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Allison and Companions | The Demiurges (The Seven and their Servants) | Angels, Devils and Other Denizens of The Multiverse | Historical Characters and Earth

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The protagonist of the story and her closest companions.

Allison and Companions

Allison Ruth

Allison Wanda ("Ally") Ruth

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS, The Heir, Wielder of Names, Seeker of Thrones, King of Swords, Breaker of Infinities, Wheel Smashing Lord

Allison in Kill Six Billion Demons and Wielder of Names
^{Click here for her appearance in Seeker of Thrones
Click here for her appearance in King of Swords
Click here for her appearance in Breaker of Infinities
Click here for her appearance in Wheel Smashing Lord}

"No. I choose King."

The main character, a sorority sister with self-esteem issues who is abruptly transported to Throne when a strange object is shoved into her forehead. She is largely ignorant of the world around her and lacks the skills to survive on her own, but comes to face the fact that the universe is far bigger and stranger than she had ever imagined.

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• Achilles in His Tent: After going through a Trauma Conga Line in "Breaker of Infinities", she becomes content to rest in Jadis' citadel while Jagganoth burns the multiverse, at least until Zaid breaks her out of her funk.
• Amazonian Beauty: Come King of Swords, Allison has bulked up considerably from training under White Chain, while still keeping her general pretty looks and tendency to wear makeup. After the ill-fated battle against Jagganoth, her healing process left her in an emaciated state.
• Ambiguously Gay: While in the MSPA forum version, she was very much in comedic denial, in the comic, her orientation is presented more seriously and unclear, likely because Allison herself is unsure. While the comic opens with her boyfriend Zaid pressuring her to have sex, and she's nominally trying to rescue him, everyone around her (including Allison herself) has openly admitted Zaid is a creep and Allison seems to have been attracted to him mostly so she could lose her virginity ^note  Within gay communities, there is a concept called "compulsory heterosexuality", where questioning people, especially lesbians, date people they're not actually interested in as a way to fit in. . After a lot of romantic tension, she ends up kissing Cio during Seeker of Thrones, but was confused and disoriented before passing out. When she woke up, she tried to dismiss it briefly before acknowledging that part of the reason she was acting that way was because she barely knows Cio, and asking her on a date. After the Time Skip she has completely shed the Ambiguous part.
• The Anti-Nihilist: Evolves into one by the end of Breaker of Infinities, by understanding that the universe is pre-determined and nothing she does will ultimately matter, but deciding that no-one gets to tell her how to feel about it and that she will carry on through sheer bloody-mindedness and on the idea that she may, one day, feel happy.
• An Arm and a Leg: During Breaker of Infinities. Her right arm is severed by Jagganoth, and Jadis' techno-priests amputate her right leg from the knee down, presumably due to infection or damage. While both are replaced with prosthetics from Jadis, she removes them later on in the book. She spends most of her time without them, but can still project what amount to forcefield limbs when she really needs them. Ultimately, she's given a replacement set by Maya to facilitate her learning the Maybe Sword.
• Armor-Piercing Response: When Maya posits her catch-phrase "What do you think about death" to Allison when training her, Allison responds immediately and almost innocently that "Actually, I don’t think about it at all", even after all the horrors and suffering that she had been exposed to since the start of the story. The sheer, blunt profoundness — and, perhaps, absurdity — of this answer shocks Maya so thoroughly she is actually left speechless for several panels before composing herself.
• Artificial Limbs: Her recovery after the midway point of Breaker of Infinities is revealed to be the result of Jadis and her priests replacing Allison's missing limbs with prosthetics. After speaking with Zaid and rediscovering her resolve when he paraphrases the very same words she once said to him, she removes the eye and removes the fake skin from the arm, then later gets rid of those prosthetics entirely only to eventually replace them with a new set from Maya.
• Battle Aura: In King of Swords, as she's trained more, she displays it sometimes, with wisps of flame trailing up her body, her scars gleaming like stars, and her hair trailing off into lightning.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted in two major ways.
  • The horrific wounds Allison suffers from Mottom seem to fully heal in book 3 after she unlocks the power of her Key, only for the various scars from them to completely return after she forces a Split-Personality Merge with her vain, sociopathic Enemy Within that was actually causing it. The scars, along with 3 new large ones from taking a devil's claw to the face, all remain permanently after that; Allison's quote below comes from King of Swords, after she's had some time to adjust to them.
  Allison: I cried a lot, felt hideous. I still do sometimes. It hurts. Too fat, too thin, too muscular, too ugly. Yet... despite everything... maybe for the first time... it feels like me.
  • In Breaker of Infinities, Allison loses an arm, a leg, and an eye when Jagganoth attacks her. Jadis' priests replaced the scarred tissue and missing limbs and organs after the battle, returning her to a visage closer to when she started her journey—and Allison notes later on, after forcibly removing the covering on her artificial arm, that contrary to whatever Jadis intended, covering up all that she's been through is pointless. She then takes it farther and removes her prosthetics outright, and begins to burn away the tissue replacements as well.
  Allison: This isn't healing. It's hiding. I can't move on because there is no moving on. That loss is a part of me. I don't need your help ignoring it.
• Bland-Name Product: During her Battle in the Center of the Mind, her barista skills are represented by a multi-armed version of herself wearing an apron and visor clearly based on the Starbucks uniform, identical in cut and just a few shades of green off.
• Boss Subtitles: Gains them at the climax of Breaker of Infinities.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Toyed with. In a setting where almost everyone has a least a moderate form of Charles Atlas Superpower, Allison stands out as one of the few granted extreme power without training. However, without any sort of training, her grasp of that power is nearly none. It isn't until King of Swords and having actual training that she's able to access more of that power, and even then she can only access it for a few seconds at a time.
• Bullying a Dragon: As powerful as Allison and Cio's fusion is during the tournament, she is no match for White Chain, who ultimately overpowers her and reduces to a shivering, sobbing wreck.
• Calling Your Attacks: Following White Chain's example, after her training.
  Allison: Empty palm crushes the deceitful!
• Chekhov's Skill: She's a sorority sister with an inferiority complex, and thus has gotten used to drinking a lot. Not exactly the most handy background in a world where everyone seems to be a trained killer, but it does allow her to best Vladok, a black-masked devil, in a drinking competition.
• The Chosen One:
  • Zoss the Conquering King, former God-Emperor of reality, named her his Successor, setting in motion a prophecy that states she will rise to become creation's new ruler.
  • She may actually be a subversion of this; Jagganoth states that in every cycle, it's a boy who's chosen, and that Allison getting the key makes the cycle more "variable" than normal.
• The Chosen Zero: Early on, she does not impress many people, especially not Cio: Allison has no knowledge of The Multiverse, no combat training, and didn't even particularly choose to begin her adventure. Most of the Big Bad Duumvirate can't even comprehend her being The Chosen One, thinking instead she's at best a gofer for the actual prophesied hero. Fortunately, she starts to grow out of it, albeit only with a great deal of suffering to herself and those around her.
• Combo Platter Powers: As of yet, her mastery of the Key of Kings's core ability is limited, so whenever she does manage to use some aspect of its power they don't seem to connect to each other, giving them this impression.
  • One of the more basic abilities she has is a Healing Factor, though it's originally manifested as modestly quick healing than some of the more exaggerated versions of the trope; while it's amplified after her Deal with the Devil with Incubus this turns out to be temporary and she regains the wounds she had previously. After the year long time skip she's able to heal would-be fatal wounds in seconds, however, with little to no scarring.
  • After the timeskip following Seeker of Thrones she's gained nigh-invulnerability, which helps with her still rocky fighting skills. A blow that slits her throat only causes pain without leaving a lasting wound, and a dagger meant to stab her eye shatters on contact, unable to even make a scratch. Put her head through a stone wall and she'll just get angry at you.
  • One of the ways the power of the Key of Kings has manifested even with her lack of training is raw, explosive Pure Energy. She gained more mastery of it after training with Incubus and White Chain in the White Arts, being able to form it into a lightning spear on command or channel it through her body through the Empty Palms.
