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Jeri Sfortunata

An competitive and unlucky college student.

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• Allergic to Routine: She absolutely loathes routine, leading to her constantly changing things up on a whim or pursuing any sort of interesting activity. Her life motto is to make the most of every day.
• The Anti-Nihilist: When she was younger, she realized just how insignificant her existence is in the grand scheme of the universe and that she, like most people around her, were living a very ordinary life. Since this revelation of hers Jeri became to determined to turn every mundane situation into an extraordinary one.
• Arch-Enemy: Played for Laughs. She is one for Grimaldo because he is very quick at finding her underhanded methods. He tends to find Jeri somewhat untrustworthy and doesn't allow her to indulge in her hedonism; despite this, this doesn't mean that they dislike each other.
• Berserk Button: Downplayed as she becomes more petty and passive aggressive as opposed to being downright angry, but if you insult her one too many times she can become pretty irritable.
• Book Smart: She gets decent grades even despite the fact that she slacks off on studying, which is something she does at her own behest.
• Boyish Short Hair: She has a [[Tomboy masculine]] appeal to her character, and naturally has short hair. She grows out to shoulder length for a time, before returning back to her original style.
• Born Unlucky: Poor Jeri. Always attracting weirdos and creeps.
• Butt-Monkey: A primary aspect to Jeri's vignettes are depicting how the entire universe is out to get her. To list a couple of things that she has suffered through, from falling out of a window, amassing mountains of debt, getting run over numerous times by a motorcycle, getting a bowling ball dropped on her head, and her plans rarely ever coming to fruition.
• Challenge Seeker: This tends to be Jeri's main goal in her day-to-day life. She greatly enjoys trying out activities that are entirely alien to her, pulling off all-nighters, defending the apartment house from a supposed intruder, performing as the leading lady in one of her classmate's independent movies despite not prior experience, and even participating in some lucha libre wrestling.
• Character Tics: She has quite a few.
  • She is an endearingly goofy Perpetual Smiler.
  • She has a habit of either twiddling her thumbs or stroking her chin when she's in deep thought.
  • She affected with chronic hiccups.
• Class Representative: She's mentioned in passing to be the vice president of her class. It also comes as a surprise that Jeri happens to have a positive reputation among her classmates, an interesting inversion of her typical status as the resident ButtMonkey.
• Color Motif: Dark green.
• Competition Freak: Whatever the case, Jeri can find a way to turn anything into a competition. And she's definitely a solid competitor. Merely saying the word is enough to get her curious.
• Cosmic Plaything: Jeri gets caught up in so many hilariously absurd situations that it's easy to come to the conclusion that she can only be part of a massive cosmic joke.
• Crazy-Prepared: Jeri has come to expect frequent misfortune, and as such she has made numerous backup plans for every situation. The problem is, she doesn't plan well enough about the circumstances that her preparedness comes with quite a number of blindspots. Either that, or her bad luck invariably undoes her plans anyway.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Downplayed, as she isn't so much an idiot as much as she is emotional and reckless. Nevertheless, she is Crazy-Prepared, an Extracurricular Enthusiast, and a Challange Seeker with a bevy of unexpected talents amassed from her various college endeavors and part-time jobs.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Prior to renting an apartment in the flophouse, she was ill-treated by her roommates and broke her arm in an unspecified altercation with her family. She even has to clarify that this did genuinely happen to her and isn't joking. When recounting this, she evidently doesn't seem all that troubled by it anymore, being her usual upbeat self.
• Delicate and Sickly: Since birth, she had heart problems. Jeri was often hospitalized up until her sophomore year of high school, when doctors performed a surgery to remedy the situation.
• Determinator: If this girl wants something, there's nothing that anyone or anything can do to deter her. More often than not, adversity only makes her more fierce. A good contrast to Moe, who is the exact opposite of this trope.
• Didn't Think This Through: One of her defining traits, for better or for worse. Due to her desire for a daily thrill, Jeri usually dives directly into things with little thought given to the consequences that may come from it. Thankfully, being close friends with more thougtful personalities like Moe, Warble, Vitoria, and Grimaldo, she learns to consider what she says and does beforehand.
• Dude Magnet: Downplayed, but Jeri is fairly popular with members of both sexes. Although it has very little to do with her appearance, those who do pine after her seem to be enamored with her tomboyish charm, exuberant attitude, and her extracurricular prowess, especially her position as class vice-president.
• Easily Impressed: It doesn't take a lot of effort for Jeri to be absolutely dazzled out of her wits for minor miracles. For instance, she becomes incredibly invested in Odenblom's spiritual practices, is far more impressed than intimidated by an alien invader, and is enamored by her classmate Von Whiz for his unusual character.
• Extracurricular Enthusiast: Jeri Sfortunata's extracurricular activities at Finifugal University include: Vice-President of homeroom, Litter Bin Review editor-in-chief, represents Saudi Arabia in the model World War III, secretary for the Debate club, founder of the Labeling club and the Tabletop Game club, a yellow belt in Kung Fu club, contributor to the Filmmaker's Society, and manager of the women's swim team.
• Genki Girl: She is usually a extroverted and enthusiastic girl, but sometimes tones it down out of embarrassment.
• Hidden Depths:
  • While she struggles when it comes to practical manners, Jeri happens to have a very creative way of thinking that helps her see certain things from a fresh perspective.
  • Despite her wild and unpredictable nature, she does seem to take her few responsibilities seriously. For instance, she is admired as vice president of her college class and gives a damn good performance in Von Whiz's film.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Has always desired to have a traditional life, but fate more often than not denied her of this wish. Jeri herself realizes that maybe all the strange characters she encounters may be her new "normal".
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: We see that Jeri's fashion sense is just as bad as her luck when Ayumu gets a look at her wardrobe. Odenblom directly compares her clothes to that of a middle school student who's trying to be hip but only ended up behind on the times. In some ways, she's technically not wrong. Among her outfits: a one-piece lizard pajama hoodie, a t-shirt with a fried egg graphic, and an Arabic sweater.
• Jack of All Trades: She has a surprisingly extensive list of previous occupations of all calibers, and is frequently shown performing mundane part-time jobs from time to time. She knows breakdancing, mechanics, archery, computer hacking, plumbing, sculpting, is a decent chess player (although nowhere as good as Dolores), and traditional martial arts. She's also not a bad class vice president on top of all that.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. She can be selfish, impulsive, and destructively carefree at times, but she is incredibly loyal to her friends and has an optimistic outlook on life.
• The Jinx: Zigzagged. Many times, Jeri tends to draw bad luck to herself, meaning that those in her close vicinity end up with good fortune. This isn't always the case, though.
• Large Ham: Boisterous, very outgoing, and prone to making dramatic announcements about trivial details. She undoubtedly fits this trope, even getting jabbed in the shoulder by Guillermo when she makes an overly exuberant entrance into the Golpe de Tripa gym.
• Meaningful Name: Sfortunata is the Italian word for "unlucky", which fits Jeri's personality perfectly.
• Mood-Swinger: Can go from a spirited, innocent, sweet-natured young woman to a bombastic moron in mere seconds.
• Never My Fault: She tends to blame outside circumstances when things don't go her way. Her most frequent excuse is that the universe is out to get her... technically she isn't wrong.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Throughout the series, Jeri is never seen having the same occupation twice. She does this so that she can pay back her mountain of gambling debts. Of course, because of her exuberant and lackadaisical nature, it's no wonder why she is constantly getting fired.
• The Nicknamer: Jeri is the very reason Morris' name is shortened to Moe and why everyone calls Udo "Von Whiz". Her talent for naming things plays into a chapter in volume 4 where she discovers a new species of gibbon.
• No Sense of Direction: Played for Laughs. There are numerous instances, such as taking the wrong train or getting lost in her college, where Jeri misunderstands directions. She's so predictably late to events that everyone schedules meetings with her in advance to allow for her to show up on time.
• Oh, Crap!: When her professor unwittingly staples the answers sheet to the back of a quiz, Jeri copies off of it essentially word-for-word, hoping that the professor won't notice. After turning the quiz in, she realizes that some of the questions had answers that varied. What did she write? "Answers Will Vary". Yeah...
• Plucky Girl: She is a cheerful, confident, and endlessly charismatic young woman who is always up for a challenge.
• Pungeon Master: Her sense of humor leaves much to be desired.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jeri is the red to Moe's blue. While she is a passionate and sentimental Genki Girl and Determinator, Moe is a reserved and casual Mellow Fellow.
• Selective Obliviousness: Pretends not to realize when the landlord shaves himself bald and glues a mohawk wig to his head. This is especially surprising considering her tendency to be a loudmouth and a Large Ham.
• So Proud of You: Although her puns are rarely well-received, she got incredibly excited when some of her housemates started unknowingly embracing her style of humor with puns of their own.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She is loud, exuberant, competitive, and fond of lame jokes, but is also emotional, sentimental, and a bit of a romanticist. Her fashion sense swings between tank tops and sweaters to skirts and shirts with more girly graphic designs.
• Trash of the Titans: A Running Gag is that her apartment is always a mess, and is always the first thing people notice when they walk in. There's a pile of clothes stacked in her closet that she dubs "Mount Laundry". If the scattered dishes all over her desk are any indication, it would seem that she also has a habit of leaving plates in her room after eating. This is somewhat ironic considering this is Jeri and not Moe.
• Useless Accessory: She has a variety of bizarre keychains attached to her backpack that have little to no practical use. This includes a whale, a glazed cruller, a glow in the dark heart, a Red Cross CPR kit, and a functioning miniature trumpet.
• Weight Woe: Not as prominent later in the series, but she's apparently somewhat sensitive about her weight, even going on numerous diets as a weight-loss measure.
• Weirdness Magnet: Due to her supposed curse, all of the troubles that the tenants have to deal with can be linked back to her and, according to the Reality Warper trope above, is enough to throw off the universe.

