History Characters / CarmillaTheSeries

->''Played by Shannon Kook''

* {{Adorkable}}: He loves research and cupcakes alike, and shows a childlike enthusiasm for the world [[spoiler:when he gets a physical body]]. He's also rather thrilled to have become a vampire.

* {{Adorkable}}: [[spoiler:Back in 2012. No, seriously.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: It's mostly through how excitable she can be and her nerdy expertise on pop culture (see HollywoodNerd).

* {{Badass Gay}}: Laura can alternate between fighting off supernatural threats and being an absolute sweetheart with her girlfriend.

* {{Badass Gay}}: Carmilla is a centuries old vampire who has killed many and loved just as many women.

* BadassGay

* {{Adorkable}}: Mostly through how excitable she can be and her nerdy expertise on pop culture (see HollywoodNerd).

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Drops a boulder on the head of the Dean, [[spoiler:the goddess Inanna]].

* HeroesPreferRedheads: Reversed: chooses the raven-haired Carmilla over redheaded Danny.
* HollywoodNerd: Owns a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS mug]] and references [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] and ''Series/VeronicaMars'' in just the first episode alone. She makes many more references in later episodes and on her Website/{{Twitter}} feed.

** In season 1: Hosts an impromptu sock puppet show in the middle of Carmilla's backstory, although she appreciates the line crossed when she comes to it. Asks Danny for an extension on a late paper...after having broken up with her, not spoken to her since then, and learning Danny has been worried sick watching Laura's risk taking.
** In season 2: Consistently refers to Carmilla as the hero and puts her on the spot and doesn't notice how uncomfortable it makes her then expects her to fight against what seems to be her only sister that truly likes and cares for her.
* ItsAllMyFault: Blames herself for [=LaFontaine=] being kidnapped, and the events that happened thanks to her putting her videos online. Carmilla, in her own brutally honest way, snaps Laura out of it.

* MyBelovedSmother: In a rare father-orientated take on the trope, Laura's father is so overprotective of her that, among other things, he not only sends weekly bear spray to her, he made her learn Krav Maga at age ''eight''. Though these things come in handy, it makes Laura feel smothered by Danny's own protectiveness.

* StraightGay[=/=]LipstickLesbian: Average ordinary journalist girl who's a lesbian.
* SuperCellReception: Despite being an outdated flip-phone, Laura's phone has managed to contact Danny's in the library's supernatural record room (which only appears at night) as well as within a broom closet in an underground area. Danny lampshades this in episode 35.

* SweetTooth: Constantly snacking on cookies, chocolate, and grape soda. It's to the point where a lot of people are a little concerned.
** And causes fans to worry about her in season 2 when she gets dramatically ecstatic over an apple (never mind that fresh food has been, by everyone's narration, hard to come by at Silas for the last several weeks).

* UnwittingPawn: Spends a good chunk of time in season 2 being this for Vordenberg. To her credit, once she realized she fucked up, she does her best to make up for it.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Well, duh.

* TheAntiNihilist: Develops into one. Season 3 has her give pretty much the trope description:

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Her mother, the Dean, loves Carmilla...and puts her through the wringer if the girl disobeys her.

* HiddenDepths: She can read ancient sumerian. She learned in 1871 because she was bored and wanted to read ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''.

* LoveRedeems: Stops being the Dean's [[TheDragon Dragon]] because of Laura.
* TheNicknamer: Has at least one nickname for almost everybody. She drops it with Laura when she has completely fallen for her... and picks it back up again after she dumps her.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can turn into a large black cat/black panther.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Carmilla has been confronted by her mother for supporting Laura, offered a chance to have Laura come out of everything alright, and has been made aware that the ancient artifact she volunteered to look for would kill her if used. When she sees Laura head out to confront her mother, Carmilla doesn't hesitate to find that very artifact.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Is convinced the Illuminati are real. From the hints we get about the world they could well be right.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Is targeted by the vampires after they go off with J.P. to do some more investigating about the brain parasites, effectively putting them out of action.

* {{Transgender}}: Identifies as non-binary and prefers "they/them" pronouns.

* HeelRealization: Has one at the end of Season 3 after a.) her own habitual cruelty causes her plan to reunite with her lover and b.) Laura sacrifices herself to help the Dean even after everything she's done.

* RealityEnsues: Letting a man who doesn't like vampires, become the head of a school full of vampire students, and other supernatural phenomena, he's going to order a detainment and hunt against them.

* WomanInWhite: In season 1 and the film's flashback scenes. She's has varying degrees of the dead, mysterious, and innocent varieties.

* MeaningfulName: Sheridan. As in Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, author of the Carmilla novella.