  • After training with Cio, she's starting to learn The Power of Creation through the Red Arts, though she's not very good at it yet and she has to transmute something else first as a starter material.
• Coming of Age Story: Her character arc centers on this, though she's struggled to figure out what archetype she fits.
  • In Kill Six Billion Demons (the first part), she's a Fish out of Water and Damsel in Distress who's incredibly confused about what's going on and just wants to go home. At the end though, a combination of a Dare to Be Badass from Zoss and Cio has her actively return to Throne, ostensibly to rescue Zaid.
  • In Wielder of Names, she tries Talking the Monster to Death, with her only real plan being "Talk to Mottom, the insane Demiurge, and hope something works out". When she actually gets there though, she's left stuttering and speechless, until she interrupts Mottom's extended Hannibal Lecture and makes her escape. This doesn't solve any problems either, as Mottom returns on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge in the next book.
  • In Seeker of Thrones she explicitly tries to reinvent herself with an Important Haircut, and makes a deal with Incubus to unlock her potential in the vein of a dark Anti-Hero, but this dramatic shift leads to her personality shattering, and a greedy Sociopathic Hero aspect of herself taking control while Allison is left in a Battle in the Center of the Mind, forcing her to reconcile the different aspects of herself. Once again, after the heist degrades into chaos as Mottom attacks Mammon to get to Allison and regaining control of her mind, Allison has to be carried out of Yre by Cio, with the first battle between Demiurges in eons raging in Throne.
  • In King of Swords, after the chaos of her previous attempts to confront the Seven, there is a one year Time Skip while Allison was trained in the 49 Empty Palms by 82 White Chain, a fighting style said to be impossible for humans. She also enters a multiversal Tournament Arc for the express purpose of attempting to rescue the Damsel in Distress Zaid. After she's given a wake-up call by an enraged White Chain and witnesses a brutal demonstration by Solomon David that the Seven are still far beyond her in power, she begins to question if the power that turned the rest of the Demiurges into such Broken Aces is something she should even want.
  • In Breaker of Infinities, the events of King of Swords lead into a dramatic, all-out battle on Rayuba against Jagganoth. Mottom's petulance results in Gog-Agog abandoning the fight right as Jagganoth is nearly defeated, which leads to Cio's mask being shattered and Allison losing an eye, an arm, and a leg. Allison's rescued by Jadis, who restores Allison's missing eye and limbs, but Jadis' fatalist lecturing, combined with the trauma Allison's endured, completely crushes Allison's will to do anything until Zaid comes to her and reminds her of her own beliefs. This drives Allison to undo Jadis' healing, down to removing every replacement and fix that Jadis implemented for her, and face the future with her own will, scars and all, to the point that she actively goes to learn how to fight from Maya.
• Cool Sword: Averted after seeming to set up for it; she picked up a sword from a fallen combatant in Praman Nand's brothel to have a weapon in the chaos, but never learned how to use it and eventually it was left behind in the chaos of the heist of Yre rather unceremoniously.
• Covered with Scars: A more mild instance than most, but getting there. As of King of Swords, she has three parallel scars across her face and numerous puncture scars across her body. Jadis' priests heal her after the battle against Jagganoth, removing them for a while, but near the end of Breaker of Infinities, Allison's refusal to continue hiding from the pain of her losses burns away the replacement tissue used to cover them up.
• Crazy Enough to Work: Several of her most impressive moments involve her doing something completely unexpected and succeeding against all odds, sometimes due to not knowing the rules and customs due to being a Fish out of Water, and much more often due to sheer desperation.
• Dare to Be Badass: Not initially, but after being dragged around Throne with no clue as to what was going on, weeping almost continuously since she arrived, Cio decides to give Allison the kick in the ass she needed.
• Deal with the Devil: She accepts Incubus's offer of confidence and the knowledge to use her power in return for becoming his emissary, by letting Incubus put a piece of his mind into hers. He seeks to use her as a tool to end the Enemy Mine among the other demiurges against Jagganoth and foment war. Though Allison also screams in his face she'll come and kill him too if he actually tries to exploit his end of the bargain any more than that. She still ends up regretting the deal when one of the side effects allows a Split Personality to force her into the more unsavory parts of her plan to fight the other Demiurges.
• Defiant to the End:
  • After her fusion with Cio is ended by White Chain, the latter demands of her to submit. Allison, overpowered and defeated, bluntly tells her "fuck you". Ultimately subverted, as White Chain's fury is enough to make Allison concede the fight.
  • Fully averted after Jagganoth destroys Rayuba and separates the Fool, leaving Allison grievously wounded and killing Cio. At that point, Allison just wants it to stop hurting.
• Despair Event Horizon: Crosses it in Breaker of Infinities. After Jadis forces her to confront the fact that there is nothing after death and all events are foretold and innevitable and therefore any choice is meaningless, she falls into fatalistic depression. When Zaid comes to "rescue" her, she tells him directly that she would rather have Jagganoth end all of existence than continue to futilely throw herself against the Wheel and be crushed under it again and again until there is nothing left of her.
• Drunk with Power:
  • After making a Deal with the Devil with Incubus for power, she becomes full of herself and disrespectful of her comrades. The text below the page directly references the trope.
  Incubus: You and I are not common. Our anger is a hammer that can shatter gods.
  • After a Fusion Dance with Cio, she goes wild with her new power, not only wasting her fellow competitors, but also endangering the spectators. This exhausts the last of White Chain's patience, resulting in White Chain trying to beat up Allison and force her out of the tournament. With White Chain coming out victorious after sustaining severe damage to her body.
• The Everyman: Thrust into the strange world of the comic without so much as a warning. She's still trying to get a grip on things.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: She's introduced as one, but it's later revealed she dyed her naturally brown hair in an effort to change her image. She later goes without it, shortly followed by an Important Haircut. Her later experiences shift her to having Mystical White Hair.
• Eye Scream: Jagganoth's finishing move takes out her right eye, among other things. Once she meets Zaid again during Breaker of Infinities, following her body's reconstruction by Jadis, she inflicts this on herself when she removes the artificial replacement Jadis put in for her.
• Fusion Dance: In "King of Swords", she fuses with Cio, to become Allicio during Solomon David's tournament. It happens again in "Breaker of Infinities when she and Cio fuse with White Chain to become Aspected Chaos to even the odds against Jagganoth.
• Handicapped Badass: Over the course of the comic, Allison slowly grows stronger and more crippled. All indications suggest that her injuries will continue to get worse and never heal, but will, in a way, make her stronger than ever before, ultimately to become one of the strongest beings in the Multiverse by the time her body is half-dead.
• Heel Realization: White Chain loses patience with her impulsiveness, calls her a demiurge, and attacks. When Allison ruins White Chain's armor and thinks they are gone, she regrets it and says they were right.
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers one in Breaker of Infinities, after Jagganoth overpowers the Seven, kills several of them and cuts out Allison's arm and eye. The ensuing trauma leaves her unable to do much except wanting it to be over.
• Holy Halo: Like all wielder of the king's keys, she manifests a small one when she does something particularily king-like. As of King of Swords, she has some white flames around her head permanently, and the cover of Breaker of Infinities shows her with a full halo.
• Homage: Explicitly and repeatedly has mentioned how much of a fan of Sailor Moon she is, and her character arc is a deeper and more mature take on Usagi's own character arc.
• Hysterical Woman: Justified; Allison starts out as a total newbie in the Crapsack World that is Throne, completely terrified out of her wits and prone to Inelegant Blubbering as she becomes a walking target for everyone desiring Zoss's Key of Kings that was planted in her forehead. Her terror and inexperience also causes her to blunder a lot, often with disastrous consequences.
• Idiot Ball: Played for laughs and drama. The author, Abbadon, mentioned that Kill Six Billion Demons is about a girl who always makes the worst possible decisions. From going back to a Wretched Hive like Throne, to making wagers with Always Chaotic Evil Ebon Devils, to walking into the stronghold of one of her archenemies, to letting another put part of his soul in her, Allison always chooses poorly. But in the process, she also inadvertently continues along the path to becoming the biggest badass in the multiverse. She even calls herself an idiot after making a deal with Incubus.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Played with. In her first visit to Throne, she wants nothing more to get home. Once she does, she takes some time to compose herself and returns the next day. She claims that she still just wants to rescue Zaid and get the Key out of her forehead, but both Cio and Zoss scoff at this.
