Line #26 Characters/DearChildren


1	!Webcomic/DearChildren
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3	There are of course numerous unmarked spoilers (especially for character development) in here, so you should probably only read this after getting caught up on the comic.
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5	[[foldercontrol]]
6
7	!The Journalism Club
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9	[[folder:In General]]
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11	* ChromaticArrangement: Each member of the Journalism Club has their own color motif, expressed in attire or eye color, and also speech balloons.
12	* ClothingReflectsPersonality: As HHS students don't wear school uniforms, this is true in every case. [[LovableJock Cailin]] has her [[CasualSportsJersey varsity jacket]] indiciating her interest in sports; [[HumbleHero Josh]] in T-shirts and jeans, being an unassuming farm boy; Emma, who has self-image problems, dresses very casually in browns and other neutral colors; [[OccidentalOtaku Gabe]] is always seen in anime/manga/gamer gear; Chelle wears subtly classy clothing; and [[TheSnarkKnight Devin]] wears T-shirts bearing sarcastic mottos.
13	* KidHero: Aged between 15-17. Competent for teens, and there have already been hints of latent abilities.
14	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Most have been fast friends for years, and the newcomers (Gabe, and possibly [[spoiler:Whitney]]) are rapidly bonding with the others. They are also quite good at complementing each other's skills and talents.
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16	[[/folder]]
17
18	[[folder:Cailin ("Cail") Lee Carver]]
19	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtcailpic_7.png]]
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21	A tall, athletic, 16 year-old girl with bleached-blonde hair (naturally brunette) and big blue eyes. Having been forced to give up her earlier ambition of becoming a track star, because Hearthbrook High won't let her play on the girls' team, she has instead become obsessed with uncovering supernatural mysteries. She seems to have some strange connection with whatever force is behind the monstrous creatures who have begun appearing in town.
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23	* BedsheetGhost: Cailin likes cute ghost images, including the classic bedsheet variety.
24	* BookDumb: Cail has a relatively-limited vocabulary, as Chelle [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in the very first chapter, when Chelle's SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in texting flies right over Cail's head.
25	* CasualSportsJersey: Cailin frequently wears a Hearthbrook High School varsity jacket, which both helps establish her YellowPurpleContrast color theme, and signifies her love of sports and deep desire to be allowed to participate on the girls' team.
26	* [[invoked]]CreepyCute: Cailin can come off this way, especially in light of her ghostly obsessions and her habit of leaping about and often ''grabbing'' people whom she likes.
27	** Also true of a lot of the cute ghosts she likes in movies and decor.
28	* TheCutie: Sweet, sunny and rather innocent, Cailie introduces the comic premise in the first panels with an utterly-cheerful video blog. She's a strong believer in both the supernatural and ThePowerOfFriendship. She's since shown HiddenDepths, but never really drifted far from her basically-idealistic nature.
29	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is convinced that ghosts are real and that all the mysterious events in Hearthbrook are being caused by ghostly hauntings. She is also notably innocent for her age, and in particular seems to miss a lot of the romantic tensions between her friends.
30	* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: There ''are'' strange and arguably supernatural events in Hearthbrook, though it is far from obvious if traditional ghosts are involved or if it is all more a matter of CosmicHorror.
31	* CuckooSnarker: Sometimes, Cail will come out with a sarcastic comment that makes it clear that she is saner, smarter and more self-aware than she often pretends to be.
32	* GenkiGirl: Full of energy, and apparent optimism.
33	* TheGlomp: Cail does this a lot toward Gabe, possibly because she finds him attractive. There is an implication that she has done this before toward people she wanted for the Journalism Club, such as the Perkovitch twins last year.
34	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde, good-hearted and idealistic teenage girl. Perhaps [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that the [[spoiler:blonde hair came out of a dye bottle and at least part of the femininity out of an estrogen pill bottle]]. However, while Cail's not ''quite'' as innocent as she looks (it would be difficult to be ''that'' innocent without having grown up in a tower), she ''is'' genuinely good-hearted and idealistic.
35	* InnocentBlueEyes: Cail has wide blue eyes, and is rather innocent and childlike for her age.
36	* InnocentlyInsensitive: When [[spoiler:Eleanor and her daughter]] are abducted by a monster, Cail is simply happy that it is now obvious that monsters and evil cults are real; she doesn't really consider that two human beings are endangered, injured or worse.
37	* IntrepidReporter: Both brave, and extremely idealistic about the positive possibilities of the press, Cail is the main reason why the Journalism Club is so aggressively seeking out supernatural stories.
38	* LeeroyJenkins: Cail often likes to charge right into any situation that seems mysterious, spooky or simply ''dangerous'', without consulting with her fellow club members or even taking basic precautions like eyeing the length of a drop or making sure that anyone else knows where she and her partner have gone.
39	* LovableJock: Athletically-inclined, and a nice person.
40	* LightGirlDarkBoy: Cail is (dyed) blonde and (naturally) blue-eyed. Back when she [[spoiler:presented as a boy]] she kept her hair its natural brown color.
41	* NightmareFetishist: Cail is obsessed with mysteries, the supernatural, and especially ghosts. She is also fascinated by death in general, and may be personally a DeathSeeker. It's obvious that even her fellow Journalism Club members think her odd, and not too hard to see why most of the students at Hearthbrook High think she's rather creepy.
42	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: One of the reasons Cail tends to come off as a weirdo is that, if she likes you, she will get physically very close to you, almost to the point of being a CuddleBug. She probably also frightens some people when she does this, because she is ''also'' [[TheBigGirl tall]] and [[LovableJock strong]].
43	* NotSoAboveItAll: Claims to be interested in ghosts, not boys, but she's rather obviously attracted to [[spoiler:Gabe]].
44	* SquishTheCheeks: Cailin does this to Gabe at least once, as befits her liking him and having NoSenseOfPersonalSpace.
45	* PluckyGirl: Cailin is literally willing to stand up to a monster, armed with nothing but her cell phone, to protect a friend. She rarely shows fear of anything, though some of this may be her being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
46	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Explicitly sees the Journalism Club in these terms. She seems to be rejected by practically everyone else in Hearthbrook High (due to the combination of her [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} strange beliefs]], [[GenkiGirl weird behavior]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} gender status]], and she values her true friends all the more for it.:
47	* PuppyDogEyes: She does this from time to time, usually when other members of the Journalism Club aren't willing to go hunt ghosts with her.
48	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Almost inevitable because she ''wants'' to present as female; Cail wears blue barettes and does something to her eyelashes, to look a bit feminine.
49	* WideEyedIdealist: Cailin is idealistic about both friendship and journalism, and sometimes confuses the two.
50	* YellowPurpleContrast: Yellow hair, and generally wears her purple varsity jacket or sometimes another purple top, so that her long blonde hair is frequently in direct contrast to her purple jacket. This can be seen as an example of gold symbolizing spiritual strength, versus purple indicating the darker supernatural.
