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Queen Eilowny

• Crossover Relatives: Eilowny is princess Aurora's descendant.
• Famous Ancestor: She tells her husband Taran she is descended from princess Aurora - but, as omitted to him, not by blood.

Taran

• Exact Eavesdropping: Taran retires for the night at the start of chapter 9, but eavesdrops on his wife Eilowny and Merlin's conversation about maintaining the lie that she is Aurora's descendant.

Merlin

• Secret-Keeper: At the start of chapter 9, Taran wants to know the secret between Morgana, Lancelot, Guinevere and Arthur, but Merlin has made a promise on Arthur's deathbed not to tell a soul.

Queen Snow White

• Mage Species: In chapter 4, after Snow White discovers the Magic Mirror, its spirit mentions she has "witch blood", just like her mother.
• Motifs: In chapter 5, Snow White has a dream about floating down to a magic circle with a large white rose on it, an owl, a trilunar symbol and a key.
• Primary-Color Champion: In Grimhilde's flashback chapter, Snow White wears her iconic red-blue-yellow dress, but a more extravagant version.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Snow White, of course.
• Related in the Adaptation: Grimhilde, the Evil Queen, is actually Gretel, and her brother is Hansel. Grimhilde is also Snow White's biological mother, and Rumpelstiltskin (not the small-sized imp he is traditionally known as) is the princess's father.
• Ring of Power: She inherited her mother's, Althea, ring, which could teleport a magic chest where Althea hid her splendid dresses as she fled her home world. In chapter 8, in the multidimensional tower, the ring summons Althea's chest, and the magic mirror is inside it, albeit in a more portable version.
• Save This Person, Save the World: When the princesses arrive in Wendy's house in London, they learn they must protect Snow White from Dorian.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Snow White's eye colour are "hazelnut brown" in the original, but here their colour is highlighted to appear more golden-brown. This has in-story importance: she is in fact the daughter of Rumplestiltskin!

King Frederick

• Adaptation Expansion: According to Grimhilde's personal diary, after she sent the Hunter to kill Snow White, the Queen held a celebratory feast for Frederick, but his mind was busy thinking about Snow White, to the Queen's dismay.

Princess Rose Red

• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Rose Red, Snow White's daughter, dies as a young girl, but Quetzal resurrects her soul into an older body (late teenager or young adult).

Queen Althea

• Adaptational Villainy: While Althea has a tragic backstory, one that follows the Donkeyskin tale, the heroine is far more malevolent this time around: after the three dances with Gerald, Snow White's father, Althea prepares him a soup (which happens in the German variant by the Brothers Grimm), which she laces with a bit of poison. She later bakes him a cake with the antidote and puts her ring inside the cake (a sequence that follows Perrault's tale). Her plan works, and she marries Gerald.
• The Chosen One:
  • According to Althea's ghost's recollections, the spirit of the Magic Mirror informed her that Grimhilde would be mother to Snow White's next reincarnation. Althea tried to steal Grimhilde's daughter and raise her as her own. This failed.
  • After failing to properly secure Snow White to herself and being killed by Grimhilde, Althea returned as a neon blue butterfly that eventually guided Prince Frederick to Snow White's glass coffin, so that the Prince could rescue Snow and later they could conceive Rose Red. This worked.
• The Chosen Wannabe: After learning Grimhilde's destiny, Althea, still alive, was instructed by Magic Mirror to say a prayer to the Goddesses so that she would raise the next Snow White, in a way that would break the cycle of killing between both girls. This, of course, failed.
• Composite Character: Althea is both Donkeyskin from Donkeyskin and the Good Queen from Snow White.
• Crossover Relatives: She is the titular Donkeyskin from Donkeyskin, who marries the king and becomes Snow White's mother. As revealed in side-chapter 10.5, this is not the case, but Snow White believes it so.
• Evil Redhead: She has vivid red hair and is a self-serving woman. After her return by Quetzal's hands, she joins with the villains at Carmilla's Citadel.