  Cio: You came back. That means you chose this. Ain't it about time to stop pretending?
• Important Haircut: Part of her deliberate reinvention at the beginning of Seeker of Thrones was letting her hair revert to its natural brown and cutting it to a bob length. Following a time skip in King of Swords its once again long, but has been rendered white after the events of the Heist of Yre.
• Kirk Summation: Very explicitly refuses and denies Nadia / Mottom's backstory as justifying her acts, and makes clear that while she has sympathy for her, she still thinks Mottom is a monster.
• Kubrick Stare: On the cover to Book 6, "Wheel Smashing Lord".
• Living MacGuffin: She has the Key of Kings, the master key to the multiverse, embedded in her forehead; while few recognize that it is the Key of Kings, even a lesser key is enough to claim dominion over an entire universe. Quite a few people are waiting for the chance to rip it out of her and claim its power for themselves.
• Locked into Strangeness: As a result of her Demonic Possession by a split personality in volume Seeker of Thrones, her mousy brown hair has turned permanently white.
• Meaningful Name: Besides the Alice Allusion, her name is potentially meaningful in-universe as sounding similar to YISUN, the creator of reality. "-UN" is a common suffix to gods as well (it represents the white gods who take from their father UN), which appears to be why Zoss addresses her as "Alice".
• Meaningful Rename: The Conquering King Zoss addresses her as "Kill Six Billion Demons" and "The Sovereign", and Jadis' prophecy implies the same.
• Mundane Made Awesome: In a vision of her internal selves her coffee making skills are actually represented with the iconography of a minor deity. Though, as she notes, it's not really relevant to the challenges at hand.
• Mutilation Conga: Allison's Character Development more or less takes the form of building up permanent injuries each arc. Injuries that will continue to build up until she is a burned out husk.
• No-Sell: Maya's final test: Survive the Maybe Sword. Allison passes by willing her bisected halves to mend themselves back together.
• Play-Along Prisoner: Played for Drama. After three years, Zaid finally comes to rescue her from Jadis. By then, Jadis' point of view has gotten to Allison, and she makes it clear that she is perfectly capable of leaving if she wanted to. She simply doesn't, since she sees no point in throwing herself against an endless cosmic war again and again.
• Powers via Possession:
  • The nature of her Deal with the Devil: she gains the confidence and knowledge to unlock the power of her Key of Kings by putting a tiny portion of one of the demiurges, Incubus, into herself. After reuniting with the Split Personalities it creates, she loses the power, with the wounds from the previous arc she fixed with a Healing Factor reappearing all over her body and her no longer using any of the skills she'd demonstrated to defend herself when attacked by a Devil.
  • Cio offers to lend her help by letting Allison wear her mask. She later adds White Chain to the mixture, creating the amalgam Aspected Chaos.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When she is influenced by and borrows power from the decidedly malevolent Incubus, her eyes turn red.
• Scars Are Forever: Both her scars from getting her limbs perforated by Mottom's vines and the later scar across her face from Cio seem to be permanent, not quite reaching the point of Covered with Scars but getting closer. They're still there after the Time Skip. Both are clearly visible on the cover of Breaker of Infinities; after her defeat in the Discordance Jadis' priesthood removed them, but her resurgent will after Jadis attempted to keep her safe restores the facial scars.
• Screw Destiny: This is the main resolution she reaches in Breaker of Infinities, after Zaid reminds her what she's fighting for and why, taking a firm and final rebuke against Jadis' nihilism and resignation toward destiny. When Jadis calls her an "irredeemable creature" for choosing to believe that she might someday be happy despite not being happy now, Allison replies as such, and in doing so, becomes the Wheel Smashing Lord:
  Allison: You're right, of course. But who cares? It'll carry me out of here, one foot in front of the other, and that's all I need. Not you, not God, not fate, not predestiny—nobody gets to take that away from me.
• The Sociopath: Temporarily falls into this, having no qualms about sacrificing others to forward her goals, when she suffers a Split-Personality Takeover thanks to accepting Incubus's "help". Alison even outright calls this part of herself such.
• Split Personality: One of the side effects of her Deal with the Devil causes a Sociopathic fragment of her personality to take over from and get into conflict with the more moral portions. In Allison's mindscape, this fragment takes the form of a white-haired woman dressed in purple with a coldly cruel facial expression. Allison accepts the sociopathic fragment as a part of her and "defeats" it by making out with it.
• Stuffed into the Fridge: According to Gog-Agog, this is Allison's (or whoever is in her place) usual role in the cycle, killed off in the third act to motivate whoever is Zoss' male heir. The fact that Allison is not this is what makes Gog-Agog take notice.
• Super-Strength: Tapping into her Magus Key gives Allison superhuman levels of strength and Super-Toughness without the appropriate training. In Wielder of Names she survives an exanguination courtesy of Mottom that would have killed a normal person and heals right back to full strength once she accepts Incubus' deal, and in King of Swords (after a Time Skip) she gets stabbed in the eye and the knife breaks on impact. In Breaker of Infinities she gets her arm severed at the elbow and falls from orbit, surviving both events even when near mentally broken.
• Took a Level in Badass: Between books 3 and 4. She comes back heavily muscled, well-known in certain areas of Throne as an adventurer who will help anyone in need.
• Training from Hell: Presumed to occur during the Time Skip between Books 3 and 4, when she is trained by White Chain in Supernatural Martial Arts and Cio in Entropy and Chaos Magic. A second one is implied at the end of Breaker of Infinities, as she decides to learn from Maya as preparation to fight against Jagganoth.
• Transformation of the Possessed: When sufficiently influenced by Incubus, not only do her eyes turn red, but even her lips and eventually her hair change color to match her possessor.
• Trauma Conga Line: Hoo boy, Breaker of Infinites is this in spades for Allison so far. To wit: Thanks to a last-minute betrayal by the Butt-Monkey Demiurge, Gog-Agog, Jagganoth succeeds in defeating the other Demiurges in battle over Rayuba. He seemingly kills White Chain in the process, and cuts off Allison's arm. Allison suffers a Heroic BSoD. Then Allison is confronted by Incubus, and Cio's attempt to stop him only results in getting her diced into bits, causing Allison to plunge even deeper into her BSoD. Then Incubus tries to kill Allison, who cannot even react, only for her to be saved at the last minute by Maya. Then Allison is taken away by Jadis and awakens some time later to learn that three years have passed, Cio is definitely dead (just to twist the knife), and Jagganoth is on his way to conquer and destroy Throne. It's pretty sadistic. The poor girl just can't seem to catch a break.
• Two First Names: Her full name is Allison Wanda Ruth, though no-one outside her Earth knows or uses it.
• Unique Protagonist Asset: The entire story is built around Allison being given a Key of Kings in the beginning of the comic, marking her as a potential Demiurge and one of only eight people in the Multiverse who has one (the other seven being the Big Bad Ensemble). It later turns out Allison's Key is unique, being the Master Key once wielded by Zoss himself and as strong as all the other 777,777 Keys of Kings combined, and automatically marks her as someone important to the Prophecy of the Successor. Without the Key, Allison would never have been involved in the affairs of the Multiverse at all, as her universe had yet to be opened.
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • Allison's Master Key is the true voice of God and thus as powerful as all the Seven's Keys combined, but Allison has only had (by the fourth book) a year at most to figure out to how actually use it. Meanwhile, the Demiurgues have had millennia to properly hone and master their Magus Keys, and are consequently capable of far more than her despite technically only having a seventh of her power.
  • Allison's martial arts ability follows much the same pattern. Her Key has given her a shortcut to power, meaning she can wade into situations that would kill a non-Demiurge outright. This only gets amplified during her first Fusion Dance with Cio, where she simply jumps around and uses her superior strength and speed to power through everyone until the Strong and Skilled White Chain intercedes. After meeting her again following the Time Skip, Eris-Lo Kai describes her as having grown stronger, but no smarter.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Multiple different times over as Throne is fundamentally a very different place from anything Allison is used to.
• Your Days Are Numbered: To prove her omniscience, Allison asks Jadis the exact time of her death. From the point that Jadis answers, it's to be in 35 years, 10 days and 693 seconds.

