History Characters / FirstKill

[[folder:Theseus "Theo" Burns]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:She’s killed at Noah’s party by Oliver and then turned into a zombie by Carmen.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Her autopsy showed that she suffered a fatal hit to her head and her liver stolen.]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: She’s committed dozens upon dozens of murders over the years and never once got caught. [[spoiler:In 1x08, she pushes Juliette past her limit and the little vampire has her arrested by the SWAT Team for all of them. To make things even more karmic, Oliver comes in to “represent” her, forcing her to face the brother she framed and had disgraced by their family. On top of that, their parents choose to not pay her bail because it would look bad for the keepers of the Emerald Malkia to be connected to such a legal mess… [[SerialEscalation except]] the Legacy Council is now investigating whether or not the Atwood/Fairmont family is still worthy to remain the keepers, so even if they do bail her out, her chances of achieving any real power as a legacy have dropped significantly.]]

[[folder:Calliope Antigone Burns]]

* {{Irony}}: Juliette is the vampire, but Calliope is always the first to go for the neck whenever they’re making out. [[WordOfGod According to Lewis]], she does this to establish dominance over Juliette.

* {{Irony}}: Juliette is the vampire, but Calliope is always the first to go for the neck whenever they’re making out. According to Lewis, she does this to establish dominance over Juliette.

** “Like I said, everybody has a tell if you look hard enough. I couldn’t keep my eyes off you.”

A hunter and the youngest child of Jack and Talia Burns.

* BadassNormal: She may not have any powers, but she’s a trained combatant and is ready to throw down at a moment’s notice. She can even beat a man down so severely (with her hands tied, no less) that he appears to be dead.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: More like Did You Just Outsmart Cthulhu. When Margot tries to kick Cal out of her house [[MistakenIdentity despite MAAM being right outside clamoring for her]], she points out that if she gets apprehended, they’ll round up her family and search their house. This would lead to them finding silver weapons and battle plans that would lead right back to the Fairmont family. Realizing it’s in her best interest to ensure Cal’s wellbeing, Margot quickly tells her not to go anywhere.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: He was originally a human, but during their relationship he fell ill, prompting Margot to turn him in order to save his life.

-->'''Margot''': Talia, we will ‘’always’’ have a problem.

* TheChooserOfTheOne: It can choose to reject a legacy vampire, which renders them ostracized from legacy society.

* vMonsterProgenitor: The first beast.

* PrecisionFStrike: To [[spoiler:Jack]].

-->''"Be prepared for anything."''

!!Legacies

* AmbiguousSituation: Talia implies Jack and JoJo had a thing going on in the past when she calls her his ex, though Jack denies that they ever dated.

* NonActionGirl: She is more of the mage, staying on the sidelines and performing rituals to protect homes from evil spirits.

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* MistakenIdentity: In 1x07, MAAM gets the idea that she’s a vampire. The Guild manages to pull some strings to clear her name in 1x08.

* TheCasanova: Just look at him training the MAAM women in 1x06.

* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:Her reason for screwing Oliver over so heavily?]] “I just felt like it.”

-->'''(while restrained in silver at the Burns house)''' Haven’t you guys ever heard of consent?

-->'''You stay away from my fucking [[spoiler:son]].'''

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* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Sister]]: [[spoiler:Juliette is absolutely furious when Elinor gets into a fight with Theo and Apollo that leaves Theo dying from impalement, not only disowning Elinor as a sister, but also having her arrested for her many homicides.]]

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[[spoiler:She doesn’t take it well when Juliette reveals she accidentally turned Theo into a vampire. The ensuing argument ends with her putting a target on Juliette’s head.]]

* MindlinkMates: After Juliette bites Calliope, their minds develop a PsychicBond. They begin sharing vivid dreams with each other. Juliette hears Cal screaming for help even though Cal’s mouth is gagged (meaning she was screaming in her head). Cal manages to know that Juliette is approaching her bedroom window without even hearing her. [[spoiler:After Cal dumps Juliette and threatens to kill her, they can feel each other’s pain in their heads as Juliette drives home. Cal screams her head off before running into the night, while Jules honks her horn and turns her music all the way up in the hopes of drowning her out.]]

-->''"Even on good day, I feel like I don't fit in. Like everyone else has it all figured out; the clothes they wear, the bands they like, who they are, who they wanna be... and I'm the only one who's stuck pretending."''

* CostumeTestMontage: Tests out several gowns for her consecration in 1x03. It ends on the one her grandmother wore to her own ceremony, but she eventually goes with something else.

* BattleCouple: They tag team against [[spoilers:Zombie!Ashley]].

