no intention of trying to backstab his master, making a point to avoid the suicidal arrogance of Azazel and Uriel and fashioning himself a pocket dimension full of lives for him to play with so he doesn't get bored once the Cycle ends.
* ToThePain: He's a fan of elaborating every single gruesome detail of the tortures he intends to inflict on threats to him. Unlike Pluto, though, Naberius is completely and fully willing to fulfill every last detail of his detailed, macabre threats, and he's made an art of fulfilling ''all'' of them to the letter throughout the Cycle -- with entire Earths turned into wretched hellscapes of agony by his hand.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Tango's first clash with him in Hell ends with them curb-stomped and all the other experienced immunes massacred effortlessly by him, proving he and Chayne are an ''entirely'' different breed of threat from.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Tulpa in this case. Excepting Chayne, who's divine, Naberius is ''the'' strongest bastard about.
* YouGotSpunk: He appreciates Tango's spirit, gloating that it'll make breaking them more fun.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Never-becoming]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'')

Half-formed thoughts that reside in a level of Hell representing unconsciousness, all of them driven by the urge to be something and forming in physical reality as nightmarish distortions.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: They're not named, but forces heavily, heavily implied to be the Never-becoming appear in the first Mad Room seen in ''From Heaven's Door'' before their proper introduction in ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* EldritchAbomination: Nightmarish, abstract forces that personify the will of unformed thoughts capable of twisting reality, driving people to madness if not outright devouring their minds, and twist a man who was once a WellIntentionedExtremist into a shrieking, insane animal fully under their control.
[[/folder]]

!!Haven

[[folder:Miles Everence]]
->'''Appears in''':''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven''

A young man who works as a minor bureaucrat in Haven, serving as one of Tango's best friends.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Miles is adorably fussy, neurotic, and socially awkward, offering Tango a bunch of precautionary bandages like it's the best thing ever and stammering over his repeated attempts to confess his crush on Tango.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As patient and understanding as he is, Miles is ''frighteningly'' aggressive to Celia when her actions endanger Tango, and he later up and proclaims he wouldn't mind if Jango up and killed Celia when her selfish behavior ends up putting the entire town at risk. Tango even notes it's an unsettling departure from his usual behavior.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Miles' father was killed during a security failure when he was still a young child, which ended up traumatizing him into becoming a paranoid mess.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Miles' final words before he dies of his wounds during the attack on Haven are a pained “I love you” to Tango – words he'd been meaning to get out since the beginning of ''The Touch of Heaven''.
* HeroicSacrifice: Miles dies taking a few tendrils of the Never-becoming meant for Tango.
* NervousWreck: Miles is comically paranoid to the point of listing off a dozen safety precautions he's taken for the simple act of driving outside Haven's barriers – although it does become somewhat less funny in the wake of the [[DisappearedDad reason for his neurotic behavior]].
* NiceGuy: Soft-spoken, concerned for the health of others, and unhesitatingly kind and supportive to Tango and Mint. Celia proves it's ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes extremely]]'' unwise to get on his bad side, however.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jango Marley]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The leader of a gang of infected raiders who live outside Haven.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Bizarrely enough, ''yes''; the once-fearsome bandit leader suddenly becomes significantly less threatening once he casually straps a ''teddy bear'' to his chest with no hint of shame whatsoever come ''Heaven & Hell''.
* AffablyEvil: For a given definition of evil, Jango is undeniably ruthless when it comes to getting what he wants, but he's also calm, soft-spoken, civil to Tango and Miles while he has them as hostages, and immediate to stress the fact he doesn't actually want to have to barter with their lives. Unfortunately, this completely disappears after he's corrupted by the Never-becoming.
* AntiVillain: Jango's only a villain because he's been forced into desperate measures by the Association's oppressive, extremist policies towards the infected, hoping to use Celia's blood and knowledge of Hell into gaining means to destroy the Association and anyone else who gets into his way. Adding to this, Jango has clear loved ones that he's completely unwilling to put into harm's way in his quest. Jango ordering Haven to be massacred at the end is the first sign that he isn't himself and that the Never-becoming he's allowed to infest his body in pursuit of his goal have taken over, and once Tango frees him of these beings, Jango drops the “villain” part and switches sides for the rest of the series.
* TheAtoner: In ''Heaven & Hell''. After he's freed from the Never-becoming's control, Jango still feels responsible for the horrific massacre he was forced to carry out and is utterly ''horrified'' at what he's done, feeling that being damned to an alternate Earth devoid of all life, potentially for all eternity, is fitting recompense for his actions.
* BigBad: For the first half of ''The Touch of Heaven'' – until [[HijackedByGanon Alice hijacks the conflict]].
* TheComicallySerious: Jango generally remains as stern and stoic as ever in ''Heaven & Hell'' all while he's busy cuddling a trashy stuffed bear for comfort and arranging a prank on Tango with Maxine for laughs.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: One of the quickest indicators Jango isn't as nasty as he seems at first is the fact he has a partner and daughter he immensely cares for.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Jango is forcefully morphed into this by the Never-becoming in the climax of ''The Touch of Heaven''; while it's made clear that he ''does'' have a motivation and clear scruples at first, the Never-becoming damage his mind to a point where Jango becomes a snarling animal and a vessel of the Never-becoming with no more drive or motivation of his own.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Jango normally keeps the lower half of his face hidden under a bandanna at all times – but once it's pulled down, Jango is revealed to have horrible facial scarring that's turned the entire lower half of his face into a mess of exposed muscle. Jango ditching his mask in the final battle of ''The Touch of Heaven'' is a tip-off he's gone completely over the edge.
* TheHeavy: For ''The Touch of Heaven''. While Alice robs him of the position of BigBad a little over halfway through the story and the Never-becoming assures he never retains enough agency to take it back, Jango directly drives ''all'' of the conflict of the story from beginning to end and serves as the last obstacle to be defeated after Alice's defeat.
* HeelFaceTurn: After Tango plunges him into Hell and frees his mind from the control of the Never-becoming, Jango keeps them alive for a full month-and-a-half in gratitude after Tango falls into a coma and becomes a firm ally once they finally wake up.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: A ''completely involuntary'' example, uniquely enough; Jango starts off as a man who firmly professes that while he ''is'' willing to take a life, he's much, much keener on [[PragmaticVillainy finding alternative solutions]]. Once the Never-becoming take over, Jango's slowly driven off the edge until he loses his sanity to a point where he orders Haven itself totally massacred.
* MotiveDecay: Goes from a firm WellIntentionedExtremist into a screeching monster willing to slaughter an entire town for no reason whatsoever the further the Never-becoming steal his mind. By the time of ''The Touch of Heaven'''s final battle, Jango no longer has any agency of his own.
* NobleDemon: Jango's a ruthless raider and a known murderer more than willing to use the lives of innocent people as bartering chips to get what he wants, but he's also an honorable family man and a dedicated leader to the raiders he's taken under his wing who doesn't ''want'' to resort to the methods he does.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Doesn't seem to be one for jokes and even seems confused on the subject when [[TheGadfly Maxine]] lectures him on the subject -- although he ''does'' join Maxine in pranking Tango.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jango is one of many, many infected people left to rot by the Association – so Jango decides to turn to unscrupulous means to better himself and other infected people, with the intention of toppling the Association and giving infected people a future outside of the murderously extreme policies of the Association. Once Tango manages to save him from a fate worse than death after his own actions result in him involuntarily decimating an entire town, Jango drops this and follows Tango out of loyalty for saving his life, now simply more preoccupied on getting to Earth to reunite with his family.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mayor Piper Pleasance]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven''