82 White Chain

82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil, Bearer of the Word DIAMOND.

^{Click here to see White Chain's form while in the Void.
Click here to see White Chain in Breaker of Infinities(MAJOR SPOILERS!).}

"Forgive me for this violence I am about to inflict."

A Liquid Angel who serves as a peacekeeper in the city of Throne.

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• Amazonian Beauty: The physical body she forges for herself during her battle with Solomon David is classically beautiful, but also has the impressive muscle tone you'd expect of one of the multiverse's most experienced martial artists.
• Ambiguous Gender: Complicated by the fact that angels have No Biological Sex and a strong taboo against claiming a gender identity. White Chain claims to be "a little feminine" but they deny being female, which is the subject of some speculation in Throne. Eventually resolved when she gets through her own hang-ups and accepts that she's a trans woman, and manifests a new, very feminine body through sheer force of will.
• Angelic Beauty: White Chain's true Energy Being form is an androgynously beautiful Winged Humanoid, which is particularly remarkable since most angels look mostly-or-completely inhuman outside their shells. Her new physical body is a stunning Amazonian Beauty, but is only 'angelic' enough to truly qualify for this trope when she's manifesting her Game Face by channeling the Cold White Flame.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: White Chain is always pretty confident in their abilities, but when they become Allison's martial arts teacher, it comes out in full force.
  Alt Text: There's a reason most human martial artists don't train with angels, namely that it's well known that you will spend every second feeling like a complete buffoon.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: On this page White Chain is seen full frontal naked, but with no nipples or genitalia, since angels have No Biological Sex — and the author preferring to avoid NSFW content. Averted when White Chain becomes (something resembling) human.
• Berserk Button:
  • Being referred to as female tends to stress White Chain's usual calm. This has yet to result in more than sharp words and curt correction, but this is still a stark contrast to the angel's usual professional, if occasionally arrogant, demeanor.
  • White Chain hates Petal Knights (as they've entirely abandoned the Old Law for selfish reasons, even moreso than the Thorns) and both times they've encountered one it's led to angry outbursts and fisticuffs. She still tries to intercede when 6 Juggernaut Star takes the wheel to Delicious, though her exact motivation for why isn't revealed.
• Beyond the Impossible: They pull off one after another in her duel against Solomon David. First, they survives to round two, which is impossible in itself. When Solomon stops time, they get up and charges at him. Finally, when Solomon's strike shatters her armor, she keeps the momentum going, manifesting a physical form through sheer force of will.
• The Big Guy: Initially, White Chain is the most powerful member of Allison's group and less personally involved than Cio, being mostly there to keep Allison safe on Michael 2's orders. As of King of Swords that role is taken by Princess and White Chain becomes The Lancer, being the one of Allison's friends who has the greatest personal conflict with her (Cio having become more The Smart Guy).
• Blow You Away: It isn't immediately obvious, but their Empty Palms style uses Supernatural Martial Arts to blast and strike at range with bursts of air.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Subverted — angels are believed to be incapable of lying, which lets White Chain get away with a fairly transparent falsehood. But lying does damage their armour, so they avoid it whenever possible.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: White Chain's most powerful martial art is called Krayu Mat ("RESPLENDENT SOUL FIST" in angelic), a martial art which allows one to fight with their very soul or even their body and soul in unison and is suitable for fighting unbound demons and even lesser gods. But due to the sheer strain it takes upon both the physical body and the spirit, White Chain rarely uses it.
• Defector from Decadence: Leading, ironically, to a long running case of Heel–Face Revolving Door. Infuriated by how the other regular angels just sit there and yap all day, disdaining the pressing problems in Throne, White Chain makes a deal with Juggernaut Star. Juggernaut Star, unfortunately, is hardly benevolent.
• Determinator: White Chain has had their form destroyed and reincarnated 81 times. Despite that, they are one of the few angels that still persistently follows their teachings, and other Concordant Knights recognize White Chain as the one who has died most in defending Throne^note Word of God, and a quote from an angel with a higher number in The Rant of one comic, says that White Chain is not the angel that has died the most of all angels, but all angels with a higher number are angels who hunt devils in the void. All of White Chain's deaths have been in the capacity of a peacekeeper defending Throne. Throughout the comic White Chain repeatedly stands up to — or in some cases outright defies — characters who are far stronger or an angelic superior, and is able to copy a Ki Rata technique (despite this being impossible for angels, as they do not breathe) and transcend her own nature through sheer force of will in King of Swords.
• Exact Words: White Chain is a peacekeeper, not a lawman. Most people do not appreciate the distinction.
• Extra Eyes: The flames White Chain emits have eyes in them, and White Chain's true form without the stone armor encasing their body has eyes coming out of their hair and on the "palms" of their wings. And all of them can cry.
• First Of Its Kind: After the events of King of Swords, White Chain becomes a new type of angel entirely outside the accepted cosmology of the multiverse, able to exist in the physical world without Ash Armour as well as assume the shape of a human woman.
• Game Face: They're trained in Krayu Mat, a primeval angelic martial art designed for fighting monsters, gods, and elder devils. It involves (partially or totally) manifesting their real Energy Being body outside the ceramic shell and fighting with both bodies at once.
  • After attaining her new body, she shows herself to still be capable of manifesting her angelic powers, partially transforming her flesh and hair into the same blue-white fire that composed her form in the Void.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: White Chain is righteous and well meaning, but their relationship with Allison has always been complicated. They are usually broadly on the same side, but not always.
  • At first they are doing their best to protect Allison as an innocent caught up in larger affairs, but when everything goes south, White Chain ultimately decides to hand Allison over to the other angels, which would lead to her death.
  • Then White Chain is recruited by Metatron and the Thorn Knights, an antagonistic faction... but still wants to protect Allison and keep her alive if possible, in sharp contrast to the rest and particularly Juggernaut Star.
  • Ultimately White Chain abandons them for their brutality and moves permanently to Allison's side... but still believes that she is not the subject of the prophesy, and that she will ultimately hand over her key to Zaid. White Chain still acts as a dedicated mentor and companion.
  • It is only during the culmination of the Tournament Arc that White Chain and Allison ultimately align their goals completely. And not without more than a few blows exchanged first.
• Heroic Willpower: White Chain maintains adherence to the core values and traditions of their order, despite it being broken beyond repair and in a state of near irrelevancy, because they believe it is a righteous path. This has manifested in several forms over the course of the comic:
  • Being subjected to Metatron's Brown Note, which they explicitly recognized as the voice of truth, is unable to make them abandon their path, nor is the promise of power in the form of a fancy, if a bit Thornier, new body.
  • Despite being completely outmatched by Solomon David, they refuse to give up fighting against him, pushing themselves until their armor completely falls apart in the process.
  • Eventually becomes the first ever gendered (and fully humanoid) being of the Cold White Flame through sheer force of will.
• Hidden Eyes: As can be seen in the picture, White Chain's shell has no visible eyes; just a pair of black holes where the eyes would bee on a human. The angel's body while in the void has normal eyes, and will occasionally show them in the shell when under particularly high stress. At the end of Seeker of Thrones, White Chain begins expressing her humanity through her shell, showing her eyes all the time.
• Honor Before Reason: Which gets them in trouble more than once, and gets White Chain banished from the angels as well.
• Last of His Kind: One of the few angels who has not turned to the "Path of Thorns," which is a much more selfish path than the pious peacekeepers Angels were supposed to be. Many of the shells of adherents to White Chain's path are on display, but broken so heavily that the angels whom they belonged to could not inhabit them again.
• Martial Pacifist: Hates committing violence, but will do so with exceptional skill and force if it's necessary to keep the peace.
• Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: Spoken aloud once in another language, their full name translates to "82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil", but everyone just calls them "White Chain". An in-story excerpt describes the names of Angels as literally being part of the old laws chiseled into them at creation, and that many angels view their own name as a moral guide.
• Naked on Revival: After they transform into (something resembling but cosmologically opposite to) a human woman, she's left completely naked.
• No Social Skills: As only a Time Abyss avatar of law can have. They interrupt a romantic moment between Allison and Cio to propose that they should get to know each other better, then begins to recount their own life story — which is older than The Multiverse. Cio cuts them off.
• Offhand Backhand: During a tournament, the comic contrasts Allison and White Chain's skill levels by depicting Allison just barely defeating her opponents while White Chain does so casually in this manner.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When they attack Allison and Cio without saying their usual prayer, it is immediate cause for alarm.
• Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: A rare example that's Played for Drama: Angels are physically sexless but refer to each other as male despite out of tradition, because White Chain's repressed desire to identify as feminine breaks that tradition, they're often persecuted for it. This leads to her banishment to the Void when their mentor takes this as a sign that they've become too human, and to her manifesting a wholly female body out of raw Heroic Willpower once she accepts who she is.
• Physical God: In the aftermath of the Rayuba battle, Solomon David gifted her his Key and Word.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After getting sick of Allison's impulsive and careless tendency to get Drunk with Power, which would have killed off Innocent Bystanders were it not for the Arena's defenses, White Chain gives her one and tells her she is not so different from the Demiurges.
• Rebel Leader: In the Alternate Universe game "Battle for Rayuba", 82 White Chain in her human form leads the Bastion, the faction attempting to stop the Pyre from unleashing doom upon the world. She fails.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: At the end of her duel with Allison fused with Cio, White Chain is in her full angel form, turned red, her numerous eyes gaining a red coloration, and seething with barely contained fury, scaring the shit out of Allison who genuinely thought for a second that she was going to kill her.
• Refusal of the Call: Attempts this after she finally finds Solomon David after the Discordance, demanding that he take back his Key from her even as it becomes increasingly clear that he cannot and will not do it.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After they break away from the other angels, they start adding personal touches to their Concordant Knight armour, including modifying the helmet to reveal their true face, wearing earrings, and wearing a robe Nyave picked out for them despite having snapped at her for doing so. After inheriting Solomon's Key, her dress sense incorporates a lot more purple.
• Trans Tribulations: A major component of their Character Arc, done in a very unconventional way. Angels have No Biological Sex and call each other "brother" by default, whereas White Chain identifies as "somewhat feminine" early on, and has embraced more openly feminine expressions over time. The other angels refuse to acknowledge this, referring to them as "defective" [[{{Hypocrite despite having no answer when White Chain asks why "brother" is any less inappropriate]]. On the other hand, Allison and those around her continue to push White Chain to recognize their femininity, to the point where Allison calls her a coward for being too afraid to accept it. In her climactic final duel with Solomon, she transitions from her genderless-but-masculine angelic body into a much more humanoid female body, and while it is much more to her liking, she later admits to Solomon in Wheel-Smashing Lord that her body is still foreign to her. Whilst she means this in the context of her martial arts skills, the subtext that she is still learning about herself and who she is now (and hasn't quite figured everything out yet in that regard) is very clear.
• Unskilled, but Strong: In direct contrast to how well she understands all of the other fighting styles she knows, especially Krayu Mat, this trope specifically applies to her understanding of Ki Rata. Prior to gaining her human form, she manages to use it exactly once in her angelic shell on pure instinct (an impossible feat on paper, as angels do not breathe and that is the central pillar of using Ki Rata), but the subsequent chaos that follows the Ring of Power (combined with Solomon basically jamming his Key into her head in the aftermath and wandering off without instructing her) means that her understanding of the art is rudimentary. However, her instincts with the style are just enough to kill a giant aquatic lake monster with a single unnamed strike.
• Wild Card: Starts out as such, but changes over time. White Chain's attachment to Allison is purely transactional, and they bounce between reluctantly supporting her so she doesn't get herself killed, and berating her for being immature and unserious about the power she holds. They have repeatedly that the main reason they are helping Allison is so that she can give the Key of Kings to Zaid. Allison's reaction is basically "I don't have time to argue with you, glad to have you on board." When White Chain comes to terms with her gender, and recognizes that the entire system of Throne is the problem, she decides to join up with Allison completely. She even admits to learning from Allison and respecting her.