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52	[[/folder]]
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54	[[folder: Josh DeWitt]]
55	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtjoshpic.png]]
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57	* TheBigGuy: Only second tallest (after Cail), but with his broad shoulders and muscular build, almost certainly the strongest.
58	* BookDumb: Josh is obviously intelligent, but claims he doesn't enjoy reading books.
59	* CluelessChickMagnet: ''Three'' characters, so far, possibly have crushes on him: [[spoiler:Emma]] and [[spoiler:Devin]] definitely do, with [[spoiler: Chelle]] being more subtle. Josh doesn't seem to notice this.
60	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: One of the characters attracted to him is ''male''.
61	* TheCutie: As much of a sweetie in his own masculine way as Cailin is in her feminine, Josh is kind, loving and caring toward almost all other people and many animals.
62	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Josh loves animals, including livestock, and they tend to be friendly to him in return. This helps him in caring for those on his farm -- but he hates it if any of them are slaughtered.
63	* GentleGiant: Sweet, chivalrous, and extremely kind to animals.
64	* HiddenDepths: Seems at first glance to be just a big lug of a farmboy, but he's extremely [[NiceGuy nice]], [[FriendToAllLivingThings kind to both people and animals]], has a wicked sense of humor, and is smart enough to hold up his end of a conversation with Chelle.
65	* HumbleHero: Shows no arrogance regarding either his [[TheBigGuy considerable strength]] or his unusual ability to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal communicate with animals]].
66	* IJustWantToBeNormal: One of Josh's major motivations for [[spoiler:quitting the Journalism Club]].
67	-->Josh: Is it too much to want to feel normal every once and a while ...
68	* NiceGuy: He has not done a single mean or nasty thing so far in the story, and he has actively encouraged or been otherwise kind to several characters.
69	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Understands and is understood by animals, especially his pets, abnormally well. It's unclear so far just ''how'' well that is, but this ''is'' the sort of world where genuine psychic powers can't be ruled out.
70	* YouthfulFreckles: Heavily freckled teenager; though his even ''more'' heavily-freckled mother makes it obvious that this is a trait inherited from her.
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72	[[/folder]]
73
74	[[folder: Emma Flores Garcia]]
75	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtemmapic.png]]
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77	* BadLiar: Emma always reveals she is lying through facial expressions, blushing, sweating, stammering and revealing word choices.
78	** Here she tries to distract Eleanor Wan by staging a fall and pretending to be hurt.
79	-->Emma: Oof! Ow! Injury! Painful, debilitating injury!
80	-->Eleanor: Hey, quit it. You're distracting me.
81	*** (It sort of works in the end, but mostly because Emma successfully implies she might sue if Eleanor doesn't come over and help her).
82	* NiceGirl: Sometimes argues with Devin, but otherwise very nice to everyone.
83	* OhCrap: Emma's reactions [[http://dear-children.com/comic/page_0998/ here]] and [[http://dear-children.com/comic/page_0998/ here]] as she becomes increasingly aware that '''(1)''' stealing the e-mails may have resulted in deadly actions by their shadowy enemy, and '''(2)''' she is the [[OnlySaneMan only one]] of the [[SchoolClubFront Journalism Club]] to grasp that '''(a)''' it's bad that innocent people are suffering, and '''(b)''' the ''Journalism Club could be their NEXT VICTIMS''.
84	* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]]: Emma, though the youngest member of the Journalism Club, is often the only one to fully-appreciate the danger they're in and respond with appropriate worry. The others are often too overwhelmed by various ambitions or even mild ''delusions'' to care.
85	* SiblingTriangle: Emma and [[spoiler:Devin]] are both attracted to [[spoiler:Josh]].
86	* TeamMom: Even though she's the youngest member of the group, Emma tends to take care of the Journalism Club, and tries to keep them out of serious trouble as much as possible.
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88	[[/folder]]
89
90	[[folder:Gabriel ("Gabe") Hernandez]]
91	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtgabepic.png]]
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93	Short and slight, with untidy black hair and brown eyes. Wears square-rimmed glasses. A bit clumsy, Gabe is intelligent but socially-awkward, and inclined to shallow crushes. He is obsessed by anime and manga, to the point that his parents are worried he won't ever find a real girlfriend.
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95	* EndearinglyDorky: Especially in Cailin's eyes, as shown [[http://dear-children.com/comic/page_0566/ here]].
96	-->>Cailin: He's new in town and he's super cute and awkward!
97	* GenreSavvy: Finds Wesley's [[spoiler:dream journal and secret computer]] when Devin asks him how they'd hide something in the most "over-the-top" way in an anime. That's exactly how Wesley hid them.
98	* HormoneAddledTeenager: To the point that his main original reason for joining the Journalism Club was to get close to Chelle -- whom he had just encountered that same day, and with whom he had not yet even spoken.
99	* IJustWantToBeLoved: Gabe says this almost directly when he overhears Luke and Sabrina's conversation the morning after [[spoiler:Wesley's apparent death]]:
100	-->Gabe (thinks): I wish ... sniffle ... I had a girlfriend ...
101	* NaiveNewcomer: Comes from the California Central Valley and just moved to Hearthbrook within the last couple of weeks. Fills the usual role of character to whom many facts well-known to the natives (such as the story of the Crooked Saint) may be explained in detail; also notices odd things about the town which the others take for granted.
102	* OccidentalOtaku: To an extreme degree; he watches anime almost constantly when not interacting with other people, and he has a collection of cute female action figures who smile disturbingly at him from all over his room.
103	* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Gabe, who quickly joins the Journalism Club, does not show up until the start of Chapter 2.
104	* ShrinkingViolet: The rare male variety. Gabe hates being yelled at or forced to speak in front of a class.
105	* WrongGenreSavvy: Acts as if he is in a high school manga, including treating Chelle as if she's a {{Tsundere}} (when the evidence is that she simply isn't attracted to him), and completely failing to grasp the seriousness of the situation into which the Journalism Club is getting him.
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107	[[/folder]]
108
109	[[folder: Michelle ("Chelle") Segal]]
110	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtchellepic.png]]
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112	Short, slight but surprisingly strong, Chelle is a brown-eyed brunette who wears round black-rimmed glasses on her pretty and rather delicate face. She tends to dress in rather classy blouses, skirts and tights. She almost always wears a blue flower-shaped ribbon in her hair, toward the right side. She is highly intelligent, logical-minded, sarcastic and a bit arrogant. She is verbally skilled, and her ambition is to become a novelist.
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114	* BadassBookworm: Chelle loves literature and wants to become a novelist. She is also courageous, decisive and strong-willed -- and physically much stronger and a better fighter than she looks.
115	* ChildProdigy: A flashback reveals that Chelle was, not surprisingly, one of these (and recognized as such by her father) when she was small.