Slave in the Mirror

• Magic Mirror: Althea found it in a well when she was working as Donkeyskin. The mirror knew she was a princess and predicted her future.
• Malicious Mirror: The Magic Mirror, or the Slave in the Mirror, is a duplicitous character at best: in Althea's backstory, she found it inside a well, then the mirror instructed the princess how to impress the king and marry him (in a sequence that mirrors the Donkeyskin fairy tale). Later, in chapter 4, when now Queen Snow White enters the mirror's chambers, the Mirror begins to speak, says it now belongs to Snow White, and that it cannot utter a lie. The latter information is questionable at best, since, by the time of Althea's and Queen Grimhilde's concomitant pregnancies, the Mirror said that Althea killed her own daughter — this cannot be true, since Althea could not have children at the time and was faking her pregnancy.

Princess Aurora

• Really Royalty Reveal: Also deconstructed. In the original movie, Aurora's royal background drops like a bomb on her idyllic peasant life. After marrying Phillip and enjoying their marriage, she does admit that she had difficulty adapting to courtly life and etiquette, its endless lessons, and even bemoans the heavy garments she has to wear at the castle. Thus, she decides to take a sabbatical back in the cottage where she grew up.

Prince Phillip

• Warrior Prince: Prince Phillip is called away for war and spends weeks on a battlefield. Aurora begins to miss him terribly, and this opens a window for the villains to strike.

Sultana Jasmine

• Back from the Dead: Jasmine is stabbed to death in the multiversal tower. Snow White tries to use her witch powers to revive her, but fails, and Ariel is the one to bring her back to life with a rose Dutchess Rougelle/Carmilla places on her hair.
• Beautiful Dreamer: In one sequence, Jasmine has a nightmare about Cinderella's glass slipper and wakes up. Aladdin comments she looked beautiful in her sleep.
• Crossover Relatives: Princess Yum-Yum, from The Thief and the Cobbler, is Jasmine's cousin.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Princess Jasmine has a prophetic dream about walking in a desert, and a voice warning her about a future enemy: Azi Dahaka.
• Race Lift: During their sojourn in London, Cinderella uses her Fairy Godmother's magic wand to change Ariel's and Jasmine's appearances: Ariel's vibrant red hair is changed to blonde, and Jasmine, from an Arab/Middle Eastern woman, has her skintone and hair changed to white and blonde. She didn't like the change at all!

Sultan Aladdin

Amira, the djinn

• Animate Inanimate Object: The Magic Carpet, from Aladdin, of course. Turns out, it is actually a female djinn named Amira.

Queen Ariel

• Our Mermaids Are Different: Everything about Ariel and her family's backstory: Triton and the royal family from Atlantica are sea merfolk, and can be identified by their normal-shaped ears; Harmonia (Ariel's mother), Ursula and Morgain (Ariel's aunts) and Galene are lake mermaids, and their ears are shaped like fins.
• Siren Song: The webcomic expands and subverts Ariel/Eric's love story from the original film by establishing that Ariel seduced Eric with her magical singing voice, which only lake mermaids inherit, like her mother. It's also due to her own magical voice that Triton was somewhat lenient towards her more rebellious attitude in the original movie.

King Eric

• Interspecies Romance: Deconstructed with Ariel. Being a mermaid, Ariel had the gift of the Abyssal Voice, who charms male humans and ensnare them under the mermaid's thrall. Eventually, Ariel and Eric's love dwindles, and their marriage hits rock bottom at the start of the story.

Princess Melody

Arista

• A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 3.5 focuses on Arista's childhood and teenage years before the events of the Disney film.
• Strong Family Resemblance: In Chapter 3.5, Ursula notices that Arista looks like Arista's grandmother and Ursula's mother Galene.

Queen Cinderella

• Meaningful Rename: In Chapter 10, after Cinderella remembers how she was saved from her stepmother's attack on her kingdom, she retakes her birth name: Elizabeth Alexandra Tremaine. However, she uses the name Eleanor in chapter 5.

King Alphonse

Fairy Godmother

• Composite Character: Cinderella's fairy godmother is the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio, and also Cinderella's mother.

