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Terry Bramford (a.k.a., Sentinel)
Played by Nick The Swing
- All-Loving Hero: He certainly does try, despite his creeping craziness, and is very nice to basically everyone.
- Ax-Crazy: Most words the Destroyer speaks involve either hurting people, offering to hurt people for Terry, or threatening to eat people.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: To the extent that it can make him look mentally ill. He thinks so little of himself he simply offers to fight tons of monsters on his own, not even knowing if his powers were sufficient. He also flew over the entire damn ocean alone to get to Britain, something Dr. Mansart found insane. So, a possible deconstruction of the trope.
- Claustrophobia: Terry is afraid of being enclosed in tight spaces or with large amounts of people. This is one weakness of his that should not be exploited, unless you like the idea of something horribly Lovecraftian coming out and murdering you.
- Closet Geek: He makes a lot of comics references.
- Drugs Are Bad: Terry used to be a druggie. He tries his very best to hide this facet of his past.
- Flying Brick: Terry is super strong, super fast and super tough. He's basically Superman with many, many mental issues.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation
- Ideal Hero: With the Icon of Light powers, a young Terry Bramford was able to become everything he saw as "ideal" in a hero.
- I Should Have Been Better: He is constantly thinking that he could have done something better.
- Jumped at the Call: As soon as Terry learned he was basically a superhero, he jumped at stopping crime, and is usually the first one to fight evil.
- Light 'em Up
- Battle Aura
- Hard Light
- Made of Iron
- Playing with Fire: Inferred to be solar fire. One facet of his "Icon of Light" Powers.
- Shaping Your Attacks: Mostly as giant pillars or spheres of energy.
- Light Is Good: In his Terry personality, he virtually personifies Light Is Good
- Dark Is Evil: But the minute the Destroyer comes out, all the light goes away and things get really creepy.
- Ominous Latin Chanting: Accompanies The Destroyer's speech when it "talks" to David.
- Power Glows: He glows gold when he uses his power, including his eyes. The glow turns red and his eyes look positively horrifying when The Destroyer takes control.
- Skilled, but Naive: Terry has incredible light powers, including solar fire, massive pillars of golden energy, and the powers of Superman. However, the man wielding these powers is a naive romanticist who really loves comics, and has a rosy view of the world.
- Split Personality: The Destroyer, a wicked creature that may or may not be of this earth.
- Superpowered Evil Side: The Destroyer is easily capable of things well beyond Terry's capacities. For one, it also seems capable of mentally attacking David.
- Why Did It Have To Be The Dark or Enclosed Spaces
Marina Beckman
Played by Dragon573
- Bling of War: One of her powers is to manifest Golden Armor made of pure Heroism.
- Cool Sword: Her sword, Clarent.
- Establishing Character Moment: When the "Ooze-form" attacked. Until then she'd been acting completely inconspicuous, but when it appeared, her immediate response was to throw her hat away, shoot a blast of energy at it as her armor appeared, and then charge forward with Clarent.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Her sword, Clarent, is essentially a manifestation of her heroic spirit.
- Ideal Hero: The Icon of Heroism basically declared her to be as close to this as humans had, and then made her even closer to this. It's the source of her powers.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: As the Icon of Heroism, she has this... unfortunately, it also means that other's shortcomings stand out to her even more. Also more or less what her armor is made out of.
- Meaningful Name: Clarent- The knighting sword of King Arthur, later stolen and used by Mordred to deal him a mortal wound. She named it that to remind her that even the strongest opponent (such as a man with a sword that never loses and a scabbard granting immortality) can be defeated, and that, no matter how powerful she gets, she can't let her guard down.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She has one of these. As the Herald of Heroism, she's more likely to see the faults of others, but she can also be kind, like she was to Seren. Terry also brings out the Sugar aspect of her personality, because it's just hard to be mean around him.
- The Chosen One: As with all of the Heralds, she was chosen to fight the Icon of Hate. But being the Herald of Heroism, she's essentially been declared to be the most heroic person in whatever room she walks into, which isolates her from others, because she wonders what they did or what secrets they keep that kept them from being the Herald.
Julia Karus
Played by Guyshane
- Bounty Hunter: Her career before becoming a Herald
- Bad with the Bone: Bone is her element so of course she can wield them well.
Dr. Russell Hardoin-Mansart
Played by Theodore Hastings
- Cool Old Guy: If not a bit eccentric. Emily, at least, seems to agree.
- Cool Sword/Royal Rapier: Durendaal, Dr. Mansart's soul-bonded sword. It helps that bonding to it granted him basic knowledge on swordsmanship.
James "Jast" Asthin
Played by Hasame
James Witt
Played by Obsidian Feathers
Emily Cliberg
Played by Xenon Z
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Her ideas can be, well, out there. The fact that she's based on Cecil doesn't help.
Vesper Noir (real name Melanie "Li" Moreau)
Played by Naomi Hansen
- Abusive Parents: Or, in Vesper's case, a cold aunt and emotionally-manipulative sister.
- Apologizes a Lot: Has a tendency to do something along these lines when she believes that she's screwed up in an especially bad manner.
- But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Vietnamese (with dual citizenship in the US and Canada), but has French names, both real and alias.
- Casting a Shadow
- Cool Mask: To keep herself from being discovered by Aunt Chi, or worse, Mai, she wears a scarf around her head and a black bandana over her mouth and nose.
- Creepy Blue Eyes/Icy Blue Eyes: Had her extremely dark eyes changed to blue when she became a Herald. This addition has the tendency to have a bit of an unsettling effect on others…
- Cultured Badass: While not a literary genius like Dr. Mansart or Emily Cliberg and is otherwise not made obvious, Vesper is a violinist with training from a prestigious college in upstate New York, and is generally a young woman of intelligence. All while also being a Herald for one of the most feared elements in human history.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Vesper has a hard time believing that she does anything right or accomplishes anything worth noting.
- Nerves of Steel: While she easily reacts to situations internally and thinks herself a weak coward because of it, Vesper has a pretty good handle of at least appearing outwardly calm or indifferent in most situations.
- Parental Abandonment: Her mother died while giving birth to her, and her father, in his grief, has mostly been absent for the majority of her life.
- The Perfectionist: A trait that was mostly bred into her, Vesper can get obsessive with trying to do things perfectly in order to gain a sense of purpose.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's actually a highly emotional person, but has been forced to, for much of her life, trained herself to keep a Spock-like attitude in daily life.
- Training from Hell: Was subjected to this for much of her childhood.
- Tranquil Fury: Vesper has a tendency look even more stoically serious when someone angers her.It was tempting to try waving Jast's odor away, but Vesper refrained. However, her eyes hardened at his lack of manners to the white couch—and her music.
David Garcia
Played by Brahian1
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