116	* CornerOfWoe: Chelle assumes this position [[http://dear-children.com/comic/page_1220/ here]] and in the next three panels, during the bus ride home right after Josh has left the Journalism Club. Has overtones of CradleOfLoneliness (but she's hugging her ''own'' bag rather than anything of Josh's) and ''almost'' puts her into a TroubledFetalPosition.
117	* CuteBookworm: Small, pretty, smart and spunky, though she'd probably hate to be perceived as "cute."
118	* DeadpanSnarker: She has a have a witty retort for whenever anyone's acting unintelligently, which to her is probably most people.
119	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Specifically, she wants to achieve something significant and be seen by others as doing so, rather than being famous for her birth or making a contribution as just one of a larger group.
120	-->Chelle: How does something matter if no one else notices or cares?
121	* InsufferableGenius: Believes that she is even smarter than the rest of the Journalism Club than is actually the case, and that this makes her the most important person in the club and the leader.
122	** She does, however, admit that she's not the smartest at ''everything'' -- for instance, she lacks Emma's mathematical aptitude, and Josh's animal empathy.
123	* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: We see as early as her Chapter 1 text chat with Cailin that Chelle feels this way. She cares a lot for her friends, but most of them don't really get her, especially her [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness more complex statements]] and love of literature.
124	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A cold, calculating, ruthless, and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] BadassBookworm who can annoy and/or upset some of her friends, especially Cail, due to her being an InsufferableGenius. But underneath that hubris, is a girl who truly cares for friends and aims to do what's right in the world.
125	* JewishAndNerdy: confirmed to be Jewish as of chapter 5, highly intellectual, and uninterested in most trivialities.
126	* LonelyRichKid: Due to a combination of ParentalAbandonment and IntelligenceEqualsIsolation. Chelle isn't exactly friendless -- she has the rest of the Journalism Club -- but she doesn't have a ''lot'' of friends, especially when one considers that Devin is consistently obnoxious to her and she doesn't know Gabe that well (and perceives him as at least a slightly AbhorrentAdmirer). That leaves Cailin, Emma and Josh -- and when Josh [[spoiler:quits the Journalism Club]], she becomes clearly depressed.
127	* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Or, in her case, wine ''cellar''. She probably won't get caught doing this, but the hangover she suffered was punishment enough for drinking most of a whole bottle. Really, given for how long her father leaves her alone, and how much wine he stores on his premises, it's testament to Chelle's fundamentally good character that she doesn't get blitzed on a regular basis.
128	* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Chelle is small, pretty and very stereotypically-female in appearance; the most so of the three girls who are core members of the Journalism Club. She is also probably the most decisive and ruthless of any member of the JC, male or female.
129	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She's the daughter of a Hollywood action star named "Samuel Seagal" -- a composite of the names of [[Creator/SamuelLJackson]] and Creator/StevenSeagal, real Hollywood action stars]].
130	* ParentalAbandonment: She has a MissingMom, and her father is usually away pursuing his Hollywood acting career.
131	* PluckyGirl: Stays cool and calculating even in dangerous situations, and is willing to stick by her friends in such times of peril.
132	* RichBitch: Her father is quite wealthy, and Chelle is sometimes a bit nasty even to her friends. Even to the ones who don't happen to be named "Devin Xue."
133	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Has a huge vocabulary, and delights in showing it off. Saddened by the failure of most other people, including some of her friends, to understand what she's talking about.
134	* TheSmartGirl: Probably the most intelligent member of the Journalism Club, though Emma surpasses her in mathematical ability, and other members of the club are better at other specific aptitudes.
135	* TheSnarkKnight: Chelle is ''extremely'' sarcastic, possibly the most sarcastic member of the Journalism Club, of whom ''none'' (not even Cail) are entirely innocent of the trait.
136	* WritersBlock: Chelle is writing a novel, but doesn't seem to be able to actually start the main text.
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138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder: Devin Xue]]
141	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtdevpic.png]]
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143	* BigBrotherInstinct: Protective toward his step-sister, Emma.
144	* BigOlEyebrows: Especially in closeups, it's clear Devin has a magnificent pair.
145	* ChivalrousPervert: Not above sneaking peaks at the rears of boys he likes, and (oddly enough)[[CargoShip inanimate objects]]. Also genuinely-caring toward the (animate) objects of his attraction.
146	* ConspiracyTheorist: Believes (or claims to believe) and argues for a number of utterly bizarre conspiracy theories, some of which are strange combinations of standard ones.
147	* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Devin's explicit justification for many of his stranger arguments and actions.
148	* DeterminedExpression: Gets one when he studies [[spoiler:Wesley's snuff porn]] files, emphasizing that he knows he is facing something truly depraved and evil, rather than merely amusing.
149	* HiddenEyes: Gets this effect when ''very'' angry -- close to exploding into violence, or otherwise seriously acting against the triggering individual.
150	* InsaneTrollLogic: How he argues for his various conspiracy theories. It is far from certain that he actually ''believes'' all of his own arguments.
151	** Also, his concept of how "double jeopardy" works.
152	* {{Jerkass}}: Often obnoxious and insulting, even to his friends. Anyone who manages to stay friends with him for long learns to discount most of this behavior.
153	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Devin genuinely loves and cares for his friends, especially [[BigBrotherInstinct his half-sister Emma]].
154	* [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Devin Seeks Good Man]]: For all his obnoxious façade, to whom is Devin ''most'' attracted? Why, [[spoiler:[[AllLovingHero Josh]]]] -- and a large part of the attraction is his genuinely-caring nature [[FriendToAllLivingThings toward all life]].
155	* TheSnarkKnight: Runs a close second to Chelle when it comes to sarcasm.
156	* StraightGay: Male homosexual, but not at all campy.
157	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Seems to have been ''way'' nicer before his betrayal by [[spoiler:Aaron]]. [[{{Antihero}} Not exactly evil]] now, but a bit of a {{Jerkass}}.
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159	[[/folder]]
160
161	!Family of the Journalism Club
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163	[[folder: Benjamin Carver]]
164
165	Cail's father. A math teacher at the high school his daughter attends.
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167	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his quirks, Ben is both academically competent, and has no problem keeping even the arrogant Eric Saddler under control in his class.
168	* CoolTeacher: Generally kind to and liked by his students.
169	* NiceGuy: Obsessed with math, yet quite lovable in all senses of the word.
170	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Both as a father and as a teacher.
171	* WackyMarriageProposal: "I used the quadratic formula to propose to my wife."
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173	[[/folder]]
174
175	[[folder: Mrs. Carver]]
176
177	Cail's mother.
178
179	* BerserkButton: Don't mention anything uncanny or weird around her. This predictably causes trouble for her [[NightmareFetishist daughter]] [[CloudCuckoolander Cailin]], who can't ''avoid'' such topics.
180	* HiddenEyes: She is frequently shown this way, emphasizing her mysteries and possible madness.