Cio

Ciocie Cioelle ("Cio") Estrella von Maximus the Third (formerly Yabalchoath)

^{Click here to see Cio's former incarnation.}

"I'll tell tha a grand secret: People don't really change. They just grow thicker layers over who they really are, and pretend."

A Blue Devil and an associate of White Chain, working as a bookkeeper for the Golden Cage Guild. She decides to ally with Allison in hopes of endearing herself to the supposed future ruler of Creation.

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• Almighty Janitor: Besides being a fairly skilled magician working as a bookkeeper for a brothel, she's also a self-proclaimed professional fanfiction writer. And she also happens to have once stolen a Key of Kings, a feat thought unimaginable before then.
• Ambiguously Bi: Cio is repeatedly mentioned to be into girls (including by herself), and eventually starts a relationship with Allison. It's unclear if her prior relationships with Praman Nand and Oscar were just business partnerships or genuine Unholy Matrimony.
• Ambition Is Evil: Yabalchoatch was driven by a nigh-infinite ambition and a wickedness to match, and became an even greater monster in pursuit of infinite power. In the present Cio has thrown away most of her ambitions as a result, seeing it as a quick slide down a very slippery slope back into her old ways. By King of Swords she is perfectly happy living a domestic lifestyle and taking care of flowers.
• Animal Motifs: Insects. Her body is segmented and chitinous, her "coat of arms" gives her six extra limbs, her horns resemble antennae, and her oversized glasses look like compound eyes.
• An Arm and a Leg: Jagganoth's Finishing Move, Blood-Sated Sword Soul, takes out her right arm, eye and part of her horn and later Incubus slices the rest of her body after Cio stabs him.
• The Atoner: Her previous incarnation was a monster that was hated by everyone. Her current self feels she got what she deserved and does not want to ever be like that again.
• Becoming the Mask: Literally, due to her being a devil, but Cio is capable of flipping her personality from a foul-mouthed, cigar-chomping, but ultimately well-intentioned fanfiction writer to a hellish, backstabbing monster reminiscent of her past life as a slave-owning smuggling lord with little effort, save for her morality. It takes her a while to settle on which she wants, but she ultimately decides to remain 'Cio'.
• Being Evil Sucks: The very first realization that she came to upon her resurrection as Ciocie Cioelle was that every evil act she commited for wealth and power as an ebon devil was ultimately completely pointless, and it was inevitable that everyone would betray and try to kill her for them.
• Big Damn Heroes: Has a tendency toward this, to the point of it being a Running Gag.
  Cio: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII cannot believe I'm helpling tha right now.
• Break the Haughty: She was once an Ebon devil of unrivaled power and co-owned a mighty guild. Then she had the audacity to steal Mammon's key and use its power to indulge herself and create monuments to her glory. She became such an overt threat to the Red City that the angels rose up to oppose her, and her horribly abused slaves were only too happy to sell her out.
• Brought Down to Badass: She was such a monster as an Ebon Devil that angels rose up to put her down, and when she was brought back it was as a much weaker Blue Devil. This doesn't stop her from being a terror with her word-and-paper magic.
• Came Back Wrong:
  • Inverted. As Ciocie Cioelle, she realizes exactly how horrible she was before she was killed, and never wants to be that monster again.
  • In "Wheel smashing lord", Cio is able to come back thanks to the single mask shard that was hidden inside Allison. However, she returns under a new identity, Nukoku, and as a brand new devil species: an ivory devil, one who doesn't seem to wear a mask, making it an oddity amongst devils. This version of Cio is highly unstable, emotional, violent, uses "we" instead of "I", uses speech bubbles similar to Himself and is bleeding profusely because of the Body Horror she is going through. This new form of her also resembles her previous ebony devil form, Yabalchoath.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Heretics' Court states that Yabalchoath frequently took through treachery, and warn Allison that letting them punish her is as much for her own benefit as theirs.
• Cigar Chomper: Her first appearance in Kill Six Billion Demons sees her smoking a cigar. She switches to cigarettes by Seeker of Thrones.
• Dare to Be Badass: Delivers this speech to Allison, mocking her inaction in order to get her to step up to the plate.
• Deadpan Snarker: Cio is generally unimpressed with White Chain's overblown dignity and Allison's irritating ignorance.
• Demiurge Archetype: During her backstory. Yabalchoath is not only named after the original Demiurge, but she stole one of Mammon's Keys and used it to become a demi-god who ruled her domain in shadeshide as a god, erecting temples and demanding Human Sacrifice to empower herself. When Mammon's priests learned of the theft, they teamed up with the Heretic's Court and the Root Knights to take her down and recover the Key.
• The Dreaded: Back when she was known as Yabalchoath. When Princess (also a former Ebon Devil) learns who Cio used to be, Princess looks terrified.
• Dynamic Entry:
  • Riding White Chain's empty armor-body into a crowd of demons to rescue Allison.
  • One-ups herself by commandeering an airship to gatecrash Mottom's palace, then cutting off Mottom's word of death by plastering her with paper soldiers.
  • A much less heroic version when she tackles Allison in a berserk rage after being left for dead under a boulder.
• Eating Optional: As a devil, she has no need for physical sustenance, but she enjoys cooking and eating human food anyway.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: When she starts wearing her hair loose, it's a sign that she's reconnecting with her old personality as Yabalchoath. Though a few days after the heist at Yre, she chops it all off to give herself short, pixie-ish cut, representing the fact she will never choose to be Yabalchoath again.
• Eye Scream: Jagganoth's finishing move takes out her right eye, among other things.
• Flowery Insults: She even has her own insult generator.
• Godiva Hair:
  • Not so much now, but as Yabalchoath, she wore absolutely nothing in the way of clothes. While her body lacked detailed 'attributes' to cover, it was nonetheless styled to drape over her breasts. It certainly wasn't intended to titillate, but added a level of eeriness to her Full-Frontal Assault strategy.
  • When she returns as an ivory devil, Nukoku's hair is extremely similar to Yabalchoath's, even hiding the same parts.
• Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Her "fan fiction" describes herself as a mysterious and indescribably beautiful stranger whom Allison, the fated ultra-queen of the universe immediately falls for.
• Holy Halo: Her previous incarnation briefly acquired one after stealing a Key of Kings.
• Ludicrous Gibs: A failed attempt to pull In the Back on Incubus leads him to slice her into half-a-dozen pieces.
• I Hate Past Me: She rejects the horrible nature of her past as an Ebon Devil, to the point where she implies she's capable of reclaiming its power but refuses to do so because it would make her a monster again.