The jovial mayor of Haven.
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* AlliterativeName: '''P'''iper '''P'''leasamce. Mint even remarks it's fun to say over and over.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Jango spikes him with enough tendrils of the Never-becoming to turn him into a “black pincushion,” leaving the resultant corpse punctured with a hundred different holes.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After one chapter of screentime, Pleasance is very suddenly and unceremoniously killed by Jango and almost never mentioned again.
* MeaningfulName: True to his last name, Pleasance does seem to be a very pleasant person who does his best to seem civil and approachable. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Mixed results for him]].
* PerpetualSmiler: Pleasance is a cheerful person who's always wearing a smile up until the moment of his death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tiffany]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven''

A mailgirl who Mint befriends in Haven.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dry and quite sardonic, although she's nowhere near as scathing as she could be.
* TheGadfly: Shows Mint a screamer for the sole sake of seeing their scared reaction.
* UncertainDoom: Unlike almost every other named citizen of Haven who are conclusively shown to have lived or died at some point, not one mention is ever made of Tiffany's fate after the slaughter of Haven, leaving it ambiguous if she was among the casualties.
[[/folder]]

!!Sect of the Broken Mind

[[folder:Celia Wilde/Aria Summers]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

An eccentric girl from outside Haven introduced in ''The Touch of Heaven'' and another immune. She is actually Aria Summers, the lost daughter of Chayne Summers.
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* ActionGirl: Fully willing to take the initiative into rescuing Tango and Miles from Jango by ''plowing a car'' into the store they're being held in and leading a high-speed chase back to Haven.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Kooky, detached, slow to social cues, and seemingly oblivious to her own amorality, hinting at some sort of major social disorder.
* AntiHero: Celia's forceful, seemingly apathetic to the people she constantly puts in harm's way around her, and tends to make decisions for people without their consent – up to casually playing with the minds of people and wiping their memories when it's most convenient. Unlike many examples of this trope, Celia doesn't necessarily come off as a typical anti-hero or even consciously selfish, with many of her more unnerving or borderline sociopathic moments seeming to be a product of her own obliviousness.
* TheAtoner: Post-Haven, Aria blames herself for the destruction of Haven on her own selfish actions and spends years trying to get over it and make up for it. Naturally, Aria is absolutely ''pissed'' when Chayne Prime shows a similarly cavalier attitude toward all the lives she's ruined through the Cycle.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: To an extent, but Celia doesn't seem to register what's wrong with dragging people she barely knows away from their homes into life-or-death missions, casually controlling their minds, or even leaving the rotted corpse of her own dead grandmother simply splayed out in the middle of her own home. ''Heaven & Hell'' establishes she's getting better.
* BreakTheCutie: The original Chayne does this ''hard'' to her when she refuses to sit quietly in Nirvana, and the resultant MindRape ends up destroying her so thoroughly she's driven to kill herself.
* CloudCuckoolander: Celia seems to behave like she's on a different wavelength from everyone. Unfortunately, this behavior more often than not endangers everyone around her as well.
* DrivenToSuicide: Chayne's inflexible monstrosity and the horrific effect her MindRape has on Aria ends up driving her to hang herself -- [[YouAreTooLate scant days before Jenny arrives in Nirvana.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Celia's actions in ''The Touch of Heaven'' are definitively and consistently selfish, mostly hinging on a desire to take Tango out of Haven and into the Sect for her own convenience. Bizarrely enough, Celia doesn't even seem ''aware'' of her selfish actions until the very end of the story when her actions inadvertently result in the destruction of Haven and the needless death of thousands of innocent people.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As careless of other people's feelings she can be, Celia genuinely means well and she is ''horrified'' when her actions cause more destruction than they ever meant to cause. Come ''Heaven & Hell'', she seems to have mostly developed into a much nicer person, empathizing with Mint's desire to see Tango again and cheerfully socializing with them and many others at a party.
* KickTheMoralityPet: On the receiving end of this from Chayne, who dismisses the pain she causes her as 'education.'
* LackOfEmpathy: Deconstructed. Celia isn't necessarily ''intentionally'' unsympathetic to everyone around her, but her constant use of force and psychic powers to get what she wants and general antipathy towards everyone around her – including her ''own dead grandmother'' – don't seem to click with her. It's this behavior which ends up leading Jango directly to Haven, which, coupled with Alice's manipulations, ends up with ''thousands'' killed, which ''finally'' cracks Celia. She seems to have gotten her head on straighter by the time of ''Heaven & Hell'', even scrawling herself reminders not to casually play with people's minds in her room.
* LikeMotherLikeDaughter: Aria's cavalier and aloof attitude towards everyone around her in ''The Touch of Heaven'' seems to be a byproduct of her being Chayne's daughter. Aria ends up calling Chayne Prime out on this after a stint of character development in ''The Radiance of Heaven''.
* MoralityChain: No pun intended, but Aria is the thing that keeps Chayne tied to any semblance of goodness.
* MoralityPet: One of the only things Chayne cares about. Unfortunately this doesn't do much to stop Chayne's plans.
* PeekABooCorpse: How Chayne and Jenny discover her after her suicide.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the first part of ''Heaven & Hell'', Aria's become notably kinder and more considerate to Mint, with any implicit consent she has in her father's plan to hurt Mint ''incredibly'' reluctant on her part.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her identity of Aria Summers, the daughter of Chayne thought dead for three entire books, seals her as one of these.
* YouAreNotMyFather: Chayne Prime's actions in having kickstarted the Heaven Cycle and destroying ''trillions'' of lives through it all to set up a paradise for Aria results in Aria furiously disowning Chayne as her mother, renouncing herself as Aria to adopt her old name Celia, and chewing Chayne out on her inability to own up to her actions -- [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter something Aria once did herself all the way back in Haven]].
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[[folder:"Erebos"/Nestor]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The enigmatic leader of the Sect of the Broken Mind, and one of the most powerful immunes on Earth.
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* AbusiveParents: Azazel, for all intents and purposes, is his father. He is ''not'' a pleasant one to have.
* TheAtoner: He takes on this role as of the latest chapters, admitting his sins and what he's got to make up for.
* BadBoss: He, in the words of the story, 'doesn't seem bummed' at having abandoned all his followers to 'a horrible fucking death,' all for the sake of testing his emotional connection to them. It's downplayed -- if not quite subverted -- when he reveals it ''destroyed'' him to do this.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Admits that he's distanced himself from the notions of "right" and "wrong" and teaches his disciples to eschew individuality and any connections they may have with humanity. Thousands of years of having pursued his mission only to be revealed as Chayne's UnwittingPawn forces him to stop and question his mission, though, and Azazel's continued abuse leads to him accepting he's more human than he thought.
* TheChessmaster: When he finally decides to atone for his crimes in Azazel's name? Erebos leads Azazel, Abaddon, and even Tango and Dirgence on with a supposed infiltration mission -- only to reveal his ''[[UnspokenPlanGuarantee true]]'' ace in the hole was Sarie, leading to him to ''successfully out-gambit Azazel''.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was, in actuality, a Greek child from Helike who was taken raised by Azazel, who had Helike, and his parents, tortured to death by Naberius. Nestor, or ''Erebos'', was then used as a puppet for Azazel for thousands of years on a mission that turned out to be all a lie at the end.
* TheDogBitesBack: Thousands of having been led on by Azazel with a lie after Azazel had his entire civilization destroyed by Naberius. Erebos turns the tables on him ''utterly'' in the mission into Tartarus.
* FreudianExcuse: His homeland was annihilated by Naberius and he was raised by Azazel of all people.
* HeelFaceTurn: Thanks to Tango giving him a new perspective, though he was little of a "heel" in the first place.
* HeroicSacrifice: Gives his life to annihilate Uriel and save the universe.
* HiddenDepths: Under his cool stoicism? Erebos, or rather Nestor, is a much kinder man.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Nearly repeats this word for word to Tango at the end.
* TheMole: Reveals this with one word: [[WhamLine "There is no signal."]]
* MustMakeAmends: Decides to do this after his BigDamnHeroes moment in Untermyer, to embrace his humanity and finally give Azazel what's coming to him in repentance to his amoral actions.
* NotSoDifferent: Believes he and Azazel are more alike than he once cared to admit.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Erebos is actually thousands of years old and has presumably known how to use his powers since, having kept himself alive through {{Body Surf}}ing.
* UnwittingPawn: Azazel's kept Erebos as one for thousands of years, having him spread the message of Hell to locate more followers for him to pick out for his army of transfigured Shades and keeping Erebos' loyalty with a promise of eternal bliss at the end of the war -- which, in truth, was merely the eternal agony of transfiguration. The instant Azazel reveals his true treachery, though? Erebos turns the tables on ''him''.
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[[folder:Sarie Crowland]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