181	* NerdsAreSexy: She married math nerd Ben Carver, and did so after a WackyMarriageProposal involving the quadratic formula, so she almost certainly is of this opinion.
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183	[[/folder]]
184
185	[[folder: Mary DeWitt]]
186
187	Josh's mother.
188
189	* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Mother]]: She has killed Josh's rooster The Big Lebawski and ''tried to make him eat it''; she's threatened to kill his other pets, which is why Josh carries Lil' Bessie to school with him. She belittles Josh to his face in front of his grandmother (her own mother), attacking his (fairly innocent and harmless) choice of friends and hobbies. Matters have become so bad that Josh is seriously considering [[TheRunaway running away from home]].
190	* ActionGirl: We first meet her kicking open a door, shotgun in hand, ready to defend her farm.
191	* AmbiguouslyEvil: She has killed at least one of Josh's pets, and on one occasion tried to ''feed it to him''. On the other hand, she's a farm woman, these are some of her ''livestock'', and she may just be trying to make Josh face up to some of the harder facts of life.
192	* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: The apologetic note she writes to Josh implies that she very much would ''like'' to do this. The problem is she doesn't seem to be able to follow through on it.
193	* JerkassHasAPoint: When she writes in a note to Josh that he's a "soft boy. Too soft. Someone's gonna take advantage of you if you're not careful," she is not wrong. What's more, her statement echoes a point that Michelle made back in chapter 2. Josh ''does'' tend to let others push him around way too much.
194	* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: She actually loves Josh and the sometimes harsh things she says and does to him are motivated by a desire to make him stronger.
195	* TroubledAbuser: Mary was abused by her mother, and abuses her son, Josh. There are hints that she is on some level aware of this connection, but she has trouble controlling her temper.
196
197	[[/folder]]
198
199	[[folder: Mrs. Maria Flores]]
200
201	Emma's mother, Devin and Kacey's step-mother, and wife of Mr. Xue. It is unclear how long after her late first husband passed, that she re-married. She is currently being treated at St. Howard Hospital for a possibly-terminal illness. She is currently shaven-headed and physically wasted from her disease.
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203	* DoubleMeaning: Her most important advice to Emma. Is she talking about Emma's problems with the JC's investigations, or her own medical condition?
204	-->Mrs. Flores: I know that sometimes it feels like the world is out to get you. That's natural. You just need to give it some time to pass, as it always will. Never forget things always pass.
205	* FaceDeathWithDignity: She knows she's probably going to die, but she not only doesn't complain of her condition to Emma, but gives her sound maternal and friendly advice.
206	* TheTopicOfCancer: The fact that her head is shaved and she looks physically-wasted, coupled with the very long time she's spending in hospital, strongly-implies that this is her illness.
207
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder: Officer Hernandez]]
211
212	Gabe's father. Recently transferred to Hearthbrook and works as Officer Fitzgerald's partner. The Journalism Club is unaware of Gabe's association with law enforcement, but it does not seem to get in the way of Gabe's involvement despite the often questionable legality of the club's work.
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214	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: both as a parent and as a cop.
215
216	[[/folder]]
217
218	[[folder: Mrs. Hernandez]]
219
220	Gabe's mother.
221
222	* MyBelovedSmother: Her behavior toward Gabe. She constantly messages him, gives him TheGlomp, and sometimes won't even let him sit alone in his room. Gabe's dad calls her out on this behavior.
223
224	[[/folder]]
225
226	[[folder: Samuel Segal]]
227
228	Chelle's father. A famous Hollywood action star.
229
230	[[/folder]]
231
232	[[folder: Kacey Xue]]
233
234	Devin's older sister. She was a friend of the JoJoJo's and also played on the girl's soccer team. She graduated high school the year before the comic started.
235
236	[[/folder]]
237
238	[[folder: Mr. Xue]]
239
240	Devin and Kacey's father, Emma's step-father, and husband of Mrs. Flores. Captain of a commercial air-line, and because of this he is rarely home. Devin and Kacey's biological mother has not been mentioned much, however based on a family photo she was still present in their lives when Devin was a young child.
241
242	[[/folder]]
243
244	!The AV Club
245
246	[[folder: Aaron McAries]]
247	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtaaronpic.png]]
248
249	White, male, red hair and blue eyes.
250
251	* EvilRedhead: And in scenes where he does something bad, his red hair often gets emphasized. Though his "evil" only extends to {{Jerkass}} levels, so far.
252	* FieryRedhead: HotBlooded and outspoken, as per the stereotype. Also appears to be quite charismatic, given that he's the leader of his club.
253	* JerkassWoobie: He turned his best friend [[spoiler:Devin]] into his enemy on the combined urgings of his ''other'' best friend [[spoiler:Candace]] and his own early-adolescent sexual insecurities; then when he revealed his growing love for her to [[spoiler:Candace]], she insisted that they'd be better being JustFriends. This contributes to his getting battered in a fistfight. One feels sorry for the boy -- but he's just so ''obnoxious'' to everyone, except maybe [[spoiler:Candace]]!
254	* MeaningfulName: [[Literature/BookOfExodus Aaron]] [[FightingIrish Mc]][[WesternZodiac Aries]], and he's every bit as intolerant, violent and stubborn as the name suggests!
255	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Both in the past, and now.
256	** Some years ago, when he learned that his then best friend Devin was probably gay, and ''might'' be attracted to him, Aaron yelled at Devin, pushed him into a lake, and ran away, even though he knew Devin couldn't swim ([[spoiler:the water turned out to be only a few inches deep]]).
257	** Now, Aaron is ''still'' hostile to Devin, and the Journalism Club in general, and ''also'' particularly hostile to those of Devin's friends to whom Devin might plausibly be attracted: namely, Cail (a longtime friend of Devin, and a trans girl who used to present as male) and Josh (a longtime friend of Devin, who is cismale, and to whom Devin actually is attracted: ''not'' Emma (Devin's sister), Chelle (female and a [[FriendlyRivalry friendly rival]] to Devin), or Gabe (who just met Devin).
258	** The fact that he is referred to as an "edgelord" and uses the word "[[ParodyReligion Kek]]" codes him as a right-winger, possibly alt-right. ("Kek" has much wider usage than among the alt-right, but it's no/t obvious that either the Journalism ''or'' AV Clubs know this).
259	* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Candace. Yes, she turned him down -- but far from decisively.
260
261	[[/folder]]
262
263	[[folder: Candace]]
264
265	UnresolvedSexualTension: With Aaron. Yes, she turned him down -- but far from decisively.
266
267	[[/folder]]
268
269	!Band Geeks
270
271	[[folder:Taylor Armstrong]]
272
273	Captain of the marching band; plays the trumpet. A tall slim black girl with brown eyes and moderate-length brown kinky hair.
