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* AffablyEvil: Damon Julian, who always acts polite, and offers Marsh a meal.
* AncientEvil: Julian is several thousand years old.
* ConsummateLiar: Julian lies effortlessly and to everyone around him, particularly Sour Billy Tipton.
* AncientEvil: Julian is several thousand years old.
* ConsummateLiar: Julian lies effortlessly and to everyone around him, particularly Sour Billy Tipton.
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* DarkIsEvil: Julian, who dresses in dark clothing and has black hair. By contrast, York has white hair and dresses in white.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: He seems to be an easy-going fellow at first, like when he offers Marsh a meal. In reality, he's a vicious psychopath who sees himself as superior to everyone else.
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* GenreSavvy: In his backstory, Joshua pretends to be a bumbling superstitious vampire hunter when roaming Europe, encouraging gossip that will lead vampires to investigate him. {{Subverted}} as it doesn't actually throw Abner off the track but makes him think his employer is a lunatic until he has to confess the truth.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joshua York was never what you could call evil, but he always viewed his feeding on humans as a regretful necessity. His hatred of humans that attempt to act like vampires is unbridled.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joshua York was never what you could call evil, but he always viewed his feeding on humans as a regretful necessity. His hatred of humans that attempt to act like vampires is unbridled.unbridled, and his greatest achievement is discovering a way to quiet the red thirst so that killing humans is no longer necessary.
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* MessianicArchetype: Is believed to be the prophecized Pale King who will free them from the Red Thirst. [[spoiler: May be MetaphoricallyTrue depending on whether vampires survive.]]
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* MessianicArchetype: Is believed to be the prophecized Pale King who will free them from the Red Thirst.red thirst. [[spoiler: May be MetaphoricallyTrue depending on whether vampires survive.]]
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* TheRenfield: Sour Billy Tipton, a human servant of Damon Julian who desperately wants to become a vampire and who is, unlike most Renfields, actually extremely useful to his master. Humans can't really be transformed into vampires, but Damon has told him they can to keep him as a servant. He's also amused by Tipton trying to drink blood and eating human flesh in an attempt to be more like them.
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* TheRenfield: Sour Billy Tipton, a human servant Unlike many examples of Damon Julian who desperately wants to become a vampire and who is, unlike most Renfields, the type, he's actually extremely useful to his master. Humans can't in fact ''can't'' really be transformed into vampires, but Damon has told him they can to keep him as a servant. He's also amused by Tipton trying to drink blood and eating human flesh in an attempt to be more like them.them.
* VampireVannabe: His service to Damon is motivated by his desire to become a vampire. In this setting that is impossible, and results in him attracting contempt from real vampires (protagonist and antagonist both) ''and'' humans.
* VampireVannabe: His service to Damon is motivated by his desire to become a vampire. In this setting that is impossible, and results in him attracting contempt from real vampires (protagonist and antagonist both) ''and'' humans.
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* VampireVannabe: Sour Billy, the receiver of PretenderDiss from all sides.
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* AncientEvil: Julian, who's several thousand years old.
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* AncientEvil: Julian, who's Julian is several thousand years old.
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* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Joshua believes this to be Julian's true nature: an evil, hollow monster with no true goals or motives. He spends most of his free time simply sitting in the dark, staring into space. Joshua finds this more frightening than his sadism.]]
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* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Joshua Joshua believes this the rhetoric Julian spouts to be Julian's true nature: Marsh about his right to consume humanity and the splendors it produces was what motivated him once. [[spoiler:But to Joshua's eye even that is long subsumed, emerging only briefly, and he is no more than an evil, hollow monster beast with no true goals or motives. He spends most of his free time simply sitting in the dark, staring into space. Joshua finds this more frightening than his sadism.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Billy is the only reason Julian is a threat, despite being a human being, because he handles all of the vampire's affairs. He's also a slave owner unaware that he is, himself, a slave, who can no more become a master than the black people he so despises.
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* {{Irony}}: Billy is the only reason Julian is a threat, despite being a human being, because he handles all of the vampire's affairs. He's also a slave owner unaware that he is, himself, a slave, who can no more become a the master he dreams of being than the black people he so despises.despises can become white.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Gradually becomes an abolitionist due to how much he loathes Damon Julius'TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies rhetoric.