Morris "Moe" Dunlop

A lazy and soft-spoken slacker.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: Their are a couple of points where even Moe can't help but laugh heartily at the absurdity of the situation.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Moe", which is just a shortened version of his real name Morris.
• Animal Motifs: He has an affinity for penguins, even owning a stuffed penguin plush in his apartment.
• The Anti-Nihilist: Moe eventually grows into this. He's initially uncomfortable with the notion that there isn't any inherent meaning to life, but tries to find a purpose for himself or simply finding a way to enjoy himself however he can. Through it all, he deliberately avoids doing anything that would hurt anyone, and even starts to make an effort to help others through their struggles.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: During his youth as a delinquent, the list of his crimes include shoplifting, reading pornography, vandalism, and accidentally shooting a bottle rocket into a neighbor's window.
• Audience Surrogate: As an apathetic loner, he fits right in with some of the target audience. He tends to be the one who makes the most reasonable observations, and his dissatisfaction with his aimless lifestyle as well as efforts to overcome it is a decently relatable Character Arc.
• Bad Liar: Although he would very much like to think so, Moe is an incredibly unconvincing liar. He tends to do poorly when it comes to card games such as poker, and in the instances where he pulls of a Zero-Approval Gambit to help someone out of a precarious situation it's often remarkably obvious.
• Blind Without 'Em: His character profile in the third volume mentions that he is nearsighted to a certain extent. Later on, it's revealed that while he does own a cheap pair of glasses, Moe settled on wearing contacts.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He is an excellent listener, well-educated, and keenly observant. Unfortunately, he is also a slothful couch potato who very rarely desires to put his energy into anything.
• Brutal Honesty: As part of his straightforward persona, he can be rather blunt when talking to others.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Tries to keep Jeri's loftiness in moderation, to mixed results.
• The Confidant: He acts as one to Cacao, encouraging her to move on from Dolores and listening to her when she needs to vent her frustrations to someone.
• Covert Pervert: He never expresses any overt sexual feelings at all during the series, but he does keep a few porn magazines in his apartment.
• Deep South: He claims to have spent some time there with family and while he doesn't have any noticeable accent, there are times when he slips into it under a stressful situation.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: This is his main Conflict. Although Moe seems to be completely content with his laid-back lifestyle, he begins to feel like he's worthless watching as the people around him (such as Jeri, Warble, and Grimaldo) pursue their dreams. Moe doesn't share this insecurity with others, only pondering about it to himself.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: His eyes are typically relaxed and half-lidded, which is only natural considering his laid-back personality.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: His dirty blonde hair matches his kindhearted nature.
• Heavy Sleeper: He is perpetually tired most times, and often refrains from eating too much food as it only makes him sleepier. To compensate for how little sleep he gets on weekdays, he typically sleeps until noon on weekends.
• The Hedonist: At the start of the series, Moe has only one ambition in life - to have a good time. His habits of living in the moment leave him feeling unfulfilled for the most part.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He used to be a delinquent and a smoker, but currently holds a negative opinion on both.
  • Similarly to Cacao, Moe loves cute animals. His favorite animal is the penguin.
  • His wardrobe mostly consists of bathrobes.
  • White, custard-like foods such as yogurt, pudding, alfredo, ranch, mayonnaise, and cottage cheese apparently give Moe the creeps.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Because of how laid-back he is, Moe's primary ambition is to live a simple, easygoing life. Unfortunately, with all of his eccentric housemates and acquaintances, this doesn't always work out for him.
• Limited Wardrobe: The only clothes he seems to own are a few pairs of his trademark bathrobes. Lampshaded in one episode when Cacao steals it and an annoyed Moe remarked how it was his only decent outfit.
• Lovable Coward: His first instinct is to run away, opt out, or dance around the subject whenever a situation proves even slightly dangerous. Although Moe would love nothing more than to keep his head down and keep out of trouble, that rarely works out.
• Mellow Fellow: A laid back guy who goes with the flow most of the time.
• Messy Hair: It's not really a deliberate choice on his part, since he prefers to neglect getting a haircut to save money and tends to be a restless sleeper, which gives him a pretty bad case of bedhead. In old photographs from his time in high school his hair was considerably more neat.
• Must Have Caffeine: Due to his heavy workload, he always makes sure he gets his morning fix of coffee. In any other circumstance, such as missing a day or drinking too much, he tends to get lazy and unmotivated.
• Nice Guy: He sees no reason in acting rude or cold towards other people, which he considers to be too much of an effort to get worked up over. Sure, he's incredibly indifferent and goes to great lengths to avoid taking care of his responsibilites, but otherwise he's very genuine, kindhearted, and a devoted friend. In addition, even despite his faults, he's willing to at least try and make a difference to improve himself.
• Non-Action Guy: Prefers that he nor others get into any fights. Though the tenants assume this is because he's a Dirty Coward, Moe actually just doesn't enjoy conflict.
• Not So Above It All: Moe is the cast's resident Smart Guy, often reacting to everyone else's chaos with passive indifference. Even then there are plenty of occasions where he sarcastically deflates or outwits the tenants, cheats at a chess game, gets conscious about his weight, and his myriad of additional idiosyncrasies.
• Odd Friendship: You would think that the misfortune and misery that Jeri frequently brings upon Moe despite him doing little to deserve it, the latter would hate her just as much as he does the rest of the cast. Instead, the pair are inseparable.
• One of the Girls: His sentimental and gentle nature means he gets along well with girls. This is demonstrated by his strong bonds with Jeri, Vitoria, and Ayumu AKA: the three primary female characters.
• Opposites Attract: With Jeri; he's a low energy slacker while she's a high energy ham.
• Pajama-Clad Hero: His fashion sense consists entirely of bathrobes.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: It's not doubt that Moe is a decent, well-meaning person, but his fixation on the past and general apathy has made him somewhat politically incorrect.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm, nonchalant blue to Jeri's outgoing and feisty red.
• The Slacker: His main desire is to waste his days sitting on his ass in a comfortable bathrobe, drinking copious amounts of sweets. The only time he is determined to do anything is when events are preventing his slacking.
• Sleeps in the Nude: Moe does this occasionally so he can save money on laundry. Unlike a majority of examples for this trope, everyone treats it very casually.
• Smoking Is Cool: He used to think so when he was attending high school.
• Straight Man: Out of all the the characters in the cast, he is the one who is first to point out the immaturity and stupidity of the other's schemes. This isn't saying much, because Moe still has moments averting this.
• Stumbled Into the Plot: This is how Moe gets involved in most episodes. Any of the other characters will throw the dilemma into motion, and it usually drags Moe down with it.
• Super Drowning Skills: It's mentioned early on in the series that he has no clue how to swim and that he would undeniably drown even the shallow end of a pool.
• Supreme Chef: Although he is a lackadaisical person, he can make pretty good food. They are simple meals, like spaghetti and chicken tacos, but it's still impressive all things considered.
• Sweet Tooth: The obvious pointer would be his affinity for milkshakes, but Moe generally enjoys a lot of food of this flavor profile.
  • In episode 9, Moe tells the tenants that breakfast is his favorite meal as he eats a stack of pancakes with syrup and butter.
  • In episode 31, while accompanying Jeri to a local cafe, he orders a caramel mocha with extra whipped cream.
• Zero-Approval Gambit: He tends to try and protect others from either humiliation or persecution by redirecting attention towards himself. Because of this, some of his housemates' opinions of him gradually goes down the drain, while others who catch on to what he's doing appreciate him more.