274
275	[[/folder]]
276
277	[[folder:Caterina]]
278
279	A short, slight girl (smaller than Chelle!) with pale skin, light-brown eyes, and long, blonde hair.
280
281	[[/folder]]
282
283	[[folder:Dominic]]
284
285	A thin boy with pale and freckled skin, a mop of red hair and green eyes behind round rimless glasses. He's a drummer.
286
287	[[/folder]]
288
289	[[folder:Iris]]
290
291	A tall (possibly albino) girl with very pale skin and nearly white hair. Vice President of the Band Club. She plays the flute (possibly a fife, it's hard to tell).
292
293	* {{Jerkass}}: Aggressively rude to both Josh and Chelle, and some of her own band members.
294	* TheStarscream: To Taylor. She obviously wants to be in charge of the band, but lacks Taylor's charisma.
295
296	[[/folder]]
297
298	[[folder:Marcus]]
299
300	A big brownish guy with untidy black hair and brown eyes over which he wears square rimless glasses; he is very hairy, and a bit sloppy in appearance. He plays the trumpet.
301
302	* BigFun: Large and outgoing.
303	* CarpetOfVirility: Has hair on his face, chest and forearms, and probably over a lot of his body we can't see at the time.
304
305	[[/folder]]
306
307	[[folder:Slayer]]
308
309	A tall, sharp-featured black kid who wears his grayish-brown kinky hair in short dreadlocks, and is encountered dressed in a rather concealing gray hoodie with a black multi-pocketed vest over that.
310
311	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: I doubt his ''parents'' named him "Slayer!"
312
313	[[/folder]]
314
315	[[folder:Sonny]]
316
317	A tall pale-skinned guy with light brown eyes and long straight black hair, who dresses entirely in dark tones (black to dark gray).
318
319	[[/folder]]
320
321	!Chess Club
322
323	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: All the characters in the Chess Club appear to be notably intelligent.
324
325	[[folder:Clara Langworthy]]
326
327	The younger sister of Paige Langworthy, who is cute rather than stunningly beautiful. She has pale skin, red hair and blue eyes.
328
329	* NiceGirl: Clara seems to be a really nice person, though as she is also TheSocialExpert, some of this may be studied behavior on her part.
330	* TheSocialExpert: Remarkably good at conversation for a young teen. She clearly charms Josh with just a few friendly words. Chelle's exasperation on seeing Clara there makes it likely that Chelle was already aware of Clara's nature in this regard.
331
332	[[/folder]]
333
334	[[folder:Wesley Perkovitch]]
335
336	The fraternal twin brother of Whitney Perkovitch. They look very similar, and were best friends, before Wesley's [[spoiler:MonstrousTransformation and resultant disappearance]].
337
338	* AmbiguouslyJewish: "Perkovitch" is a Slavic name often indicating a Jewish family.
339	* BodyHorror: What happens to Wesley when he [[spoiler:begins his MonstrousTransformation]].
340	* CovertPervert: The likeliest explanation for the [[spoiler:snuff/torture porn videos]] on his secret computer.
341	* TheInsomniac: Wesley becomes this because of his frightening RecurringDreams.
342	* NotHimself: Whitney noticed that Wesley was "acting strange" before his [[spoiler:apparent death]] and subsequent [[spoiler:disappearance]].
343	* RecurringDreams: Before his [[spoiler:MonstrousTransformation]], Whitney has a series of terrifying dreams.
344	* SanitySlippage: Wesley begins to feel "paranoid" from his RecurringDreams.
345	* SecretDiary: ''Two'' of them:
346	** Wesley's dream journal, originally intended for therapeutic purposes, contains evidence of his [[spoiler:increasingly-bizarre dreams, growing paranoia, and psychic contact with the Shadow Under Hearthbrook]].
347	** Wesley's hidden laptop, which has [[spoiler:mysterious records and snuff/torture porn videos]] on its drive.
348	* ShrinkingViolet: Wesley was shy and socially awkward, especially around girls.
349
350	[[/folder]]
351
352	[[folder:Oliver]]
353
354	Brown-skinned boy with curly dark brown hair, brown eyes, around average height and build.
355
356	[[/folder]]
357
358	[[folder:Veronica]]
359
360	Pale-skinned girl with straight brown hair and brown eyes. She wears square glasses.
361
362	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Clearly intelligent from both her hobby and her speech patterns, and wears glasses.
363
364	[[/folder]]
365
366
367	!Drama Club
368
369	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: They are the Drama Club -- and they behave [[LargeHam melodramatically]].
370
371	[[folder:Luke]]
372
373	Average-looking boy who has dark-brown hair with a blond streak in the front. He is in love with Sabrina, and helps ground her, though this love may be unrequited.
374
375	* DoggedNiceGuy: Toward Sabrina, according to Whitney.
376	* UnrequitedLove: Toward Sabrina, again according to Whitney.
377
378	[[/folder]]
379
380	[[folder:Sabrina]]
381
382	Tall, attractive brown-eyed girl with a long brown-red ombre braid. She is friendly with Luke, and though she seems to dominate their relationship, clearly values his sane advice.
383
384	* ItsAllAboutMe: Sabrina sees both the Drama Club and Theatre/TheKingInYellow as being all about her (ironically, given that in all versions, the play is how a [[CosmicHorror horrific]] [[YouCantFightFate destiny]] overwhelms the individual intrigues of the leaders of a DecadentCourt of HumanoidAliens).
385	* LackOfEmpathy: She never liked Wesley because she considered him a dirty-minded creep, but never told his sister Whitney because "she'd cry, or something. And crying people are difficult to work with." Note that Whitney may well be her second-closest friend.
386	* LargeHam: Even by the generally hammy standards of the Drama Club.
387	* ManipulativeBitch: According to Whitney, Sabrina has no romantic interest in Luke but encourages his crush on her so that he will do her bidding.
388	* ThePrimaDonna: According to Whitney:
389	-->Whitney: Sabrina loves the spotlight. She always gets the lead role. In everything.
390
391	[[/folder]]
392
393	[[folder:Whitney Perkovitch]]
394	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtwhitpic.png]]
395
396	* AmbiguouslyJewish: "Perkovitch" is a Slavic name often of Jewish derivation.
397	* BitCharacter: In-story, Whitney is playing only a minor character in the play the Drama Club is currently preparing.
398	* ThrillSeeker: Surprisingly, given her rather conventional façade, Whitney envies the Journalism Club their adventures and asks if she can tag along on a future investigation. She's also obviously either [[LuminescentBlush excited or embarrassed]] when she does so.
399	* YourMakeupIsRunning: Whitney's eyeshadow is badly smudged on pages 762-769; presumably, because she's been crying over [[spoiler:the apparent death of her brother Wesley]].
400
401	[[/folder]]
402
403	!Hackers
404
405	Computer-competent students. They are watching the Journalism Club, especially Gabe, for unknown reasons.
406
407	* HackerCollective: Seem to function as one, though we've only seen two or three of them so far.