Peter Pan

Wendy Darling

• Fountain of Youth: In Victorian London, Rumplestiltskin surprises Wendy when she goes to the cemetery to mourn her dead brothers and gives her a golden apple. Later, a weathered Wendy bites the apple and her age is reversed to that of a young woman.

• Reincarnation: A group of villainesses, some of which from Disney, are incarnations of the Seven Sins.
• Rule of Seven: Dorian enlisted incarnations of the Seven Sins, some indicated by their side-chapters (in Alice's Infodump, the original seven sins were Always Female):
  • Queen Grimhilde (from Snow White) representing Vanitas (Vanity);
  • Lady Tremaine (from Cinderella) representing Invidia (Envy);
  • A conversation between Ursula and Althea in Chapter 11 makes a passing mention that each of the Seven Sins has a personal maidservant. Ursula comments about hers, which implies she is also one of them. In Chapter 8, Rumple/Dorian kisses Ursula's hand and refers to her as "Greed".
  • In chapter 8, Rumple/Dorian introduces himself to the council of villains, and Ursula mentions that Maleficent represents the sin of "Rage" (Wrath), while Quetzal is "Sloth".
  • Berthalda has her own maidservant, Goldilocks, and Dorian introduces Melody, Ariel's daughter, to his daughter Hilda as the latter's maidservant. With this in mind, and by process of elimination, Berthalda represents "Lust" and Hilda "Gluttony".
• Tragic Villain: Some of the Disney villains are reinterpreted to present a tragic backstory for them.
• Working with the Ex: Queen Grimhilde tries to hide her face when Dorian mentions some of the sins crossed paths with him before during the assembly of villains in chapter 9, since Grimhilde once loved and admired Dorian in her youth.

Rumplestiltskin

• Adaptational Attractiveness: Rumplestiltskin is not the creepy imp from the original tale. Instead he appears as a tall, blond, muscled adult man.
• Color-Coded Characters: Dorian/Rumplestiltskin is associated with gold and yellow.
• Crossover Relatives: He's Snow White's biological father.
• Depraved Bisexual: Rumplestiltkstin has an affable nature, but seems to be gunning for his own interests. He has also had sexual/romantic relationships with women, e.g., Grimhilde, the Goddesses-created Snow White, Dutchess Rougelle, Queen Althea, and is seen on-panel with prostitutes of both sexes in an opium den/prostibule in London.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Not only has Dorian the Midas's touch (to turn everything into gold), but his hair is golden (not blond, but shiny like gold).
• Related in the Adaptation: Grimhilde, the Evil Queen, is actually Gretel, and her brother is Hansel. Grimhilde is also Snow White's biological mother, and Rumpelstiltskin (not the small-sized imp he is traditionally known as) is the princess's father.

