The Syndicate of Electrophoresis. (More so than the actual Chiasm Syndicate, ironically). They tend to be pushy and mean, and tend to kill people from time to time, but when a real nasty super comes along, they lend a hand.
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Leadership
Hieronymous
- Combat Tentacles
- Faux Affably Evil
- Super-Toughness: He had an entire building fall on him and survived to found the Third Network. He was also probably the only person to have "had a chat" face to face with Duchess Epidermis and lived to walk away afterwards.
- Mugging the Monster: He tried to threaten Cindersoul into working for the Third Network. It went about as well as you would expect.
- Posthumous Character: Offed by Cindersoul. Seeing as Motor dropped a building on the guy and he walked away, this made people more frightened of Cindersoul. Somehow.
Lord Tawkin
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One of the Third Network's surviving founders and leaders. Apparently thinks he's a wizard.- Abusive Parents: Was apparently nasty enough to his child that they tore his tongue out.
- Beard of Evil
- Beware the Silly Ones: Again, he thinks he's a wizard. But he's also one of the Third Network's leaders for a reason.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer
- Fate Worse than Death: Is fond of putting people through these using his powers.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Shares this with the other leaders. Speaks no evil.
- Mouth Stitched Shut
- Older Than They Look: Possibly. He seems about 60 but has apparently looked the same for at least a couple of decades.
- Tongue Trauma: He doesn't even have one anymore.
Misery
Another founder/leader. She's responsible for hundreds of deaths without technically killing a single person.
- Handicapped Badass: Was blind before she got her powers.
- Older Than They Look: According to Word of God.
- Making a Splash: Yes, and consistently drips water from herself.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Shares this with the other leaders. Sees no evil.
- The Stoic: To the point where the only way you can tell that she's angry is when she starts literally steaming.
Lie Devourer
The third person who founded and leads the network. He's been missing for quite a while.
- Beware the Quiet Ones
- Consummate Liar: Averted...in a way.
- Mind Control: Usually makes people torture themselves.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Shares this with the other leaders. Hears no evil.
- Sadist: Enjoys breaking people.
- Torture Technician
Tithonus
Some kind of time vampire.
The Kind One
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Presumably, not actually nice. Mr. Infinite
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More popular than some of the other leaders, but this isn't a high bar to clear.Subordinate villains
Globular
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- Barrier Warrior: He makes orbs of this.
- Face–Heel Turn: Used to be a member of the Benefactors League.
- Manly Gay: Yep. And it's important, too.
- I Have Your Wife: It's been implied that he's only working with the Third Network because they're keeping his significant other, Cudgel, hostage.
Brother and Enigma
The Perspective Fragmenter and The Polluting Scoundrel
Real Name (Enigma): Edgar James Kingston
if caught alone and is usually the one trying to find a bright side to an unfortunate situation. Unlike Enigma, Brother is insecure about himself and constantly looking for ways to prove his value as an individual. Even though they go along well, Brother hates when the two of them are conflated. Despite giving their leaders the reins under most circumstances, Enigma has a crafty mind of his own and can operate solitarily or while instructing Brother. Though he and Brother get along well, Enigma often is insensitive to his needs and wellbeing.- Big Brother Is Watching: Literally.
- Birds of a Feather: They're listed as friends out of everyone in the Third Network and as such, they share a folder as well as a wikia page.
- The Dividuals: Yeah. When Brother is mentioned in a post, Enigma is usually too, and in reverse. However, Brother doesn't really like to be seen as interchangable with Enigma - who is not at all bothered by it since the kind of people that think that are the ones that don't matter to them.
- Elite Mook: High-ranked in the Network.
- The Gadfly: Enigma has a penchant for pranks all of his own and is willing to take risks to execute them. His default partner-in-crime is not all that pleased with that, but Enigma needs little effort to convince him to join in. Given his enthusiasm, Enigma doesn't respond too well when a prank backfires, liking neither the consequences nor that the prank itself never reached its potential.
- Like an Old Married Couple: They can argue like Croup/Vandemar and Pin/Tulip.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Brother. Enigma sure looks like one, but he isn't.
- Master of Illusion: The reason why Brother isn't exactly big on Flicker.
- Odd Friendship: A guy who is made of smoke and the personification of Big Brother Is Watching? Hell yeah!
- Orifice Invasion: Enigma can use his smoke form to suffocate people like this.
- Power Perversion Potential: Mostly unfulfilled potential in his case, when asked how much peeping he tended to do Word of God said it was "surprisingly little" - although he has used it to peek on Enigma at least once. Enigma's apparently much more willing to use it.
- Super Smoke: Enigma's powers.
- Stealth Pun: Smoke and Mirrors. It's even a pun about stealth. The rabbit hole goes deep with this one.
- Tarot Motifs - VI - The Lovers
- Tele-Frag: Enigma can solidify INSIDE PEOPLE.
- Violently Protective Partner: The first person Brother killed was someone wanting to kill Enigma.
Bonechild
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- Evil Smells Bad: Like rotting meat.
- Horror Hunger
- Lovecraftian Superpower: Moreso than anything else on this page. It turns itself inside out. Before killing people.
- Madness Mantra: Short, snippy little poems used to describe it. Usually a variation of "The Bonechild X's, The Bonechild Y's, The Bonechild *disturbing rhyming thing*.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Maybe. "The Bonechild hates all things that grow".
- Poisonous Person
- I'm a Humanitarian: Quite.
Satyrid
Lepidoptric Malefactor
Real Name: Seth Turner Sato
- Canon Immigrant: The Geneverse incarnation of Seth Turner Sato from The Human Game. K25f F and theredlamp are pretty good friends, so...
- I'm a Humanitarian: It hasn't been outright stated, but he definitely gets his nutrients from somewhere that isn't normal food.
- Lean and Mean
- One-Winged Angel: He can turn into a huge insectoid monster.
Harlequin
Real Name: Stephan MacKay
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- Abusive Parents: His dad was apparently this.
- Anti-Villain: He's pretty nice for someone working with the Third Network.
- Dating Catwoman: With Shuffle. To the point where they sometimes have to be stopped from flirting or making date plans at really bad times.
- Expressive Mask
- Friendly Enemy
- Noodle Incident: His antics are the source of many.
- The Gadfly
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: A rare villain example.
- Troll
- Villain Protagonist
- Villainous Harlequin
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Castellan
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Builds herself power armor and things.- Mad Scientist: It's confirmed to be part of her side-effect to be this.
Botnet
Astral Technician
Real Name: Duke Barker
COMMAND
Foundry
The Disharmonies
A sub-faction of the Third Network. They're jerks.
Nightjar
Thermonic Dervish
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Mercurial, vain, and named after a bird.- Duality Motif: Hell yeah.
- Fluffy the Terrible: A nightjar is a rather cute bird.
Bittershard
According to the Chiasm Syndicate and people with eyes, makes diamonds.
- Gemstone Assault: Her crystals can get pretty big, too.
The Bright-eyed Luminary
See his folder under 'Chiasmata 'Before' Protagonists'.
Illusory Miasmic
See her folder under 'Chiasmata 'Before' Protagonists'.