One of Jackson's friends in the present day and a member of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* BadassAdorable: An adorable sweetheart, and a badass fighter who helps take out the Lord of Hell.
* BigDamnKiss: She gives a hell of one to Jackson toward the end of the Cycle.
* BuxomIsBetter: When Sarie first takes off her jacket, Mint briefly notes Sarie has ''quite'' a chest to her.
* CuddleBug: Immediately becomes ''very'' physically attached to Jackson in the ending, after they've officially confessed to each other.
* TheCynic: Though [[GenkiGirl one could never guess at a first appearance]], Sarie's one of the most cynical characters in the cast. Part of the reason she was never able to fully attach herself to Jackson is because she was resigned to the certainty he'd die in the war -- and even when she's roped into the plot to stop her, Sarie ''still'' has almost no faith in the mission. Heartwarmingly, [[KnightInSourArmor none of this stops her from putting her all into it]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her entire family was wiped out by angels, and she was narrowly saved by Erebos. It's part of the reason why she feels she owes him a life debt.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: It's her ace in the hole that helps unmake Azazel.
* GenkiGirl: Almost perpetually in a cheerful, energetic, go-getter mood.
* HeroAntagonist: Briefly serves as one of these to Mint as Sarie is lead to believe by Jackson that Mint is still [[TheSociopath Alice]]. Once Sarie gets a chance to read Mint's mind and realize that they aren't, Sarie immediately drops any signs of antagonism towards Mint and even helps them later when she fears Aria may want to cause Mint harm.
* HeelFaceTurn: Initially a member of the Sect of the Broken Mind, later one of the top good guys.
* HeroicSacrifice: Seems like she's going to attempt this, though it's negated.
* HiddenDepths: Underneath her GenkiGirl exterior, Sarie is surprisingly cynical and depressed, having almost ''no'' faith whatsoever she'll manage to win the war.
* IOweYouMyLife: Pledged her loyalty to Erebos when he saved her from death at the hands of the angels, and even when Mint offers her an alternative to completing the war against Heaven, she still looks up to him as her idol.
* KnightInSourArmor: She has no faith in the heroes' crusade to stop the Cycle and never manages to fully attach herself to either Jackson ''or'' the Sect's own mission because she firmly believes it will all end in disaster. In spite of that, Sarie fights ''tooth and nail'' for the sake of their mission because she cares for her friends that much, even almost [[HeroicSacrifice throwing away her own life]] just for the slim possibility Jackson and the others can make it out.
* NaiveNewcomer: Compared to the other members of the Sect. Sarie's the most recent addition and the youngest among them, and thus is the first of theirs to turn around as she hasn't been fully indoctrinated by Hell's strange philosophies.
* NiceGirl: One of the absolute nicest characters in the series. Whereas most other members of the Sect are portrayed in various shades of aloof to downright callous, Sarie by contrast is nothing but supportive and cheerful, never having wanted to do anything with the Sect's goal of destroying humanity and acting friendly and supportive to almost everyone she meets, casting aside her crusade to hurt Mint (whom she thinks is Alice at the time) the moment she realizes they're innocent and helping the good guys without any form of hesitation.
* OfficialCouple: Loves Jackson just as much as he loves her.
* ProphetEyes: As a quick indicator she's an immune, Sarie has completely white eyes that flash whenever she uses her Mylotheian powers.
* PsychicPowers: Like the rest of the immunes. Sarie mostly seems to use passive mind reading in contrast to Aria who casually erases people's memories, only once ever using her powers to control Mint's mind once (when she [[HeroAntagonist still believes Mint is Alice]]).
* SenselessSacrifice: Almost. Tries to give her own life to save the others from a mob of demons and angels -- which wouldn't have taken as Tara's BigDamnHeroes moment saves them all a second later. Jackson is ''mortified'' Sarie tried to throw away her own life after she'd promised she'd make it out with him.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Sect's members all have an end goal of the destruction of all humanity, with varying states of morality about them, but Sarie's easily the most straight-laced of them and admits she's happy Mint and the others came to the Sect with new information, meaning she doesn't ''have'' to help in the destruction of Earth.
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[[folder:"Digit"/Lucas Gilbert]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

An immune specializing in the research of Heaven and Hell's energies, particularly the Menhirs.
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* BoomHeadshot: Killed like this in the Battle of Yonkers, directly by Pluto.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Digit ''hates'' Captain Crunch, in sort of a bizarre parallel to Tango's love of Fruit Loops, and takes this hatred to comically exaggerated levels by using his hatred of the cereal to provoke an emotional reaction strong enough to split his Shade from his body.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Digit's not entirely exempt from the Sect's more bizarre, callous tendencies, but the revelation of Azazel's true plot in Solomon -- and his banishment of Cryne to Tartarus -- ''horrifies'' Digit.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Seems to think the pinnacle of fashion is wearing around a tuxedo everywhere, which Tango utterly ridicules him for.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Digit's a bit smug and prone to many of the Sect's more condescending tendencies at times, but compared to someone like Burles, he's one of the nicest people in the Sect and he's quick to join Tango after seeing the true scope of Naberius' power for himself.
* MoeGreeneSpecial: After he's shot by Pluto, Sarie sees his corpse with the shot having gone through his eye, through his glasses.
* NerdGlasses: Wears a large, round pair similar to Mint's own, further accentuating his place as the "smart guy" of the Sect.
* TheSmartGuy: Essentially serves as this for the Sect, with his role seeming to be to collect and use information on Heaven and Hell's special energies for the Sect.
* TaughtByExperience: Seems to promote this kind of ideology, if him tossing Tango and their friends off a ''cliff'' to teach them how to harness Hell's energies for {{flight}} is any indication.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Cryne"/Zita Schultes]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

An immune Tango meets in Hell and part of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Too angry to flee the demons and angels after Horace's death, and ends up torn apart as a result.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Whatever is in store for her in Tartarus, it's hinted to be along these lines, enough to horrify even the more hardened members of the Sect.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Ended up cluing into Azazel's scheme to destroy Solomon by using Tango as live bait for Naberius. Azazel shuts her up before she can go too far.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Tries to become this to Azazel's scheme to destroy Solomon when she becomes the sole outside force to clue into it. She's a little bit too late.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Seems to function as this alongside Dirgence. The two are hardly ever seen apart, and Dirgence is ''devastated'' when she's taken to Tartarus.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Dirgence"/Horace Armstrong]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

An immune Tango meets in Hell and part of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Relishes a chance to take a shot at the demonic Adrammelech.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Dies after confessing his love one last time for Zita in the apocalyptic war.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Helping to take down three major villains in the apocalypse war before succumbing.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Seems to function as this alongside Cryne.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Burles"/Claude Carvel]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

One of the most experienced -- and haughty -- members of the Sect.
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* TheFundamentalist: Believes the followers of Hell and their divine crusade is right, and everyone else is wrong. Performs MindRape on anyone who protest that in any way, shape or form.
* HeelRealization: Naberius forces him to see the futility of his mission and that he and the rest of the Sect are playing right into Chayne's hands. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Unfortunately for Naberius]], this also gives Burles the motivation to stop being such a hard-ass and give his life to let the others escape as "one last thing right."
* HeroicSacrifice: His last action is to deliberately use Hell's energies to blow himself to let the others escape from Naberius, as well as liberate the thousands of souls Naberius was keeping in tortured bondage in his "art house."
* {{Jerkass}}: Among the biggest in the Sect. Burles is aggressive and condescending almost every moment he's on-page, treating Jango and Maxine as liabilities at best due to their lack of power and using open violence to shut up their protests. He snaps out of it a minute before his death.
* SacrificialLamb: One of the first named characters to bite it in ''Radiance'', conveniently not a few chapters after he's introduced.
[[/folder]]

