The various background characters of the setting. For the main character page see here.
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Supers
Barberian
First Appearance: "The Loudening"
(Cameo), "The Rad Muncher!"
(Cameo), "The Rad Muncher!"A super who got dragged into the restaurant fight because his friends were going. After the fight he ends up sleeping with Dabbler.
- Dumb Muscle: Mocked and defied. His name is just a pun on the fact that he's a barber that looks like a stereotypical barbarian. While it was dumb that he went to a super fight with his friends, he really wasn't planning anything malicious. He was just trying to be a good friend and hang out. He's also smart enough to surrender almost immediately and clearly doesn't know standard police/superhero procedure, so this is probably the most trouble he has ever been in.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: He surrenders as soon as he gets a chance, and is genuinely relieved when he's informed it's an option.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Dabbler wipes his mind of the specifics after sleeping with him. According to her, this is to ensure the experience doesn't ruin human women forever.
- Mundane Utility: He uses his super strength to give haircuts to supers with durable hair.
- Raging Stiffie: As a result of being the point-blank object of Dabbler's affections. It destroys his pants and the chair he was trying to hide it with.
- Super-Strength: His power.
Marble Maiden
Marble Maiden
First Appearance: "Successfully Unwarranted" (Cameo)
(Cameo)The only named super-powered vigilante, though Archon is closing in on her. The only reason she has been able to evade them for so long is because her ability to turn to stone keeps her from leaving any DNA evidence behind.
- Attention Whore: Despite not leaving any DNA evidence at any of her encounters, she's constantly posting about them on social media. This is how Archon eventually starts tracking her.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: She can turn into a super-strong and flexible green stone golem.
- Impossibly Cool Clothes: Her costume is extremely form-fitting with no straps for her bra. Possible in real life, but extremely impractical for a fight. Sydney theorizes that she glues it to herself after she turns to stone.
Tom
First Appearance: "Aw, they packed a lunch"
A man with the power to refill small amounts of liquid and a historian for the Twilight Council.
- Casual Kink: He's pretty open about his masochism, particularly being used as a bloodbag by vampires.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: As Sydney notes, there are more profitable uses for his power. Downplayed, since he can't do extreme volumes like oil tankers.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: He can replenish his own blood extremely rapidly, something that makes his invaluable to vampires.
- Wasteful Wishing: He got his power from a genie. Granted, he was drunk at the time.
Unnamed Geokinetic
First Appearance: "Billions of Bullions" (Flashback)
(Flashback)A powerful geokinetic who uses his power to siphon gold from the mantle and fund a rather cushy lifestyle.
- Boring, but Practical: So you're a geokinetic and want to be rich? No need to bother with the superhero gig, or even work at all, just extract gold directly from the ground.
- Dragon Hoard: He keeps a cavern ten miles underground full of gold he's shaped into bars.
- Fiction 500: In a sense. He has access to all the molten gold in the mantle, making his the potentially richest man in the world. However, he's aware of the impact dumping that much gold into the economy would do and just cashes in a few bars occasionally.note
- Pooled Funds: Averted, he keeps his gold in bar form. Sydney and Zephen both consider this disappointing.
The Pride
The Lionesses
First Appearance: "Operant Education"
A group of female superheroes based out of Senegal. They have a lioness theme.
- Invisibility: One of the lionesses has the ability to cloak herself and her team, keeping them out of sight while looking for crime to stop.
- Prehensile Tail: The shapeshifting(?) member of the Pride that disguises herself as Sydney for a bit grabs a gun with her tail as she shifts out of her disguise.
Supernatural
Trent
First Appearance: "Tentawall"
A mass of tentacles summoned from another world by one of the Black Reliquary artifacts.
- Affably Evil: The evil part is played with. He definitely acts friendly and hasn't really done anything evil, but the fact that he came to Earth through an Artifact of Doom indicates he's still dangerous.
- Aliens Speaking English: Averted, according to The Rant the only reason people can communicate with him is because Decolette cast a translation spell.
- Combat Tentacles: Literally all he is.
