History Characters / AlexandraQuick

* HeroicBastard

* ParentalAbandonment

* SkilledButNaive

* BondCreature

* EmpathyPet

* DeadpanSnarker

* HairOfGold

* BrattyHalfPint
* CulturalRebel

* InnocentlyInsensitive

* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Duelist Guy]]

* SitcomArchNemesis

* [[spoiler: SanitySlippage]]

* {{Skinwalker}}

* DisappearedDad

* HeWhoFightsMonsters

* NotoriousParent

* CoolBigSis

* CoolBigSis

* PresidentEvil

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* TheGrimReaper

* SentientStars

%%* ActionSurvivor: In the first book and a half before she [[TookALevelInBadass takes her first level in badass.]]

%%* ArrogantKungFuGuy
%%* BadassInDistress: Usually at least once a book.

%%* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Exactly how good of a reason is up for debate.

%%* {{Determinator}}
* DomesticAbuse: Subverted with Torvald. While she can certainly be bitchy, she never really directed much hostility towards him while they were dating.

=* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Darla dies, she changes schools. Unfortunately, it doesn't work: hers is one of the schools that Abraham Thorn targets, and we don't know if she made it out alive when he sank the place.

%% * CatchPhrase: "Whatever works."
* TheCorrupter: Subverted- although at the time it appears that he is manipulating Darla to the Dark side, it is later revealed that she was determined to use Dark Magic all along and he just watched it happen while bilking money out of her in exchange for training and dark artifacts.

%% * DisappearedDad

%% * CoolBigSis

%% * {{Jerkass}}

%% * ArchEnemy: To Abraham Thorn

%% * PresidentEvil

%% * ImplacableMan
%% * ItCanThink
%% * TheJuggernaut
%% * NighInvulnerable
%% * PintSizedPowerhouse

%% * SternChase

%% * ChildhoodFriend
%% * ChildhoodFriendRomance: Seems to be going this way in Book 4.

%% AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Brian.

%% * HumanoidAbomination

%% * PhysicalGod

%% * TimeAbyss

* HurtingHero

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Leader of the resistance and (according to him) one of the five-ten most powerful wizards in the world.

* AboveTheInfluence: Bewi the [[HornyDevils Succu-deer]] finds her feminine wiles are wasted on Maximillian.

* PoisonousFriend: Darla was hers, bringing her in to the Mors Mortis Society, and trying to curse her familiar.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Darla dies, she changes schools. Unfortunately, it doesn't work: hers is one of the schools that Abraham Thorn targets, and we don't know if she made it out alive when he sank the place.

* PoisonousFriend: Darla was hers, ending with Darla trying to kill her.

* PoisonousFriend: To Innocence, Angelique and pretty much everyone else she was ever friends with.

* BerserkButton: Quite a few.
** Implying or stating that she is weak or incompetent because she is female.
** Making maliciously racist, sexist, or homophobic remarks.
** Threatening her friends as a way of attacking her.
** Authority figures or parents deceiving her.
** Mentioning Maximillian as a way of insulting or taunting her, or insulting Maximilian.

* FallenHero: WordOfGod is that he was once truly LawfulGood. By the time we first meet him he's fallen to somewhere on the continuum between very dark ChaoticGood and fairly light ChaoticEvil.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Each of them has a first name that references some mysterious or intimidating figure from biblical or classical mythology, a middle name referencing one of the Furies from greek myth, the surname Grimm which is just badass in and of itself.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: For those who choose to actually use their father's name, which at present is none of them.

* AwesomeMcCoolName

* ActionGirl
** ActionSurvivor: In the first book and a half before she [[TookALevelInBadass takes her first level in badass.]]

* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Duelist Girl]]

The middle sister, the Dean of Charmbridge Academy and one of the most magically and politically powerful witches in the confederation. She is extremely cold, strict, and intimidating with students, including use of both corporal punishment and [[BalefulPolymorph transfiguration]] as punishments. She is the one sent to recruit Alexandra for Charmbridge but Alexandra's generally uncontrollable behaviour and smartass attitude and Dean Grimm's coldness and secrecy ensures that they have an antagonistic relationship. Her familiar is a cat named Galen, though it's later revealed that Galen is her triplet sister Hecate, who has been permanently transformed. It is eventually revealed that the Dean is Alexandra's aunt, with Alexandra being the daughter of Hecate, and has been shielding Alexandra from expulsion since she came to the school. This, however, has done nothing to improve their relationship.

* BalefulPolymorph: Has a reputation for using this as a punishment, though Alexandra suspects they are just rumours. They're not.

* BastardGirlfriend: Subverted with Torvald. While she can certainly be bitchy, she never really directed much hostility towards him while they were dating.

* ByronicHero
* CombatPragmatist
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Exactly how good of a reason is up for debate.
* DarkIsNotEvil
* {{Determinator}}

* WitchSpecies: Inverted: normal humans can do magic, hags are basically just brutes that happen to look like old ladies.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Anna. [[spoiler:It's not until ''Worlds Away'' that she finds out it's genuinely romantic on Anna's part.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: To Alexandra, after failing to dissuade her from going to the Lands Beyond. It's platonic... [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship probably]]... [[HoYay maybe?]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Alex. [[spoiler:And Anna would really like to take it further than just "friendship."]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: In ''Thorn Circle'', she tells Alexandra that she doesn't know who her father is. Alexandra (correctly) accuses her of lying, and Grimm's response is to cane her hands. Later, Alexandra points out that [[{{Hypocrite}} she punished Alexandra for accusing her of lying, directly after lying to her]], and [[MoralEventHorizon doesn't even get an apology.]]