!!The Children of Heaven

[[folder:"Pluto"/Lazaros]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The leader of the Children of Heaven, the contingent of immunes that serve Heaven, and the archenemy of the Sect of the Broken Mind.
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* AssholeVictim: Finally killed in the war between Heaven and Hell with nobody mourning him, left ignominiously just like the thousands he'd left dead behind him.
* BadBoss: Will abuse his minions at the slightest provocation when he's feeling stressed Just ask Leviathan.
* BerserkButton: Reminding him of being Lazaros is a surefire way to trigger his anger. Insanely so.
* BodySurf: How he's stayed alive for centuries, and he shows ''much'' more willingness to do so than Erebos.
* ButtMonkey: Every single time he appears, something goes wrong for him. Mint kicks him out of their mind with relative ease and utterly humiliates him the second time in front of Uriel, and Naberius slashes his face and taunts him the next time. This starts to change after he murders Charles, where he becomes a truly ''dangerous'' threat utterly intent on seeing the heroes and their hopes destroyed.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Tango blows a hole through him, and Mint proceeds to slowly crush his skull. A rare case where this is utterly, ''wholly'' deserved, as Pluto specialized in doing even ''worse'' to people.
* DeadpanSnarker: he does have a knack for quipping.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Has a knack for utterly out-of-proportion vengeance to anything that slights him and Heaven. When Tango ''accidentally'' plays into a scheme that ends with the destruction of Solomon? Pluto decides fair retribution to them is to murder their father and then proceed to order ''all of Yonkers to be massacred'' by his followers.
* DirtyCoward: Pluto's first response to his plans and schemes being waylaid is to book it as fast as he can, keeping a reserve of well over ''thirty'' bodies to possess just in case he needs to mind-jump out of a hairy situation.
* EvilCounterpart: Though Erebos isn't exactly a paragon of goodness, Pluto is still noted to be ''much'' worse, taking Erebos' distance from humanity UpToEleven by expressing murderous sadism and a willingness to casually possess or torture people at his own leisure.
* EvilGloating: He ''loves'' engaging in this.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Casually warns he may find someone being eaten alive by their own son as amusing.
* EvilIsPetty: Willing to unleash the Phantom, having the populace tear each other apart... to pin it on Mint.
* FacePalmOfDoom: How Mint kills him, taking him by the head -- and ''crushing'' it like a grape, killing both his body and his Shade.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Seems to love to hear himself talk, casually chatting up Mint with a friendly smile while simultaneously letting them know with the same face and tone he's here to either turn Mint into a God or torture them into Ascending. Pluto also indicates to Mint he acts more vicious to "keep up appearances" in the real world.
* FantasticRacism: Believes humans to be little better than apes now.
* FreudianExcuse: Pluto grew up as a Nubian slave in ancient Egypt with no friends or family, living as such until he was liberated by a strange, swarthy man who awakened his powers. It's not even remotely enough to excuse him.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: His above excuse? Not nearly sufficient to explain or to excuse him. At his core, he's a sociopath who delights in the power he's given.
* HateSink: A loathsome, vile, sickening bastard who orders atrocity after atrocity, and represents the worst evils of the Heaven side.
* GodzillaThreshold: Weaponizing the Phantom is considered a point of no return by Amanda, enough to horrify her with its potentially disastrous effects on the populace.
* InTheirOwnImage: Pluto's long term goal, as well as the rest of the Children he commands, as a reward for serving Heaven. Pluto plans to help Heaven win the war and annihilate all life on Earth so he and his followers can create their own versions on Earth over top the ashes to rule over as gods.
* KickTheDog: Murdering Charles Waits just to spite Tango.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: You see everything else on this page? When you're down, Pluto keeps kicking.
* KnightTemplar: As a servant of heaven, Pluto is hellbent on supporting Uriel and Heaven, no matter how hideous the work.
* MindRape: Engages in this with utter aplomb, tormenting his victims with mental assaults to break them down or leave them vulnerable for him to go in for the kill.
* NeverMyFault: Pluto never accepts responsibility for ''anything'' that goes wrong.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Pluto, for a while, talks a big game and certainly showcases his viciousness eagerly and willingly, but he's a small fish in a big pond and he has a tendency to get his ass whupped every time he's on-screen while accomplishing nothing, with even Mint treating him as nothing more than a nuisance. Then Pluto decides he's done screwing around and murders Charles Waits right in front of Tango's eyes.
* PsychoSupporter: Completely and utterly for his lord Uriel. He's a vicious fanatic to say the least.
* PsychopathicManchild: Pluto is highly immature and totally insane, frequently lashing out in tantrums at the nearest target.
* {{Sadist}}: Pluto really enjoys the pain of others.
* SmugSnake: Probably beyond any other villain in the series. Pluto talks a big game and he's a relentless, arrogant sadist, but he is ''way'' out of his depth when it comes to the war between the tulpas, with Mint, Uriel, and Naberius all letting him know how misplaced his arrogance is.
* SmugSmiler: He is almost ''always'' smiling when things go off as he plans.
* ThatManIsDead: He's Pluto, ''not'' Lazaros. Never Lazaros.
* ToThePain: Pluto believes in making punishments ''hurt.''
* WeCanRuleTogether: For all of his wanton murder and sadism, Pluto ''really'' wants Mint on his side and tries to convince them to Ascend, through coercion, threat, and even trying to genuinely assure them that as a God, they'll be able to recreate all those they've lost on Earth when the war starts. Mint always responds to him with a pronounced ShutUpHannibal.
* YouKilledMyFather: Murders Charles after mentally tormenting him, to get on the receiving end of this from Tango.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leviathan]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