408	* [[{{Hackette}} Hackettes]]: So far, all three of them we've seen are girls.
409
410	[[folder:Isabelle, aka "Honeybee"]]
411
412	A big brown-skinned girl with untidy straight-ish dark brown hair.
413
414	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Could be mestiza/mulata Latina, with her name, build, skin tone and vaguely-Amerindian face.
415
416	[[/folder]]
417
418	[[folder: Mel, aka "Ladybug"]]
419
420	She's a slim freckled redhead, and seems to be the leader of the Hackers.
421
422	* DisproportionateRetribution: Happy at the prospect of getting a man fired for "posting some Nazi shit on Twitter."
423	* ExhaustedEyeBags: Seems to have them, if this isn't just a strange application of eyeshadow. If the former, then there are some scary implications in story context, as those touched by the Shadow often suffer from terrifying dreams leading to SanitySlippage and possibly an eventual MonstrousTransformation.
424	* HatesBeingTouched: Judging by her reaction to Kali pushing her hat down over her eyes.
425	* {{Tomboy}}: Not very feminine in appearance, interests or speech patterns.
426	* [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Girl]]: She obviously sees herself as this, as when she makes her first clear appearance, she is trying to get some guy from Utah who "was posting some Nazi shit on Twitter" fired by a boss in an interracial marriage, for no other reason than that she thought it a good thing to do.
427
428	[[/folder]]
429
430	!Jocks
431
432	[[folder: Leo Fitzgerald]]
433	Tall, tan, muscular male with dark shaggy hair. He is Paige Langworthy's boyfriend and quarterback of the football team.
434
435	* BigManOnCampus: Admired by almost everyone in school, to the point that they act like his fan club.
436	* HiddenDepths: He tries to start a conversation with Paige's younger sister Clara by mentioning that he really liked ''To Kill A Mockingbird'' (which he was assigned in English class). While this doesn't mean he's an intellectual, it ''does'' go against the more limited "jock" stereotype.
437	* LovableJock: From what we've seen of him so far, he's a ''really'' nice guy, who actively tries to avoid bullying others. He seems to have a genuinely kind and caring nature.
438
439	[[/folder]]
440
441	[[folder: Alex]]
442
443	Tan, male, black hair. A minor jock.
444
445	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Not much is known about this character, and it is unclear if this character's race will ever be revealed or relevant.
446
447	[[/folder]]
448
449	[[folder: Riley]]
450
451	White, female, light-brown hair. A minor jock. Despises [[spoiler:Eric Saddler]].
452
453	[[/folder]]
454
455	[[folder: Sam]]
456
457	White, male, light-brown hair. A minor jock.
458
459	[[/folder]]
460
461	[[folder: Misha]]
462
463	A minor jock and reluctant acquaintance of Eric Sadler's. He has brown skin with wavy dark-brown hair and brown eyes.
464
465	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Origins unknown, but most males named "Misha" are Hindu Indians.
466
467	[[/folder]]
468
469	[[folder: Zach]]
470
471	A minor jock and friendly acquaintance with Eric Sadler. Pale-skinned, with spiky slightly
472	-reddish brown hair.
473
474	[[/folder]]
475
476	!The [=JoJoJos=]
477
478	A roving band of drug dealers. While they primarily deal in marijuana, they also sell other medications.
479
480	* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Gabe ''reacts'' to them as if they were trying to intimidate him into buying their drugs, but if anything, the [=JoJoJos=] are annoyingly ''friendly''.
481	* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: True of all three subordinate members of the [=JoJoJos=], and one reason they're so goofy. There are hints they'd be smarter without this, too.
482	* RuleOfThree: There are three subordinate [=JoJoJos=], and they pitch Gabe three times before giving up on selling him drugs.
483
484	[[folder: Jo]]
485
486	Black, male, dreadlocks. A Super Smash Bros. (Melee) player.
487
488	* HiddenDepths: While he seems a typical stoner at first glance, he's also demonstrated he has a very sophisticated vocabulary capable of confounding Gabe without much thought.
489	** He also instantly recognizes the pills in the phone photo Josh and Chelle show the trio. While pharmacology ''is'' a logical skill specialization for a drug dealer, it's not that easy to recognize the exact type of pills in a photo at a glance.
490	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: One of his sales pitches to Gabe.
491	--> Jo: Hey, new kid, you wanna buy some of this viridescent substance which would allow one to experience an altered state of consciousness for a personal, pleasurable transcendence? Not unlike the fabled, true enlightenment of Nirvana?
492	--> Gabe: Wh ... wha?
493	--> Jo: You wanna buy some weed?
494
495	[[/folder]]
496
497	[[folder: Joe]]
498
499	White, male, blonde. A juggalo.
500
501	[[/folder]]
502
503	[[folder: Joey]]
504	White, male, brown hair with red spikes. A furry.
505
506	[[/folder]]
507
508	[[folder: Kepler]]
509
510	White, male, with dark brown hair. Also refereed to as "The Boss" by the JoJoJo's. He is the only one of the [=JoJoJos=] who does not get high at school.
511
512	* AffablyEvil: Depending on your definition of "evil." He's a criminal (and is well aware of it), but he seems to bear no one any particular ill-will, and is even willing to help if asked and at little cost as well.
513	* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's far from obvious that he actually does anything worse than buy and sell drugs, though he's presumably at least ''prepared'' for violence, given his trade.
514	* GeniusBonus: The full name of the brilliant astronomer after whom this character was named? [[spoiler:''Johannes'']] Kepler. That's right. He isn't as much of [[spoiler:an OddNameOut as he seems]].
515	* MeaningfulName: Shares a name with a brilliant Renaissance astronomer, and is the smartest one of the JoJoJos.
516	* OddNameOut: The only one of the JoJoJos ''not'' named some variant of "Joe." (However, see "Genius Bonus.")
517	* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one of the JoJoJos who seems to appreciate that they are in a potentially-dangerous line of business, and seems far more focused and intelligent than his followers (possibly because he's not high all the time).
518
519	[[/folder]]
520
521	!Other Students
522
523	[[folder:Isaac Hamilton]]
524	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtisaacpic.png]]
525
526	* BlackAndNerdy: A black teenager who has formulated the theory that peculiar wormholes are opening up around Hearthbrook, and ''invented a device to detect them''. Wears glasses and fits the "nerd" stereotype fairly well, though a bit more assertive than most.
527
528	[[/folder]]
529
530	!Rich Kids
531
532	[[folder: Eric Saddler]]
533
534	White, male, tall, light brown hair.
535
536	Often dresses business casual and always wears his signature watch. Aside from Aaron, Eric is one of Hearthbrook's only traditional bullies. Falsely believes that the alliance between the Rich Kids and the Jocks, bolstered by Paige and Leo's relationship, means that the jocks are obligated to hang out with him. Paige's ex-boyfriend. Currently dating Vallory.