* CrushingHandshake: The burly Abner likes doing this as a show of strength and dominance, but finds himself on the losing end when he attempts it on York.
* TheDeterminator: His obsession with [[spoiler: finding the ''Fevre Dream'' once its stolen borders on superhuman.]] Subverted when the practicalities of his quest become too much and he seeks more lucrative work.
* SkewedPriorities: He wants to defeat the ''Eclipse'' in a boat race more than anything else. Even above his actual business' success. [[spoiler: Later, finding the lost ''Fevre Dream'' as it tops even his business sense and personal safety.]]
* VampireHunter: [[spoiler; Briefly becomes this but is only interested in killing Damon Julius. In the end, he only manages to kill one and its the wrong vampire.]]
* CrushingHandshake: The burly Abner likes doing this as a show of strength and dominance, but finds himself on the losing end when he attempts it on York.
* TheDeterminator: His obsession with [[spoiler: finding the ''Fevre Dream'' once its stolen borders on superhuman.]] Subverted when the practicalities of his quest become too much and he seeks more lucrative work.
* SkewedPriorities: He wants to defeat the ''Eclipse'' in a boat race more than anything else. Even above his actual business' success. [[spoiler: Later, finding the lost ''Fevre Dream'' as it tops even his business sense and personal safety.]]
* VampireHunter: [[spoiler; Briefly becomes this but is only interested in killing Damon Julius. In the end, he only manages to kill one and its the wrong vampire.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Gradually becomes an abolitionist due to how much he loathes Damon Julius'TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies Julius' TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies rhetoric.
* CrushingHandshake: The burly Abner likes doing this as a show of strength and dominance, but finds himself on the losing end when he attempts iton with York.
* TheDeterminator: His obsession with [[spoiler: finding the ''Fevre Dream'' onceits it's stolen borders on superhuman.]] Subverted when the practicalities of his quest become too much and he seeks more lucrative work.
* SkewedPriorities: He wants to defeat the ''Eclipse'' in a boat race more than anything else. Even above his actual business' success. [[spoiler: Later, finding the lost ''Fevre Dream''as it tops overcomes even his business sense and personal safety.]]
* VampireHunter:[[spoiler; [[spoiler: Briefly becomes this but is only interested in killing Damon Julius. In the end, he only manages to kill one and its one, who turns out to be the wrong vampire.]]
* CrushingHandshake: The burly Abner likes doing this as a show of strength and dominance, but finds himself on the losing end when he attempts it
* TheDeterminator: His obsession with [[spoiler: finding the ''Fevre Dream'' once
* SkewedPriorities: He wants to defeat the ''Eclipse'' in a boat race more than anything else. Even above his actual business' success. [[spoiler: Later, finding the lost ''Fevre Dream''
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* CulturedBadass: Averted. hile he's ungodly powerful, he cares very little for history, poetry, reading, and other finer things in life, using them more as a front to keep up appearances and [[spoiler:hide the primal, bloodthirsty monster resting within.]]
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* CulturedBadass: Averted. hile While he's ungodly powerful, powerful and dresses beautifully, he cares very little for history, poetry, reading, and other finer things in life, using them more as a front to keep up appearances and [[spoiler:hide the primal, bloodthirsty monster resting within.]]
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* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Joshua believes this to be Julian's true nature: an evil monster with no true goals or motives. He spends most of his free time simply sitting in the dark, staring into space. Joshua finds this more frightening than his sadism.]]
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* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Joshua believes this to be Julian's true nature: an evil evil, hollow monster with no true goals or motives. He spends most of his free time simply sitting in the dark, staring into space. Joshua finds this more frightening than his sadism.]]
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Much like Abner to Joshua, he's repsonsible for the vast majority of his vampire owner's success. Damon Julian may be have occasional flashes of brilliance, but Sour Billy Tipton runs all his affairs to such an extent that Julian would clearly be a sad sight without the aid of Billy or someone like him.
* {{Irony}}: Billy is the only reason Joshua is a threat despite being a human being as he handles all of the vampire's affairs. He's also a slave owner who is, himself, a slave.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Much like Abner to Joshua, he's repsonsible responsible for the vast majority of his vampire owner's success. Damon Julian may be have occasional flashes of brilliance, but Sour Billy Tipton runs all his affairs to such an extent that Julian would clearly be a sad sight without the aid of Billy or someone like him.
