Xeneth is, in short, the main character to a comedy. He's an in-your-face slapstick comedy which is entirely ridiculous and involuntary. He is, however, aware.
Austeraud is a different, voluntary comedy. He's playing comic relief to a comedian. He has a dry, witty, humor, standing at a comfortable, more proper distance from your face. He's a peanut gallery for the world.
It is for this reason both get along so well. Both play an aware comedian. Ethel, in contrast plays an involuntary, unaware comedienne who wishes to play a serious, dramatic character.
Fues gets along with Austerad because he also plays an understated comic relief with his wit. However, he also gets along with Ethel because he is unaware, like Xeneth. He was, originally created as a romantic interest for Ethel.
Ethel is, as it stands the only one of the bunch I felt compelled to place in a relationship. Ethel is also the only other dynamic character (aside from Xeneth). She is the only other one I want to have a change. I want her to have have a fairytale ending. Every time she's down, she quietly comes back flying her flag behind loud gestures. She's really who I root for.
Xeneth is, as I imagined, at his end. He's Dynamic, but there's no grand story left. He's simply a man who still has a lot to learn in life, but no reason to learn it.
Although not part of the same story, they are in the world and past things have happened.
Dave attended a university at which Fues was a tragically incomprehensible alchemy professor, and Ethel taught entry-level witchcraft. Dave was apprenticed to Fues for many years after graduating, due to his fear for the real world, and somewhat enjoying the contained environment. Fues and Ethel were the male and female deans of students respectively.
Jake came last in the planning, although he's only the second-youngest. As a necromancer, he tried to order Xeneth and Auseraud around. Xeneth did what he was told, because he's easy to manipulate. Austeraud kept his pride as a free-willed undead and refused him. This is the only time he has ever tried to speak French.
Although Dave was already in a relationship upon Jake's entry to the world (Jake's idea came many months before he did) I could now see them in a relationship. Dave (who is, by the way, also a dynamic character) has an irrepressible need to feel he is the object of many anonymous onlookers. Jake has an obsession with material possessions, and feels everyone should please him.
That is, he wants to be the subject of worship. It is a mutual pre-occupation with money (negative in Dave's case) with money and material possessions, but also Dave's desire for objectivity. This makes a Subject-Object relationship. They also both play as unaware comedians. Jake, however, wants to be a more serious dramatic character (meaning he could relate and sympathize with Ethel). Dave, however plays an aware Drama character, who has a flip-side of unaware comedy. He does not, however, have any desire to be either, possibly due to the fact he is both at different times. He is also the only serious character.
Xeneth is someone who, originally, I could never see in a relationship. I did, however, picture him having some taboo repressed sexual urge.
In one of the first situations I wrote them, even before Ethel, Xeneth embarrassed Austeraud at a party by getting drunk and getting frisky with a plant. This gag was extended to show his repressed urge. Alcohol is a wonderful tool to remove our sensibility and programmed social taboos.
The other interesting things are that the sun will be his death, while plants thrive on it, and that his various plant lovers are almost named after puns on plant names, and quite often are called Fern.