537
538	* DomesticAbuser: To Vallory. He demands that she pay close attention to his father on TV, snatches her cellphone to enforce this, and accuses Vallory of being a slut because she has a social media channel where she wears a bikini and flirts with her fans. He may well have attempted this with Paige Langworthy, which is probably why she's no longer his girlfriend.
539	* GreenEyedMonster: He is very obviously jealous of Vallory's flirting with her online fans.
540	* HateSink: Both externally and InUniverse, he's seen as a despicable person who did nothing to deserve his wealth, status and other advantages, and yet exploits them to abuse others. His only sympathetic trait is being a WellDoneSonGuy, and the father for whose respect he yearns is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who may well be betraying not only his workers, his shareholders, and the town of Hearthbrook -- but all humanity. What's more, ''no one'' in-story seems to genuinely like or respect him for himself: they only exploit or fear him to varying degrees. Even his [[GoldDigger girlfriend Vallory]] doesn't seem to really like him.
541	* InadequateInheritor: The point hasn't yet explicitly been raised in the comic, but given Eric's apparent lack of intellect, it's unlikely that he'll be half as clever a businessman as his father.
542	* LonelyRichKid: Eric doesn't seem to have any ''real'' friends: the other Jocks seem more to tolerate him out of a combination of fear (his father's animosity could hurt their families) and greed (hanging out with a richer kid has its perks). He lost Paige to Leo (who appears to be a LovableJock to Eric's JerkJock), and Vallory clearly doesn't really love him. It's not obvious if Eric yet fully grasps his pathetic situation.
543	* JerkJock: A deliberate bully, fond of insulting others and getting away with it because he is bigger, richer and better-connected than most of the students.
544	* WellDoneSonGuy: When we see him with his father, it becomes pathetically-obvious that the one thing he most desires is Mr. Saddler's approval. Unlike most characters to whom this trope applies, Eric isn't nice at all.
545
546	[[/folder]]
547
548	[[folder: Paige Langworthy]]
549
550	White, female, fit, red hair.
551
552	Paige is currently the queen bee of Hearthbrook High and her relationship with Leo Fitzgerald has brought the Jocks and Rich kids together. She was childhood friends with her neighbor Chelle, but they drifted apart sometime before high school. She is often times hard to read, as she never says anything mean but because of her status she often leaves people starstruck or intimidated.
553
554	* AmazonianBeauty: tall, fit, muscular and beautiful.
555	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: among the female characters mesmerised by Paige's beauty so far have been Cailin, Chelle and Emma. Out of these three, the only one confirmed to be lesbian or bisexual is Emma. Chelle may even be ''asexual''. And of these three, Chelle is the one who knows her best!
556	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: The likely reason why Paige loves Leo.
557	* TheTease: She seems to do this on purpose in order to throw both males and females off balance; mainly for her own amusement.
558
559	[[/folder]]
560
561	[[folder: Vallory King]]
562
563	Short, blonde girl. Currently dating Eric Saddler.
564
565	* GoldDigger: The likeliest explanation for why she's dating Eric. Specifically, to fund her [[spoiler:planned modeling career]].
566
567	[[/folder]]
568
569	!Robotics Club
570
571	* ExplosiveResults: Anya and Lucy's work on their "Death Robot" is accompanied by electrical zapping and an explosion. As par for the trope, no one is hurt.
572
573	[[folder:Anya]]
574
575	A short dark-sknned girl with slightly-curly hair, brown eyes and big ears. Lucy's partner on the "Death Robot" project.
576
577	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Probably South Indian, based on her nose.
578	* CheshireCatGrin: Sports one of these during part of her conversation -- probably in mischievous delight over how destructive their "Death Robot" will be in the tournament.
579
580	[[/folder]]
581
582	[[folder: Lucy]]
583
584	A short slightly-swarthy girl with straight brown hair and brown eyes. Anya's partner on the "Death Robot" project.
585
586	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Too dark to be Northern European; way too light to be "black." Looks vaguely Southeast Asian or Filipina.
587
588	[[/folder]]
589
590	!Roleplaying Club
591
592	[[folder:Zenobia]]
593
594	A big black girl who wears square glasses.
595
596	[[/folder]]
597
598	[[folder:Zoe]]
599
600	A swarthy girl with brown eyes and long dark-brown hair.
601
602	* {{Fangirl}}: She's [[{{Cosplay}} cosplaying}}]] a Franchise/HarryPotter type witch when Josh and Chelle meet her.
603
604	[[/folder]]
605
606	!Student Council
607
608	[[folder: Alyson]]
609
610	President of the Student Council. Short, swarthy, slightly-plump Southeast-Asian looking girl with black hair done up in a wide bun at the back. She is intelligent and strong-willed, maybe ruthless. She also runs the Chess Club.
611
612	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Not to Chelle's extent, but she does tend to like long words.
613	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Her main interest appears to be running the Student Council, but she also heads the Chess Club -- presumably, she likes the game.
614
615	[[/folder]]
616
617	[[folder:Grace]]
618
619	Vice-President of the Student Council. A tall, broad-shouldered, girl with red hair, freckles and purple-tinted glasses.
620
621	[[/folder]]
622
623	[[folder: Kali]]
624
625	Treasurer of the Student Council. A tall, dark Indian girl who dresses rather professionally, though in intense rather than subdued colors.
626
627	[[/folder]]
628
629	!Hearthbrook High School Staff
630
631	[[folder: Mr. Abney]]
632
633	The US History teacher. An old man, and a bit absent-minded.
634
635	[[/folder]]
636
637	[[folder: Ms. Cunningham]]
638
639	The school counselor. A short, pudgy woman with blonde hair and brown eyes. Extremely nice and caring. It is mentioned that her family includes at least a mother, a sister and some female cousins.
640
641	* BigBeautifulWoman: Apparently the students at Hearthbrook High School think so, as some of them send her love letters.
642	* NiceGirl: Seems a good person who genuinely cares for the students.
643	* SenseiChan: Young (probably in her mid to late twenties), caring and friendly; it's obvious that at least some of the students she counsels are HotForTeacher.
644
645	[[/folder]]
646
647	[[folder: Mr. Gary Gordon]]
648
649	The coach.
650
651	* DrillSergeantNasty: Terrifies the students into obedience through whistle-blowing and abusive language.
652	** It's been revealed that he does this as a deliberate strategy.
653
654	[[/folder]]
655
656	[[folder: Mr. Harold Pullman]]
657
658	The teacher in charge of mentoring both the AV and Journalism Clubs.
659
660	[[/folder]]
661
662	[[folder: Mr. Tennyson]]
663
664	The principal.
665
666	* CorruptBureaucrat: Both mundane and sinister versions:
667	** Blatantly willing to turn a blind eye to Eric Saddler's misdeeds, because the Saddler family is one of the big sources of funding for Hearthbrook High School.