* MindlinkMates: After Juliette bites Calliope, their minds develop a PsychicBond. They begin sharing vivid dreams with each other. Juliette hears Cal screaming for help even though Cal’s mouth is gagged (meaning she was screaming in her head). Cal manages to know that Juliette is approaching her bedroom window without even hearing her. [[spoilers:After Cal dumps Juliette and threatens to kill her, they can feel each other’s pain in their heads as Juliette drives home. Cal screams her head off before running into the night, while Jules honks her horn and turns her music all the way up in the hopes of drowning her out.]]

* OfficialCouple: As of 1x04. [[spoilers:At least up until 1x08.]]

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Calliope has dealt with {{Theater/RomeoAndJuliet}} at every school she’s ever attended and she’s read it about a dozen times, and she even quotes the prologue out loud in episode 1x05. As for Juliette, her name is a variation of the titular character. Also, their relationship is frowned upon just like the characters in Shakespeare’s play, which is the crux of the series. They even visit each other by coming in through their bedroom windows like in the story.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoilers:She and Elinor feed from a random guy at a bar, and Juliette is devastated when he dies from it.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoilers:During a terrible argument in 1x08, she desperately tells her the below line in the hopes of saving their relationship. [[IgnoredConfession Cal is currently too angry to acknowledge it.]]]]

* BadassAdorable: She’s as cute as a button, but a capable fighter when she has to be, which comes naturally to legacy vampires. She manages to fend off Cal, hold her own against [[spoilers:Zombie!Ashley]], and easily overpower Cook twice.

* BeingGoodSucks: She finds it hard to live a normal life as a legacy vampire. In the first few episodes, she has to deal with her body acting up because she doesn’t want to have her first kill. [[spoilers:She tries to ease the pain of a dying Theo, only to turn him into a vampire, which leads to his family turning on him (sans Talia) and Calliope becoming her enemy.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is so kind and sweet-natured that she literally wouldn’t hurt a fly, but she’s still a vampire and can be quite hellish if you get on her bad side. When Cook attacks Cal and Ben, she beats him down and [[spoilers:makes him her first kill]]. When Ben offends her over being a vampire, she rakes him across the coals in regard to his affair with Noah, even calling him a sidepiece. [[spoilers:When Elinor gets Theo apparently killed, she disowns Elinor as a sister and has her arrested for the countless murders she’s committed over the years.]] Then there’s the bloodlust that comes with being a vampire.
* BerserkButton: Attacking the people she cares about is a good way to set her off. [[spoilers:Cook learned this the hard way.]]

* {{Bloodlust}}: In 1x05, she struggles to keep herself from drinking Cal’s blood after she’s slashed across the chest by [[spoilers:Zombie!Ashley]]. She seems to be fine around anyone else’s.