* {{Irony}}: Billy is the only reasonJoshua Julian is a threat threat, despite being a human being as being, because he handles all of the vampire's affairs. He's also a slave owner who unaware that he is, himself, a slave.slave, who can no more become a master than the black people he so despises.
* {{Irony}}: Billy is the only reason
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* GenreSavvy: In his backstory, Joshua pretends to be a bumbling superstitious vampire hunter when roaming Europe, encouraging gossip that will lead vampires to investigate him. {{Subverted}} as it doesn't actually throw Abner off the track but makes him think his employer is a lunatic until he has to confess the truth.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Once Joshua decides to kill himself and chains himself by the hands to be burned by the sunlight. But then he changes his mind and starts trying to break out of the manacles. One chain snaps... but the other holds, and so Joshua is forced to tear off his arm. [[HealingFactor He gets better]], though.
* MeaningfulName: Joshua is the proper version of Jesus' name. It is also a Hebrew name associated with salvation.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Once Joshua decides to kill himself and chains himself by the hands to be burned by the sunlight. But then he changes his mind and starts trying to break out of the manacles. One chain snaps... but the other holds, and so Joshua is forced to tear off his arm. [[HealingFactor He gets better]], though.
* MeaningfulName: Joshua is the proper version of Jesus' name. It is also a Hebrew name associated with salvation.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Joshua kills a mortally wounded Billy to end his suffering.]]
* MonstersAnonymous: Joshua wants to turn his group of vampires, and all of the species, into this.
* SuicideBySunlight: Joshua York tries this after his HorrorHunger gets the better of him. He chains himself up outside, throws the key out of reach, and waits for the sun to come up. It's an excruciating process that takes several hours. He changes his mind halfway through, severing one of his hands to get away in time. Despite being very badly burned, he recovers over the course of a week, and even regrows his hand, much to his surprise.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Julian to Joshua, whose plans to [[spoiler:save his race are rendered moot by Julian -- the more powerful blood master -- conquering him and keeping the vampires firmly in the past.]] Also, [[spoiler:Billy to Julian at the very end.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Joshua to Julian after being conquered.]]
* MonstersAnonymous: Joshua wants to turn his group of vampires, and all of the species, into this.
* SuicideBySunlight: Joshua York tries this after his HorrorHunger gets the better of him. He chains himself up outside, throws the key out of reach, and waits for the sun to come up. It's an excruciating process that takes several hours. He changes his mind halfway through, severing one of his hands to get away in time. Despite being very badly burned, he recovers over the course of a week, and even regrows his hand, much to his surprise.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Julian to Joshua, whose plans to [[spoiler:save his race are rendered moot by Julian -- the more powerful blood master -- conquering him and keeping the vampires firmly in the past.]] Also, [[spoiler:Billy to Julian at the very end.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Joshua to Julian after being conquered.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Julian's entire motivation. He believes vampires exist to feed upon the "cattle," who should accept their role as the lesser species. Ironically, [[spoiler:Julian himself is not afflicted by the red thirst, and kills only for the pleasure of it.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Julian is such a poor businessman that he frequently lives in hovels and ruins.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Damon Julian spends the vast majority of his time couped up in his plantation, [[spoiler: his room on the ''Fevre Dream'']], and later in [[spoiler: the ''Fevre Dream'''s ruins]]. {{Justified}} as he is so old that life holds little interest for him.
* WouldHurtAChild: Julian mutilates and murders a baby just to prove a point.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Julian is such a poor businessman that he frequently lives in hovels and ruins.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Damon Julian spends the vast majority of his time couped up in his plantation, [[spoiler: his room on the ''Fevre Dream'']], and later in [[spoiler: the ''Fevre Dream'''s ruins]]. {{Justified}} as he is so old that life holds little interest for him.
* WouldHurtAChild: Julian mutilates and murders a baby just to prove a point.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:The last act of Sour Billy Tipton, once he's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]] and finally accepted the truth, is to partially blind Damon during his final showdown with York.]]
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Much like Abner to Joshua, he's repsonsible for the vast majority of his vampire owner's success.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Much like Abner to Joshua, he's repsonsible for the vast majority of his vampire owner's success. Damon Julian may be have occasional flashes of brilliance, but Sour Billy Tipton runs all his affairs to such an extent that Julian would clearly be a sad sight without the aid of Billy or someone like him.