• Important Haircut: After the events in Mammon's vault, her hair's been cut short. It's even shorter than it was cut when she was first forced into Blue Devildom, implying that she's even further away from her past as Yabalchoath.
• Involuntary Shapeshifter: her appearance is affected by her emotional state to a degree. At her best she very closely resembles a small, blue-skinned human, but the events during the infiltration of Yre cause her to gradually become more insect-like and grow additional horns, and eventually fully transform into a blue-masked Yabalchoath until Allison calms her down.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: When wearing her Coat of Arms. Also had four arms, as Yabalchoath.
• Off with His Head!: Incubus kills her after Cio stabs him by slicing her with his sword from head to toe.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She can only cry into Allison's arms after Blood-Sated Sword Soul breaks apart their Fusion Dance and inflicts An Arm and a Leg. A sign it's fully sunk in how horribly outclassed they are against Jagganoth.
• Overly Long Name: Not as bad as the angels, but her full name is Ciocie Cioelle Estrella Von Maximus the Third. Due to how devils work, her name is also a Power Limiter: devils seek to remove names from themselves, as their strength decreases with every one they have. Cio's full name is such that she's stuck as a middling blue imp, even less imposing than a baseline human.
• Paper Master: She can use paper soldiers in a fight, turning them into a giant spinning wheel of death that cuts up anyone who tries to cross it.
• Prehensile Hair: Through flashbacks, Yabalcoath is introduced impaling two Mammon priests through the chest with her long hair.
• Progressively Prettier: Started out as a weird little bug-eyed gremlin with a near-permanent snarl. These days... well, see her picture above.
• Protectorate: She believes Allison has a great deal of potential and her main motive for joining Allison's group is to develop that potential and use it to protect herself.
• Punny Name: It's implied her name is pronounced "See-Oh-See-Ey See-Oh-Ell-Ey". Or like one might spell out C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
  Alt Text: If you pronounce Ciocie Cioelle in a particular way, a magical name will appear.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Wears a pair of large yellow glasses the same color as her eyes purely for fashion, since demons don't need eye correction. When she starts becoming more like her past self as Yabalchoath, she ditches them, and then takes them back when she choses to reject her previous self for good.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After the deal with Himself, she caves into the fate of becoming Yabalchoath once again, lets her hair down like she used to, and begins wearing a skintight suit that resembles her carapace instead of Cio's more human clothing; when everyone agrees that they'd prefer her to be Cio instead, she goes back to human clothing.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: She is very much this to Allison, up to and including literally pushing her off a cliff for her own good.
• Sour Supporter: She loudly announces that she cannot believe she is helping Allison, and delivers a Dare to Be Badass speech harsh enough to double as a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, but still supports her.
• Spikes of Villainy: As Yabalchoath, her carapace-like body was covered in thorny spines. She lost them when returned to life as the more benign Cio. She starts growing them again as she retraces her steps breaking back into Mammon's Vault.
• Spy Catsuit: Dons a purple catsuit for the heist instead of her casual clothes. Not coincidentally, it resembles her appearance as Yabalchoath.
• The Storyteller: According to word of god, this is her main role; she is writing a fanfic about the entire universe and has strong opinions about how stories should be told. "Every metadimensional theological historical dramatization romantic slash fanfiction needs a cigar chomping, kleptomaniac, compulsive liar."
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: Speaks what appears to be a devilish version of Cockney rhyming slang, though she tones it down at times. It's strongest around other devils.
• Superpowered Evil Side: After being buried in rubble and left to die by an Allison controlled by her sociopathic side, Cio survives by transforming into a blue-masked version of Yabalchoath, becoming much taller and more physically capable than she normally is as a blue imp. It's deconstructed when in a rage, she attacks and tries to kill a now remorseful Allison. Once she thinks Allison's dead, she's driven to regretful tears and reverts back.
• Take This Job and Shove It: Announces she's quitting her job at Praman Nand's brothel while summoning a giant wall of paper soldiers to cover her and Allison's escape.
• That Man Is Dead: Inverted. Though she's not proud of her past as Yabalchoath, she ends up re-embracing her old identity for Allison's mission... Only to discard it again once both her and Allison see the damage it's done. This is symbolized by the large, purely aesthetic glasses she wears, and she puts them back on when she believes she's about to be executed by 000001.
• Tragic Keepsake: A shard of her mask serves as one for Allison in Breaker of Infinities, fished out from Allison's left arm. Allison uses it to remove the artificial flesh from the replacement right arm that Jadis gave her without telling her.
• Traumatic Haircut: Yabalchoath's rather impressive mane was cut down to nothing but a bob at some point during her defeat. While it's possible that it was cut because she weaponized it somehow, she was so hated at the time of her death that it's equally as plausible as added insult to injury.
• Unholy Matrimony: Formerly with Praman Nand. While it's unknown if the two ever held any deeper romantic inclinations to one another, they were at the very least once frighteningly effective partners in crime when it came to managing their smuggling ring, and Nand seemed to care for her enough to spend months painstakingly putting her shattered mask back together after her death.
• Unreliable Narrator: One of the in-universe texts is a scholar complaining about how "embellished" Cio's account of the story is, and her descriptions of the Demiurges are incomplete at best. Word of God is that her accounts can't be relied on.
• Unwanted Spouse: Her husband is Praman Nand. While they were on better (and more equal) terms when Cio was still an Ebon Devil, any affection for her husband she might have once had has since evaporated. Justifiably so, it seems, since she'd been all but forced into slavery by him at the start of the story.
• Walking Spoiler: Her past as a monstrous Ebon Devil is a major plot twist early in Seeker of Thrones.
• What Could Have Been: Word of God is that in one of the first drafts of KSBD, she was a skeleton. Not a skeleton-like devil, just a skeleton.
• Willfully Weak: Cio is ridiculously strong for a blue devil, and is shown to be just as competent if not more powerful than some red and even gold devils, but is still ultimately a blue devil. But she likes being a blue devil, as she's afraid that seeking more power would set her on the path to becoming Yabalchoath again.
• Yuri Fan: One of her suggestions when she's making a plan is that Allison should ditch her boyfriend and get a girlfriend. (She almost certainly intends herself for that role.)

Nukoku (Book 6 Spoilers)

Nukoku, Reborn Sin Against Heaven, Ivory Devil

"I... want... to return..."