Ernest Warble

The slow and spacey photojournalist of the local tabloid newspaper.

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• Amateur Sleuth: Given that he works as a photographer and journalist for a local paper, Warble occasionally fancies himself as something of a private investigator a la Phillip Marlowe.
• Berserk Button: Although he's The Stoic, he absolutely disdains being thrown into situations he cannot control.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A constantly stoic and self-absorbed man prone to making the most bizarre of observations is nonetheless a fairly talented author.
• Camera Fiend: He carries his camera around to most places simply for the novelty of finding "interesting" shots. Despite his unscrupulous practices and ambiguous morals, it comes as something of a surprise that Warble simply enjoys photography and nothing more.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He seems to be highly educated, speaks eloquently, and is often quite insightful but his behavior is... eccentric, to say the least. Among the many, many instances of this, perhaps the strangest is how Warble seems to entirely understand Byron's Spy Speak, even when Stofer is clueless.
• The Comically Serious: He is very straight-laced and serious-minded but, due to the nature of the series, is treated as nothing more than a joke. A running gag centers around how he says otherwise outrageous things in a monotone and expressionless manner.
  Warble: "It would be much appreciated if you performed your exorcism elsewhere..."
• Conspiracy Theorist: Takes great pleasure in hypothesizing about the unknown or coming up with fake news.
• Creepy Monotone: Warble speaks in a morose monotone, amplifying the humor whenever he chews people out with sarcasm or talks proudly of his petty achievements in such a calm voice.
• The Cynic: He very rarely expects anything good to happen and takes a more skeptical approach to life. His outlook balances out with Jeri's optimism, which pushes both of them to eventually meet somewhere in the middle.
• The Dandy: He is sometimes noted for his flamboyant fashion choices.
• Deuteragonist: Outside of the central plotline following Jeri and Moe, Warble is the most recurring character in the series. He has multiple story threads; his philosophical riddles with Odenblom, the tabloid newspaper, and the Tidji agents are all instances where he plays a major role.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Warble is quick to jump to conclusions or assume the worse out of any given misunderstanding. Even more so, the things he concludes on are so utterly mundane that it makes him look like an idiot. Has he come to realize that, with Moe and Jeri, nothing has a simple explanation?
• Gentleman and a Scholar: Subverted. His outward appearances display him in a suave and sophisticated light, but he doesn't seem to be much smarter than pretty much anyone in the cast.
• Glasses Pull: Does this whenever things get particularly serious, but it immediately ruins the effect because of his astute blindness without them.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He has a hidden passion for Moai culture, but tends to keep that interest closer to the chest.
  • Despite being optimistic, he has some rather idealistic views on romance.
  • Occasionally he submits his photographs to competitions... and wins!
• Immoral Journalist: Naturally, as he works for a tabloid newspaper. Downplayed because he at least he tries to maintain some sort of journalistic integrity.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Whenever he is attempting to walk away from something such as getting caught following someone, he'll usually come up with a nonsensical excuse, no matter how stupid it sounds.
• Intrepid Reporter: Traverses around the city, observing and photographing all the goings-on. He doesn't shy away from the more lurid aspects of the culture, however. As a matter of fact, he may actually prefer it, and can become embroiled in the stories beyond his better judgment.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Warble will often observe the ensuing madness and offer an insightful assumption of what's going on, but the gossip he believes is very rarely accurate or even remotely relevant.
• Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls him Warble, and only on his newspaper articles or photography credits include his birth name.
• Magic Versus Science: He is pretty adamant about his belief that the supernatural doesn't exist. He sometimes debates with Odenblom and Grimaldo over this, and while none of the three are able to come up with any compelling arguments, the myriad of improbable situations in the series seem to disprove Warble in a way.
• Moment Killer: Tends to interrupt tender or heartfelt scenes with his sudden intrusions.
• Mysterious Past: It's noted by the other tenants that no details of his past are known. The only thing that they know for certain is that he has worked for legitimate publications.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Possibly named after famed writer Ernest Hemingway.
• Narcissist: By all means. Many times has he gotten distracted by his own intelligence, bringing conversations to a halt to admire himself, and responds with a typically monotone "I know" anytime someone praises him. Warble also tends to look down on everybody for their misfortune, only to suffer just as badly, if not worse. But he still never admits that he suffered as not to deflate his ego.
• Nightmare Face: Dramatic closeups of his somber face and Opaque Lenses are played for comedic effect.
• Nosy Neighbor: Is quick to meddle in the other tenant's business whenever he hears something that strikes his interest.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He may present himself as a spacey, clueless man, but all it takes is a private conversation to reveal that he's actually incredibly witty and observant.
• The Peeping Tom: His inner love for eavesdropping comes out every now and then. Slithering around in vents is somehow required in his line of work too, but there is a solid chance that he might just be lying about it.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Despite his unscrupulous nature, there are at least a handful of instances where Warble actually goes out of his way to clear up a misunderstanding. It's rare, but it happens.
• The Philosopher: He has a deep interest in pondering about the aspects of a meaningful life. His musings often tend to lean more towards the surreal side, but can occasionally be quite insightful.
  Warble: "The most envious people are those who recognize life's futility but still find the joy in it."
• Photographic Memory: He has a truly incredible memory for details.
• The Pollyanna: A rare gender-inverted example. Despite facing numerous hardships over the course of the series and getting roped up in an underground spy organization, he remains genuinely optimistic and tries to look on the bright side of life.
• The Quiet One: Zigzagged. He can certainly talk for hours on end, but don't expect him to be the one to initiate a conversation.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He is described by his editor as a very effeminate person, whether that comes down to his liberal use of cologne or his french rose-colored tie.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Warble is a man of self-proclaimed sophistication fascinated with literature. In all of his articles, reciting a poem is considered by the newspaper staff to be part of his style and he may randomly recite in the most unexpected moments.
• Sad Clown: He's a lively and extroverted individual, especially amongst the tabloid's staff, but he tends to eat dinner alone in his shower.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: His vocabulary is filled to the brim with archaic jargon that bewilders people more than it actually impresses them.
• Smarter Than You Look: While his Cloudcuckoolander tendencies and questionable job could fool one into thinking that he's a dimwit, there are multiple instances that goes to show that he is somewhat intelligent.
  • He delivers some surprisingly insightful lines throughout the series, and it's suggested that he is comfortable enough with his identity that he doesn't try to pretend to be something he isn't, which is a struggle a lot of the cast is guilty of.
  • A later chapter reveals that he has actually worked for a legitimate newspaper before.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Every once in a while. One of Warble's many skills is an abnormal talent for making profanities sound pleasant and remarkably elegant.
• The Stoic: His face is frozen to a blank, somewhat frowning stare, except for some instances. It's rare that Warble ever has too much emotion in his voice either, and even when he has shown to be enthusiastic or depressed his monotone delivery barely changes.
• Terrible Artist: He's explicitly pointed out that he has absolutely no talent when it comes to drawing, and every Moai statue he attempts to make results in an unrecognizable lump.
• Unreliable Expositor: Most of what he says about recent news is proven incorrect upon further investigation. Naturally the tenants have come to expect this from him.
• Vague Age: While most of the cast is clearly either a young adult or in their middle age, Warble's age is completely ambiguous. When asked about this, similar to most aspects of his personal life, he responds that it's classified.

Vitoria Fuori

The socially anxious but friendly daughter of a wealthy restaurateur family.