668	** More ominously, he outright ''threatens'' school counselor Becky Cunningham to prevent her from holding a special assembly regarding the apparent suicide of Wesley Perkovich, implying that he knows something more about the event than he's telling -- and may be willing to take extreme measures to keep it secret.
669
670	[[/folder]]
671
672	!Other Humans
673
674	[[folder: Peggy]]
675
676	Aaron's mom. A pale-skinned woman with short untidy brown hair and blue eyes, she works at the port. Friendly with Hal Armstrong, Taylor's dad.
677
678	[[/folder]]
679
680	[[folder: Hal Armstrong]]
681
682	Taylor's dad. A short black man with salt-and-pepper graying dark brown hair, moustache and beard. He works at the port. Friendly with Peggy McAries, Aaron's mom.
683
684	[[/folder]]
685
686	[[folder: Eugene Fitzgerald]]
687
688	Hearthbrook's Police Commissioner in 1956. Probably dead by now: if he's still alive he would be in his eighties to hundreds as of 2015. He may come from the same family as Leo Fitzgerald.
689	[[/folder]]
690
691	[[folder: Talia Fitzgerald]]
692
693	Leo's mother. A police officer who works alongside Officer Hernandez. Her relationship to Eugene Fitzgerald is unclear (but he is most likely her father or father-in-law).
694
695	[[/folder]]
696
697	[[folder: Arthur Langworthy]]
698
699	Owner of the port.
700
701	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: So far based on circumstantial evidence, but he has [[spoiler:ordered mandatory overtime to bring in strange containers]], which sounds very much as if he is [[spoiler:supplying a potential cult and/or the creatures that live below the port]].
702	* TerribleTownTycoon: Owns Port Langworthy and, with his business associate, pretty much runs Hearthbrook. How much influence he has over the police department and other official agencies remains to be seen, but it can be presumed that he has quite a lot.
703	[[/folder]]
704
705	[[folder: Mr. Dale Perkovitch]]
706
707	Father of Wesley and Whitney Perkovitch, works at the port. Brown hair, moustache, blue eyes. Appears cheerful and very much in love with his wife in his photo.
708
709	[[/folder]]
710
711	[[folder: Mrs. Perkovitch]]
712
713	Mother of Wesley and Whitney Perkovitch, works at the port. Lighter brown hair with bleached ends and blue eyes. Appears cheerful and very much in love with her husband in the photo.
714
715	[[/folder]]
716
717	[[folder: Mr. Wan]]
718
719	Husband of Eleanor Wan.
720
721	[[/folder]]
722
723	[[folder: Eleanor Wan]]
724
725	Receptionist at the Langworthy Port.
726
727	* DamselInDistress: After being [[spoiler:abducted, along with her daughter, by what is probably the Wesley-Thing]].
728
729	[[/folder]]
730
731	[[folder: Leroy Whittaker]]
732
733	The man believed to be The Crooked Saint, the serial killer who, in the mid-1950's, murdered 44 women. He was a worker at the Langworthy Port. In 1986, DNA tests of old samples pointed to him as the culprit. Leroy was convicted of the crime, and apparently killed himself a week later.
734
735	[[/folder]]
736
737	!Animals
738
739	[[folder:The Big Lebawkski]]
740
741	Josh's favorite chicken. Recently [[spoiler:slaughtered by Josh's mother]], probably to punish him for hanging out late with the Journalism Club.
742
743	[[/folder]]
744
745	[[folder:Captain 2%]]
746
747	Allegedly the De Witts' prize milk cow, though she [[UnreliableNarrator may be the product of Josh's imagination]].
748
749	[[/folder]]
750
751	[[folder:Lil' Bessie]]
752
753	A nanny goat kid, and Josh's new favorite pet.
754
755	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Lil' Bessie seems unusually-intelligent and responsive for a young goat, which may be some inherent property of the goat, or her response to Josh's superior animal communications skills, or maybe ''both''. Then there's the glowing-eyes thing, but I think that's just a visual joke.
756
757	[[/folder]]
758
759	[[folder:Vincent Van Goat]]
760
761	A billy goat belonging to the De Witts, whom Josh claims is Lil' Bessie's goat BFF.
762
763	* PunnyName: A riff on Creator/VincentVanGogh.
764
765	[[/folder]]
766
767	!Historical Characters
768
769	[[folder: Mildred Sanderson (1931-1954)]]
770
771	The first victim of The Crooked Saint. Buried in Chickadee Grove. The JC comment on her tombstone in Chapter One.
772
773	[[/folder]]
774
775	[[folder: Leroy Whittaker]]
776
777	The man convicted of being The Crooked Saint.
778
779	[[/folder]]
780
781	!Mysterious People, Creatures and Other Phenomena
782
783	[[folder: The Crooked Saint]]
784
785	A serial killer who terrorized Hearthbrook in the 1950's.
786
787	* MiscarriageOfJustice: It is almost impossible that Leroy Whittaker, the man they convicted as the Crooked Saint committed all the crimes ascribed to him, and dubious that he even committed ''any'' of them.
788	* SerialKiller: On the surface a standard serial killer, though there are many strange aspects of the case.
789
790	[[/folder]]
791
792	[[folder: The {{Cult}}]]
793
794	A cult who may be leaving mysterious animal-skull and candle altars at various suspicious locations. They seem to be connected with the Creatures, but the exact nature of this connection is not yet known.
795
796	[[/folder]]
797
798	[[folder: The [[spoiler:Wesley-Thing]]]]
799
800	* BodyHorror: Especially because we witness the start of the transformation, and we know it's horribly painful.
801	* UndersideRide: How the [[spoiler:Wesley-Thing]] gets out of [[spoiler:Langworthy Port]]; he hitches a ride under the [[spoiler:AV Club Van]]
802	* WalkingSpoiler: That [[spoiler:Wesley doesn't die]] and that [[spoiler:he turns into a monster]].
803	* WasOnceAMan: And someone we got to know (and like) as a minor character.
804
805	[[/folder]]
806	,
807	!Inanimate Objects
808
809	[[folder: Disturbingly Seductive Garden Gnomes]]
810
811	The Perkovitch family's garden gnomes, toward which Devin develops a strange sexual obsession.
812
813	[[/folder]]
814
815	[[folder: Sinister Altars]]
816
817	Animal-skull and candle altars. The {{Cult}} (?) leaves these at various locations.
818
819	[[/folder]]
820
821	[[folder: The Toaster Trap]]
822
823	A toaster with which Devin enjoyed (?) an encounter from whose aftermath he required rescue.
824
825	* CargoShip: Admittedly, it was but a short and ill-starred romance.
826	* HelpImStuck: A certain part of Devin's body wound up stuck in the toaster; Emma helped extricate him from this predicament.
827
828	[[/folder]]
829
830	[[folder: Vandalism]]
831
832	A roll of toilet paper Devin brought to TP houses but Chelle claimed as her own adoptive son.
833

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