The Wotch: Cheer!

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The Wotch: Cheer!
The Cheer! Squad: (In a "Z" pattern) Alex, Jo, Lita, and Sam
Author(s)	Tselsebar
Website	http://cheer.thewotch.com/
Update schedule	Updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
Launch date	2005 August 9 [1]
Genre	Fantasy

The Wotch: Cheer! is an official spin-off of the webcomic The Wotch by a Wotch fan named Tselsebar. It follows the adventures of the Tandy Gardens High cheerleaders Alexandra King, Cher Lita Harper, Samantha Smith, and Joanna Colleen Star, who unbeknownst to themselves were football jocks/bullies until they ran afoul of the personified feminist side of a powerful magic user. The group (known to most Wotchers as "The Cheer! Squad") has decided that it's their mission to get everyone to actually come to the school's sporting events and raise school spirit. The comic is mostly in canon with The Wotch, but what is and what isn't is decided by Anne Onymous.

1 Characters
- 1.1 The Cheer! Squad
- 1.2 Important Others
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Characters

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[edit] The Cheer! Squad

Alexandra King (formerly Aaron King) – Alex is the leader of the squad. Highly intelligent, articulate, poetic and charismatic, she cares very much about cheerleading and school spirit. Fans widely consider Alex the leggy one, and her outfit includes a short skirt and thigh-high stockings. Alex can occasionally lose sight of more important things in view of her goal, but her heart is in the right place. On occasion, Alex can get distracted while focused on another subject and will start to talk about both subjects at once, leading to an amusing form of "Double-Talk" that has become a well-loved running joke. She also harbors a deep fascination with the military in general, and with howitzers in particular. Recently, when angered, Alex has grown increasingly violent, along with sprouting horns, leathery wings, pointed ears, and a tail. Nobody, including Alex, has noticed this except for Jo.

Samantha Smith (formerly Gene Smith) – Sam is the shy and quiet one. She is fragile and easily offended, but also incredibly creative. She and Alex are very good friends, and Alex acts as her voice of encouragement. Naturally, this makes any criticism from her devastating to Sam. She wears the school's standard issue outfit, but she designed and made special outfits for the rest of the Cheer! Squad, based on their most prominent physical attributes in an attempt to raise school spirit, or at least make more boys come to the games. For some reason, she also knows how to pick locks. Sam also seems to have a crush on Robin Ericson.

Cher Lita Harper (formerly Sunny Leo Harper) – Lita is "the magnet". She pays little attention to the cheerleading squad; at times it is almost as if she joined the group simply to hang out with Alex, Sam and Jo. Instead, Lita harbors a fangirlish interest in Dungeons & Dragons, to the point that she occasionally treats the universe as a role-playing game. She often plays it with the school's self-proclaimed nerd clique; to them, she is known as the "Dark Lady of Shadows" and other such monikers. In "The Wotch", Lita found and adopted the WereKitty that turned Katie into a Werecat. That, her strength, and her incredibly carnivorous eating habits lead most Wotchers to believe that Lita is also a felinthrope. Confident almost to the point of egotism, she is gifted with an ample bust, and has few qualms about using her feminine wiles to her own and the Cheer! squad's advantage (and apparently without regard for the target's gender[2], though that may just have been a joke). She has seven siblings: the youngest and extremely affectionate Mandy; Johnny, her mischievous brother; Jen and Ben, two fraternal twins; April, preferred to be known as Rain, a depressed, antisocial Goth girl (A.K.A. Gothic Lolita Impatience Girl); Summer, a woman as cheerful and affectionate as Mandy, and Shawn, the eldest, a slacker who still lives with his parents.

Joanna Colleen Star (formerly Colin Star) - Jo fills the token "ditzy and fun-loving" role. She remains almost constantly cheerful and upbeat, and although she seems incredibly naïve at times, on occasion she shows observant, intelligent, and possibly psychic insight -- almost to the point of precognition. She sleeps with a multitude of stuffed animals in her bed. Although the entire squad loves Jo, they find her supposed precognitive ability a bit scary, especially when she makes oddly specific predictions that end up coming true. She is very fit and athletic, and wears an outfit with a cut-off halter top to show off her midriff, as well as a knee brace on her left knee. She had torn all the ligaments in her left knee once during cheerleading practice, and acted as though it had merely been scraped. Jo is an avid fan of "Magical Girl" shōjo anime, particularly a fictional series called Windjammer Luna (an obvious play on Sailor Moon). Receiving an enchanted wand from a Burger Barn Happy Combo has not helped this obsession, although the only enchantment it has shown so far is the ability to fit in spaces much smaller than it is. Jo is the only one who remembers her and her friend's previous lives, and has apparently known all along. She's been keeping it a secret this whole time because she's seen how much happier her friends are now, but the secret has been welling up inside of her, and seems to have become too much for her.