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• Acquired Poison Immunity: Played for Laughs. Apparently, having such a huge appetite made Vitoria immune to specific kinds of food poisoning, allowing her to eat expired foods with no ill results.
• Affectionate Nickname: Jeri sometimes shortens her name to "Tori". Given her reputation as The Nicknamer, it was inevitable that Vitoria wouldn't be spared.
• Ambiguously Bi: Since she's somewhat Oblivious to Love, Vitoria mostly questions her own preferences. She states that she doesn't care too much about genders, and even admits to having had experienced some romantic attraction towards both men and women alike.
• Beneath the Mask: Vitoria has a myriad of personas for herself, but her real personality is critical, stubborn, insecure, and kindhearted. She has a genuine longing for friends and romance, often doing her best to understand how she can accomplish her goals. On a more serious note, she also has a strong sense of sense-loathing, which is why she always tries to put on an act.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Vittoria acts like a demure and petite lady, but she doesn't feel much remorse in regards to using the vast weapons at her disposal to enact retribution against those who have wronged her.
• Big Eater: The worst case in her family, which is saying a lot. She has a large picture of pasta framed in her room. She can devour most meals in a matter of minutes without even chewing, and even on top of that her diet is atrocious. This never seems to effect her health.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: She has thicker eyebrows that everyone else in the cast, which she's a little self-conscious of. This seems to be a trait that runs in the family as Gemella also fits into this trope.
• Big Sister Mentor: She may or may not be the older of the twins, but she does dispense sage advice and makes impressive progress instructing Gemella on femininity. Of course, that falls apart soon after, but it worked for a while.
• Broken Bird: Her family name and reputation as a influential mafia held her back from finding herself is a person. She never got to know her mother and feels loads of resentment against her father for that. Vitoria has since softened after meeting with Moe and the tenants, but she can still show her insecure side and doesn't appear to have any close friends outside of them.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's entirely Italian, but has lived her whole life in Canada.
• Character Tics:
  • She has to bizarre ability to unhinge her jaw remarkably wide. It's typically Played for Laughs during certain scenes that cause Vitoria to react with Stunned Silence.
  • She is known to rapidly jitter her eyes around when she's flustered or stressed.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Not on a Warble level, but between her shyness and her strong sense of imagination, Vitoria can sometimes say some rather... peculiar statements.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Vitoria rarely ever enjoys following recipes, preferring to add her own unique personal touch to every dish she tries to make. Her food is usually bizarre as a result. For instance, peanut butter and hazelnut chocolate lasagna.
• Cute Bookworm: She reads whenever she has free time.
• The Cynic: Holds the belief that she can never truly be loved for her authentic self.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Vitoria wishes she can spend more time with her family, wants friends, and is increasingly envious of others' romantic conquests. She usually keeps her feelings to herself and copes with them in peculiar ways.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Played for Laughs. When she joins in on Jeri and Grimaldo's cooking competition, she made it abundantly clear she didn't want them to go easy on her, despite admitting that she's not that good of a chef.
• Emotion Suppression: Vitoria has a habit to bottle up her feelings, primarily because she doesn't want to burden anyone. Because of this insecurity, she puts on a perfect facade around others to hide her fear of loneliness and social anxiety. She also makes a conscious effort to keep people at arm's length, despite her repressed desire to develop a deeper connection with someone. Since this is such a delicate balancing act, she eventually breaks.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Subverted. While she seems like a model housewife, her attempts at homemade cooking are truly atrocious. The reason behind this is left quite vague, but it's been shown that she rarely follows recipes. There was even an episode where a taste of her food sent some of the characters into an instant state of shock.
• Filching Food for Fun: Has been known to pillage and plunder other people's food from time to time.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: She starts frantically ranting in Italian when she's angry.
  Vitoria: "Eh? Casu marzu? Perché cazzo c'è casu marzu qui? Non è illegale?" (in English) "What? Casu marzu? Why the fuck is casu marzu here? Isn't that illegal?"
• Gentle Giant: She is abnormally tall, which can make her seem intimidating. At heart she's a real sweetheart.
• Height Angst: Surprisingly subverted. While she is incredibly self-conscious about her appearance, Vitoria doesn't express any disdain towards her tall height.
• Heroic BSoD: She suffers a nervous breakdown as she starts to consider the possibility that she may never overcome her crippling social anxiety.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Vitoria is very detail-oriented and meticulous, as well as possessing a tremendous memory.
  • She seems to have a keen passion for marine life and as such enjoys taking trips to aquariums.
  • Surprisingly, it is shown that she is an avid fan of thriller and horror books. It makes some sense considering she tries using the genre to help encourage her to face her own personal fears.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: She has the strong desire to fall in love with somebody else and experience her very first kiss, but doesn't have much romantic knowledge.
• Lethal Chef: Subverted and Played for Laughs. Her cooking is incredibly mediocre as opposed to being downright awful.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The ladylike and well-mannered Light Feminine to Jeri's energetic Dark Feminine, but this tends to get zigzagged depending on the moment.
• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Her taste in men is arguably very confusing. She may be one of the handful of beings in the universe who's ideal suitor is an idle good-for-nothing. Though, in her defense, he does have a Hidden Heart of Gold underneath it all.
• Never Gets Fat: She consumes at least 10 plates of food for each meal alone, so it comes as surprise that she is still relatively slender and attractive. Apparently, according to Pelagatti, the family just happens to have remarkably fast metabolisms.
• One Head Taller: She's roughly a head taller than Jeri.
• Parental Neglect: Vitoria is a Lonely Rich Kid and she rarely speaks about her parents, mainly because she never really got to know them. The family servants, including Mr. Pelagatti, looked after her, but even despite that they never displayed that much affection. In addition, they neglected to give her The Talk, and as a result, Vitoria has very little knowledge about sex.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: She's so used to her luxurious accommodations that she doesn't realize that her lower-class housemates don't have the same wealth at their expense. Her naivete is played off in an endearing way.
• Shipper on Deck: This comes as a result of Vitoria being fascinated by romance as a whole, leading her to entertain a lot of potential romantic items. Downplayed as this isn't relegated to any particular pairing.
• Shrinking Violet: One of her more prominent characteristics. In a subversion, however, Vitoria actually has very little trouble interacting with complete strangers. Since she wears so many social masks to hide her vulnerabilities, it's naturally much more difficult to interact with people who personally know her.
• Spoiled Sweet: She is without a doubt the wealthiest member of the cast, but she never once flaunts her cash arrogantly. She's prone to doing this obliviously, but nevertheless she is still a genuinely kind woman who willingly offers to treat her housemates to hotpot meals, gifts, and trips or help them through practical manners.
• Statuesque Stunner: In contrast to everyone else in the series, Vitoria stands tall at 167 cm, which is equivalent to 5'6. She's also one of the more sweet, demure, and refined characters.
• Stepford Smiler: Vitoria is fully aware of how damaged and unhealthy her childhood was like, but she covers it up by faking her happiness. She also partially feels like she has no right to complain about it due to how wealthy her upbringing has been.

