“Official” Rosters

Heaven's Little Sweethearts and Hecks Little Stinkers

Heaven's Halos Troop Lil’ Debils Gang Hot Stuffins Gaggle Heck's UNCouncil

A semi-complete roll call of the littlest helpers, sweethearts, rascals, stinkers, and hotheads who flutter, scamper, sparkle, bicker, and otherwise wander in and out of Pawpaw's neighborhood.

Rosters Disclaimer: Memberships are subject to whim, mischief, heavenly intervention, administrative confusion, the occasional unexplained "oops," and other irregularities beyond anyone's ability to rationally explain. And it's anyone's guess as to why these particularities show up in Pawpaw's Neighborhood of all places.

The Heaven's Halos Troop Roster

Heaven’s all-girl troop of heavenly little sweethearts. The usual batch includes, but is by no means limited to…

• The Regulars
• Blessie (the Leader) — Heaven's avenging-adorable cupcake.
• Brighteny — Steady and always glowing just a little brighter when she’s helping someone.
• Glowie — Smiles constantly. You can tell how happy she is by how brightly her halo glows.
• Joy* — Unofficial Heavenly Halo. She'll come and go like the wind
  
• Blissy — Always floats around like a bubble in a dreamlike state, just as happy as can be.
• Cheery — Pink haired cherub who is always cheery. Has a musical laugh, loves bells, spreads joy, has never once frowned.
• Wondera — Perpetually in awe of heaven's miracles, and likes to find little things that she can set right.
• Thankie — Spreads gratitude around, most sincerely too.
• Sharey — Shares snacks, halos, crayons, blessings, hugs, and inspiration.
• Twinklebit — Tiny, sparkly, impeccably clean at all times. Glitters even in the dark.
  

• Other Heavenly Sweethearts
  Honeydrop — Sweet, gentle, smells faintly of warm bread. Bees adore her.
  Daisywink — Gracie-adjacent energy; loves flowers and doodles and ladybugs
  Cuppie — shaped like a hug; always offering comfort
  Bumblebless — Heavenly Halos clumsy, sweet, always bumping into felicity

* Joy's real name is Joytastrophically-​Gigglina-​Blesshue-​Hallelujoodle

The Lil' Debil Gang Roster

Heck's all-boy gang. A notorious, ridiculously pesky, no-good little gang of devils who specialize in arguing, fighting, fussing, complaining, insults, mockery, and—most importantly—persistent obduracy and noncooperation. They are dangerous mainly because they can't seem to agree on anything long enough to be effective.

Heck’s all-boy gang of notoriously pesky little stinkers. The usual batch includes, but is by no means limited to…

• The Regular Rascals
• Grumbles — The giant leader of the Lil' Debils. A loud, discontented blusterer who likes hearing himself talk and has grandiose, malodorous ambitions. He tries to intimidate the angels, throws waves of discontent around, and generally assumes being the biggest makes him the boss. Unfortunately, he is also spectacularly easy to embarrass.
• Snide — The crooked-nosed blusterer and professional dispenser of contempt. He prides himself on being nasty, insults the angels, complains about their blessedness, and talks considerably more than he accomplishes. Unfortunately for Snide, his own cousin Snip has an inexplicable attachment to him.
• Snip — Snide’s not‑too‑bright cousin; too proud to think before he speaks. Strangely attached to his cousin Snide...usually like a snapping turtle.
• Sneer — Jeers and sneers, taunts and smirks. He stomps, jeers, threatens, mocks, and fires off petty insults, derision, and questionable accusations. He has plenty of sass but considerably less success.
• Snark — The demented commentator and mocker. He specializes in sarcastic observations, derisive remarks, and generally saying something unpleasant about whatever is happening.
• Sneek — Quiet, shifty, always where he shouldn’t be — especially where you think he isn’t. Slithers around behind shadows, prefers not to be seen, and is always looking for somewhere dark to hide. Unfortunately, Gracie's light tends to ruin his entire business model.
• Gripes — Sometimes little Heck's gatekeeper. Stubborn, blockheaded, and unwilling to put up with a thought, a suggestion, or practically anything practical.
• The Big Guy — Let’s not forget the Big Guy. He’s “in charge” of the Lil’ Debils‑type gangs — a real devil wannabe, a copycat about as good as a farcical parody.