Pluto's right-hand, and the second-in-command of the Children of Heaven.
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* AffablyEvil: He's exceedingly well-spoken and courteous despite being a Nazi with a fondness for MindRape.
* TheDragon: To Pluto. Pluto even remarks a former ''[[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Obersturmführer]]'' seemed a good picked for the job.
* FauxAffablyEvil: That politeness is just a cover for what a monstrous bastard he is.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As sick and twisted as Pluto, and he showcases it during Yonkers when he spearheads some horrific violence and mental torture.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Leviathan is clearly not his real name, but it's unknown what his real name is.
* ThoseWackyNazis: A former ''Obersturmführer'' who happens to also be an immune affiliated with Heaven, who's stayed alive through body-surfing. Specifically, Leviathan seems to be of the WickedCultured variety.
* VillainousBreakdown: He ''freaks'' when he's banished at Yonkers, vowing hideous vengeance.
* VillainsOutShopping: Apparently had a stint with reality television in his past unrelated to his occupation in the Children.
* WickedCultured: Chides Mint for branding him as "just" a Nazi, professing himself as a purveyor of fine arts (and apparently [[NoodleIncident reality television]]).
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Avery]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A member of the Children of Heaven.
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* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Between him and Everiett, Avery is clearly the one with the more sadistic sense of humor, cheerfully mocking the mangled corpse of one of the Children's "loose ends" and getting a good chuckle out of it to Everiett's clear irritation.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Seems to function as this to the Children of Heaven with Everiett.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Everiett]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A member of the Children of Heaven.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Seems to function as this to the Children of Heaven with Avert.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tex]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A particularly eccentric member of the Children of Heaven Mint and George encounter.
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* AxCrazy: An utter ''nutcase'' whose ideal utopian Earth is one filled with thousands of severed heads sewn into “grim caterpillars of agony.” This seems to be more played for laughs than anything given Avery’s exasperation with his psychotic ramblings -- up until Tex murders George while giggling.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Doesn’t seem to be all there mentally, apparently believing that spiked {{eldritch abomination}}s speak to him and want him to “take the Earth.” Tex implies acid might have something to do with it.
* CompanionCube: His spiked club. When it breaks as he stabs George, Tex flies into a sobbing panic, long enough for Mint to kill him.
* NeckSnap: Mint kicks the bottom of his head hard enough to break his neck.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Appears for all of one chapter before he’s killed by Mint.
[[/folder]]

!!Others

[[folder:Rubeus “Ruby” Jones]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The son of Amanda and Donald Jones, and Mint's roommate in ''The Ambition of Hell''.
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* AffectionateNickname: “Snowflake” for Mint.
* CovertPervert: Mint seems to sarcastically insinuate Ruby has a tendency to peer down their shirt. Ruby, of course, denies it.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ruby is ''extremely'' snarky, although generally in a playful manner, and he and Mint spend a lot of their mutual screen time seeming to snipe at each other and bash everything they can think of.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Ruby's briefly seen in a photograph alongside Amanda before he's properly introduced in ''The Ambition of Hell''.
* TheInsomniac: Though apparently not literally, Ruby has an ''extremely'' disjointed sleep schedule that he proudly admits he does nothing to fix, regularly staying up the entire night.
* LazyBum: Outside of his job, Ruby seems to not really do much except lounge around in his room and play video games.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amanda Jones]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The wife of Donald Jones and the mother of Ruby.
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* ActionGirl: Amanda very quickly proves herself worthy of her militaristic husband's legacy when her first reaction to a nightmarish EldritchAbomination in her son's apartment is to blow clean through it with a shotgun.
* HappilyMarried: To Donald Jones. Years after his death, Amanda is still singing his praises and holding a feast for what would have been their twentieth anniversary in his honor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:George Otto-Belmont]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A gunrunner friend of Reggie's in the current day.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How Tex finishes him off with his spiked club.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Decides to go out of his way to help fight the Children of Heaven. He gets killed for it.
* SacrificialLamb: One of the first named characters to bite it in ''Radiance''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scott Niles]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'')

A human trafficker Alice befriended in their past.
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* ArcVillain: Essentially serves as this to Alice's flashback arc during ''The Ambition of Hell'', with his actions framing a large portion of the conflict and eventually serving as the greatest threat to Alice themselves.
* AttemptedRape: Attempts to rape Aice in a drunken stupor one night. Oddly enough, Niles stops ''himself'' instead of being halted through other means – although why [[AmbiguousSituation is never clarified]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Alice puts a knife in his throat while he sleeps one night after the “attempted rape” debacle and holds it there until Niles drowns in his own blood. Given his previous actions, [[AssholeVictim this almost seems too kind to him]].
* {{Ephebophile}}: Niles hastily insists this when Alice insinuates he's attracted to children like Ash. Given that he tries to proposition Alice when they're ''thirteen'', this runs into some problems.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Zig-zagged; while Niles seems to draw a line at actually sexually abusing children himself (if him quickly correcting Alice over one of their comments about him being into kids is any indication), Niles outright states he has no qualms with selling said children to ''other'' pedophiles like Ash to be horrifically raped and tortured, only musing that it “seems like a waste of a good product.” Likewise, Niles stops mid-way through raping Alice himself – but never spells out why and doesn't ever acknowledge the incident himself.
* EvilMentor: Alice fashions him as a teacher teaching them the ways of totally controlling other people -- an art which dealing with human trafficking and slavery demands full mastery of.
* {{Gonk}}: Niles is an ugly, ugly man, with an unappealingly obese body constantly drenched in fluids, a face riddled with ugly pimples and spots, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and poor taste in fashion]].
* FatBastard: ''Enormously'' girthy, and an utterly heartless human trafficker who's corpulence is only outweighed by his cruelty.
* HateSink: One can admire Azazel's brilliance, find something darkly charismatic in Chayne's grandiose plotting, and even Naberius has his own sense of charisma...Niles has nothing like this. He's a sick, twisted scumbag whose only act in making the world better was unwillingly leaving it.
* PragmaticVillany: His only problem with Ash's treatment of his slaves is that it is a waste of product. He also get mad at Ash for killing someone in public, having no problem committing brutal acts behind closed doors.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Niles is one of the most sickening and disturbing characters around for that reason. He's a twisted rapist and it's played for as terrible as it should be.
* VillainousFriendship: Shares one with Alice, treating them as a full equal and even propositioning them at one point. It becomes clear that Niles' feelings for Alice go far beyond mere “friendship,” however, feelings he later tries to act upon by almost drunkenly raping Alice himself one night.
* WouldHurtAChild: Niles' charges do and have consisted of children before, and Niles brutally beats an eight-year-old child to death himself with a towel rack after he learns he's sick.
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[[folder:Maxine Thompson (alternate)]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A version of Jilton from an Earth devastated by an alternate version of Tango.
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* AndIMustScream: Maxine was kept alive, completely alone, on a desolate Earth for ''two years'', completely unable to die.
* AlternateSelf: To Jilton from the main Earth – made all the more complicated when that Jilton ends up dying.
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Jilton on the main Earth is dead by the time Maxine arrives on Earth, and it causes her no shortage of existential stress.
* NiceGirl: About as pleasant as her counterpart, if not quite as carefree (for [[TraumaCongaLine good reason]]).
* ReplacementGoldfish: Maxine tries her utter best to avert this, repeatedly affirming that she ''isn't'' the Jilton that Tango and the others knew and existing in a world where she died causes her no end of stress.
* StepfordSmiler: In contrast to the main Jilton, years of having spent her life on a desolate Earth that Naberius destroyed means Maxine has a ''lengthy'' amount of trauma she hides behind her usual witticisms.
* SurvivorGuilt: Seems to have something of a case of this, bluntly telling Tango that she should have died on the Earth she came from alongside everyone else no matter what Tango says.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gives Tango one of these after they end up on the wrong side of a nasty CurbStompBattle from Naberius that they willingly threw themself into to protect Maxine.
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[[folder:Andrew Sharpe]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'')

