Triangle and Robert - Characters

Characters

• Triangle (an equilateral triangle) - The protagonist, and the 'chosen one' of the Time of the Oval. With Robert, he runs a 'Wacky Scheme Consultant' business.
• Robert (a rhombus) - Triangle's sidekick, and the source of much zaniness. His schemes, always wacky, often verging on absurd, work out a surprising amount of the time.
• Cube (a cube) - An archaeologist who has been involved in researching the history of their world. He is somewhat secretive, and extremely skeptical of the Cartoonist and his perceived bumblings.
• Orpuddex (a ghost-shape) - The Pudding-Watcher, keeper of the Pudding Factory of the Dead, and possibly sentry of the igneous food group. Initially presented as evil and bent on the destruction of all that is not smooth pudding, he figures into the plot in increasingly complicated ways.
• Mr. Disease - Restaurateur, cuisine magician, and sentry of the metamorphic food group. Mr. Disease trained Triangle in cuisine magic, and his advice and Chinese food is often appreciated.
• Linda Concarne (a shaded rectangle) - The meat sentry, formerly meat enforcer with the International Culinary Institute. She shouts a lot, sometimes flips out and kills people, and doesn't always get along with the other sentries.
• The Grain Sentry (an equilateral triangle, partly shaded) - The grain sentry, formerly the Food Pyramid, was on the run from the law when he was introduced, having been framed by the International Culinary Institute in an attempt to preserve the doctrine of the food groups. His name cleared by Triangle and Robert, he has joined the other sentries.
• The Vegetable Sentry (an acute isosceles triangle, point down) - The vegetable sentry was introduced in a deep, coma-like mediation from which Triangle and Robert had to awaken him in order to deal with a threat from Orpuddex.
• The Dairy Sentry (an irregular heptagon) - Originally introduced in an enchanted form as an inverted capital 'G', the dairy sentry was Triangle and Robert's pet dog prior to his disenchantment by the power of the bone of the Starham.
• The Cornersheep (a rectangular place-holder marked "Insert Super-Intelligent Telepathic Sheep") - The Cornersheep is a super-intelligent telepathic sheep and sometime arch-villain, created when Robert's attempt to rustle sheep by hotwiring them went wrong. Triangle and Robert then gave up sheep rustling in favor of wacky scheme consulting. The Cornersheep commands a herd of ordinary sheep from a headquarters in Scotland, and occasionally makes trouble.
• Prozac the Bear (a prozac capsule) - Probably the weirdest character, Prozac is shunned and feared by the other characters. He is a representation of the Cartoonist's incompetence - meaning he shows up whenever the Cartoonist loses his grip on the plot of the strip, or when the characters are questioning him too much and he panics. He has no continuity (illustrated by the incident in which he becomes a small planet for no apparent reason, leading Triangle to exclaim "He's a being with no continuity. There's no reason for him NOT to be a massive dusty planetoid that we've inadvertently landed on") and usually just barely makes enough sense to be part of the plot. Recently was given an origin story in an attempt to bind him to the strip's rules.
• The MSG entity (not pictured) - An entity which emerged from the world's supply of MSG gaining consciousness. It is able to influence the plot by forming itself into shapes, such as a dome or spaceship.
• The Cartoonist (not pictured) - The Cartoonist has an ambiguous relationship with his creations, but continues to draw Triangle and Robert despite criticisms from inside the strip, and sometimes despite his paint program not working properly, forcing a temporary text-only mode.
• The Beforings (not pictured) - The Beforings seem to be creators of Triangle and Robert's universe in a different sense than the Cartoonist is. They lie outside of time, and appear about once a year to remark on how things are going.