Grimhilde, the Evil Queen

• Ancestral Name: In an extra about Snow White's letters, princess Snow White writes her husband she found some names in Grimhilde's belongings that Snow decided to give to their unborn child: Hansel if a boy and Rose Red if a girl.
• Animal Motifs: Grimhilde is associated with the peacock:
  • In the cover to her Septem Peccata Mortalia side-chapter, she is depicted next to a peacock.
  • In chapter 4, Snow White carries with herself the key to Grimhilde's studio, the key head in the shape of a peacock tail feather.
  • In chapter 7, she is wearing a purple dress with a peacock-feathered corset.
• Break the Cutie: Grimhilde's backstory is essentially this: her elder brother, Hansel, was killed in the gingerbread house by Hilda. She is saved by Rumplestiltskin, given a magical makeover and adopted by a lady of Gerald's court, and later becomes queen Althea's lady-in-waiting, enjoys her friendship and a good life in court, eventually meeting Rumplestiltskin again, to whom she professes her love. However, Rumple only has eyes for the Snow-White the goddesses created, Althea betrays her trust by sleeping with Rumple during a party and, when Grimhilde gives birth to her daughter, Althea apparently kills the baby.
• Finger-Licking Poison: In Grimhilde's backstory, after she kills Althea with a poisoned comb, she marries King Gerald (Snow White's father) and asks him to read her a book. Unbeknownst to him, its pages are laced with poison.
• Master Poisoner: Grimhilde, the Evil Queen, of course. She used the poisoned apple on Snow White, a poisoned comb on Althea, Snow White's mother, and laced poison on a book read by king Gerald, Snow White's father.
• Meaningful Rename: In the Evil Queen's flashback side-chapter, after Rumplestiltskin changes her into a raven-haired, white-skinned girl, she fashions a new name for herself: Grimhilde, a combination of "her past name" plus Hilda, the devil-child that killed her brother Hansel.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: The Evil Queen herself fits the bill. As per her flashback side chapter, she was Gretel, who appeared to have brown skin, much darker than her brother Hansel, who was pale with black hair. After she fled and was rescued by Rumplestiltskin, she was given a magical makeover to appear as a raven-haired, pale-skinned beauty, but with green eyes. It is later revealed that Rumplestiltskin modelled her after the Snow-White created by the twin sister goddesses.
• Related in the Adaptation: Grimhilde, the Evil Queen, is actually Gretel, and her brother is Hansel. Grimhilde is also Snow White's biological mother, and Rumpelstiltskin (not the small-sized imp he is traditionally known as) is the princess's father.
• The Reveal: In Grimhilde's side-chapter, she and her step-grandchildren Red Rose summon Althea's ghost. Under an oath to tell the absolute truth, Althea explicitly refuses to be addressed as Rose's grandmother and tells the girl Grimhilde is her biological grandmother.
• Secondary-Color Nemesis: In Grimhilde's backstory chapter, after she becomes the Evil Queen, she is depicted with extravagant dresses in purple and green.
• Villainous BSoD: In Grimhilde's flashback chapter, after Althea's hurtful, yet true revelations, Grimhilde comes to the realization that she tried to kill her own daughter, Snow White.

Lady Agatha Tremaine

• Evil Redhead: After Lady Tremaine joins Rumple and the Sins, she is reverted to a young adult woman, instead of the old lady from the original movie. Her grey hair reverts to a ginger colour.
• Fountain of Youth: Lady Tremaine is introduced as she was in the original movie: an old lady. When she joins the Sins, she is restored to young adulthood.
• The Minion Master: In Chapter 4, Cinderella's stepmother, Lady Tremaine, commands a murder of crows to attack the kingdom.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: After spying on Quetzal's body, since her mind is talking to Alice in their dreams, Tremaine calls her fellow Sin a "savage".
• Rage Against the Heavens: A moderate version: Cinderella, as dream/astral projection, spies on Lady Tremaine in a chapel ranting against God for blessing her step-daughter with a good match, while she herself wanes and her own daughters are "flawed and graceless cratures". Maleficent appears to Tremaine to make use of the latter's crisis of faith.

Maleficent

• I Know Your True Name: Morgana helps in chapter 8 (previously chapter 7) to send Aurora to the interdimensional tower and calls Maleficent Elaine.
• Red/Green Contrast: As of this writing, Maleficent retains her green skin from the original film, but wears a red/purple cloak over her black robes.
• Red Is Violent: In some panels, Maleficent's purple undercloak acquires a deep red colouring. Also, during the gathering of the Seven Sins at the Citadel, she is wearing a red and pink outfit. Fitting, since she is the incarnation of the Sin of Wrath.

