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| - Yes. So. Click here for the main page. This'll be added to by the author sporadically, but feel free to add what you think should be. The (at the end of the story) fourteen-year-old female protagonist of the aforementioned story. She, among other things, has a very traumatic past, a deep-seated loathing of things magical, and problems relating to people. She's quite a Manipulative Bastard. She was the Rebel Leader for a short while, but was kicked out after being defeated devastatingly during the Krastone raid. Has two siblings, one brother and one sister. Tropes associated with her include:
* Action Girl: Well, yeah.
* Angst? What Angst?: Dude, her brother's a vampire. And not even the hot, sparkly kind.
* Bad Dreams: They're just never shown on screen. She doesn't feel the need to angst about these things, unlike some other, more 'heroic' characters.
* Berserk Button: Go ahead, mention the Krastone battle, her family, dogs, her hypocrisy over some things, we dare you.
* Berserker Tears: After the kiss scene.
* Deadpan Snarker
* Fatal Flaw: She does really hate physical attention.
* Good Is Not Nice
* Hates Being Touched: Turns out to be what brings her downfall.
* Heroic BSOD
* Hero with an F In Good
* Improbable Age: Twelve-year-old resistance leader, anyone?
* Jade Coloured Glasses: Stems from the backstory.
* Meaningful Rename: Vallian's not her original name; it's a thinly-veiled (and lampshaded) respelling of 'valiant'. Her real name is Carie Pirenci.
* No Name Given: Except in the script, where it reveals her surname in a bit of foreshadowing.
* Rebel Leader: Former, anyway.
* Redheaded Hero: With blue eyes and freckles, even.
* That Man Is Dead: Carie does not exist anymore. Paraphrased, but still.
* Verbal Tic: She adds 'hell' to her speech sometimes, like 'what the hell is this?' for 'what is this?', ekcetera.
* Vetinari Job Security: The only reason she even goes to try and stop things is because no one else will. And then when someone else does, they fail miserably. As of the end of the thing, he's fourteen and officially a regicide who loathes his older brother. Also the male protagonist. You could say he's a Knight in Sour Armor, but that's a bit inaccurate. Why not go by tropes he's been known to associate with him, instead? Has two siblings, one brother and one sister.
* Annoying Younger Sibling: To his Sociopathic Soldier older brother.
* Berserk Button: He's a firm believer in rights for the people. Also don't steal things.
* Blood on These Hands: After he kills Nalia as he thinks she's still innocent.
* Blue Blood
* Cain and Abel: Morley's the Abel.
* Cluster F-Bomb: "Ef. Effing ef ef ef."
* Curse Cut Short: Quite a few after Hane cuts off his swearing.
* Deadpan Snarker: Sometimes.
* Did Not Do the Research: With necromancers.
* Fallen Hero
* Fatal Flaw: His belief in rights for everyone, mayhaps?
* The Hero
* Heroic BSOD: Poor Morley.
* Heroic Vow: A whole code of ethical behaviour, see There Is No Rule Six at the main page for details.
* Mysterious Past
* Odd Friendship: With Hane, and later Vallian.
* These Hands Have Killed: How the author visualizes Morley's Blood on These Hands moment.
* Undying Loyalty: Best summed up by a thing in the info: "And he always trusted Hane, even if it wavered a bit. Always."
* Verbal Tic: Morley does like swearing. A twelve-year-old dead jerkass. One could say her flashback thingy makes her a bit more sympathetic. Has three biological siblings, two sisters and a brother; and one actual sibling, a sister. Tropes associated with her include:
* Bad Dreams: One near the beginning, tis actually a prophecy.
* Berserk Button: With morals. For one thing, her foster father is a necrophiliac pedophile who went on to lead the rebels after Vallian's dishonorable discharge. Does not help with feelings toward Vallian.
* Big No: When she dies.
* Chewbacca Defense: She likes crying to get her way, whether it's in an applicable situation or not.
* Combat Pragmatist
* Does Not Understand Sarcasm: You could say this.
* Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She could live and breathe this trope when not opting to use her Chewbacca Defense.
* Dreaming of Things to Come
* Fatal Flaw: Arrogant, snotty, jerkassy? Yeah, some guys really don't like that.
* Good Flaws, Bad Flaws: Actual snobbery, hypocrisy, self-serving phoniness.
* Good Is Not Nice
* Healing Hands/Healing Factor: Too arrogant and such to really use it.
* Heel Face Revolving Door
* I Am Who?: Bastard daughter of Jonathan Darkloom, lord of Lordstown.
* Kick the Dog
* Killed Off for Real
* Odd Friendship: With Morley.
* Precision F-Strike: During her pre-death chat with Zina.
* Psychic Powers
* Royal Bastard
* Son of a Whore: In case you get confused, the whore is her father, not her mum. Jonathan Darkloom really gets around.
* Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty
* Villain Corner He's partially based off Tavor from Looking for Group, along with a few other things kept from the first draft. The aforementioned elder brother of Morley, Jacob is the suave type of guy, as noted below. He was sent to the army for the kingdom in four-oh-seven, and was apparently so good (or bad, opinions vary on why) that they sent him to be a mole and he lived with the rebels for a while, forming a deal with the main character of the prequel. He's... not a good guy, to say the least. Tropes associated with him include:
* Aloof Big Brother: To Morley, obviously.
* Aristocrats Are Evil
* Berserk Button: His family being matrilineal.
* Blond Guys Are Evil
* Blue Blood
* Broken Ace
* Cain and Abel: The Cain. He does mention dreams of making fratricide legal a few times, and in fact that's the only reason Morley's not dead, because Jacob doesn't want to be kicked from the army.
* Complete Monster
* Evil Is Sexy: In-universe, this is mostly the opinion of him, but reader opinions may and will vary.
* Lust: Jacob has so much, you can't even see the scope of it. He'll screw anyone, but seems to prefer teenaged girls.
* Moral Myopia
* Mysterious Past: It's not really mentioned about his life before joining the army, or Morley's for that matter.
* Royal Brat A vampire, who for some reason has a much smaller role than he was supposed to. He was vampirised four-oh-six by Margo Morgenstern, whom (as barely-satiable bloodlust dictates) he keeled. Let me tell you, he was quite pissed at the development of her not having any blood in her. Tropes associated with him include:
* Above Good and Evil
* A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: His is, yes.
* Bounty Hunter: Sort of.
* Convicted by Public Opinion: In his backstory, everyone thinks he killed his best friend. Which he did, but let's not get into that now.
* Dark and Troubled Past: Though, no, he and the author refuse to believe in Freudian Excuses.
* The Dragon
* Evil Plan: Most people (himself included) believe Ollie's plan is an evil plan. And if the person who made it thinks it is, why shouldn't it be?
* Evil Redhead
* Faking the Dead: In Ollie's backstory, he does this so people won't search for him when he's just been converted. After he kills Margo, of course.
* Magnificent Bastard
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