Ayumu Odenblom

A calm and composed clairvoyant with a penchant for mischief.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: She tends to laugh things off and not let them bother her.
• AM/FM Characterization: She's shown to be a fan of jazz and grunge music and owns an antique record player despite not having any records. Even despite its uselessness and her financial troubles, she never sells the record player.
• At Least I Admit It: She fully acknowledges her flaws and seems to be irritated by people who can't do the same. This argument usually applies to Vitoria, Mr. Pelagatti, or Grimaldo.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Has an incredibly short attention span and gets bored by things very easily.
• Big Sister Bully: To her younger brother Yusaku, although this is never depicted in the series.
• Bilingual Bonus: She speaks a bit of Japanese.
• Brown Note: For the purposes of track mixing, Odenblom orders several kazoos, a slide whistle, and an Aztec death whistle. She plays them terrible on purpose around her housemates. It ended up having the opposite effect from what Ayumu intended.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's apparently half Japanese and a quarter Swedish. This explains her exotic name with roots in both languages, as well as her Tsurime Eyes and blue hair.
• Character Tics:
  • She frequently puts her hands behind her head.
  • She enjoys humming to herself.
• Cool Big Sis: Ayumu is this with Jeri, Moe, Guillermo, and her legitimate brother Yusaku in a Flashback.
• Dissonant Serenity: Not too far off from Warble's deadpan style of speech.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even Odenblom is aware when one of her escapades goes too far.
• Fangirl: She likes to hear music from local musicians, specifically hard rock bands. Her personal favorite bands are the jazz grunge garage-based Masters of the Flying Guillotine and the Swedish shoegaze duo Skim Milk.
• Fortune Teller: One of Von Whiz's storylines reveals that she sometimes works as a fortune teller in a shopping mall, and she ends up giving fairly decent advice while on the job.
• The Gambler: Usually enjoys running bets and has hidden depths as a card sharp.
• Gender-Blender Name: Nobody else seems to notice, but "Ayumu" is usually a male name in Japan, although the kanji used in it make it somewhat more feminine. Her brother teases her about it when he runs out of retorts.
• Hyper-Awareness: She's shown to be incredibly observant, and thanks to her cold reading skills she is able to easily see through other people's feelings or motives.
  • She is the first person to notice that Vitoria has developed romantic feelings for Moe.
  • She instantly sees right through Grimaldo, who was maintaining his demeanor when in actuality he had just been dropped by his coach.
• Inadvertent Entrance Cue: Most of his interactions with the secondary characters start off this way.
• Instant Expert: While constantly working a part-time job, Ayumu tends to pick up on new skills very quickly.
• In the Blood: {[Downplayed}}, but Odenblom's interest in music may have come from her parents. Her mother was a cabaret singer and her father was a pianist.
• It Amused Me: Her most prominent character trait. Will inflict chaos and potentially put innocent people in life-threatening situations if it will rid her of boredom.
• Last-Name Basis: Almost everyone calls her by her surname.
• Mellow Fellow: Odenblom is effortlessly calm and easygoing, laughing it off when things simply don't work out and not getting too worked up over much. Out of the entire cast, she may be one of the few folks who never gets angry.
• Mushroom Samba: Induced by a serious case of sleep deprivation.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Odenblom, for all of her amoral actions, is genuinely concerned when it becomes clear her antics are emotionally damaging someone or making them upset. Only then will she try to repair things.
• Neet: Before moving into the flophouse, she used to live off of her brother and friends.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The Downplayed Nice to Byron's Mean and Grimaldo's In-Between. Although she loves to subject others to turmoil for her amusement, Odenblom is probably the least harsh on Moe and Jeri.
• Occult Detective: Odenblom can become this from time to time if the situation calls for it.
• Odd Friendship: Her feelings towards Moe are mixed at best. She usually doesn't see him as anything more than a slacker and usually teases him for it. Jeri and Odenblom give off a sisterly relationship, her complicated rivalry with Grimaldo (see Vitriolic Best Buds below), and her and Byron's shared interest in immoral behavior are additional examples.
• Perpetual Poverty: She lives in a small apartment and occasionally freeloads off of her younger brother. To alleviate the fact that she can't keep a job for long, she frequently gambles, uses coupons whenever she can, and is incredibly averse to any sort of waste.
• Phony Psychic: Runs a hole-in-the-wall psychic reader store to help offer advice on personal matters. Utilizes Cold Reading and zodiac signs. At the very least, she seems to be in touch with her spiritual side, and despite her misgivings she does seem to at least somewhat believe in superstitions.
• Serial Escalation: Her pranks get progressively more ridiculous as the series goes on.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Downplayed but still appears from time to time. She's not afraid to show off her body, whether it be walking around in her bra or running shorts that show off her legs. Her playful teasing can also border on flirting.
• Shrouded in Myth: If you heard the stories of "The Woman of a Hundred Talents" and her exploits, you'd be pretty shocked to find that the woman behind the rumors is the calm, collected, and incredibly superstitious psychic who is either teasing or pranking her housemates.
• Signature Hair Decs: Has a garnet-colored headband with a small skull design on the front. Occasionally she will also strap two candles on each side, normally during an exorcism.
• Spider-Sense: Odenblom can sense when something is off thanks to an aching in her molar teeth.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Chaotic and aloof, but stands by those closest to her no matter the circumstance.
• Trapped by Gambling Debts: At the start of the series, Ayumu has amassed loads of debt, both from her undue rent to the landlord and from her gambling habit. This is the main reason why she has taken up so many part-time jobs.
• Troll: Her constant torment of Moe and Jeri really seems like her sole reason for living. It can range from annoying pranks, flirtatious teasing, to downright putting them in a life-or-death situation all in stride.
• Urban Legend Love Life: Ayumu has quite the reputation despite having no solid evidence to back this claim up. At first the tenants assumed this because she's usually absent from the apartment without explanation as to why. When Ayumu's younger brother Yusaku visits, Warble misunderstands his allusions to how she never keeps a part-time job for long for playing the field.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Grimaldo holds a unique ire against Odenblom because of his Catholic beliefs, and Odenblom doesn't like him for all of his hypocritical self-righteousness. Yet they still hang around together a lot. Most of the time they are commenting at each other's expense, though.
• Wild Card: The details behind her tremendously composed exterior and enigmatic personality are near incapable of being predicted. No one exactly knows where her motives lie, besides being a master Troll.

Guillermo Grimaldo

A hypocritical but good-intentioned luchador.

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• Activist-Fundamentalist Antics: He is a devout Catholic, and constantly feels that it his holy duty to force his religion onto the other tenants. This only leads to his words being turned against him. But because he's so determined, it is brought up again and again.
• Alliterative Name: Guillermo Grimaldo.
• Ambiguously Brown: He is of Mexican descent, but an exact answer is never completely given. It's clear that he has a darker tone of skin compared to the other tenants.
• Angrish: He tends to incoherently grumble under his breath when frustrated of anxious.
• Anonymous Benefactor: To avoid the embarrassment, Grimaldo often helps out the other tenants anonymously. He was the one who mended Dolores and Cacao's relationship and applied Ayumu for a promising long-term occupation.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: After moving into the flophouse, he realizes that reforming its tenants' fractured morals will be much harder than he suspected.
• Berserk Button: Calling him lazy gets him extremely riled up, which makes sense considering how much of a hard worker he is.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Insult him, he brushes it off. Insult something — or someone — he cares about, and you're bound to face his fury.
• Birds of a Feather: A part of Jeri sees many of her tendencies in Grimaldo, which is why she grows a deeper bond with him, continues to goad him into competitions, and supports him in his athletic pursuits.
• Breath Weapon: Played for Laughs, but he sometimes sneezes small explosions.
• Broken Ace: On the outside, it's easy to respect his determined dedication to athletics, but upon further inspection he is hilariously incompetent at just about any other skill. Whenever he's thrust into complicated situations, he usually settles on winging it while maintaining calm and composed. Although he maintains his hopeful delusions throughout his many losses, deep down Grimaldo buries a lot of internalized insecurity about his abilities.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's a motormouth and a Determinator who tends to be too straightforward for his own good. Nevertheless, he's a reliable friend always eager to lend a helping hand and a total sweetheart.
• Brutal Honesty: One of his more glaring flaws is his bad habit of putting his foot in his mouth. Zigzagged since he has to issue telling things exactly as they are, but this switches back and forth between deliberate Tough Love and Innocently Insensitive.
• Cannot Tell a Joke: He's legendarily terrible at it, to the point that nobody realizes that it was supposed to be an attempt at humor.
• Caring Gardener: He's a very caring person who enjoys growing plants, even apparently having his own vegetable garden when he still lived with his family. Eventually it's explained that his father is a florist.
• Character Focus: He is treated as a quasi-protagonist in Volume 8.
• Competition Freak: Zigzagged. He's very into athletics, no doubt, but he actually possesses impressive sportsmanship and rarely gets worked up over rivalry... that is, unless it's against the uber-competitive Jeri.
• The Cynic: Grimaldo rarely believes anything good is going to happen and usually comes to morbid conclusions. Further establishes his rivalry with Jeri, who is much more of an optimist.
• Determined Defeatist: Goes on lengthy monologues about, even despite his constant losses, he will keep returning to the ring. It's one of his few redeeming and enduring aspects to his character that prevents him from being a total Jerkass.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: On occassion, he'll end up hurting someone when he actually means to help them out.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The very first scene of the Animated Adaptation is a seemingly unrelated vignette that features two men practicing an intense round of baseball. The catcher returns later in the story as none other than Guillermo Grimaldo. What's even more impressive, he plays a major role going forward.
• Endearingly Dorky: Grimaldo is usually a critical and skeptical person, but he still can get easily excited and be somewhat awkward and dorky.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The conflicted. He's fixated with morals and is incredibly earnest and mature, but this often contrasts with his childish and gullible side.
• Giftedly Bad: He is atrociously awful at just about anything that isn't related to wrestling. When the tenants were forming a band out of sheer boredom, Grimaldo was so bad at playing musical instruments that he ended up giving everyone in the room a migraine. His singing wasn't any better. Later, when he tries swimming, as soon as he dives into the pool he sinks straight to the bottom.
• Graceful Loser: Contrary to theory, Grimaldo is far from a Sore Loser. He isn't that competitive and is a good sport.
• Grade Skipper: Apparently, he skipped junior year in high school almost entirely.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted or subverted depending on the situation. In Grimaldo's own estimation, he has zero natural talent, and the only way he can achieve his goal of joining professional wrestling is through constant effort. It's been shown that he's below average when it comes to a decent chunk of mundane activities, including ones that anyone could do without any sort of training.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite being Giftedly Bad at a number of mundane tasks, it is revealed that he is quite talented at boxing, balancing, gardening, and hand-eye coordination. He also seems to have some sort of interest in poetry.
  • He demonstrates a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the symbology and life cycles of flowers being the son of a florist.
  • He happens to have a darker sense of humor than the other tenants.
• High Hopes, Zero Talent: His flighty aspirations and determination far outweigh his true abilities.
• Honest Advisor: He is always quite honest and truthful when anyone needs things told to them straight.
• Hypocritical Humor: To such an extent that it may as well be considered a Running Gag.
  • It's a miracle if Grimaldo actually practices what he preaches.
  • He is incredibly annoyed when the other tenants butt into his wrestling career, since he prefers to handle his situation alone. Even Grimaldo himself quickly realizes the hypocrisy.
  • During a heat wave, he suggests that his housemates let off some steam by doing some stretches, while he is soaking in a bath.
• Iconic Sequel Character: In the comic, he was introduced midway through Volume 3. Eventually Grimaldo became another main character in his own right, with his story line as a luchador even said by creator Gavin Nowak to be one of his favorites in the series.
• Innocently Insensitive: Despite appearances, he's actually a pretty kind person. However, his straightforward and fretful attitude often gets him into trouble.
• It's All About Me: Grimaldo's naive sense of morality causes him to rarely consider what other people are going through, since he exclusively believes that a lack of moral decency instantly makes you a terrible person.
• Lack of Empathy: For people who are rewarded despite their lack of effort.
• Leitmotif: Played for Laughs. Whenever he prepares to criticize mundane things, his theme song "Juicio Divino" begins playing in the background.
• Lovable Jock: Being an all-around natural athlete with experience in wrestling and swimming, he's more aggressive compared to the other tenants, but also happens to have a rather strong sense of empathy. This juxtaposition is sometimes played for humor when his attempts to help people backfire on them.
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Not that Guillermo was a terrible person before meeting the tenants, but he starts out as a strict stick-in-the-mud. The longer he hangs out with his housemates, however, the more he learns how to loosen up. Of course, he still acts heavy-handed every now and then.
• Meaningful Name: Guillermo means "resolute protector/warrior". Of course, he's definitely a strong willed person who likes to help others.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The In-Between to Odenblom's Nice and Byron's Mean. Grimaldo typically lands somewhere on the neutral ends of conflict, and his devotion to God is evened out by his hypocritical judgements.
• Noble Bigot: He's naturally homophobic because of his religious beliefs, but Grimaldo does have a strong moral compass nevertheless. Part of his character development is becoming more open-minded.
• Oblivious to Hints: Grimaldo is as dense as a brick. Because of his nonexistent sense of imagination, everyone always has to explain things to him in the simplest manner possible.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Grimaldo has a tendency of blurting things out by accident that make the situation considerably more awkward. This bites him in the ass a lot of the time.
• Self-Serving Memory: Inverted when he passionately defended Vitoria when she was being accused of hiding her her true self. For Vitoria, she greatly appreciated how he stood up for her. However, in regards to Grimaldo... he was so embarrassed that he went out of his way to ignore her for a week.
• Sixth Ranger: He joins the other five tenants a little after the series begins.
• Super-Strength: For as much of a ineffective combatant he is, Grimaldo's physical strength is genuinely impressive.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pambazo and spicy pickles.
• Underdogs Never Lose: A hilarious subversion of this trope. Grimaldo, while having all the determination and losing streak of an underdog, never comes out on top no matter how hard he tries. Everyone expects him to lose and he always does.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Odenblom. They are never not seen bickering or getting into pointless squabbles, but the duo still have a clear bond.