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat: He wears one while trying to mask his appearance.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Numerous eyes dot the tentacles that make up his form.
- Power Perversion Potential: He's apparently been summoned by succubi before to make use of his... particular physiology.
- Pronoun Trouble: Averted, despite the potential trouble with determining if the mass is a single being. Trent is a he, not a they.
- Sizeshifter: He can go from a 400 square foot mass of writhing tentacles to a human-sized figure.
- Thinking Out Loud: Though it initially seemed like numerous beings conversing, the fact that Trent is a single being means this is in effect.
- Too Many Mouths: There are a lot of fanged mouths on the tentacles.
- The Worm That Walks: He can compress the many tentacles that make up his body into a roughly humanoid figure.
Tamatha
Tamatha
First Appearance: "An Underage Succubus Walks into a Bar"
Decolette's protégé, a teenage succubus whom Sydney meets in a nightclub owned by Decolette.
- Color Motif: Purple hair, purple hoodie, purple magic...
- Damsel in Distress: Gets kidnapped by Aranea shortly after she is introduced, and then rescued shortly after.
- Fangirl: Is a huge fan of Halo, and squees when she realizes that she's talking to Sydney.
- Foil: To the other succubi we've seen. She's rather uninterested in sex and not nearly as flirtatious, likely due to her age. She's so uninterested in sex that she doesn't even realize that it's possible for two women to have sex with each other!
- Hellish Pupils: Has red eyes and slitted pupils.
- Oh, Crap!: Freaks out for a moment when Sydney reveals that she can see through her Glamour.
- Prehensile Tail: Usually keeps hers tucked into her pant leg.
- Verbal Backspace: After Sydney asks her if she's a succubus and also a little young (to be in a bar), she launches into a rant about how succubi are born and don't just "level up" from an Imp or a Slyph... before desperately trying to act like she didn't say any of that and that Sydney is just a crazy lady.
- Wings Do Nothing: Likely because of how small they are.
Parfait
Paraphael "Parfait" Xanadu Dawnstar Sij Thothogoth
First Appearance: "Familial Foibles"
Dabbler's younger half-sister and Thothogoth's newest slave.
- Elemental Hair Composition: Her hair looks like it's made of smoke — and she calls it "smoke hair". It sometimes behaves like normal hair, notably when wet, but most of the time it's floating above her head as if caught in a strong upward wind.
- Embarrassing First Name: She prefers to go by "Parfait" because her real name, Paraphael, "makes [her] sound like an old lady".
- Heinz Hybrid: Not to the same extent as her sister, but her father is half-efreet and half-djinn while her mother's a succubus.
- Horned Humanoid: Parfait has a single horn (adorned with gemstones) coming from the middle of her forehead.
- Immune to Fire: An author's note states that, being a demon with a half-efreet parent, Parfait is 85% fire-resistant. She can use the fiery rays from her horn's gems to directly burn off bounds restraining her body with no harm to herself.
- Magic Misfire: She's part efreet so she's capable of granting wishes, but her inexperience leads to results only loosely related to what's asked of her. Sydney's attempt to work around her limits with the wording of a wish for a banana split results in a miniature thunderstorm raining bananas into a inhumanly large silver spoon.
- Marshmallow Hell: Ends up subjecting Sydney to one of these in page 1045, causing the latter to get dazed for a bit.Parfait: [jumping excitedly] Master! Master! I did the thing with my boobs! Come see!
Thothogoth: Good job, Parfait!
Dabbler: You go, sis! - Power Crystal: The gems adorning her horn can shoot a pair of rays of fiery radiance.Sydney: Okay, this forest fire is not my fault! You're all witnesses!
- Power Incontinence: Unlike Dabbler, who is very much in control of her succubus nature, Parfait is young and still in Succubus Finishing School (Suc U). As such, she can have trouble keeping a lid on her lust aura if she has too many sexy thoughts. Which Sydney unexpectedly finds out, up close and personal. As well as everybody else in the whole ARCHON building.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: Unlike her sister, Parfait doesn't have hooves but human-looking feet. She's yet to be seen wearing any kind of footwear, however.