"What givest thou the right... to write... the tales of others? [...] Is it so much... to ask? A small... and quiet place?"

The next incarnation of Cio after Cio's death in Breaker of Infinities She is specifically an Ivory Devil, a Devil that does not fit into the standard Pale, Blue, Red, Green, Gold, and Ebon rankings, and is outright labeled a "sin against heaven."

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• Alien Blood: Her full introduction notably has her bleeding bright pink blood as she manifests.
• Ambiguously Related: Most devils speak with standard white speech bubbles with black text, like Cio, or black bubbles with white text and no outline, including Nukoku when she first speaks. However, as she manifests as an Ivory Devil, Nukoku's speech bubbles become black with white text and jagged white outlines, inexplicably mirroring those of Himself.
• Blade Spam: When fighting Allison, she manifests prehensile spiked blades all over her body to attack.
• Came Back Strong: After absorbing the last shard of Cio's mask after Cio's death, rather than coming back in her Blue Devil form, Nukoku manifests as a single name Devil with an appearance mirroring her time as the Ebon Devil Yabalchoath.
• Divinely Appearing Demons: A Devil whose coloration and spiked exoskeleton makes her look closer to an angelic Thorn Knight than her demonic kin.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: While her carapace was androgynous and gray, it opens up to reveal a feminine but inhuman Devil with pale skin and jet black hair.
• Good Costume Switch: To seemingly reflect her being more Cio than Yabalchoath, despite having Yabalchoath's build she is born with bright white skin and a pale exoskeleton, the exact opposite of Yabalchoath's pitch black body.
• Hidden Buxom: Played with. Her androgynous carapace explodes open to reveal a curvier humanoid form within as Nukoku reveals herself as an Ivory Devil.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Bangs cover her eyes on her introduction, to reflect her mysterious nature.
• Horned Humanoid: Her carapace forms spiked horns coming out of the back of her head.
• Hypocrite: Nukoku wants to go back to her simple life as Cio and ensure a happy ending for herself and Allison, even if she has to reset the cycle to do it. Yet when Allison tries to stop her, Nukoku accuses her of trying to "write the tales of others" — to which Allison retorts that she, as Cio, once wanted to write a story about her.
• I Am a Monster: Nukoku is utterly horrified by how far removed she is from her past life as Cio, calling her own existence "intolerable" and comparing herself to a shambling pile of mutilated flesh that doesn't even resemble Cio at all.
• Iron Maiden: Her carapace evokes this, being filled with sharp spikes on the inside that leave bloody holes in her new body as it manifests from the inside out.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Like Yabalchoath, Nukoku has four insect-like arms rather than just two, and she quickly proved herself to be more than a match for Allison, who by then had become more experienced in using her Key.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: After manifesting as an Ivory Devil, her carapace bursts open to reveal her skin all the way from her collarbones down to her navel.
• Punny Name: Similar to the start of Cio's full name, Ciocie Cioelle, being an alternate, phonetic way to spell the letters "COCA COLA", Nukoku is an alternate, phonetic way to spell "New Coke", an attempted reformulation of the cola formula from the 80's.
• Reincarnation: While Nukoku shares similar desires and fears as Cio, Allison makes it very clear in Wheel Smashing Lord that Cio still died.
• Single Specimen Species: She is specifically an Ivory Devil, a Devil that does not fit into the standard Pale, Blue, Red, Green, Gold, and Ebon rankings, and is outright labeled a "sin against heaven".
• That Man Is Dead: Invoked: when she approaches Allison after absorbing Cio's mask shard, Allison declares herself its mortal enemy, both as a way of accepting Cio's death and to honor her previously stated wishes to avoid the coming conflict.
• Walking Spoiler: It is impossible to discuss Nukoku without giving away Cio's death.
• What Have I Become?: In a parallel of Cio's fears of becoming Yabalchoath again, Nukoku realizes she had become something completely different from her former life as a blue devil, which she deems "intolerable". She even compares herself to a mutilated corpse staggering on, unable to rest. This only strengthens her resolve to eat Gog-Agog's worm so she can reset things to how they were when she was just Cio.
  Nukoku: ...Intolerable. Intolerable! Intolerable!! How can we live like this? Look at us... Mutilated flesh staggering on... How is it that we grew so distant from what we were? From what we were meant to be? Return it nigh! What was taken from us! we deserve nothing less!!
• What the Hell, Hero?: After Allison prevents her from taking Gog-Agog's worm, Nukoku accuses her of trying to "write the tales of others" and deprive them of their happiness. Allison points out this hypocrisy, retorting that Nukoku as Cio wanted to write her story as a self-proclaimed fanfiction writer.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Tries to eat one of Gog-Agog's worms, hoping she'll be able to survive it and go to the next cycle of the "Groundhog Day" Loop where she can do everything right this time. Allison forces her to realize that their former home is long since destroyed, and Cio is dead. There is no going back.

Princess/Vladok

Vladok (Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels Timothy Tim Bill Freddy Mercury Blueberry Luna, Esquire / Princess Jack Moonshine / Princess Jack Daniels)

^{Click here to see Vladok's full form.
Click here to see "Princess".
Click here to see their Red Devil form.
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A devil whom Allison encounters shortly after her second departure from Earth. Originally encountered as Vladok, an Ebon Devil, their encounter with Allison ends with them breaking their mask and being resealed as a Blue Devil.

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• Ambiguous Gender: After the Gender Bender resulting from her depowerment and renaming, followed by their evolution to Princess Jack Moonshine; it doesn't help that as Princess Jack Moonshine, she has an androgynous body coupled with a Gender-Blender Name. Of course, Devils don't necessarily have gender in the same way that humans do, and the author has even replied to questions about Princess' gender dismissing it as unimportant.
• Boisterous Bruiser: As Princess Jack Moonshine, she becomes both much bigger, much bruise-ier, and much more upbeat, turning her into this.
• Brought Down to Normal: After breaking his delimiter and transforming into a true being of Chaos, Allison smacks him in the face with a binding mask and shouts new names into his soul until he's a blue devil just like Ciocie.
• Clothing Damage: Shreds most of her clothes in the transformation from a blue devil to red devil but she still has enough left to obscure any potential naughty bits.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Sort of. While she's hardly friendly, she joins Allison's retinue as a supporter of sorts after being beaten and diminished to a blue devil. Once she progresses to red, she actually seems quite attached to the rest of the crew.
• The Dreaded: Solely on account of being an Ebon Devil, the rarest and most powerful of their kind.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: As Princess Jack Moonshine, she has eyes on her shoulders and all down her abs.
• Gender Bender: Possibly as an effect of Allison starting their binding name with "Princess", Vladok goes from a male Ebon Devil to a female blue imp.
• Heroic Build: The red devil Princess Jack Moonshine rivals White Chain in height and boasts a rather impressive musculature as seen above, and their transformation also marks the point where they start to properly become one of the heroes rather than just being a grumpy hanger-on.
• Hidden Depths: The author has implied that Vladok was very atypical and weak for an Ebon Devil, to the point of actually being able to lose an honest bet to a human. Ebon Devils shown later are far more powerful.
• Improbable Weapon User: As a blue devil she uses her oversized Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe/Classy Cane as a bludgeon when fighting against a Chest Monster. As a red devil she manages to shove the mouthpiece through a Mammon priest's head.
• Lean and Mean: As the ebon devil Vladok, he stood several times Allison's height and looked emaciated.
• Meaningful Rename: The length of a Devil's name dictates their power, so when Vladok became "Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels Timothy Tim Bill Freddy Mercury Blueberry Luna, Esquire", she lost a lot of her power. When she became a Red Devil again, her name shortened to "Princess Jack Moonshine".
• One-Winged Angel:
  • Rather than accept defeat, he breaks his pact with Allison: doing so reverts him to an unbound devil, a bestial thing with a mouth with multiple rows of teeth, covered in eyes.
  • When faced with the prospect of defeat again, this time as a lowly Blue Devil, she again refuses, and morphs on the spot into a Red Devil, to regain some of their lost power and keep fighting.
• Overly Long Name: Once Allison is through with him. As for why it is weird, she was very drunk at the time.
• Phantom Thief: She somehow managed to steal Cio's book and give it to Allison unnoticed, despite the fact that all three were together during the whole time she could have stolen it.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: When he first appears, he seems short and unimpressive. Subverted in that he's actually hiding long, long limbs in his hair and beard, standing several times taller than Allison. Played straight after becoming a mere imp, claiming that even with her punier new form, she can still fight. Later averted after becoming Princess Jack Moonshine, who is The Big Guy.
• Prefers Raw Meat: As Princess Jack Moonshine, her breakfast consists of about 2 lbs of raw ox meat.
• Rage Quit: As Vladok, he is so incensed by the thought of serving a human that he would rather effectively die than admit defeat and provide Allison a simple teleport, as was their deal.
• Sour Supporter: In her Blue Devil Form, she only joined up with Allison to get a chance to get her power back. As Princess Jack Moonshine, she's (generally) loyal but apathetic about anything that doesn't involve fighting and clearly a bit annoyed that Allison's plans have a tendency to go sideways.
• Taking You with Me: Vladok would have made any hollow promise for a key to the universe. When he loses the drinking duel and the binding contract states that he has to escort a suicidal ditz to the throne room of an insane decadent goddess who can literally speak people's flesh into plants, he decides to break his mind and unleash his inner Eldritch Abomination instead.
• This Cannot Be!:
  • As part of his Villainous Breakdown here.
  • And again here, at the thought of being struck down as a lowly blue devil. This time, however, it works out a lot better, since she immediately transforms into a Red Devil, increasing their odds considerably.
• Token Evil Teammate: As one of Allison's companions, they're an amoral thug with a limitless appetite for violence. Luckily, the setting is so incredibly violent (and Allison is so good at getting into trouble) that this doesn't really present many problems, and they can pretty easily be talked into helping out with more altruistic tasks (because they'll almost inevitably result in a fun fight).
• Took a Level in Kindness: She goes from actively antagonistic, to only working with Allison out of obligation, to seemingly enjoying their company to stick around despite no obligation to.When the crew are about to leave Rayuba, she grabs Zaid with them despite no one telling her to.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Vladok loses to Allison in a drinking contest, he becomes enraged, declaring that she must have cheated. She didn't. Faced with the prospect of keeping his bargain, he goes berserk and tries to drag everyone into the Void with him instead.
• Wild Hair: They've got crazy amounts of hair, enough so that Vladok was able to conceal himself almost entirely within it, Princess was almost 50% hair by volume (when not tying it up to keep it out of the way), and their Red Devil form is mostly hair as well.
• Wrestler in All of Us: This is her fighting style as Princess Jack Moonshine, as seen here. (Note the Alt Text joking about it.)