Ursula

• Crossover Relatives: She's Triton's sister-in-law and Ariel's maternal aunt in the story.
• Ear Fins: Lake mermaids have fins instead of normal ears, unlike sea mermaids.
• Interspecies Romance: During her rant to Ariel, Ursula explains that lake mermaids inherit a magic voice called "Abyssal Voice/Gift" to charm males and stir passions in them. Ariel's mother used her gift to win Triton, a sea merman, and Ariel, their daughter, inherited her gift. Ursula also explains that lake merfolk don't have male of their species..
• Our Mermaids Are Different: Everything about Ariel and her family's backstory: Triton and the royal family from Atlantica are sea merfolk, and can be identified by their normal-shaped ears; Harmonia (Ariel's mother), Ursula and Morgain (Ariel's aunts) and Galene are lake mermaids, and their ears are shaped like fins.
• Related in the Adaptation: Pulling either a Fanon interpretation or the plot thread from the musical, Ursula and Ariel are related in both versions of the comic: the sea witch is Ariel's aunt, alright, but on her mother's side.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Ursula explains that Triton changed her into the caecilia shape she was in the original film and created the sea monster skeleton around her as her prison. Trapped there, she uses Flotsam and Jetsam as her eyes and ears in the wide ocean.
• Sibling Triangle: Under the guise of normal mermaid "Galene", Ursula finds Ariel on a beach drinking her sorrows over Eric's infidelity and explains her backstory: Ursula, Morgana and Harmonia were lake mermaids; Ursula fell in love with Triton, a sea merman; with her magical singing voice, Harmonia stole Triton for herself; Triton turned Morgana and Ursula into sea monsters and banished them.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Ursula keeps her human form inside the Citadel, since it's implied it is her true form.

Berthalda

• All Women Are Lustful: During the gathering of the sins in chapter 9, she takes pride that she is sexually active, and insults Grimhilde and Ursula for their perceived celibacy.
• The Cameo: Berthalda was indeed at Melody's birthday party in chapter 3, being seen behind Melody as the girl went to talk to her aunt Arista.
• Lust:
• Slut-Shaming: During the gathering of the Seven Sins in chapter 9, they begin to trash talk one another and accuse Berthalda (who is Lust) of lying with every man she sees.
• Three-Way Sex: In chapter 8, Grimhilde pays a visit to Berthalda's chambers and finds her in bed with the Dark Phillip and Dark Gaston.

Hilda

• Enfant Terrible: In Grimhilde's backstory, Hilda is the owner of the gingerbread house, lures Grimhilde/Gretel and her brother Hansel into the house and devours him. She later appears alongside the other incarnations of the Seven Sins gathered by Dorian.
• Gingerbread House: Her lair is a nice house in a garden of lollipops, built with cookies and with a strawberry ice cream roof.
• I'm a Humanitarian: In Grimhilde's backstory, she is shown to have devoured her brother Hansel.

Quetzal

• Back from the Dead: This is Quetzal's ability: she places souls inside large mannequin-like bodies, which, for all intents and purposes, seem to operate like normal bodies. On-panel, she has resurrected two people at least: Rose Red (Snow White's daughter) and queen Althea.
• Token Good Teammate: Of all the Sins, Quetzal is the only one helping Alice, since they are both Dreamers, and helps Aurora when Queen Guinevere's phantom drags the princess into a magical coma.

• Distinguishing Mark: At least Alice, Ariadne, Aurora, Quetzal and Rapunzel all have blonde hair.

Alice Darling

• Related in the Adaptation: Alice is Wendy's niece, and John Darling's daughter.

Ariadne

• Futureshadowing: An updated version of the document "Ariadne's Letter" adds a backview of Ariadne overlooking a forest. The girl is bathed in the soft rose, purple and saffron shades of the dawn, or, in Latin, Aurora.

• Legion of Doom: According to Quetzal, Rumplestiltskin assembled incarnations of the Seven Deadly Sins, as well as "a group of witches and mages". The magic users are also living the Citadel with the female Seven Sins.
• Supervillain Lair: The Citadel houses Rumplestiltskin/Dorian and his Seven Sins, the Seven Sins' maidservants, lady Carmilla, a revived Rose Red and other unnamed villains.

Carmilla

• Affably Evil: Carmilla is quite corteous to everyone she meets, and when Tremaine informs her of Quetzal's secret meeting with Alice, the Countess simply smiles and shrugs.
• Does Not Like Men: In Chapter 11, Althea and Ursula talk about how Carmilla brought in poor girls to act as personal maidservants to the Seven Sins, since Carmilla does not like men.
• Identical Stranger: As of Chapter 9, Carmilla joins the Disney Princess in London by the same pantry they got out of. Ariel and Belle address her as "Dutchess Rougelle", but she introduces herself as "Princess Snow White". Belle, Carmilla and our Snow White notice the strong resemblance between them.
• I Have Many Names: Carmilla, Dutchess Rougelle, "Princess Snow White" (not the original one), Mircalla (used by Rumplestilstkin in chapter 7).
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Countess Carmilla, who joins the princesses' group during their London sojourn, almost fits, but her hair has some deep crimson undertones.