- Unskilled, but Strong: After the meeting involving the fallout of Parfait's lust aura affecting the whole ARCHON building, Dabbler reveals to Parfait that while her aura's strength might have been boosted by the contract with Thothogoth, the range of the aura was Parfait's own natural talent, and was much farther than even Dabbler could pull off unassisted, leaving Dabbler very proud of Parfait and comparing it to their shared mother's abilities.
- Vapor Wear: Literally, her minidress is made of smoke. She can create it from a strand of her "smoke hair".
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: She rummages around between her breasts in a way that shouldn't be possible to give Sydney a magical token to get in touch with her. Justified as one of her succubus abilities is a "cleavage of holding spell".
Humans
Joel
Joel
First Appearance: "The Begininging Again"
Sydney's shop's co-owner. More laid-back than Sydney (which is not hard), and usually good at weathering her moods (harder).
- Locked Out of the Loop: Sydney failed to tell him about her powers. Of course, she didn't tell anyone at first, but since he was catching up on Saga instead of watching TV when the press conference and later the supervillain fight hit the national news, he came into work the next day still ignorant of what had happened, including Sydney's involvement. It looked like he was literally the last person in the comic's cast to find out about Sydney's powers (except that Olivia came in later that morning, and it turned out that she'd turned off her phone while doing some homework and not seen the morning news either).
- Straight Man: He seems to be the more reasonable, business-minded member of the partnership, and he handled the revelation of Sydney's powers with an impressive degree of calm.
Tony
Tony
First Appearance: "Free boobs for All"
A hot guy who shops at Sydney's shop, and on whom she's got an ill-hidden crush.
- Tangled Family Tree: Tony's dad got lucky with twins (at a college party or something), meaning that his half-sister is also his cousin.
Olivia
Olivia
First Appearance: "BYO Laugh Track"
Tony's sister/cousin (it's a long story). Friends with Sydney, and a cheerful type who's just getting into comics at the time when Sydney first goes public as a superhero.
- Ms. Fanservice: Invoked in the finest comic store tradition. Sydney hires her as an extra pair of hands knowing that hot girls always get boys into the store.
- Tangled Family Tree: Olivia's dad got lucky with twins (at a college party or something), meaning that her half-brother is also her cousin.
Suzie
Suzie Wen
First Appearance: "Meet the Press, Sort of"
A rookie reporter who got her big break by just happening to be at the bank that Maxima was at during the staged robbery.
- Fangirl: Of Maxima. She seems to think of Archon's leader as the coolest thing on the planet, often cheering for her and singing her praises at every opportunity.
Mr. and Mrs. Scoville
Laura Scoville and Sydney Scoville Sr.
First Appearance: "Arc-box achievement unlocked!"
Sydney's parents.
- Alliterative Name: Sydney Sr. shares this with his identically-named daughter, though he takes it one step further by being Sydney Scoville Senior.
- Brainy Brunette: Sydney's mother.
- Dumb Blonde: Sydney's father.
- Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Sydney and Laura couldn't possibly be more different, with Laura having more in common with Arianna.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Due to Sydney's paranoia about being experimented on by the government, she didn't even tell her own parents about her powers. In fact, she didn't tell them about it (over the phone, no less) until after the public demonstration.
- Loose Lips: Mr Scoville ends up slipping that Sydney's orbs are from Mexico and not Florida, though in his defense, he didn't know it was supposed to be secret.
- Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: Parodied. Maxima asks Mrs. Scoville what she does for a living, and she turns to her husband and daughter and asks them if they "have any thoughts on that." They both stammer out incredibly vague answers, making it clear that they have no idea what she does for a living. She then tells Maxima that she's a copyright and trademark lawyer specializing in entertainment.
- Opposites Attract: Laura is a serious and dignified businesswoman who hits it off immediately with Arianna, while Sydney Sr. is an eccentric, hyperactive artist and is very much his daughter's father.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Played with in that Laura is a brunette and Sydney Sr. is a platinum blonde, with Sydney's dirty blonde being a mix of them. The author lampshades that genetics generally don't work like that.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Downplayed, but Mrs. Scoville is at least One Head Taller than Mr. Scoville.
