List of Sodality series characters

Heroes

 * Candi Flippo-Levens / Ciem: A graduate of Gerosha High and the Centhuen Prototype member of the Flippo family. She is 19-going-on-20, and is in love with Donte McArthur.  She wants to help her remaining friends and family flee from persecution in Ameristan, so they can start over in Toklisana.  Her godfather is training her to become the freedom fighter known as Ciem, so that she may utilize her centipede powers to keep her loved ones safe.  Even if she makes it to Toklisana, she knows that she and her close connections will be under constant threat.  The Ameristani regime would love nothing more than to see her obliterated, as she has subverted their absolute destruction of remnants of American culture in Ameristan.  The Hebbleskin Gang wants her head for a trophy, with Duke Arfaas literally requesting as much, due to her being the daughter of Stan and Shalia Flippo.


 * Donte McArthur / Emeraldon: Candi's boyfriend. He is an Emwault, meaning he tends to glow a green color and absorb energy from the air around him.  He can turn this feature off.  However, possessing it allows him to fly.  It gives him other abilities as well.  He is around 24 years old.  Much like Candi, he has witness the near-extinction of his entire family.  While he shares Candi's enthusiasm about the two getting married one day, he does not share her enthusiasm with the thought of having children.  He doesn't dread the idea of parenting; but he finds her excitement and the thought of it reckless.


 * Dolly Malestrom / The Earwig: One of Candi's allies in her struggles. Dolly is the wife of Jeraime Malestrom, a rancher and software technician who has developed Project: Musaran.  She acquires an Earwig prototype suit to help Ciem defeat Milp, after Milp kills Darius Philippine.  Dolly has a hot temper, and is very impulsive.  When not in the Earwig suit, she can usually be seen sporting pigtails.  She used to be a librarian, but her job was eradicated by the Ameristani regime.  She was told by her mother to stay within the regime's graces and look for another job.  Instead, she married Jeraime.  When her husband was captured, Dolly swore to either get him back or avenge him.


 * Jack Mercreek / Jackrabbit: An Apache Phexo who is able to jump 2-1/2 stories. Like Candi, he is an archenemy of Don the Psycho.  he also wants to rescue his girlfriend Miranda from Gunner Soorfelt, who has taken her to some facility somewhere in Toklisana to be executed on a later date.  Miranda is the first woman he's ever cared enough about to commit himself to.  He has a lengthy history of being a ladies man, and is flirty around the female members of his original team even though he doesn't actually want them.


 * Laurie Pegol: One of Candi's classmates, who discovers Candi's secret identity. She decides to join the team as base correspondence, and help them form alibis for their activities.  She is generally very loyal to the team, though she is haunted by memories of her ex-fiance.


 * Imaki Izuki: A Japanese inventor with ties to the Phaelites. As Candi's godfather, he provides her with her Ciem suits and arsenal.  He also provides her a place to live when Erin's health grows too dim.  He also provides a home for Donte when Donte's mentor is killed.


 * Miriam Flippo / Sniperbadger: One of Candi's two triplet sisters. Unlike Candi, Miriam never developed centipede powers.  She did, however, become an expert at hacking.  She attempts before Candi's team to breach Arfaas and the Ameristani regime's "Wall," allowing several Toklisanans to flee captivity in Ameristan and find new homes.  However, her venture is met with even worse luck than that of Candi's group.  Miriam ends up being one of the few who make it across the border safely, and her boyfriend Phil Couric is killed during the escape attempt.  She flees to Hong Kong, when she finds out the Hebbleskin Gang is building up operative there.  She assumes the identity of "Haishui," and reports her findings to the Chinese Ministry of State Security.  They gang-press her to a team of four agents, saying that "Sniperbadger" may have the hacking skills they need to counteract the Hebbleskins.  He archenemy in this series turns out to be Melvin Markus, a hacker working for Duke Arfaas whose skills rival her own.  While she does have a brief affair with one of her overseers, she eventually ends up in a relationship with scientist Steve McLaine.  Miriam is viewed as the "bad girl" by members of her family.  Not only do they find her hacking hobby questionable, but her choices of clothing and lifestyle are off-putting.  They are especially turned off by her tattoos.  Even Marina, who's technically been with more men, finds Miriam's tattoos embarrassing.  Candi, not fond of them either, lets Miriam know that she loves her sister regardless.


 * Steve McLaine: A scientist living in exile in Hong Kong after Alaska seceded from the United States and was conquered by China. He wants to return to Alaska some day, but wonders if he'll ever get the chance.  He and Miriam immediately develop an understanding of each other, and form a relationship.  Steve is not as bitter as Miriam, often taking life from a more relaxed point of view.


