The Authors Five

The Authors Five is a rtitles bestoyed to the five characters who act as staff to the series, even though they are technically never shown to be doing anything.

The Author
The Author is the one who supposedly writes all of the story, though he is never actually seen doing any labor. In fact, the only things he';s been shown doing is annoying evertyone and forcing Rick Rickrickrick to do menial, pointless acts of labour.

Machiavelli
Machiavelli is first described in Chapter 17: Normality, along with Glitter. He is described as The Author's goldfish, and is mentioned to be the stunt double for every character.

Eff Ecks
His name being an obvious pun on FX, Eff Ecks is in charge of the sound effects in the story. He is shown to hate Zub, as seen when he described random, irrelevant objects in the first few chapters, as well as in his arc's flavour text.

Glitter
Glitter was first mentioned in passing in Chapter 17, along with Machiavelli. She is currently in a mental ward, described by The Author as 'a psychotic murderer'. She also controls what the individual characters do.

Rick Rickrickrick
While not technically part of the group, Rick Rickrickrick is The Author's assistant, doing all sotrs of pointless jobs to appease hjis master.