Extraterrestrials
Cora Zylstra
Cora Zylstra
First Appearance: "Space Cavalry"
An alien friend of Dabbler. She has assembled a group of "sexy maliens" to serve as both her crew and her own personal harem. She first meets Sydney when Dabbler asks her to rescue Sydney. Seemingly just as libidinous as her succubus friend, albeit more restrained and professional.
- Artificial Limbs: Both her arms and legs. They used to be more traditional robot limbs, but she upgraded them to Hard Light for more flexibility. She does, however, still have a set of cybernetic limbs that she uses when she takes the hard light projector off.
- Battle Harem: The author explicitly describes the crew as Cora's personal harem.
- Birds of a Feather: Sydney believes her when she says that she's Dabbler's friend because like Dabbler:Sydney: You're exotic, annoyingly sexy, and I don't think that bodysuit could physically be any tighter without being inside of you.
- Bridge Bunnies: Gender-Inverted. She's the female commander of an entire ship full of "sexy maliens".
- Casual Kink: Not quite as casual as Dabbler, but she is pretty frank about her harem situation with her crew, and while cycling through appearances with her Hard Light limbs and clothing, one of the options she picks is a skintight latex bodysuit, complete with wrist restraints, a corset, and a ball gag in her mouth. Might Overlap with Brains and Bondage. By her own admission, she is a talented engineer and designed the hard-light prosthetics and bodysuit that she uses.
- Combat Stilettos: Downplayed, but her boots do have a noticeable heel to them.
- Ethical Slut: Has a (totally willing) harem, has participated in raunchy sex parties, has multiple sex-themed amenities on her ship, is friends with Dabbler, and has displayed a very strong moral character in both her sex life as well as all other aspects of her life.
- Everyone Has Standards: Cora is notably shocked when Anvil implies that she once had a sexual encounter with a fourteen-year-old. Fortunately, Anvil reveals she was fourteen at the time too.
- Good Is Not Soft: Cora is a hero who has saved the galaxy numerous times. She also believes that the best way to deal with her enemies is to murder them in extremely violent ways.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Blue-skinned, anyway.
- Hard Light: Her bodysuit is made of this, as well as her limbs, sometimes.
- Heinz Hybrid: She claims to be roughly 2/3rds human, though her gene-mods complicate any kind of hard number. She still identifies as human regardless.
- Hero of Another Story: She has saved The Fracture from total annihilation twice, and has a "special status" within the station that is sufficient for her to violently murder a group of muggers and walk away from the scene without even being brought in by the police for an interview while receiving nothing more than a ticket for "littering".
- Leg Focus: Her introductory panel draws considerable attention to her legs.
- Ms. Exposition: Provides a great deal of exposition on how Galactic Society at large functions. Also provides a possible explanation of Sydney's Orbs, albeit a broad and vague one. Galactic Civilizations can, by and large, be broken into two categories, pre-FTL, and post-FTL. There is also a third tier of beings who have evolved to the point of being pure energy, but they rarely interact with the rest of the galaxy. Dabbler has long theorized of a fourth tier, a race of beings she refers to as the Nth, a group of aliens with Sufficiently Advanced Technology. Cora theorizes that Sydney's orbs could actually be Nth Tech.
- Ms. Fanservice: Much like Dabbler. And she knows it.
- Mugging the Monster: A group of alien muggers goes after her and Sydney. Their response? Laughter.
- Polyamory: Not only does her crew act as her harem, but she doesn't expect them to sleep with her exclusively, and even encourages Sydney to try and sleep with them.
- Sensual Spandex: Lampshaded and Averted. She seems to be wearing a bodysuit made of this, but she reveals that it's actually a hard-light projection that, appearance-wise, barely does more than color her skin. However, it also provides comfort, protection, and warmth.Cora: So really, I'm not wearing anything at all.
Sydney: Yup. Definitely Dabbler's friend. - There Is No Kill Like Overkill:
- After the Mugging the Monster incident, some police officers are cleaning up the mess she left behind. One of them chides her for using such heavy ordinance while the other finds what they think is a rib, but it turns out to be a melted femur.
