Something Positive - Cast

Cast

The comic's main characters are Davan MacIntire, Aubrey Chorde, PeeJee Shou, and Jason Chorde (formerly Pratchett). The supporting cast includes Davan's immediate family (Fred and Dahlia MacIntire) and his adopted sister Monette Donelly. Other cast members include Choo-Choo Bear, Davan's boneless cat, Pepito, the enigmatic Spanish-speaking love-midget, and PeeJee's gay friend Jhim. These lesser cast members appeared more frequently in the first two years of the comic, but in recent years their prominence in the story line has diminished.

• Davan Xanthias MacIntire II, born November 24, 1975, grew up in Bedford, Texas, currently lives in Texas, working via phone as an assistant for a wealthy investor in Boston's theater scene, living with and taking care of his ailing father. Davan is characterized by being melancholic, uninterested, cynical, sarcastic and cruel to anyone but his closest friends, and sometimes even to his close friends (although he also shows them a great sense of loyalty, friendship and caring). For the majority of the strip, he and his friends lived in Boston, where he worked in Medicaid Billing and worked in theater. His dating life is poor at best; all of his girlfriends and interests but two (Branwen and Vanessa) either turned out to be crazy or else cheated on him. He considers himself ugly (and many female characters agree with this), but has a fairly long dating history in spite of it. He is also an expert dessert chef thanks to his mother's advice, and also used to draw a webcomic with his friend Jason that led to a close-to-death experience in a webcomic panel. Davan is haunted by the suicide of Scotty, his best friend from childhood and the death of their mutual friend and former girlfriend Rose prior to the events of the comic. Davan periodically takes a father role with Donna's son Rory (Donna, his friend and one night stand and former girlfriend of Scotty's).

• Aubrey Chorde, born December 31, 1977, is Davan's closest friend since childhood. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, she later followed Davan to Boston. She is characterized by a similar sense of cynicism and sarcasm that the rest of the cast shares. She is also the most impulsive of the cast, frequently working on schemes that range from outlandish adult films to offensive public-access television cable TV shows. Although not as violent as Pee Jee, her schemes frequently lead to a number of injuries and potential danger to anyone involved. Even in her childhood, Aubrey would show glimpses of borderline evil in her ways, which invariably involved Davan getting hurt; this would lead Davan to say that their friendship is based on mutual abuse. She moved in with Jason a few years into the strip's run, and they progressed to lovers, getting married in August 2006. This relationship, her and Jason's adoption of their daughter Pamela Jocelyn (PamJee) as well as the success of Aubrey's business venture Nerdrotica (a phone sex line specifically catering to computer and gaming geeks) have stemmed her impulsive nature considerably, though she still remains the most violent and quick-to-act member of the group. She and Davan are closer than any two other characters in the strip: they continue to call each other by childhood nicknames, "Woogie" (Davan) and "Monkeybutter" (Aubrey). With her permission, Milholland has "outed" American anime voice actress Clarine Harp as the "real-life" Aubrey.

• Penelope-Jennifer "PeeJee" Shou was born October 5, 1976 in Canada, but spent much of her childhood in Singapore. Her best friends are Aubrey (frequently being her accomplice) and Davan, and she is characterized by nearly always having her hair dyed in odd colours (a fairly consistent color is purple and her natural black during her first years on Texas). She met the group on the internet, and moved to Boston when they did. She works in computer science and until recently was the manager of St. James Pub, the group's watering hole. PeeJee is similar to the rest of the cast in terms of cynicism and imagination, but is often hailed as their sanest member. Additionally, she often shows a weaker side by being the first to show pathos or pity on another, as well as being unable to break from relationships which are lost causes. Another running character trait is her unrequited crush for Jhim (who is gay), and speculated (among fans and characters) crush for Davan (returned from his own younger crush on her), not to mention her constant crushes on men who are either gay, or turn out to be gay. She is currently living in Texas helping Davan take care of his father. She has recently expressed her desire to open up and run a new bar.

• Jason Chorde (formerly Pratchett), born March 19, 1972. Jason and Davan met at an audition. Jason was a child prodigy who took collegiate courses as a young teen. Early on, his primary character traits were an inexplicable luck with women (he is overweight and as sarcastic as the rest of his group), explained away as a mathematical formula for short-term dating success, and his elaborate schemes (the biggest of all being "Nailed!: The Musical"). Jason is also the most placid and non-violent member of the group, and has a very close relationship with his mother and sister. His father, who was emotionally abusive, left the family when Jason was a young boy. For much of the strip's first few years, Jason was portrayed as a womanizer who was willing to do anything for sex and violently feared commitment. This changed when he and Aubrey moved in together at the end of 2003, an arrangement that led to their getting married in August 2006 and eventually adopting a child. He took her last name, wishing to distance himself from his father. The real Jason (whose name is Josh Pritchard) handles S*P's ad sales.