>Ronnie is an overweight, social-recluse cartoonist who suffers from frequent anxiety attacks and very low self-esteem.
>He is obsessed with anime and McNuggets, and is shown to have poor grooming habits.
>Many of the strips' jokes use Ronnie's social anxiety and obesity as a source of humor.
>Ronnie is completely rotund and sports a scrubby beard, of which he appears to be enormously proud, allowing others to touch and feel it.
>Ronnie is depicted as depressed, with some strips showing comical suicide attempts, and excerpts from his journal which claim that everyone hates him.
>Agrias is Ronnie's housemate.
>Sensible and down-to-earth, she does not share Ronnie's poor grooming or dietary habits.
>Agrias appears to find Ronnie's character repulsive, and as such, the comics do not explore any romantic possibility between the pair (to the point of Agrias assuming that Ronnie is gay)
>Motivation Dude is an anthropomorphic representation of Ronnie's motivation (or lack thereof).
>"M-dude" takes sadistic pleasure in savagely beating, humiliating and demeaning Ronnie for his laziness and his physical appearance.
>He is described by the author as "a simple portrayal of my own self-loathing".
>M-Dude also displays occasional homo-erotic behaviour toward Ronnie (more specifically, Ronnie's belly).