The illegitimate son of Ashton Sharpe.
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* AbusiveParents: Ash is a monstrously awful parent to have, treating the kid to rape and beatings daily and forcing him to maim the slaves he purchases as well. It’s little wonder Andrew snapped as hard as he did.
* BastardBastard: Downplayed. Andrew takes after his father’s violent behavior and randomly shot a bunch of protesters on one occasion, but Ash’s abuse twisted the poor kid’s mind into such.
* ChildByRape: All but explicitly stated, and Chayne figures this is the case.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Andrew is ‘‘disgusted’’ by the human trafficking his father indulges in and further unimpressed by Alice’s casual attitude toward it.
* FreudianExcuse: Having [[AbusiveParents Ash]] as a father constitutes as one all on its own.
* HairTriggerTemper: LikeFatherLikeSon. Andrew snaps earlier than Alice intends when they start to lecture him and they nearly get pummeled into the ground for it.
* ParentalIncest: Unwillingly inflicted upon him toward Ash.
* RapeAsBackstory: With Ash as a father, well...
* HannibalLecture: Gives a particularly pronounced one to Alice once their own attempt at a BreakingSpeech to Andrew fails, telling them off that even though Alice thinks they’re in total control of the situation, they have ''no'' power over the world -- and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil the kind of world they’ve consigned themself too]] will assure their fall soon and hard. It’s enough to rattle even Alice for a while.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Andrew’s fate past the P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. program is unexplored, and no mention of him is ever made after Ash is defeated.
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[[folder:Naagol]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Radiance of Heaven'')