 * Shing Xú / Black Rat: Head of a team of four agents sent to Hong Kong by the Chinese Ministry of State Security to monitor Hebbelskin Gang activity. While he does briefly seduce Miriam, he finds himself dating fellow agent Stung Hornet later on.  He is a notorious womanizer, and used to be an alcoholic.  However, his teammates helped him kick the habit.  He is deadly with a pistol, and a fierce negotiator.  His negotiations, depending on the situation, can get aggressive.  He is highly pragmatic, though also loyal to his teammates.  He is unsure what to think of Stung Hornet taking Miriam under her wing; but decides to go along with it.  He is more accepting of Steve being on the team, as Steve's insights into Hebbleskin science prove useful.  That Steve and Melvin Markus are archenemies provides the team with even more reason to band together.


 * Wen Dù / Tin Dragon: The Chinese agent with the most aggressive personality. Wen is easily agitated, and often prone to foul mood swings.  He protects his teammates, but is often rude to them.  He is a no-nonsense hard worker, and not afraid to use excessive force.  He is the most annoyed by Steve and Miriam being on the team, fearing they'll prove to be the weak links.


 * Mingmei Chéng / Stung Hornet: One of the agency's most successful "Dirty Harriets." She eventually works fewer missions as a Mata Hari and more missions as an actual investigator, the more respect she gains within the agency.  She has become something of a "Team Mom" to the Chinese agent team she is a part of, with Black Rat assuming the "Team Dad" role as he begins dating her.  While a capable fighter and sharpshooter, she believes strongly in the expression that "you can trap more flies with honey than with vinegar."  She wastes little time making Miriam into her protégée, a relationship that makes the hot-headed Tin Dragon very uncomfortable.


 * Chen Táng / Teal Hog: The fourth main agent in the quartet that take in Steve and Miriam. While somehow effective at dealing with cases, he is naive and clumsy.  His innocent demeanor makes him the polar opposite of Tin Dragon in personality.  Miriam begins to look up to him as a sort of big brother, albeit a goofy one.  Stung Hornet frequently comes to his defense whenever higher-ups question his place on the team.


 * Phil Couric: Miriam's first boyfriend. He was a short and skinny black teenager who attended Gerosha High with Miriam, and was immediately taken in by her eccentricities.  When none of the other boys in school seemed to treat her with any respect, he took the initiative to be her chivalrous knight.  Miriam began to, in her mind, compare her relationship with him to Candi's relationship with Donte.  However, Phil was no Donte.  While Donte would be hesitant to ever use a gun, Phil preferred to keep one handy as often as he could get away with it.  When breaching the Wall, he decided to play bodyguard for Miriam.  She teased him that wearing a white tank top and defending her with a pistol in hand made him look like a stereotype.  He laughed it off; saying that if a stereotype is what it took to keep her safe while she worked, then so be it.  Alas, he is short-lived after helping her breach the wall.  His murder is part of what inspires Miriam to flee into exile in Hong Kong.


 * Jeral Cormier / Botan the Plant-Man: Misunderstood and paranoid, Jeral was turned into a plant life manipulator by a rogue faction of Phaelites called the Phaletori. He joins Candi's team, hoping to gain her help in fighting off the Phaletori and Hebbleskins both.  He is often panicky and at times unpredictable, often separating from the other teammates to do things his own way.  This proves partially beneficial, since police trust him less than the other heroes.  He fears his bad reputation will bring his teammates down.  Otherwise, he is the second-most-powerful member of the team after Emeraldon.  His insecurity has led him to rash actions, causing some in law enforcement to mistake him for a villain.  He also tends to cause more property damage than all the others.  One of the few things that offers him any comfort in life is his wife Emily.  When the Phaletori abduct her; he personally declares war.  His desire for revenge alarms even the impulsive, hot-headed Dolly.


 * Emily Cormier: Jeral's wife. She's a scientist who likes to dye her hair green.  She is also one of the few unaltered human beings that he fully trusts.  Her joining the team proves a valuable resource.  She becomes the team's go-to scientist, the way Steve becomes the go-to for Miriam's team.


 * Miranda Kanla: Jack's girlfriend. His desire to rescue her from Don the Psycho becomes a driving force in the cat-and-mouse game between Jack and Don.  After her rescue, she aids Laurie and Emily in handling the radio.  When Laurie quits, Miranda takes over Laurie's spot.