* BreakTheCutie: Calliope, her biggest crush yet, tries to kill her, [[spoilers:her friend Ashley dies]], her family puts heavy pressure on her to become a part of a society she wants nothing to do with, she’s forced to [[spoilers:kill Ashley again]], she gets into a relationship with Calliope that expectedly turns out to be forbidden, [[spoilers:and Elinor tricks her into helping murder an innocent man]]. That alone is quite a bit for anyone to go through, but the worst part happens in the span of a single episode. [[spoilers:She accidentally turns Cal’s brother into a vampire, which plunges their family into a civil war and makes Cal vow to kill her. [[FromBadToWorse Not only that]], but Elinor attacks her and blames her for everything going wrong in their family. [[SerialEscalation On top of that]], her best friend Ben is leaving Savannah. Poor Juliette is now more alone than she was at the beginning, with the girl she loves out for her head.]]
BrokenPedestal: She looked up to her big sister, Elinor, but her attempts to get her to kill others, especially Cal, [[spoilers:not to mention her deadly altercation with Apollo and Theo]], pushed her to no longer view her with any positivity.
CannotSpitItOut: She has the worst time telling Calliope that she likes her; she can’t even strike up a conversation until they literally bump into each other.
ColorMotif: Whenever her bloodlust takes hold, a red hue appears.
CostumeTestMontage: Tests out several gowns for her consecration in 1x03. It ends on the one her grandmother wore to her own ceremony, but she eventually goes with something else.
CuteLittleFangs: Tends to flash these rather often.
DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoilers:She decides to bury Cook’s body after killing him. Phillipa’s dog discovers his body a few days later, getting her and Cal in hot water.]] Margot even tells her that it was an asinine way to dispose of a body.
[[spoilers:She drained Theo of his blood with the intent of making his death quick and painless. It apparently never occurred to her that this could turn him into a vampire. Cal puts her through the wringer for this.]]
DiggingYourselfDeeper: [[spoilers:Calliope is clearly not taking it well that Juliette accidentally turned Theo into a vampire and she tells Juliette to leave, clearly trying to avoid saying something she can’t take back. Instead, Juliette presses further at the worst possible time in the hopes of salvaging their relationship, leading to a breakup and a threat on her life as well as every other legacy vampire.]]
{{Disownment}}: [[spoilers:Juliette is absolutely furious when Elinor gets into a fight with Theo and Apollo that leaves Theo dying from impalement, not only disowning Elinor as a sister, but also having her arrested for her many homicides.]]
DreamingOfThingsToCome: In 1x01, she wakes up from a dream that involves making out with and biting Calliope, which happen later that night, as well as losing her blood pills, which happens that same day as well.
EndearinglyDorky: She freely admits to social awkwardness, as if her general clumsiness and fashion sense didn’t make that clear. Her narration even admits that she’s cool by association with Ben.
EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Averted. She’s a vampire, but she’s easily one of the friendliest faces you’ll ever see.
EtTuBrute: [[spoilers:She accidentally turns Theo into a vampire and Cal understandably doesn’t take it well, but she’s clearly shocked and hurt when Cal uses the word “monster”, a clear indication that on some level she still doesn’t see vampires (which Juliette is) as people. She seems to overlook this in the moment as Cal is still raging, but it clearly hit a nerve. Not helping is that Cal threatens her with a silver spear and then vows to slaughter her and the entire legacy community, breaking her promises to never hunt her and to always keep her heart safe.]]
EvilFeelsGood: She hates the thought of murder, but after she [[spoilers:kills and feeds on Cook]], she tells Cal that it felt right. This is because it was her [[spoilers:first kill]] and now her body can stop malfunctioning.
{{Expy}}: If you’re thinking you’ve already seen a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire girl named Juliet who was part of a forbidden romance, {{Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace you’re not wrong}}.
ExtremeDoormat: Downplayed. She’ll voice her opinion (especially if it involves murder) and she can definitely whup your ass if you push her too far, but she’s typically [[SubmissiveBadass passive and timid]], especially when it comes to Calliope. [[spoilers:A particularly harsh example comes in 1x08, wherein Cal angrily holds a silver spear at her chest and she simply tells her she can stab her if it’ll make her feel better.]]
FailedASpotCheck: She tends to miss out on details that seem negligible but may be readily obvious. She misses one of the blood pills she dropped when bumping into Calliope, leading to Cal figuring out she’s a vampire.
FatalFlaw:
[[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Her disinterest with the legacy lifestyle]], though justified for a number of reasons, manifests in ways that cause problems for herself and the people around her. Her discomfort with murder leads to her body and mind going haywire, which prompts her to bite Cal on the neck and [[spoilers:kill Cook right in front of Ben]].
[[DidntThinkThisThrough She tends to miss small]] [[FailedASpotCheck but ever-so-crucial details]]. When she bumps into Cal and drops her blood pills, she misses one, which Cal inspects and in doing so discovers that Juliette is a vampire. When she sneaks off from the police investigation at Noah’s party, she leaves her phone. [[spoilers:When she finds a dying Theo, she drains his blood in the hopes of easing his pain, but he wakes up as a vampire instead.]]
FearOfThunder: She used to be afraid of thunderstorms and would often hold her stuffed doll, Amanda Victoria, for comfort. Though, if you were to ask her, it was actually ‘’Amanda’’ who was scared of the thunder.
FriendToAllLivingThings: Her valuing of life extends to creatures great and small. Her reaction to spotting a bee on Cal’s shoulder is to gently remove it and set it free. Cal uses this moment to keep Juliette’s bloodlust under control.
FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: What sets her apart from at least most other vampires, especially legacies, is that she views all life as precious. This is why she takes so long to make her first kill; it’s not so much scary as it is wrong.
HanlonsRazor: Pretty much every bad decision she makes is done out of ignorance, not malice.