- Happens again when she deals with the villains who kidnapped Sydney. She shoots one of them with a bullet that makes his entire body explode. Deconstructed, in the next page, where she realizes that she just horribly traumatized Sydney.
- Transplanted Humans: Most of her ancestors were humans who got abducted or shanghaied by passing alien ships and wound up on another planet.
Cora's Crew
Cora's Crew
Cora's crew, all of whom seem to have been chosen as much for their skills as their appearance and sexual prowess. They serve a dual role as her crew and as her personal harem.
In General
- Bridge Bunnies: A Gender-Inverted variant. The Author even describes them as Cora's personal Harem.
- Mr. Fanservice: The crew seems to be all-male, and all of them are exceedingly attractive. The official character description even calls them "Sexy Maliens".
- Polyamory: They might be Cora's harem, but that doesn't mean that they're with her exclusively, and it's heavily implied that all of them are perfectly willing to have sex with Sydney if she so desires.
- Sensual Spandex: They seem to use the same Hard Light Bodysuit as their Captain, and it leaves very, very, very little to the imagination. Except for Frix, who is a Walking Shirtless Scene instead.
Atlus
A red-skinned, horned alien and the Ships Chef and Pilot
- Hot as Hell: Invoked by his appearance. He has red skin, black sclerae and several small horns protruding from his head, and is willingly a member of Cora's harem.
- The Big Guy: Downplayed, while he isn't physically larger or more muscled than the other crew members that we've seen, Cora mentions that he can be an "Unstoppable Melee Brute" if he needs to be.
Gellen
An orange-skinned, long-haired alien and the ships XO, Comms Specialist and Science Officer.
- The Stoic: Has a stern, stoic expression on his face at all times. Cora, however, tells Sydney to not be deceived by this and assures her that Gellen is a very tender and attentive lover.
Slyvyrnus
A green-skinned, reptilian alien and the ships Co-Pilot and Weapons Expert
- Contortionist: Cora describes him as "Incredibly flexible, like, his bones can bend..."
- Expy: His appearance is quite similar to the Asari from Mass Effect. Except he's male, his skin tone has a slight greenish hue to it, and his eyes are all-black.
- Happy-Ending Massage: Is shown giving Cora a back rub. And considering that the crew are all her lovers, and Cora was naked, and he was in his underwear, it's not hard to see where the massage likely is leading.
Frix
An alien with vaguely canine features who serves as the Engineer and Medic of the crew.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Judging by Sydney's Reaction Shot. Word of God says that he's about average-sized for his species, but the females of his species are about nine feet tall. Played for a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome later, when Sydney mentions to Dabbler that Frix is actually too big for them to properly have sex, and requests Dabbler's help with finding a solution.
- My Instincts Are Showing: Being a humanoid furry alien, when his fur get wet his natural reflex is to shake himself like a dog.Frix: [after getting everybody soaking wet] Sorry, that's an incredibly difficult urge to resist. I fought it as long as I could.
- Nice Guy: Is pretty understanding when Sydney explains that she was just interested in brushing his fur, not necessarily having sex with him.
- Power Perversion Potential: Uses his ability to breathe underwater to... "entertain" Sydney.
- Super Not-Drowning Skills: Frix surprises Sydney with a visit by bursting out of the ARCHON swimming pool. When asked how long he was waiting, he nonchalantly replies that he was underwater for about an hour. Sydney, unsurprised, explains that Frix's species is amphibious. Claiming that she knows because she asked him.
- Troll: Takes an opportunity to pull one over on Sydney by making her think that her offering to brush him meant that they were now betrothed.
- The Unpronounceable: It's unknown if Frix is short for something, or just a pronounceable version of his name, but his actual name can apparently only be pronounced if you can twist your tongue like a snake (like twist it actually like a wave pattern).
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Wears a pair of pants and seemingly nothing else, as opposed to the rest of the crew, who all seem to wear the same Hard Light Bodysuits that Cora does. He explains this by telling Sydney that "Skintight" and "Fur" don't really mix that well.