Villains

 * Duke Arfaas Hebbleskin: The elderly current global leader of the Hebbleskin Gang's operations on Earth. It was partially due to his predecessor, Fantisk Hebbleskin, that the Hebbleskins were banished from Meethlite society on Metheel and forced to operate on Earth.  While friendly to approach directly, he runs a ruthless international criminal organization that produces its own private army of cyborgs and monsters.  He capitalizes on the downfall of the United States, seizing a portion of it to create his own country.  However, his overreach in trying to take out Toklisana proves his downfall.


 * Gunner Soorfelt: A Meethlite working for Arfaas. He is one of Arfaas' top hitmen, and has recently been assigned to kidnapping operations.  Gunner is cold, calculating, and slightly sadistic.


 * Skellig Soorfelt: Gunner's excitable younger brother. He often works as a sidekick to Gunner, and lets his older brother be the brains of operations while handling the brawn.  He doesn't share Gunner's classy sense of attire, preferring a more-modern gang-banger wardrobe.


 * Don "the Psycho" Mendoza: One of the chief villains in season one and parts of season two. He is assigned jobs similar to those given to Gunner.  He does his work, however, with more of a sick sense of pleasure.  He is known for killing defenseless and clueless civilians on a whim, and is a serial rapist on top of it.  He figures out early-on that Jack the Jackrabbit is stalking him, and feigns ignorance to set a trap.  He grows amused by the game of cat-and-mouse that develops.  He deduces Ciem's secret identity rather quickly.  Rather than blow her cover, he maintains the masquerade for the "fun" of it.  He knows that Candi his haunted by memories of what he did to her at age 12.  He uses this to his advantage, feeding his ego off her fear.  He has been altered since he knew Candi in middle school.  His skin is now silvery, and his eyes glow red.  He dresses in a metallic blue trenchcoat and hat, similar to his Classic Gerosha appearance.  His voice has also grown deeper.  He moves at unnatural speeds, suggesting he underwent a similar transformation to that of Wayne the Vampire.


 * Jordan Reddlewick / Sapphire King: A blue-skinned Phexo. Unlike Donte, whose powers manifested properly, Jordan's became corrupted when they tried to stop one of Duke Arfaas' monsters together.  As a result, Jordan had a hard time fitting in with human society.  His inability to find a job led him to a life of petty crime.  His blue suit and blue energy resulted in him adopting the moniker of "Sapphire King," to contrast with Donte's "Emeraldon."  The two began as friends, but became rivals when Donte couldn't be convinced to join him in a life of crime.  In spite their rivalry, the two have great respect for each other.  Jordan bears no allegiances to anyone but himself.  However, he's capable of teaming up with the heroes when he feels that the altruistic need to aid in fighting a greater evil outweighs whatever benefits he sees in his selfish ambitions.


 * Jeraime Malestrom / Musaran: Dolly's husband. He begins as a software engineer working on a means to build a cyborg weapon that will allow the Phaelites to deal with unruly Phexos.  However, the plans for his "Project: Musaran" are stolen by the Hebbleskin Gang.  Duke Arfaas orders him abducted, and attached to an AI backvisor set to utilize the project.  He is turned into a shrew-themed assassin dubbed "Musaran," and sent specifically to wipe out Ciem and the gang in Houston.  He becomes Arfaas' go-to unit for eradicating Centhuen Prototypes.  His aggression rivals that of Dolly and Jeral, and he soon racks up a body count even higher than that of Don the Psycho.  Beneath the AI, Jeraime is a prisoner.  He prays for the chance to be liberated from the Musaran AI's control - even if it kills him.  Once freed, he begins to go blind.  He decides all the same to support Dolly and her new friends in all their endeavors.  He views it as getting back at Arfaas for destroying his livelihood.


 * Rico Rodriguez / Lobe: A Meethexo werewolf. He is originally from a Mexican family.  His family was killed by a drug kingpin, and he wants to avenge them.  Arfaas recruits him and experiments on him with the promise to eventually grant him his wish.  He uses his transformation to get revenge immediately.  However, he decides to remain loyal to Arfaas afterward.  He is not very bright.  However, he is tough to beat.  It takes Ciem and her allies several battles to finally defeat him.


 * Simon Ardvin / Captain Aardwulf: A madman Meethex that escapes from Arfaas' lab in deep southern Texas. He steals the Ming-Yo, and uses it to hold Toklisana and Chimerica hostage.  His transformation causes him to crave eating termites, a side effect of being merged with an aardwolf and a hyena.  He becomes the main antagonist of season three.  The source animals he was merged with was due to Arfaas' team deciding to try it out.  They were short on wolf DNA to use for the test, and tried aardwolf and hyena DNA as substitutes.