* {{Jerkass}}
** JerkassHasAPoint: Alexandra behaves in ways that would try anyone's patience, usually when Diana gets violent or cruel it's in the cause of getting her to calm down and behave rationally for once.

* AbusiveParents: Downplayed, but present. While not outright physically or verbally abusive towards Alexandra, she is very cold and distant towards her. This is mostly because of how she never actually wanted Alex and being forced to give up on becoming a doctor in order to care for a witch 'daughter' when she herself made her resent her sister -- and of course it didn't improve things that Alexandra was always a handful. She ''does'' care for Alex, though; she just isn't suited to be her mother. At the end of ''Stars Above'', once the truth is out, they start building a better relationship.

* AbusiveParents: Downplayed, but present. While not outright physically or verbally abusive towards Alexandra, she is very cold and distant towards her, downright resenting her at times. This is mostly because of how she never actually wanted Alex and being forced to care for a witch 'daughter' when she herself is a Squib wasn't easy -- and of course it didn't improve things that Alexandra was always a handful. At the end of ''Stars Above'', once the truth is out, they start building a better relationship.

* AbusiveParents: She was always very distant and cold toward Alexandra, mainly because she never actually wanted Alex and having a witch 'daughter' when she's a Squib wasn't easy. Their very cold relationship comes from the combination of Alexandra being a handful and Claudia resenting her. At the end of ''Stars Above'', once the truth is out, they start building a better relationship.

* NotSoDifferent: With Alex. Among the traits they share are arrogance, competitiveness, an inability to refuse a challenge, precocious dueling skill, and a general JerkAss attitude that is held in check by a strong, though well-concealed, conscience and sense of honor. They also mirror each other in that he is highly placed in the Confederation through family connections and has made several statements that show a strong loyalty to the system, while she is connected by family to the Confederation's greatest enemy and has declared that she is an Enemy of The Confederation as well, though not necessarily allied with her father. Although they don't know it at first, they are also both pureblooded members of the elect and the Heirs to powerful aristocratic families.

* NotSoDifferent: She's essentially a slightly less aggressive version of Alex.

* FamousLastWords: "I never meant to hurt anyone."

* {{Expy}}: To [[Lterature/TheHungerGames President Snow]]

* SadistTeacher: In Thorn Circle, Lilith seems to delight in coming up with intricate and psychologically manipulative punishments, and when that fails she actually just pulls out her wand and beats Alex.

* CoolTeacher: The closest Charmbridge seems capable of producing. She's a hardass and a stickler for the rules, but she's the only teacher who ever praises or encourages Alexandra while the other teachers usually mock and belittle her even when she succeeds or excels.

%% * NobleBigot

%% * HeroAntagonist

%% * BlueAndOrangeMorality

%% * DeadpanSnarker

* OpenMouthInsertFoot: He's got a habit of this, ''especially'' in the early books. He never ''means'' to cause offense, but then he'll make some InnocentlyInsensitice remark or a joke goes wrong, and the girls (particularly Consrance and Forbearance) get annoyed or upset with him.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

%%* BadassBookworm

* RhymesOnADime
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Anna.

* AsianAndNerdy

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Alex.

* BlackAndNerdy

* FunetikAksent

%% * SpoiledSweet: Born wealthy and is a little too used to living in luxury, but she's a genuinely kind and friendly person.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Smile so fake that you can feel the slime ooze off the page.

%% * ExtremeDoormat

%% * TheFairFolk

%% * DarkAndTroubledPast
%% * SourSupporter: To Alexandra.

%% * BigBrotherInstinct

* MissingChild: She spends most of 'World Away' having vanished without a trace. Nobody knows where she is, whether she's been kidnapped or has simply run away (which would not be out of character for her). [[spoiler: Alex finds her name in a register stolen from the Confederation's secret archives... which records the day-by-day tallies of the Confederation's [[KilledOffForReal human sacrifices]].]]

* TooCleverByHalf: Far from being an IdiotHero, Alex's self-destructive recklessness actually comes from her being VERY intelligent, enough to make independant plans and schemes, but lacking the forethought to keep in mind the details she HASN'T considered.

* [[InnocentFanserviceGirl InnocentFanserviceGirls]]: While Alex is visiting them in their Ozark village in ''World Away'', they decide to go swimming in the nearby creek. She assumes the always prim and proper twins with their buttoned-to-the-neck, not-an-inch-of-skin-showing dresses must have swimsuits, but when they get there, all the clothes fly off and in the water they jump without a second thought. Alex is shocked, not so much by the casual skinny dipping but by the fact that she's never seen either girl without their [[LettingHerHairDown hair buns, braids, or bonnets]].

* MissingChild: She spends most of 'World Away' having vanished without a trace. Nobody knows where she is, whether she's been kidnapped or has simply run away (which would not be out of character for her). [[spoiler: Alex finds her name in a register stolen from the Confederation's secret archives... which records the day-by-day tallies of the Confederation's [[KilledOffForReal human sacrifices]].[[/spoiler]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A central aspect of the stories surronding Troublesome is that she never ''intentionally'' creates the problems and chaos she causes.