Nyave

Nyave Anyadis of Mykos

A young woman from Mykos, a world within the goddess-queen Mottom's dominions. Allison saves her from being brought to Mottom by taking her place in order to infiltrate Mottom's flying city; Nyave later joins Allison's group as the pilot of their airship.

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• Badass Normal: While she has no special powers or combat training to speak of, her feats include body-blocking an enraged White Chain to keep her from murdering someone and hitting Oscar, a powerful Red Devil who'd just gunned down most of the heist crew, in the back with a two-footed flying kick.
• The Chains of Commanding: Come Wheel-Smashing Lord, Nyave has become the Factotum of what remains of Solomon David's empire. While democratically elected multiple times, she's stuck in an extremely stressful position and is painfully aware that much of her popularity comes from being supported by White Chain, who is now a Demiurge with Solomon's Key. White Chain is even the majority's preferred candidate given how used the people of the former empire are to Asskicking Leads to Leadership.
• Hidden Depths: She was extensively trained in numerous areas of knowledge in order to serve as an offering to Mottom.
• The Heart: She serves this role for White Chain in particular, helping her remember her connection to humanity and her responsibilities as an angel.
• Human Sacrifice: Nyave believes the reason she was sent as an offering to Mottom is so she'll be enlisted as a servant to a goddess. Her true purpose is to be sacrificed to the corrupted corpse of Hastet-Om, the Tree of Woe, which thirsts for the blood of young girls. Mottom does this because the Tree of Woe produces the fruits of immortality she needs to prolong her own life. Allison's impulsive decision to Nyave's place as one of the girls ends up saving the latter's life.
• I Owe You My Life: She would have been sacrificed if she'd been brought to Mottom, and supports Allison as thanks for being saved from that.
• Pair the Spares: She's visibly smitten by Zaid's good looks when she leads the mission to rescue him from Solomon's jail, and by the time of Wheel-Smashing Lord, they have started a relationship.
• The Team Normal: In Allison's group, she's the one who has to rely on her wits and education alone.
• Wrench Wench: She's actually very good at managing and maintaining airship engines, among other things.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Even though Allison saves her life, she still can't return home after being sent as an offering to Mottom; this weighs into her decision to stick with Allison.

Fusions

Allicio

Devil Skin Warrior Allicio

A fusion of Allison wearing Cio's mask, using an ancient technique dating back to the Universal War.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Her armor-skin is bright blue.
• Amazonian Beauty: Her devilskin shows off her extremely well-defined muscles.
• Fusion Dance: She is the result of Allison wearing Cio's mask, combining their powers and capabilities.
• Horned Humanoid: She retains the horns from Cio's mask.
• How Do I Shot Web?: When she first appears, she has trouble controlling her strength and powers, flying around somewhat wildly.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: She has two extremely large spidery-arms jutting out of her back, in addition to a pair of more normal ones.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to White Chain, telling White Chain that they may be strong and fast, but they are unable to change even to the level of cheating at cards, meaning that White Chain doesn't stand a chance against them. Unfortunately for her, White Chain decided to take it to heart .
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Assumes her power-boost ensures their chances of winning the Circle of Strength.
• Unskilled, but Strong: All of Alice's headstrongness and tendency to lean on her power, amplified further through Cio's magic.

Aspected Chaos

The Fool: Aspected Chaos

"Enough of this cosmic fate drivel. I- We- All of Us- We decide our own path! Fate is not a cage- Except for those who make it."

A fusion of Allison, Cio, and White Chain resulted from fusing Allicio with White Chain.

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: White Chain suggests trying to fuse into her immediately before the climactic battle with Jagganoth in the "Breaker of Eternities".
• Amazing Technicolor Population: The outside of her skin is slate-gray, resembling White Chain's old body.
• Amazonian Beauty: She is eighteen feet tall and retains the beauty of all three of her components.
• Celestial Body: While the outside of her body is slate-gray, it is formed of ribbon-like strips that shift around her; the inside is a void full of stars.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She has horns, cloven hooves, and a character design that would normally go pretty far into Creepy Good territory; nonetheless, she's plainly on the side of good.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: She has an extra eye on each shoulder and one on her upper chest, although they look less creepy than usual because they could be mistaken for jewelry at first glance.
• Fusion Dance: She is a result of Allicio... somehow fusing with White Chain? None of them seem quite certain how (or if) it would work.
• Horned Humanoid: Unlike Cio's straight horns, she has large curved ox-like ones.
• Morphic Resonance: The curve of Aspected Chaos' horns nearly form a circle, similar to the helm White Chain previously wore on her old body when it was fully extended.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Building on Allicio, she has six arms.
• Rainbow Speak: Literally; all her text is colored in rainbows.
• Strong and Skilled: Tempered by White Chain's experience and calm head, Aspected Chaos is considerably more prudent than Allicio and fights much more defensively... Though the fact that she's battling a full Demiurge may have something to do with her improved caution.
• Threesome Subtext: The way she and Cio (as Allicio) welcome her to their fusion is extremely heavy in subtext. White Chain's attitude when she asks to join them, and their enthusiastic acceptance and intimate posture once they do so speak volumes. And once their triple fusion is complete they all speak in rainbows.
• Voice of the Legion: All her speech bubbles have three trails, implying that she speaks with the voice of all three of her components at once.
• The Worf Effect: That even she goes down fairly easy once Gog-Agog abandons her and the Seven does a fantastic job creating the impression Jagganoth really is unstoppable.
• Wrong Context Magic: Allicio, as a fusion, makes sense in-universe; it was established that devil masks could be worn by humans, and it's a technique that was previously used to gain power during the Universal War (albeit often with disasterous results as the components warred for control.) Aspected Chaos, on the other hand, is something completely new.

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