Odile

• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: In chapter 3, after mocking Ariel (Melody's mother) and failing to seduce Eric (despite their sexual encounter), Bellenuit (Odile) has a secret meeting with her father, and changes her hair colour from flaxen to raven-black. Combined with her black dress, red eyes and pale white skin, this highlights her otherworldly nature.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Red-eyed Odile, the black swan, assumes the identity of Bellenuit, a false friend to a teenaged Melody, on her father's orders to seduce Eric.
• Shout-Out: In an Extra, Odile (as Bellenuit) is seen wearing a black ball gown and red ballet shoes (her ensemble to Melody's party), as a possible nod to the The Red Shoes, another tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
• Villainous Mother-Son Duo: Inverted: Odile is acting on her father's orders to seduce Eric, and is seen with her father, Rothbart, in Ursula's chamber in the Citadel.

Madame de Pompadour

• Adaptational Badass: A scene in Chapter 9 shows her lighting her cigarette holder with magic.
• Adaptation Name Change: Cruella De Vil is brought to the cast of the webcomic as Madame de Pompadour.
• The Fashionista: A scene in Chapter 9 has her pestering Mulan about trying a dress, then, after the Chinese warrior leaves, she mutters to Dutchess of Diamonds they are in charge of hair (the Dutchess) and wardrobe (herself) at the Citadel.
• Grayscale of Evil: Considering she is based on Cruella De Vil, in the webcomic she wears a bouffant dress from 18th century couture, in black and white. She is also based on the villains' Citadel.

Dutchess of Diamonds

• Adaptation Name Change: Madame Medusa is brought to the cast of the webcomic as Dutchess of Diamonds.
• The Fashionista: A scene in Chapter 9 has her ogling Mulan's long black hair, then, after the Chinese warrior leaves, she is seen with Madame de Pompadour as the latter mutters aloud they are in charge of hair (the Dutchess) and wardrobe (Madame) at the Citadel.

Yzma

• Iconic Outfit: Yzma is introduced in chapter 8 wearing a version of Snow White's movie outfit... a purple and dark blue version, that is.

Nightmare Phillip

• Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is of a sickly green color.

Mulan

• Adaptational Superpower Change: In Mulan's introduction at the end of chapter 2, she activates a super mode through her sword that imbues her with the power of fire.
• Face–Heel Turn: After losing her husband and her father, Mulan is working for the villains.
• One-Winged Angel: At the end of Chapter 10, Lady Tremaine uses her magic to distort Mulan into a large human-crow hybrid.
• Take That!: In Mulan's introduction, she kills the father-son duo of her sequel.

Jafar

• The One Guy: At the gathering of the Seven Sins, barring Dorian/Rumplestiltskin, who is their leader, Jafar is the only male sitting at the table with them. Other female characters present at the assemblage are the three Sanderson Sisters, Carmilla and adult Rose Red.

The Sanderson Sisters

• Card-Carrying Villain: The red-haired witch proclaims it is an honour to join the Court of Hell.

"Shadow"

• Real Men Wear Pink: A mysterious man with dark hair that wears a pink suit in chapter 11, during Ursula's secret conspiracy reunion.

Bastion

• Orwellian Retcon: Bastion's design was different in Rapunzel's flashback/recollection. When the author released an updated version of a page from Chapter 11, he was redesigned to resemble, but not act, like Flynn Rider.
• Villainous Mother-Son Duo: Both Gothel and he wear golden masks over their faces, and are seen together at the conspirators' gathering in Ursula's chamber in chapters 11-12.