Secondary Characters

Cacao

A jungle-born Amazon herbal doctor.

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• And Call Him "George": She absolutely adores her chimpanzee Dolores, but unfortunately has no clue how to care for her. Dolores eventually left her to lodge in the apartment building where the main cast reside.
• Animal Lover: Cacao loves animals more than anything. In her own words:
  Cacao: "I like living things."
• Animals Hate Him: Or more accurately her. A subversion of a common trope that's Played for Laughs where such a character archetype seemingly controls animals at their own will.
• Cannot Spit It Out: She really, really dislikes expressing her feelings. She usually only openly gives Dolores any affection when she's drunk or if she says things in a roundabout way.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Zigzagged. Although she has a remarkably high tolerance and it takes a lot to get her drunk, whenever she does she's a weepy mess.
• Clandestine Chemist: She has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of various herbs and medicines, but still wastes most of her talent on quackery.
• Connected All Along: She turns out to be a relative of Dolores.
• Cuteness Proximity: Anything even remotely cute is enough for Cacao to cool down.
• Dramatic Stutter: She has a tendency to start stuttering when she is fired up.
• The Dreaded: Played for Laughs. Jeri and Moe don't necessarily think that she's intimidating in any way, but her self-destructive tendencies and overzealous efforts to pursue Dolores give her a bad reputation.
• Eco-Terrorist: Cacao is just as overprotective with the environment as she is with those closest to her, and absolutely does not tolerate any violence perpetuated against it.
• Edible Theme Naming: Malvaceae is the name of her clan, as well as being the scientific name of the mallow family of wildlife. This includes Cacao, a tropical South American tree that is a source of chocolate.
• First-Name Basis: She almost always adresses people by their given names, something that a fair majority of the other characters never do. This is primarily due to the fact that Cacao doesn't understand the concept of having a family name.
• Granola Girl: Cacao is passionate about preserving the ecosystem.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Her casual demeanor is uncomfortably belligerent and snappish. She can also easily get fired up over harm towards nature.
• Hollywood Voodoo: Some of her revenge plots involve voodoo dolls or herbal concoctions of some sort. When you add on her quasi-Jamaican/Caribbean dialect, Cacao proves to be an obvious satire.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She misunderstands or completely doesn't realize the most obvious of personality traits, such as Moe's laziness or Pelagatti's arrogance.
• Iconic Item: Is always seen with bead earrings.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Calls for an entire bottle of liquor after learning that Dolores has abandoned her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is typically rude, ill-tempered, gets worked up over the pettiest of grievances, and tends to have a sense of arrogance, but is ultimately a very caring person who genuinely tries to put other people's needs before her own. Even despite her schemes to try and win back the affections of Dolores, she sometimes doubts herself with the notion that Dolores may be truly happy without her.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: She typically wears one gifted to her by Von Whiz when she is making a herbal blend or working her medical magic.
• Made Myself Sad: Has a bad habit of accidentally making herself feel depressed.
• Mood-Swinger: Downplayed. She typically acts hot and cold towards others, but now and then she can suddenly become either smug or depressed.
• Motherly Side Plait: She styles her hair this way, and her relationship with Dolores can be interpreted as a maternal one.
• Mundane Object Amazement: Since she has lived in a jungle her whole life, nearly everything catches her awe. In fact, this was initially why she grew fond of Von Whiz, who collects countless useless artifacts from his travels, and is the only character that doesn't see his trinkets to be completely useless.
• No Badass to His Valet: When around Moe and Odenblom, her irritable and arrogant behavior quickly drops, which is why the two treat her informally.
• No Social Skills: Fails to comprehend basic social cues like greetings or modern slang, and on occasion devolved into a nervous wreck during large gatherings.
• Protectorate: To Dolores. Not that she knows, though, since Cacao pretty much does it all inconspicuously.
• Sentimental Drunk: She becomes very weepy and emotional once she's had some alcohol.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: While she is able to hold conversations with gibbons, squid, and certain species of bird, she often jumbles up multiple different animal languages together by accident, rendering her efforts to communicate with most other species useless. She's learning, though.
• Stalker without a Crush: Towards Dolores. She's often following her around, but never in a romantic context.
• Straight Man: Surprisingly enough, there is a few instances where she finds herself playing this role. Namely when there needs to be someone to point out the flaws of their political and social system.
• Tsundere: Many of Cacao's mannerisms gives her a very tsun demeanor, with her main weakness being affectionate remarks.
  • She gets unexpectedly flustered when she receives a compliment, tending to frame them as pitiful comments for her to shrug off.
  • She displays reluctance to speak lovingly of anyone else besides herself, often having to work around it by offering an indirect or passive compliment. For example, when she reunites with Dolores she admits that she finds some things bothersome without her, but never outright says that she missed her in any way.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Gradually becomes this with Moe and particularly Odenblom.

Dolores

A chimpanzee chess prodigy and relative of Cacao.

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• Child Prodigy: In gibbon years, Dolores is only 2 years old. Even despite this, she seems to be incredibly intelligent and is a master at playing chess.
• Eyes Always Shut: Even when shocked or irritated (which is quite often), her eyes always remain shut.
• Intellectual Animal: Although her abilities to use this intelligence is limited by her body (most obviously, she can't talk), she's shown to utilize utensils, play chess, and keep things tidy. One chapter shows Dolores holding conversation with a bird, in which she is quite articulate.
• Neat Freak: Exaggerated. Pretty much all of her appearances feature Dolores tidying up the apartment.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Dolores tends to suddenly appear in times of need, lending help or sympathy for whoever the Butt-Monkey is in this situation. Which is everyone at some point.

Namazio Pelagatti

An incredibly serious and stern accountant for the Fuori conglomorate.