- Wolf Man: His species is "woof". Literally.
Ray Cosmos
Ray Cosmos
First Appearance: "Should Auld Acquaintance Show Up at Work"
A shady, skeevy, extraterrestrial entrepreneur who starts conducting tours of Earth after it comes to attention on the intergalactic stage.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Manages to be overtly sleazy enough that even Dabbler and Cora want nothing to do with him. Upon realizing that he's the one giving tours of Earth and that they'll have to be interacting with him, they both immediately alter their outfits to be substantially less-revealing. He also becomes one to Maxima upon meeting her.
- Casanova Wannabe: Fancies himself a ladies' man, but he's way too skeevy to properly pull it off.
- Everyone Has Standards: Subverted. Upon learning that some bounty hunters stowed away aboard his ship in an attempt to kidnap Maxima and sell her off to the highest bidder, he's furious that they would attempt such a thing... and not cut him in.
- Hulking Out: Wears a clasp on his cape that, when activated, causes him to grow several feet taller and substantially more muscular.
- Nominal Hero: He's an utter douchebag, but he has the good sense to side with ARCHON after a group of hostile aliens attempts to capture Maxima so he doesn't get lumped in with them.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "Now, let us renegotiate your Travel Voucher."
- Terrible Pick-Up Lines: A specialty of his, notable particularly because they start off pretty good... but he then keeps going.Ray Cosmos: [to Cora] Cora, has anyone ever told you that your eyes are like the event horizon of a supermassive black hole? Because I could fall into them forever... them, or your mouth.
Ray Cosmos: [to Maxima] The coruscating aurora of a planet trapped between binary stars... warp dragons, locked in battle high above a jewel-encrusted planet... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, burning bright as magnesium. All of that beauty is but the tremulous flickering of a candle flame in infinite darkness compared to the incandescent perfection of... that... ass. - Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Ray Cosmos manages to be so overtly horny and sleazy that even Dabbler and Cora are squicked out by him.
Detla
Detla Kal Vayala
First Apperance: "Ray-Tracing Amputation"
An alien initially working with the group attempting to kidnap Maxima. She fights Cora and Dabbler, only for Achilles to step in and take her down. She appears several pages later and informs Achilles that, because he defeated her, she has to shadow him and learn his techniques.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She essentially becomes Achilles' student because he was able to defeat her in combat.
- Badass Normal: She doesn't display any superpowers and seems to have physical abilities on par with a well-trained human being.
- Best Her to Bed Her: Discussed. After she mentions that only her mate is allowed to see her without her mask on, Achilles asks her if he has a chance at that. She tells him that it's "too early to make such predictions, but not inconceivable."
- Cool Mask: Wears one that covers the top half of her face. Apparently, the only one she'll remove it for is her mate. Doubles as an Expressive Mask.Achilles: I guess Photo I.D.'s aren't a big thing on your world.
Detla: They are not. - Defeat Means Respect: She becomes Achilles' student after he defeats her, explaining that because he defeated her, she now has to shadow him and learn his techniques.
- Flechette Storm: Detla has a "Schism Blade" which can break down in many tiny shards before reforming, which she can use offensively to cut an opponent. The first time we see it is against Achilles, though, so of course all it's damaging is his T-shirt.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Well, blue-skinned, but besides that and her horns, she looks quite like a female humanoid. A hot female humanoid, as her bikini scene confirms. Not that her usual armor isn't Stripperiffic already.
- Locked Out of the Loop: No-one told her that Earth has super-powered beings on it, and she's stunned when she learns that Achilles isn't actually an incredibly skilled combatant, but is instead merely a barely average fighter who benefits from being completely invulnerable.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Achilles gives her a bikini and tells her that it's a training uniform. She knows he's lying but she puts it on anyway because she thinks it looks good on her.
- Summon to Hand: Detla also uses the swarming property of her Schism Blade to call back the sword to her hand if taken from her.
- Transforming Weapon: Her sword can transform between a normal sword and a storm of small, razor-sharp blades.