A horrific, ancient EldritchAbomination who has existed since the beginning of the Cycle.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Sees itself as an audience to a game, and only goes out of its way to help Tango stop the Cycle because a change in the game is amusing to it. All the conflict of the setting proper doesn't even register to it.
* EldritchAbomination: Even by the standards of Heaven and Hell, Naagol qualifies. It's a timeless, ancient entity wholly unconcerned with the Cycle, with even the form it assumes to Tango being utterly revolting -- and its true form being ''unspeakably'' worse.
* TimeAbyss: One of the oldest creatures in the setting, being ''sixty trillion years'' old at ''least'', and possibly even older.
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[[folder:'''MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]
!!Chayne Summers (Prime)
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The original Chayne Summers from the first version of Earth, the architect of the Heaven Cycle, and the BigBad of the entire series.
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* AlasPoorVillain: A sad farewell to Chayne is the result of their end battle, where even the heroes express a hope the Black Queen obtains her peace.
* TheBadGuyWins: In ''The Ambition of Hell'', where she waltzes off with Aria after having successfully used Mint's power to create Nirvana while leaving the rest of reality to burn.
* BigBad: Of ''The Heaven Cycle'' as a whole. All the conflict in the series revolving around Heaven and Hell go right back to Chayne, and the GrandFinale of the series, ''The Radiance of Heaven'', is dedicated to finding and stopping her for good.
* BigNo: Gives one when she discovers Aria has killed herself.
* TheChessmaster: Every single character in the series has been dancing to Chayne's perfect tune since the start, and they've been doing so since the beginning of the Heaven Cycle -- i.e. ''[[LongGame trillions of years ago]]''.
* CordonBleughChef: While Chayne seems to be a competent enough cook, she has a tendency to experiment with unorthodox ingredients -- leading to stuff like soy sauce pancakes she happily makes for breakfast.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: After trillions of years of a life lived taking others, all because Chayne could never, ''ever'' get over her beloved Aria's death, Chayne finally comes to terms with it seconds before she dies, letting go of her pain and heartbreak and surrendering to Mint -- and envisioning a world in her last moments where she made the ''right'' choice, persisting even without her daughter and living the rest of her life peacefully.
-->''And she feels happy again.''
* {{Determinator}}: Give Chayne this. She never gives up on her ambitions.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As vile as she is, Chayne's largest redeeming quality is the fact that she ''still'' sincerely loves Aria, enough to focus the entirety of her LongGame around her and assure she can grow up in a future free from the Phantom.. Tragically, Chayne's still plunged far enough that she doesn't seem to properly realize the ''immense'' amount of grief she puts Aria through in the process.
* EvilMatriarch: The BigBad of the series, the destroyer of trillions... and Aria's dorky mom. The tension between Chayne the "destroyer of worlds" and Chayne the "doting mother" creates major tension for her daughter, whom Chayne herself would never directly hurt but still causes ''massive'' grief towards by means of having kickstarted the Cycle to begin with to create a future for her.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Chayne accepts her end with dignity and grace, recognizing her errors and bidding farewell to the heroes as she fades.
* FreudianExcuse: Like the Chayne in the main timeline, Chayne's entire catalyst for becoming evil was supposedly losing her daughter to the Phantom. Instead of going mad and trying to destroy the world, however, Chayne discovering her latent powers and surviving to a version of Earth where she saw Aria ''survive'' gave her the resolve to make a new goal -- that being to create a world where everyone, especially her daughter, can live free of the suffering of the Phantom.
* GracefulLoser: In her last minutes of existence before Mint and Tango finally destroy her, Chayne finally lets go of her mad grief and peacefully surrenders to oblivion.
* HappilyMarried: To Nirvana!Mason, where she lives with him and Aria as simple employees of the Association (which, in Nirvana, is nothing more than a common pharmaceutical company).
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Everything Chayne does, no matter how cruel or wicked, is done with purpose.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Chayne is obsessed with her own pain, and mitigating it? Well, if it requires trillions to die, one can't make an omelette, etc.
* KickTheMoralityPet: Chayne vows that she would ''never'' hurt Aria and sincerely loves her. Unfortunately, her twisted sense of morality doesn't prevent her from pulling ExactWords and mentally torturing her own daughter into a screaming wreck while dismissing it as "education."
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Torturing one's minion is usually nasty. When that minion is ''Naberius,'' it's a borderline sacreament.
* KnightTemplarParent: She will literally destroy entire worlds, kill countless innocent people and inflict suffering on billions all to create a world where her daughter is safe and alive.