 * Victor Nanale: Leader of the Kerpher Gang. This band of ruthless pedophile sex traders becomes one of the major sources of conflict for Ciem to battle in season 2 in addition to dealing with the plot to save Donte.  Victor is more efficient and intelligent of a villain in this version than he was in Classic and Comprehensive Geroshas, meaning it takes longer for Ciem and her friends to finally take him down.

Guest characters
Several other heroes and villains from chronologically-prior stories in the Cataclysmic Gerosha universe, along with reinterpreted versions of heroes and villains from previous universes, show up from time to time. Below is a partial list of the big names that appear.

Several of the heroes end up merging with the core team to form the Sodality of Gerosha (SoG,) which fights for its own survival against Judge Beliah's efforts to have them all eliminated.

Sodality of Gerosha heroes

 * Eric Stanley Opendi / Extirpon: One of the most powerful Marlquaanites that ever lived. He is an Emotion Eater, who gains his power from the pride and arrogance of his enemies.  He has gone missing, and it becomes the heroes' goal in season four to retrieve him.  In spite his power driving him to the brink of insanity, he becomes the only being powerful enough to save Toklisanans from the mad and corrupt political forces they face.  When especially angry, he assumes the form of a rock-like being with magenta-glowing magma appearing through crevices.  He develops glowing-blue eyes, and a devil-like voice.  He is known for warping the fabric of reality itself, often to produce means of torturing and killing his victims in over-the-top ways.  The thought of releasing him his viewed with extreme caution, just as one would be very careful about inviting Ghost Rider or Spawn to a fight.


 * Hea Pang: A single mother who bears possession of an artifact known as Hester's locket, which can forge Marlquaan bonds or take them away. She is primarily an ally of the Gray Champion, but possesses no powers herself.


 * Marge Ramirez / Mapacha: A "fire racoon"-themed woman who used to be a vigilante protecting Miami. She is revealed in Chillingworth's Revenge to be John Domeck's long-lost daughter.


 * John Domeck / The Gray Champion: A ghost mimicry-themed Marlquaanite who traveled through a time stream to end up in the 21st century. He was born in the 17th century, and first arrived in Boston.  He is named after Hawthorne's protagonist, and has a few mannerisms typical of a Puritan from his original time period.  He can transfer himself through electrical wires.  While he can be hot-tempered at times, and does not hesitate to smite evil, he is also at times very understanding.  He's also loyal to those he deems his friends.  He is all-the-same considered extremely dangerous by the regimes of all four countries; but is not treated with the same fear and contempt as Extirpon.  This is due to the fact that when he takes out an enemy target, he exercises a little more restraint.  He is willing to work with Extirpon if pressed; though he finds Extirpon's appearance "slightly demonic and off-putting."  In their fight against Judge Beliah, the two heroes have a shaky alliance.  He prefers the company of Hea Pang, whom he's come to view as a granddaughter.  He also prefers the company of Mapacha.


 * Ron Barrin / Pilltar II: Stephanie Barrin's father, who takes over piloting Pilltar following the death of Seth Lambrelli. His remote-control avatar is a silvery pill but that stands around 3 ft. tall.  It is similar to the Hammeroids in Iron Man 2, except the pilot's mind is partially inside the machine being piloted, and the robot is Munchkin-sized with a beetle-like back.


 * Stephanie Barrin / Strawberry: Stephanie was an understudy of Seth Lambrelli, inventor of the Pilltar unit. She was part of a very strict denomination; but was kicked out of school for adopting a more compassionate attitude.  She eventually became the pilot of Strawberry, a pink-colored version of Pilltar with blue rather than green optics.  When not piloting Strawberry, Stephanie served as a base command consultant for Pilltar.  She convinced her father to take over piloting Pilltar after Seth Lambrelli's death.


 * Charlotte Yamamura / Mukade: A Japanese Centhuen Prototype with similar powers to Ciem. She ends up studying abroad, when she meets and falls in love with a displaced Cajun named Kyle Freneti.  The two of them end up assisting the Sodality of Gerosha in fighting Milp.  However, they don't officially join the Sodality until Judge Beliah threatens to outlaw the existence of all Phexos.


 * Kyle Freneti / Meerkat: A Phexo with jumping abilities similar to those of Jackrabbit. Kyle is originally from New Orleans, and carries a Cajun accent.  He is flirty like Jackrabbit too, but not as awkward about it.  The fact that he is very hairy and blonde has led to him being referred to as "the Meerkat."  He follows Charlotte into Texas to help the Sodality defeat Milp, who was one of Mukade's archenemies in Japan.