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* TheRenfield: Sour Billy Tipton, a human servant of Damon Julian who desperately wants to become a vampire and who is, unlike most Renfields, actually extremely useful to his master. Humans can't really be transformed into vampires, but Damon has told him they can to keep him as a servant. He's also amused by Tipton trying to drink blood and eating human flesh in an attempt to be more like them.
* VampireVannabe: Sour Billy, the receiver of PretenderDiss from all sides.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Billy lives at the mercy of this trope, but doesn't truly realize it until the end.
* VampireVannabe: Sour Billy, the receiver of PretenderDiss from all sides.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Billy lives at the mercy of this trope, but doesn't truly realize it until the end.
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* TheDeterminator: Every bit as much as Marsh, never giving up on his dream to free his people.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joshua York was never what you could call evil, but he always viewed his feeding on humans as a regretful necessity. His hatred of humans that attempt to act like vampires is unbridled.
* MeaningfulName: Joshua is the proper version of Jesus' name.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joshua York was never what you could call evil, but he always viewed his feeding on humans as a regretful necessity. His hatred of humans that attempt to act like vampires is unbridled.
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Joshua believes Damon is immensely bored with life, but [[ICannotSelfTerminate his inner beast won't let him die]]. Therefore, Damon amuses himself by taking big risks, like offering Sour Billy's job to Abner despite the probability of Abner trying to kill him when his guard is down.]]
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Joshua believes this to be Julian's true nature: an evil monster with no true goals or motives. He spends most of his free time simply sitting in the dark, staring into space. Joshua finds this more frightening than his sadism.]]
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Joshua believes this to be Julian's true nature: an evil monster with no true goals or motives. He spends most of his free time simply sitting in the dark, staring into space. Joshua finds this more frightening than his sadism.]]
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A former Plantation Overseer who has become TheRenfield due to his lust for eternal life.
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* AllForNothing: Humans cannot become vampires and everything Billy does is it to this goal.
* TheDragon: Sour Billy Tipton to Julian. He's a mix of TheIgor and a BattleButler, seeing to the day-to-day running of Julian's various fronts, venturing out into the world on his boss's behalf (mostly to abduct unsuspecting victims), and serving as Julian's guardian and protector during daylight hours. Unlike most examples, though, he's unquestionably the physically weakest member of the villain team, being the only one who isn't a vampire.
** DragonInChief: Billy intimidates the vampires under Julian's command and handles all of their affairs.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Deconstructed with Sour Billy Tipton who has no problem with killing black victims but balks at killing white ones. In other words, his standards actually make him worse. He also casts them aside when his master orders it.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Much like Abner to Joshua, he's repsonsible for the vast majority of his vampire owner's success.
* {{Irony}}: Billy is the only reason Joshua is a threat despite being a human being as he handles all of the vampire's affairs. He's also a slave owner who is, himself, a slave.
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* AllForNothing: Humans cannot become vampires and everything Billy does is it to this goal.
* TheDragon: Sour Billy Tipton to Julian. He's a mix of TheIgor and a BattleButler, seeing to the day-to-day running of Julian's various fronts, venturing out into the world on his boss's behalf (mostly to abduct unsuspecting victims), and serving as Julian's guardian and protector during daylight hours. Unlike most examples, though, he's unquestionably the physically weakest member of the villain team, being the only one who isn't a vampire.
** DragonInChief: Billy intimidates the vampires under Julian's command and handles all of their affairs.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Deconstructed with Sour Billy Tipton who has no problem with killing black victims but balks at killing white ones. In other words, his standards actually make him worse. He also casts them aside when his master orders it.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Much like Abner to Joshua, he's repsonsible for the vast majority of his vampire owner's success.
* {{Irony}}: Billy is the only reason Joshua is a threat despite being a human being as he handles all of the vampire's affairs. He's also a slave owner who is, himself, a slave.
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* BigEater: Abner Marsh has a prodigious appetite and is constantly thinking about his next enormous meal.
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* CrushingHandshake: The burly Abner likes doing this as a show of strength and dominance, but finds himself on the losing end when he attempts it on York.