*** [[spoiler: He does die in season 3.]]

[[spoiler:*** He does die in season 3.]]

* LoveableJock: As his character develops, he grows into this.

* AdaptationalSexuality: The Laura of the orignial novella categorically did not return Carmilla's feelings.

-->[[spoiler: Pick any game you want. Tonight I will kill a God if I have to!]]

* {{Transsexual}}: Identifies as non-binary and prefers "they/them" pronouns.

* WickedCultured: A beautiful and sophisticated villainess who prefers to never be more than a 4-hour flight from Paris.

* AxCrazy: She was fully prepared to ''kill'' Kirsch in cold blood, and only stopped when Danny got in between him and the arrow.
* BrutalHonesty: She has no problem telling Laura and co. to their faces that she hates them.

* DeadpanSnarker: Has shades of this, particularly when she's squaring off against a Zeta.
* DoesNotLikeMen: ''All'' men, not just the Zetas. It's her motivation for resurrecting the kind of Adonis Hunt where the man acting as the "stag" actually dies. She feels it's revenge for all the pain men inflict on women.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Mel may not like Danny, but she was ''horrified'' and disgusted when [[spoiler:Theo went back on their truce and quite literally stabbed her in the back, killing her.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: She is ''not'' a nice girl. Just ask Kirsch.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's not nice, but she's not evil. She's horrified at Danny's murder, is trying to help the other students in the Pit in season three, develops a (grudging) bond with Kirsch, and [[spoiler:is noticeably rattled by the death of JP, who she didn't even know]].
* {{Meganekko}}: As a freshman, she wore big, blue NerdGlasses.

** If you look up the mythological connotations of "Melanippe," you'll quickly discover why Mel is aggressive and dismissive toward men. There are several women in Greek mythology by that name. ''None'' of whom had positive or pleasant relations with men, in any sense.
** Also, her last name is pronounced the same way as "callous," which she definitely is.

* SheCleansUpNicely: In the new trailer for the movie, Mel wears a gorgeous suit to the ball everyone's at.
* ShrinkingViolet: [[spoiler:As a freshman. She outright admits she doesn't like drawing attention to herself.]]
* StrawFeminist: Has shades of this, contrasting the much more sensitive Danny.

* TookALevelInKindness: Of a sort. She's still jerkish, but proves in the end that she is on the side of good. Even more so in the movie, by which point she has graduated to VitriolicBestBuds with ''Kirsch'', of all people. She's still snarky, but is truly friends with the main cast and very compassionate towards the ghost girls.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: As revealed in her podcast bonus episodes, she and Elsie have this going on. [[spoiler: In the last one it's implied that TheyDo.]]

* TheLostLenore: For Carmilla.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: She lies to the other ghost girls, saying that a spell will free them and make Carmilla's life-spark permanent, thus helping everyone. In reality the spell will transfer Carmilla's life-spark to her and trap them ''and'' Laura and company in the Lophii hell-dimension. The only reason it doesn't work is because Mel breaks the circle.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: She betrayed Carmilla, and in return, she got fed to an EldritchAbomination. That said, she didn't really deserve that fate -- Lilita played on her fears and suspicions about Carmilla's true nature, exploiting the fact that Carmilla hadn't yet revealed her vampirism.

* HeroicSacrifice: In the season 2 finale, after Perry (actually the Dean) runs off, and [=LaFontaine=] doesn't want to leave her, J.P. instructs them to go, promising he'll find Perry and bring her back. He then takes off into the chaos and destruction. [[spoiler:Season three reveals he's being held captive in some unknown location, but he can sometimes get ahold of the others and give them updates on what the Dean is doing.
*** He does die in season 3.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: In the season 2 finale, after Perry (actually the Dean) runs off, and [=LaFontaine=] doesn't want to leave her, J.P. instructs them to go, promising he'll find Perry and bring her back. He then takes off into the chaos and destruction. [[spoiler:Season three reveals he's being held captive in some unknown location, but he can sometimes get ahold of the others and give them updates on what the Dean is doing.]]

* CynicismCatalyst: After everything that happened with Carmilla and Elle, it's not much of a surprise that Carmilla's so sour.
* [[spoiler: DrivenByEnvy: Towards Carmilla's power]].
* TheGhost: As much as she's mentioned, we never even saw a picture of her in the series proper. However, she's in the movie!

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: She betrayed Carmilla, and in return, she got fed to an EldritchAbomination. That said, she didn't really deserve that fate -- more than likely, she was just scared.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Her friendship with Carmilla. Carmilla was in love with her -- it's unclear if Elle returned the feelings or just saw them as friends.

* TookALevelInKindness: Of a sort. She's still jerkish, but proves in the end that she is on the side of good.