History Characters / BabelOrTheNecessityOfViolence

* {{Bitch in Sheep’s Clothing}}: Letty claims to love her friends, but is willing to ignore and [[spoiler: eventually betray them]] when their truths don’t line up with her worldview.

* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}: [[spoiler: After cutting off most of Britain’s resources, Robin resolves to destroy the tower and all of it’s silver.]]

* {{Innocently Insensitive}}: Subverted. At first, she seems like a well-meaning ally who happens to make ignorant comments, but as the novel goes on, it becomes clear that she doesn’t want to change her worldview or actually try and empathize with her friends.

* {{Lady of War}}: The daughter of an admiral, Letty is [[spoiler: (unfortunately for Ramy]] an excellent shot.

* {{Lady of War}}: The daughter of an admiral, Letty is [[spoiler (unfortunately for Ramy]] an excellent shot.

* {{Don’t Create A Martyr}}: Towards herself. She knows that white Britons might start to care when they can romanticize her death, but she refuses to die just so people will finally listen.
—>''We have to die to get their pity,’ said Victoire. ‘We have to die for them to find us noble. Our deaths are thus great acts of rebellion, a wretched lament that highlights their inhumanity. Our deaths become their battle cry. But I don’t want to die, Robin.’ Her throat hitched. ‘I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be their Imoinda, their Oroonoko. I don’t want to be their tragic, lovely lacquer figure. I want to live.''

* {{Don’t Create A Martyr}} Towards herself. She knows that white Britons might start to care when they can romanticize her death, but she refuses to die just so people will finally listen.

* {{Don’t Create A Martyr}}: Towards herself. She knows that white Britons might start to care when they can romanticize her death, but she refuses to die just so people will finally listen.

—>''“We have to die to get their pity,’ said Victoire. ‘We have to die for them to find us noble. Our deaths are thus great acts of rebellion, a wretched lament that highlights their inhumanity. Our deaths become their battle cry. But I don’t want to die, Robin.’ Her throat hitched. ‘I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be their Imoinda, their Oroonoko. I don’t want to be their tragic, lovely lacquer figure. I want to live.''

* {{Don’t Creat A Martyr}}: Towards herself. She knows that white Britons might start to care when they can romanticize her death, but she refuses to die just so people will finally listen.

—>''“We have to die to get their pity,’ said Victoire. ‘We have to die for them to find us noble. Our deaths are thus great acts of rebellion, a wretched lament that highlights their inhumanity. Our deaths become their battle cry. But I don’t want to die, Robin.’ Her throat hitched. ‘I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be (LiteratureOroonoko)their Imoinda, their Oroonoko.]] I don’t want to be their tragic, lovely lacquer figure. I want to live.''

* {{Its All About Me}}: A walking example. Letty (rightly) complains about how Oxford treats women, but practically refuses to acknowledge how Robin and Ramy still suffer under white supremacy, and that Victoire is worse off as both a woman and a person of color.

—>''She’s just being Letty,’ said Ramy when pressed about it. ‘She wants attention, and she thinks throwing a tantrum is the way to get it.''

* {{It’s All About Me}}: A walking example. Letty (rightly) complains about how Oxford treats women, but practically refuses to acknowledge how Robin and Ramy still suffer under white supremacy, and that Victoire is worse off as both a woman and a person of color.
—> '''It took him a moment to realize what it was that grated on him, and when he did, it would bother him constantly, now and thereafter; it would seem a great paradox, the fact that after everything they had told Letty, all the pain they had shared, she was the one who needed comfort.''''

* {{Attention Whore}}

* {{Silk Hiding Steel}}: She’s gentle, composed, and level headed, but sh is not afraid of rebellion.

* {{Lady Of War}}: Victoire is noted to be an excellent fencer along with Letty.

* {{Beware The Nice Ones}}: Despite playing the role of {{The Heart}}, Victoire is more than willing to resort to violent revolution.

* {{Beware The Nice Ones}}

* {{Stereotypical South Asian English}}: Discussed by the narration. He tends to play along with strangers’ racist assumptions about him, and this includes putting on an exaggerated accent when talking to them.