[edit] Important Others

Lindsay Verte - Lindsay is an extremely wealthy girl who holds a mutual grudge against Alex. Evidently, she had tried out for the Cheer! Squad at some point, but Alex turned her down. Despite her and Alex's problems, as well as her own snobbish demeanor, Lindsay is a decent person at heart and recently seems to be getting along fairly well with the Cheerladies. Lindsay doesn't want to be recognized for being rich, and is trying to live like a normal girl, no matter how her father tries to keep her from it. Although she isn't aware of it, there is something suspicious about the Verte family, which apparently offers her immunity from Agents 29 and 32.

Tamara Cass - Tamara was one of the most popular girls in school before the Cheer! Squad came along and overthrew her popularity practically overnight. To make matters worse, Lindsay Verte, the richest girl in Tandy, stopped hanging out with her and her friends to try out for the Cheer! Squad, taking away their access to platinum credit accounts. The combination of these two events infuriated Tamara, and out of envy, she has since been attempting to sabotage the Cheer! Squad's success. Recently, she succeeded in sabotaging the gymnasium's sprinkler system during an important basketball game -- drenching the fans, the players and the Cheer! squad and forcing them to cancel the game. However, she could not get down from the rafters and was the only one to witness a dark ritual performed by the Agents and the suspicious organization they work for. Tamara seems to have emerged unharmed from observing the ritual, although she is now somewhat paranoid, and references an as of yet unexplained incident of someone "taking control of her brain."

Agents 29 and 32 - Two mysterious agents of an equally mysterious organization that has some sort of connection with the Verte family. The Agents have been assigned to make sure the Tandy Gardens gymnasium is empty before 7:12 PM. They cannot be seen or heard consciously by anyone in the area except, strangely, for Jo. Because Jo can see them, they were unable to do anything to sabotage the game without her noticing, and since Jo was one of the cheerleaders, and therefore one of the centers of attention, they couldn't get rid of her. Fortunately for them, Tamara, who had gone up to the rafters beforehand to sabotage the game herself, activated the sprinklers and allowed the agents to perform their ritual. Agent 29, a tall, brown-haired man with spectacles, is perpetually cool-headed and patient. Agent 32 is his polar opposite. An attractive and often foul-tempered young woman, she tends to panic under pressure from her superiors, and thereby provides the comic relief of the duo. More recently, Agent 32 accidentally became the principal of Tandy Gardens after "banishing" the previous principal and subsequently being caught in his office by Alex, Lita, and Professor Madison.

The Ekaltsew Cheerleaders - Also know as the Anti-Cheer! Squad, the Bizarro-Cheer! Squad, or the !reehC Squad, the cheerleaders from Tandy Gardens' main rival, Ekaltsew, are self-obsessed, unintelligent, and rude. The Ekalsew Cheerleaders really couldn't care less about the team and tend to cheer for themselves instead of Ekaltsew. They're also incredibly rich, but when presented with Lindsay Verte, they tend to lapse into fits of poverty from Lindsay's infinitely superior wealth... +6.

Peter Hall - Formerly the student council president, Peter was abducted by Agent 29 due to orders from the former principal of Tandy. Soon after O'Brian's banishment, 29 chose to have Peter's mind put into the body of a teenage girl rather than kill him/her. She was recently told by 29 to seek out Jo.

Tselsebar - The author of the comic, who appears in almost every filler. In his first appearance in a filler comic, he was *Ka-Asking-For-It*'d into a girl by Anne. As a girl she has a very large amount of hair, and in a recent filler strip, when asked why she hasn't been turned back into a guy yet, she said that when she tosses her hair, there's enough in both the front and back to make her look like Cousin It from The Addams Family. In a dream she had, she enacted a parody of El Goonish Shive by touching the Demajicking Crystal, which splits Tselsebar into a Male Tsel and a Female Lawyer Tsel who sues him for plagiarism.

It is unclear if Tsel has been split, as many fillers include both a male Tsel and a female Tsel, usually involving the male-Tsel doing something stupid or chasing what appears to be a small demon melon. Any other characters can be found in The Wotch's Wikipedia Article