• Other No-good Baddies
  Snub — He turns his nose up at everything; even at things he wants
  Scram — He's more about what everyone wants him to do than what he is. He stomps around alot.
  Stingy — His defining characteristic is meanness and unwillingness to give up anything willingly.
  Pesky — One of the gang's additional no-good nuisances. As his name suggests, he belongs naturally among the persistent annoyances who make up Heck's troublesome rabble.

The Hot Stuffins Gaggle Roster

Heck’s all-girl gaggle of fiery little mischief-makers. The usual batch includes, but is by no means limited to…

• The Usual Hotheads
• Stuffins — Oversized leader who lost her comb (it’s actually stuck in her hair). Proudly wears oversized clothes and an undersized shirt while insisting it’s all a fashion statement. Specializes in strutting and bossing.
• Bratty (and her Batty) — She’s a brat, of course, a pint‑sized tantrum queen. Always accompanied by her bat Batty, who lives in her house‑hat and spends the whole time acting out her mood on top of her head — even holding up her wire‑hanger halo while she’s blathering.
• Temptina — A troublemaker who is absolutely convinced she's irresistible. Constantly tries to lure others into mischief and purrs nearly every sentence with a wink.
• Tattytell — Absolutely the supreme tattler, carrying around rumors, scandals, gossip, and “scuttlebutts.”
• Sassy — The attitude engine; communicates mostly in eye‑rolls and hair flips.
• Saucy — Flirty, fiery, and always ready with a “you didn’t hear it from me.”
• Brashina — Bold, loud, and allergic to subtlety.
• SizzleFlame — Gets so worked up that nearby objects occasionally catch fire. She insists this is unrelated.
  

• Other Sinister Sassy Sparks
  Chaotica — A wide-eyed and ongoing disaster. Her hair is a mess, her clothes are a mess, her plans are chaotic. Somehow she manages not to manage anything.
  Shinenot — Absolutely refuses to shine. But, her temper has other ideas.
  Sufferins — Treats every minor inconvenience as though she's been sentenced an eternal burden. Usually standing too close to SizzleFlame or Shinenot's perogatives.
  Whiney — A nasally little whiner who makes absolutely certain everyone knows whenever she doesn’t like something—which seems to be whenever she's in the mood. Inexplicality demands she gets assigned tasks that no one would envy, as if to give her a cue.

Heck's UNCouncil

The Oh-NO! gathering of some of Heck's most disagreeable disfunctionaries. Whether it is actually a council remains debatable, but they disassemble together to fuss on important matters such as Pawpaw, angels, churches, other delightful providentials and felicitousters who are succinctly and specifically none of their businesses.

The usual malformed malcontents include: Indifference, Worthless, Doubt, Loneliness, Emptiness, Cold, Disgust, Reproach, Contention, Revile, Envy, Forgotten, and others who may wander in when sufficiently disagreeabling.

Recurring Troublemakers…

Loneliness, Emptiness & Cold — A miserable little trio of lurking devils who tend to show up together wherever loneliness, emptiness, discouragement, or coldness might haunt. They are sneaky, gloomy, and usually successful whisperers. Individually troublesome; together, considerably more successful. They are used to easy wins, so Pawpaw and his lot are especially bothersome for them. Incidentally, they see enthusiastically cheery little cherubs as most fearsome critters.

Indifference, Worthless, and Doubt — Three particularly formidable devils who wait for the right moments to sneak attack Heaven's best. And they have their blind sights set on faithful Pawpaw, the veteran saint of naturally good fortitudinous with appositely angelic dialectical vocabulary… or foreverabouts. And they most extensively, comprehensively, and all-inclusively very much do not like such.