* LongGame: One that stretches ''sixty trillion years'', through means of kickstarting the Heaven Cycle and arranging events loop after loop to finally find a way to tap into the rest of her potential power to create a world where the Phantom never broke out -- which, in action, means putting Mint (as they end up having the latent power to create Nirvana) through enough emotional torment to make them wish beyond anything else nothing had ever changed, with thousands of Earths wiped out as lost causes. Chayne ends ''The Ambition of Hell'' finally ending this game and creating the world she's sought to make from the very beginning.
* MoralMyopia: Concerning Aria. Chayne fesses up to all the atrocities she's committed during her quest to create Nirvana otherwise, but as far as she concerned, she cannot, never has, and never will harm Aria -- not even after putting her through years of misery as a result of having caused the Heaven Cycle in the first place, not after tearing her from her friends and coldly telling her they're doomed no matter what she says, and not after subjecting her to ''MindRape'' to make her "understand" her pain after Aria rightfully calls her out on her actions.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon seeing her actions have resulted in Aria's death? "I did this to her!"
* NeverMyFault: Downplayed. Chayne doesn't even bother denying the monster she's become through kickstarting the Heaven Cycle, but at the end, Chayne seems to think she's automatically above [[KarmaHoudini all consequences]] and leaving all of her daughter's best friends stranded to die should be no problem of hers -- which ''royally'' pisses off Aria. Similarly, when Aria finally snaps and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews her out]] on her actions, Chayne seems to gripe for a response before ''forcing'' Aria to experience all the pain she has, laughing that she "hardly knows what she's talking about" and stating she simply needs to understand ''her'' twisted perspective.
* OmnicidalManiac: "There is nothing in this world left protecting. So let us ''burn'' with it." Yeah, at the end? She's cracked.
* RedBaron: ''The Black Queen of Heaven and Hell''.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: Once Aria dies, her scheme is dismantled, and the tides finally turn against her? Chayne decides nothing is worth protecting and tries to destroy Nirvana.
* TranquilFury: When she finally hits her VillainousBreakdown, Chayne becomes ''eerily'' calm and quiet -- even as she horribly kills the other Jenny and prepares to Ascend to destroy her own Nirvana in despairing fury, she doesn't express her rage visibly.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Chayne's ultimate goal is to create a version of Earth where the Phantom never broke out, thus assuring none of the world is freed from the Heaven Cycle and has a chance to evolve naturally free of the Phantom. Too bad she's murdered ''trillions'' of people on other Earths trying to get to that one.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers an epic freakout from her daughter's suicide.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Similarly to her primary self but on a much, ''much'' wider scale. The MythArc overlapping the entire series all falls back to this version of Chayne having seamlessly manipulated events to create a version of Earth where the Phantom never happened – at the consequence of thousands of destroyed Earths and ''trillions'' of lives destroyed.
* YouHaveFailedMe: She subjects Naberius to a nonfatal version, forcing him to experience some nasty agony for his screwups.
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[[folder:The Necrosis]]
->'''Appears in''': ''Literature/TheTouchOfHeaven'' | ''Literature/HeavenAndHell'' (''The Ambition of Hell'' and ''The Radiance of Heaven'')

The hungering personification of non-existence lurking outside the borders of all reality.
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* EldritchAbomination: It doesn't exist. Yet the mere concept of ''thinking'' of it makes it exist -- and draws it closer, and closer. It's a force, not a sentient being, but it still ''hungers''. It is utterly incomprehensible, as Belphegor notes it is [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm literally impossible to think of the form and shape of nothing]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the entire series. Nobody, not Heaven, not Hell, not Chayne herself, hold a candle to the apocalyptic threat the Necrosis holds, and it's the threat of it breaking into all reality and rendering all reality as ''nothingness'' that drives the urge to stop the Heaven Cycle once for all before the war starts.
* RetGone: The literal personification of it. Once it breaks into reality? ''Everything'' will no longer exist, never will exist, and will never ''have'' existed in the first place.
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* SenselessSacrifice: Almost. Tries to give her own life to save the others from a mob of demons and angels -- which wouldn't have taken as Tara's BigDamnHeroes moment saves them all a second later. Jackson is ''mortified'' Sarie tried to throw away her own life after she'd promised she'd make it out with him.

* NegatedSacrifice: Tries to give her own life to save the others from a mob of demons and angels. It doesn't take as Tara's BigDamnHeroes moment saves them all -- and Jackson is ''mortified'' Sarie tried to throw away her own life after she'd promised she'd make it out with him.