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• Authority in Name Only: Subverted. He values respect and moral dignity, but truthfully he's just the Fuori family accountant.
• Beneath the Mask: On the surface he seems to be a stern disciplinarian but deep down he truly does everything he can to help out Vitoria because he feels sorry for her dilemma.
• Book Dumb: While he is very logical-minded and emotionally intelligent, Pelagatti doesn't have much academic skill, which is a major insecurity of his.
• Butt-Monkey: Downplayed. Though he projects an aura of confidence and professionalism, Pelagatti gets extremely flustered when things don't go according to plan. As a result, none of his peers are able to resist the urge to mess with him from time to time.
• Consummate Professional: Zigzagged and Played for Laughs. He tries to appear like a serious and reliable professional, and in many ways he genuinely is one. However, there are still numerous occasions where Pelagatti is Not So Above It All.
• Flat "What": This is usually his reaction when he witnesses a weird situation.
• Freudian Slip: When trying to act coolly with Vitoria he flat out tells her that her apartment is terrible. When he later tries to talk to other characters, his absentminded bluntness returns to predictable results.
• Hey, You!: Outside of Vitoria, Pelagatti never refers to anyone by their names, but rather by using a nickname. For example, he calls Dolores "chimp", Landlord "old man", and Jeri "whim".
• Hired Help as Family: While he starts out as nothing more than an accountant, as the series goes on, it's easy to interpret Namazio as a sort of surrogate father figure to Vitoria and (to a lesser extent) Gemella.
• Hot-Blooded: He tends to go all-out whenever he's fired up about something.
• Humble Hero: Subverted and Played for Laughs.
  • Whenever his ill-conceived advice proves itself to work out flawlessly, he tries to play it off modestly, but in private he actually shadow boxes to himself out of joy.
  • When he joins a cooking competition in the apartment house, he advises Jeri and Grimaldo not to take the contest too seriously. At the same time, he mentally notes that he's got it in the bag and wonders how it's possible how anybody is genuinely hoping to even meet his level of expertise.
• I Gave My Word: To keep up his act as a good role model, Pelagatti is undoubtedly a man of his word and insists that he will pay back any debt, even if it puts him in embarrassing situations.
• Last-Name Basis: Almost everyone calls him by his surname. Gemella is the only exception.
• Legacy of Service: The Pelagatti family has been serving the Fuori family for generations, and Namazio follows in their footsteps rather well. This is also somewhat the reason why Namazio felt sympathy for the Fuori sisters, particularly Vitoria.
• Loss of Identity: There's a chapter where Namazio is lounging alone in his apartment after a long shift at work, considering how he can spend his spare time. He realizes that he has no hobbies, interests, or close relationships, and that his time alone is usually spent sleeping.
• Married to the Job: He's a middle aged workaholic and has a completely nonexistent love life.
• Mirror Character: To Cacao. Both of them are loud, abrasive, irritable, and somewhat arrogant, but they also both happen to be much less serious then they initially let on and are adoptive parental figures. Downplayed with the tenants, as it turns out that Pelagatti lives in an cheap apartment building himself.
• Mr. Imagination: Pelagatti has a tendency to imagine a myriad of possible scenarios for any given situation.
• Not So Above It All: Tries to maintain discipline and demands proper respect from others, but he gives into his impulses and temper from time to time.
• Parental Substitute: It's easy to interpret his relationship with Vitoria as a maternal one. He cares a lot more for her than her birth parents do, after all. His relationship with her is further explored in a flashback during volume 7, where he is left to watch after an infant Vitoria and grows to instinctively dote on her.
• The Reliable One: Probably the only grown adult in the series that can be described as "reliable". He is always willing to complete a job with no questions asked, and always has his doors open for Vitoria if she needs help.
• The Rival: A mostly one-sided friction with Cacao, mainly because of how Pelagatti views their characters to be too similar.
• Romantic Wingman: Pelagatti appoints himself to this role after finding out about Vitoria's crush on Moe, as he hopes that her winning his affection would be great for her self-confidence. Given that this is Pelagatti, a man who's never had a romantic relationship in his life, he knows just as little about love as Vitoria does.
• Serious Business: For a lot of things.
• Supreme Chef: Since he serves a family that has an abnormally quick metabolism, naturally Pelagatti has taught himself on how to become an excellent cook. It's one of the few pastimes outside of his work that he enjoys.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: He insists that people refer to him as Mr. Pelagatti.
• Think Nothing of It: This is Namazio's response after anyone thanks him. Humbleness is a virtue, after all.
• Undying Loyalty: Nothing will prevent him from remaining completely devoted to the Fuori family.

Paola Fuori

The younger sister of Vitoria and a chef at Fuori Italian Cuisine.

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• Berserk Button: While she's working as a chef at her family's restaurant, never order "the usual". She considers those sorts of customers to be self-absorbed and ignorant.
• Brutal Honesty: Which is why her sister's unwillingness to say outright how she feels irritates her.
• Character Tics: She tends to jokingly punch people in the shoulder or back to get them to lighten up.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Vitoria mentions having an younger sister in her very first appearance and she gets a few other brief acknowledgments early on, but she doesn't make her proper debut until Chapter 67.
• Childish Older Sibling: Paola is generally nice and polite, but acts fairly rude towards her sister by comparison. Nevertheless, despite her occasional immaturity, she is the most responsible member of the Fuori family.
• Dark Secret: Apparently she eats food that's already fallen on the ground. She goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that nobody finds about.
• The Dutiful Son: Gender-Inverted. After her older sister left to build a social life for herself and becomes considered the black sheep of the family, Paola was thrust into a position of responsibility as head chef of the Fuori's local restaurant. This was made all the more jarring for Paola as she is the younger sibling.
• Good Old Ways: She's a firm believer in tradition, often encouraging that the rest of her family believe the same.
• Locked Out of the Loop: While she knows her sister has a crush on a guy, she has no idea that the object of her affections is her slacker housemate.
• Nice Girl: She can be pretty snide and rebellious, but Paola is a genuinely hard-working, selfless, and honest person.
• The Resenter: Harbors some ill will towards her younger sister for abandoning the family business.

Gustav Von Kepler

An ever-travelling motorcyclist and independent filmmaker.

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• Abnormal Ammo: Among his enormous quantity of projectiles, it seems quite a few bizarre things end up in his stash, yet Von Kepler uses them anyway. This includes bowling balls, yo-yos, spatulas, oranges, and pesticide.
• Amateur Film-Making Plot: In order to enter for a local independent film festival, Gustav struggles to find a staff to help out with his underfunded production. Numerous struggles get in his way, but he eventually finds a leading lady in Odenblom, a financial advisor in Mr. Pelagatti, and a cameraman in Mr. Warble.
• Chekhov's Gunman: There are numerous mentions to Von Kepler all throughout the beginning of the series, but he appears for the first time in chapter 67.
• Cool Shades: Sometimes he wears a pair of sunglasses or 3D glasses.
• Dimension Lord: It's heavily implied and joked with because of his mysterious ability to pull firearms seemingly out of thin air.
• Funny Afro: A big, red haired one. It may or may not be a wig.
• Inadvertent Entrance Cue: Most of his interactions with the other characters start off this way.
• Instant Fan Club: The college has an unofficial fanclub for Von Kepler's filmography, though he is unaware of its existence for the most part.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone knows him as "Von Whiz". Later on into the series though it turns out that his real name is Gustav Von Kepler.
• Put on a Bus: Von Kepler tends to have long hiatuses between his appearances, which is made clear in universe considering his penchant for travelling.
• True Art Is Incomprehensible: Not even Von Kepler completely understands what his magnum opus Le Film Artistique is supposed to be thematically depicting. Many of his fans have deeply thought-out interpretations on the film, but Von Kepler has to admit that it has no deeper meaning.
• Walking the Earth: His passion is for travel, and he does a lot of it. The means for how he funds his trips is beyond anyone else. The cities he's visited include: Sofia, Lisbon, Darjeeling, Budapest, and Fukui.
• Wingding Eyes: He gets spiral eyes at several points in the story.

Rupert Landlord

The elderly owner of the flophouse.