Tristan

• Beard of Sorrow: Tristan is beardless when he returns to talk to Arista and reveals his true identity. Arista cuts contact with him, and he is next seen with a red beard, wanting to talk to the mermaid princess again.
• I Have Many Names: As he admits in chapter 3.5, his "first name" is Amaro, but he is also known as Tristan and Pirate Redbeard.
• Interspecies Romance: As chapter 3.5 shows, he reveals his human(oid) shape to mermaid Arista. In chapter 3, during Melody's birthday party, Arista and Tristan call each other pet names, and Tristan calls Arista his wife in front of Ursula.
• Really 700 Years Old: He tells Arista in chapter 3.5 he and his fellow Golden Emissaries were created eight thousand years ago.

Argus

• I Have Many Names: Argus is also Lancelot (yes, that Lancelot).

Anya

• Face–Heel Turn: Anya, from Fox Anastasia (1997), taken in by Cinderella in Victorian London, is working for Jaffar.

The Three Snow Queens

• An Ice Person: The blue-skinned Snow Queen is the one that shows on panel her ice powers, when she freezes Rapunzel into an ice statue.
• Ice Palace: The three Snow Queens and Kai are holding a meeting in a room of an ice palace. Chapter 4 reveals Rapunzel was also a prisoner in the same palace.
• Literal Split Personality: In Chapter 4, the raven-haired Snow Queen, named Marshmallow, tries to help Rapunzel escape and meet Alice, but the blue-skinned Snow Queen freezes the girl. Then, she declares Marshmallow to be "one of her best parts", implying they are separate parts of the same person.
• Moving Buildings: According to Kai's letter II, the Snow Queens travel around the dimensions by their ice palace, which leaves a trail of snow behind.
• The Quest: According to Kai's letter II, the Snow Queens are going through the worlds in search of the shards of a mirror they owned once.

Kai

• Enfant Terrible: In Chapter 4, after Rapunzel's failed escape attempt, two of the Snow Queens, the blue-skinned one and the raven-haired one, discuss that Kai would have chased and killed Rapunzel, implying him to be this after becoming infected with the mirror's shard.
• Entitled to Have You: In a scene with a gathering of Snow Queens in their ice palace, Kai (who, by this time, is affected by the Devil's Mirror from the original tale) comments that Snow White belongs to him, and him alone.
• Missing Mom: In side-documents called "Kai's Letters", he mentions how he lost his mother and, after his change in behaviour via the mirror shard, wants Snow White as his replacement mother.

Rapunzel

• Adaptational Badass: While Tangled's Rapunzel is a Badass Adorable, the webcomic version, which follows the Rapunzel fairy tale more closely, jumps on Gothel after she kills the prince and throws the witch through the tower window.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In a way. While following more closely the original Grimm's fairy tale and not Disney's adaptation, Rapunzel does not blurt out or naïvely reveals the prince's visits to Gothel. Instead, Gothel storms into her tower and simply reveals she is aware of their clandestine meetings.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Rapunzel, despite following Disney's design, is not a princess herself, but a servant's child the king passed off as his own daughter when he surrendered her to Gothel.
• Composite Character: Rapunzel's design seems to draw from a concept art for Disney's Tangled, while her backstory seems to mirror the original Grimm's fairy tale.
• Human Popsicle: In Chapter 4, after escaping her room with her dolls, the blue-skinned Snow Queen intercepts her and turns her into a beautiful ice statue.

Dracula

• Crossover Couple: Dracula/Vlad is the lover of a woman named Ariadne here.
• I Have Many Names: Ariadne's Latter gives his name as Vlad. An extra page with character designs calls him Dracula.
• Shout-Out: In his introductory scene, Dracula reminisces about Ariadne and says that "he crossed oceans of time to find" his beloved.

Morgana

• You Fool!: Inside Aurora's dream-vision, Aurora kisses a sleeping Guinevere. Morgana suddenly appears besides her to call the princess a "foolish girl" and berate her for the deed.

Twin Goddesses

• Divine Incest: The twin goddesses who created the earth were lovers, and created two girls who were also lovers.

The Third One

• Rule of Three: He is the third major deity introduced in the setting, after the previous two, the Goddesses.