 * Vince Finton / Navyrope: A freedom fighter originally of Irish descent. He makes a home for himself in Oklahoma City.  He began his career by exposing and putting a stop to kidnappings and forced abortions.  His vigilante efforts to spare women from force and coercion earned him the ire of the UN and its Agenda 21 advocates.  Planned Parenthood also lobbied to have him declared a public enemy, since his efforts cost their clinics money.  After exposing a few corrupt CPS agents, that agency also came to view him as a threat.  A massive campaign was started by MoveOn and other far-left agencies to have him branded a "terrorist."  After he and his assistance Stephanie discredited the FPB, and also exposed an underground, government-backed black market for harvesting stolen organs, he became the target of a ginormous manhunt.

While he aims as often as possible not to kill, he is treated by the Obama regime with the same contempt as was shown to V by the Norsefire Regime in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. Instead of falling for Tiffany like V does for Evey, Navyrope views Tiffany as a niece or goddaughter. He was made immune to HIV due to the Marlquaanite storm that created the Gray Champion and Extirpon. However, this makes him prone to being trapped in a Marlquaanite prison. He becomes one of several heroes to become trapped in one and hidden somewhere in Chimerica. Beliah and his underlings plot an eventual mass public execution of captured Phexos and Marlquaanites, similar to the one Duke Arfaas had planned to host during his invasion of Houston. As it turns out, Beliah was once good friends with the villain Clarence Felick. Felick was notorious for killing his enemies by weaponizing HIV and infecting them. Therefore, Felick's defeat by Navyrope was something Beliah took very personally.


 * Tiffany Sterlie: Navyrope's sidekick. She started working for him after he saved her from her abusive ex-boyfriend, who was trying to abduct her and drag her at gunpoint into an abortion clinic.  Due to her being a black conservative, which Beliah and company believe "should not logically exist," Beliah views her with special contempt.

Miscellaneous villains

 * Eric Copperton / Cupric: A thief and small-time supervillain who uses copper-themed gadgets and commits crimes that involve copper.


 * Ronald Perry Cilian / Rockpapsci: A highly-durable-skinned criminal and eco-terrorist who targets publishing firms and shuts them down in an effort to "save the trees." He is very prone to using knives and other sharp objects to defend himself with.  Realizing his nature, he names himself "Rockpapsci" as a play on "rock, paper, scissors."


 * Jennifer Clankton / Jawknee: A young woman who was turned into an insane, green-feathered chicken monster. She has telepathic control of all birds, and commands them as her minions.  She attacks and kills at random.  The Meethlite scientists who created her were hoping more of her mind would survive the transformation, and that she might be of use to them.  They were wrong.  Her chicken side begins taking over, and becomes very aggressive.  Her villain name is the result of how she tries to pronounce her original name of "Jenny" when her vowels start to resemble chicken clucks.  She sounds absurd to those who haven't seen her; but proves deadly to many of those who have.


 * Wayne "the Vampire" Norfine: A cowardly sexual predator with a partial vampire transformation. He was engineered that way by the Phaelites, but switched sides to join Arfaas' army.  In spite being more of a vampire than Don the Psycho, Wayne is a very unskilled fighter.  He evades capture and defeat more by way of his effective evasive maneuvers than by anything else.  He likes to rely on trickery to get out of situations that go wrong, rather than his brute strength.  Even so, it only takes a few battles for the team to finally defeat him.


 * Kimiyato Hiriyama / Milp: A ninja assassin with millipede powers. She models her suit after stolen Ciem suit technology, which was acquired when one of Imaki's bases came under attack.  She cannot take the whole team; but she does pride herself in fancying herself as the one who will kill Ciem for Arfaas.  She ends up instead having a fierce personal rivalry with the Earwig.  She tries to use psychological traps to get the best of Candi, and to get past her centuition.  Kimi is originally from Japan, and had a brief affair with Duke Arfaas.  She was trained for her job ever since the age of four, when she discovered she was a Meethexo.  Her millipede abilities let her climb walls and spray caustic chemicals at her adversaries.  She is also skilled with a sword.  The supernatural elements of her Classic Gerosha counterpart, and her rivalry with Angie Levens, are nowhere to be found in this version.


 * Jeff the Invisible: One of many hitmen sent to assassinate Ciem and Emeraldon while they are still trapped in Ameristan. He has the unique ability to make himself partially invisible to the naked eye.