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* TheAtoner: Joshua York's raison d'etre.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Joshua York is a FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire because he grew up around humans and started to see them as more than just "cattle". Damon Julian mocks him for this on several occasions.]]
* TheChosenOne: Joshua believes [[spoiler:he's the vampire destined to save his race, and lead them into a new era of peace, cooperation, and understanding with their human cousins. His followers also believe him to be this, referring to him as the "Pale King."]] Julian, on the other hand...
* ConsummateLiar: Joshua constantly lies to Abner and always does so with perfect grace.
* CulturedBadass: Joshua York, to the core. [[spoiler:His penchant for poetry even rubs off on Marsh, of all people.]]
* MessianicArchetype: Is believed to be the prophecized Pale King who will free them from the Red Thirst. [[spoiler: May be MetaphoricallyTrue depending on whether vampires survive.]]
* VampiresAreRich: Joshua has built a huge fortune by the time he meets Abner and easily pays for the construction of the ''Fevre Dream.''
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An ancient vampire and the Bloodmaster of the New World. He is a plantation owner in the DeepSouth at the start of the book.
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* AffablyEvil: Damon Julian, who always acts polite, and offers Marsh a meal.
* AncientEvil: Julian, who's several thousand years old.
* ConsummateLiar: Julian lies effortlessly and to everyone around him, particularly Sour Billy Tipton.
* CulturedBadass: Averted. hile he's ungodly powerful, he cares very little for history, poetry, reading, and other finer things in life, using them more as a front to keep up appearances and [[spoiler:hide the primal, bloodthirsty monster resting within.]]
* DarkIsEvil: Julian, who dresses in dark clothing and has black hair. By contrast, York has white hair and dresses in white.
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An aged steamer captain with the dream of building the fastest one ever built, the ''Fevre Dream''
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* AboveTheInfluence: Resists Julius' offers of wealth, women, and even [[spoiler: his boat back]].
* AFatherToHisMen: Is this aboard the ''Fevre Dream'' but {{Subverted}} with his other boats as he's considered a cursed oddball. [[spoiler: Especially after the ''Fevre Dream'' is taken.]]
* TheCaptain: A cynical foul-mouthed and cranky old one who is, nevertheless, a man of great courage.
* CharacterDevelopment: Gradually becomes an abolitionist due to how much he loathes Damon Julius' TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies rhetoric.
* TheDeterminator: His obsession with [[spoiler: finding the ''Fevre Dream'' once its stolen borders on superhuman.]] Subverted when the practicalities of his quest become too much and he seeks more lucrative work.
* SkewedPriorities: He wants to defeat the ''Eclipse'' in a boat race more than anything else. Even above his actual business' success. [[spoiler: Later, finding the lost ''Fevre Dream'' as it tops even his business sense and personal safety.]]
* VampireHunter: [[spoiler; Briefly becomes this but is only interested in killing Damon Julius. In the end, he only manages to kill one and its the wrong vampire.]]
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A European investor who wants to finance Abner's steamer business. Oh and he's a vampire.
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* AboveTheInfluence: Resists Julius' offers of wealth, women, and even [[spoiler: his boat back]].
* AFatherToHisMen: Is this aboard the ''Fevre Dream'' but {{Subverted}} with his other boats as he's considered a cursed oddball. [[spoiler: Especially after the ''Fevre Dream'' is taken.]]
* TheCaptain: A cynical foul-mouthed and cranky old one who is, nevertheless, a man of great courage.
* CharacterDevelopment: Gradually becomes an abolitionist due to how much he loathes Damon Julius' TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies rhetoric.
* TheDeterminator: His obsession with [[spoiler: finding the ''Fevre Dream'' once its stolen borders on superhuman.]] Subverted when the practicalities of his quest become too much and he seeks more lucrative work.
* SkewedPriorities: He wants to defeat the ''Eclipse'' in a boat race more than anything else. Even above his actual business' success. [[spoiler: Later, finding the lost ''Fevre Dream'' as it tops even his business sense and personal safety.]]
* VampireHunter: [[spoiler; Briefly becomes this but is only interested in killing Damon Julius. In the end, he only manages to kill one and its the wrong vampire.]]
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A European investor who wants to finance Abner's steamer business. Oh and he's a vampire.
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