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• Cool Old Guy: He's quite affable and easygoing, wise to the ways of the world (even despite his childish longing for his youth), wears a mohawk and an eyepatch on occasion, and is an intelligent fighter.
• Crazy-Prepared: Landlord always makes sure to have numerous backup plans set in place so that he be on an equal playing field on his Battle of Wits with Dolores.
• Delinquent Hair: A pretty strange example. In an effort to relive his youth, he shaves himself completely bald and uses an adhesive to attach a mohawk wig to his head. Subverted because Landlord himself is a down-to-earth pushover.
• Drop-In Landlord: The owner and superintendent of the apartment house where most of the cast reside. He appears every now and then simply to collect rent, though he usually isn't successful.
• Glory Days: He tends to reminiscence wistfully about the great summers back in his young adult years. He constantly tries to rekindle his youth by getting drunk and partying, picking fights with his chimpanzee nemesis, or wearing a mohawk and eyepatch simply for show. It's never made clear to the other characters how much he envies them however, because all they see is a tyrannical landlord.
• Hidden Depths: He appears to be a deeply bitter apartment manager. It turns out that he is like this due to the struggles in his personal life, including the failure of his marriage and middle age. Because of his plights, he is able to empathize enough with his tenants to grant numerous extensions to get their financial affairs in order.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": His real name is Rupert Landlord, and he comes from a long lineage of apartment landlords.
• Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis: Eventually goes Totally Radical and sports a mohawk wig and eyepatch just for the hell of it, causing great amusement to his tenants.
• I Know Karate: While most of his battles with Dolores are them engaging in elaborate mind games, they occasionally break into a physical fight every now and then. The first time this happens, Landlord lets Dolores know that he knows numerous kung fu techniques.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Initially he seems to be a pretty unlikable person, but he's not as bad as he seems. Even early on, he gives his tenants until the end of the week to collect their rent, despite not having any real obligation to do so. It's also clear that he has given them multiple opportunities to correct the situation, and yet they keep coming back with the same problems.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Dolores, as both make it their duty to tidy up around the flophouse and as such try to one-up each other in the process. The two eventually form a truce, uniting over their common goal.
• Tender Tears: He's a highly sensitive person who is prone to tears when he encounters something beautiful or touching, such as a remarkable sunset.

Stofer

A rookie secret agent for the espionage organization Tidji.

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• Ascended Extra: She was originally a background character, but went on to become a more prominent character with a plotline as a secret agent.
• Beneath Notice: Her unremarkable personality and typical looks help her fade into the background, which is what she prefers.
• The Generic Guy: Gender-Inverted and Played for Laughs. She is an ostensibly average person.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite being a rookie, she's a skilled information broker, a competent strategist, and a decent locksmith.
  • Even though she mooches off of the other tenants a lot, she's otherwise pretty considerate.
• Indubitably Uninteresting Individual: Exploited by Stofer. She acknowledges herself to be a very mundane and boring individual. She has plain looks, her favorite food is Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuits, her pastimes consist mainly of reading the newspaper and playing chess, and she has a very monotonous manner of speech. This is what makes Stofer such a decent spy, since nobody even recognizes her most of the time due to how unremarkable she is.
• Knowledge Broker: She is a talented information broker capable of finding almost any document. In addition, although she rarely plays a major role in storylines outside of his own, Stofer always seems to be up-to-date on what each of his housemates' are currently dealing with.
• Master Forger: She was able to forge false evidence to be used as blackmail against the landlord, and before her occupation as a spy she used to create and sell faux ID cards.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: Played for Laughs. Most of the time, as opposed to actually doing any investigating, Stofer paces around pondering to herself. Stofer tries to defend herself when Byron appears by saying that she works better under pressure. Granted, she's not really in the know regarding the mission at hand, but still.

Mel

A sleepy gadgeteer agent for the espionage organization Tidji.

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• Ascended Extra: She was originally a background character, but went on to become a more prominent character with a plotline as a secret agent.
• For Science!: Her entire life philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge, and she gets excitable when the opportunity presents itself to learn something new.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Mel is responsible for the tech and mechanics involved on missions, and as such she creates numerous gadgets that help spy on the landlord. Her favorite invention is a series of experiments she calls "Mr. Thingamajig", which all tend to self-detonate.
• Mad Scientist: Averted. In contrast to one-half of her associates, she is far more level-headed. All she really does is mooch off of the other tenants and work on her gizmos.
• Mooching Master: She tends to steal the other tenant's belongings, sometimes for herself and other times for her next gizmo. Stofer is steadfastly against her mooching, however, both out of consideration for their housemates but also the threat of bringing unwanted attention to themselves.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: Played for Laughs. In her and Stofer's earliest appearances, they were usually sitting in their apartment, twiddling their thumbs, and thinking about how they should pull off their mission.

Byron

An high-ranking master of disguise for the espionage organization Tidji.

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• Been There, Shaped History: It's implied that Byron's service at Tidji had gotten him involved in numerous mayoral elections.
• Constantly Changing Name: He claims his real name is Byron, but as the series goes on he continues to alter his identity for the sake of keeping a low profile.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Byron suffers from chronic sleep deprivation due to his heavy workload, so he is always seen with bags under his eyes. Though it does raise the question on how, despite being a Master of Disguise, do the bags not ruin the effect.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He somehow has access to documents and methods that not even the Tidji archives have.
  • He once dreamed of being an actor. While his ambitions never really went anywhere professionally, he can still put on a decent performance. Later on in the series, Byron joins as an actor in Von Whiz's film production.
• Master Actor: He is very good at portraying a variety of characters depending on the situation at hand. In fact, it's actually a personal passion of his to star in film or musical theater.
• Noodle Incident: Tends to do this, given that he is a secret agent. Speaking cryptically is his thing.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He's not above using his various contacts for favors should the need arise.
• Sleepyhead: If the heavy bags under his eyes don't already give it away, Byron isn't particularly well-rested. It's also implied that he may be narcoleptic.
• Spy Speak: Played for Laughs. Byron usually tries to communicate details of the mission through a bizarre Trust Password or additional analogies, although Stofer genuinely doesn't understand them. All of his efforts to question Byron are ignored.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: He always has a new outfit for each appearance he makes.

Golpe de Tripa luchadors

Lorenzo Yanga

• Beef Bandage: Yanga constantly has a black eye, and as such he occasionally uses frozen vegetable bags as a remedy. He uses a slab of raw steak at least once.
• Beginner's Luck: He gets the hang of lucha libre wrestling rather quickly.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: At the end of the series, Yanga masters a wrestling move vaguely called the "Bazooka Clutch" which, if executed poorly, can result in instant death.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Along with Grimaldo, Yanga appears in the opening sequence of the animated series.
• Face of a Thug: His shoulder-length hair, constant black eye, and number of stitches makes him look like a criminal or a delinquent, but he's actually a very Nice Guy all things considered.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Played for Laughs. He gets injured quite often, preventing him from participating in professional matches. Justified since Yanga apparently practices dangerous forbidden wrestling techniques.
• Gretzky Has the Ball: Most of his early appearances as a background character involved him completely misunderstanding the rules of lucha libre wrestling, usually replacing it with baseball terminology. He makes false observations so casually though that nobody else acknowledges.
  Yanga: "Three strikes and Solavanco's out!"
• Hidden Depths:
  • Lorenzo turns out to be a skilled baseball player as well in addition to his wrestling prowess.
  • Surprisingly, he has been accepted into a prestige university to study meteorology.
• Last-Name Basis: When he's first introduced, the luchadors only refer to him as Yanga. In chapter 173, his first name is revealed to be Lorenzo, and Grimaldo ponders how he's never actually known this before.
• Magic Versus Science: Yanga is a skeptic at best when it comes to the supernatural, which he tries to disprove in the name of science. Unfortunately, his logic contradicts itself. Alongside the equally hypocritical Grimaldo, the two really are Birds of a Feather.
• Satellite Character: To Grimaldo. Many of his appearances feature Grimaldo in the forefront.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Lampshaded. After pulling off a variety of wrestling techniques in his everyday life, Yanga was encouraged to pursue it as a career opportunity.

Coach Hermes

An assistant instructor at the Golpe de Tripa gym.

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• Doting Grandparent: He enjoys spending time with his grandson and buying him expensive gifts, something that his daughter tries to discourage.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He apparently carves handmade stamps and erasers as hobbies.
• Serious Business: He treats lucha libre wrestling with utmost seriousness.

Naiguata

A washed out luchador wrestler known as "El Tanque". Constantly getting injured.

Solavanco

Trainee at the Golpe de Tripa gym. Raised in an adoptive family of beekeepers.

Marques

Trainee at the Golpe de Tripa gym. Has a job as a hairdresser and likes getting drunk.

Kepler Evening Sun employees

Marcel Gormley

Foremost editor, chief of staff, president, and founder.

Aubrey

Columnist, satirical cartoonist, and scholar of gossip theory.

Prue

Assistant editor, door-to-door sales, and reserve power.

Lieberblum

The harshest political critic of the 21st century.

Others

Masters Of The Flying Guillotine

Skim Milk

Sister Clement

Laundromat owner