HemoErotic: Downplayed. While rutting with Cal at Noah’s party, she loses control of herself and bites Cal on the neck.
HeroicResolve: She’s constantly tempted to murder someone, be it by peer pressure from Elinor or by her body and mind going haywire, but she fights it tooth and nail. [[spoilers:In the end, she does commit her first kill, but solely in defense of Ben and Cal.]]
HomoeroticDream: She kicks off the pilot episode by waking up from one of her and Calliope.
InnocentBlueEyes: She has blue eyes and is the youngest legacy, as well the most innocent and naïve.
KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She manages to overpower Cook twice in her sparkly debutante dress in 1x04.
LesbianVampire: In case it wasn’t obvious.
LightIsGood: She dresses in bright colors and is a sweet, well-intentioned person who wouldn’t hurt a fly unless someone she cares about were endangered.
LivingLieDetector: She can tell when Calliope is lying by an increased heartrate. When Cal claims she would’ve stabbed Juliette whether bitten or not, Juliette almost immediately calls her out. [[spoilers:When Cal declares she’ll find a way to kill her and every legacy vampire, Jules notices no shift in her heartbeat. This is likely because Cal is already so high on emotions that her heart would already be racing, but Jules can only take it as Cal being completely sincere.]]
LoveAtFirstSight: She fell like a rock for Calliope the moment she saw her, as she admits in 1x02. A large part of the pilot episode involves her trying to get Cal’s attention.
LoveMakesYouDumb: She knew Cal had caught on to her vampiric nature by the silver bracelet at her locker and followed her into Noah’s pantry despite already figuring out that Cal was planning to kill her because she was just that smitten with the young hunter. Subverted in that Juliette also knew Cal wouldn’t know how to kill her and that a stake through the heart would be a minor inconvenience.
MeaningfulName: Aside from being an obvious reference to the titular character of {{Theater/RomeoAndJuliet}}, the name means “youthful”, referring to how she’s the youngest legacy yet.
MercyKill: [[spoilers:Downplayed in that Theo was already dying, but she tries to ease his pain by drinking his blood. This is ultimately subverted when he unintentionally turns into a vampire.]]
MortonsFork: [[spoilers:When presented with a dying Theo, she drinks his blood in order to ease his pain, consequently turning him. As Calliope points out, even if it had worked out as intended, it wasn’t her choice to make. While that isn’t untrue, she didn’t have a lot of alternatives. Had she left him to die, the negligence of action would’ve weighed on her conscience and Cal likely would’ve gotten upset at her for not doing something. Had she called an ambulance, he likely would’ve died before even reaching the hospital. There was ultimately no winning in this situation.]]
MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Due to her compassion for all life, she views most other legacies with some level of distaste, often coming to disagreements with her family as a result.
NiceGirl: She’s compassionate and vivacious. Oliver even refers to her as his more harmless sister.
NiceJobBreakingItHero: Big time in 1x08. [[spoilers:While cleaning up the blood from Theo and Apollo’s fight with Elinor, a dying Theo awakens with just enough strength to beg for her help. Her only solution is to drink his blood to relieve him of his pain so he can die in peace. Unfortunately, all this does is turn him into a vampire, the very creature he and his whole family were trained to hate, the very creature that killed his mother. To make matters worse, Apollo and especially Jack are ready to kill him as a result, which Talia is vehemently against, so now the Burnses have become a house divided. [[FromBadToWorse As if all that drama weren’t enough]], Calliope feels betrayed by this, so she breaks up with Juliette and swears to kill her and the entire legacy vampire community (which has the added downside of breaking her promises to never hunt her and to keep her heart safe). In her attempts to make things just a bit better, she ruined an innocent life, plunged a family into a civil war, and turned her girlfriend into an enemy.]]
NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The way she rises from her bed and looms over Elinor in 1x08 is implies gruesome intent, [[spoilers:but in reality she’s decided to steal the key to her murder locker and give it to Oliver]].
OhCrap: When she realizes that she’s out of blood pills, Ben and Cal just watched her [[spoilers:feed on Cook]], and she accidentally [[spoilers:turned Theo]].
TheParalyzer: As a legacy, her blood temporarily disables people if they touch it. This happens to Cal during a fight in 1x02.
PeekABangs: On occasion whenever her hair is down without being tied back.
PetTheDog: Despite Cal stabs her in the heart and then follows her onto the school’s roof to pick a fight with her, Juliette still lies to the principal the following morning to keep her out of trouble.
PintSizedPowerhouse: As to be expected of a vampire who’s about 5’1.
PoorCommunicationKills: She never mentions the attempt on her life to her family, so Margot sees nothing wrong with telling Talia about a huge gathering at their estate. As a result, they’re completely blindsided when the hunters attack them. Granted, none of the legacies die, but still.
[[spoilers:Oliver and Carmen tell her in 1x05 that there is a spell that can turn vampires into humans. It would’ve saved the Burns family a lot of emotional turmoil in 1x08 if Juliette had brought it up.]]
PsychoticSmirk: Flashes a particularly unsettling one as she watches [[spoilers:Elinor’s arrest]].
TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoilers:She rips into Elinor over being a soulless murderer in 1x08, disowning her as a sister.]]
RegretfulTraitor: [[spoilers:She has second thoughts about turning Elinor in for her numerous kills, but goes through with it anyway.]]
ReluctantMonster: Despite coming from a family of legacy vampires, Juliette cares nothing for their lifestyle, from the murder to the Queen Serpent.
RuleOfSymbolism: In 1x01, she accidentally knocks over a few cherry jars while she’s in the middle of rutting with Calliope.
ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: The reason she procrastinates her first kill and avoids the legacy lifestyle is simply that killing people is bad.
ShrinkingViolet: She has little confidence in herself and has very few friends. She considers herself “cool by association” to Ben as his best friend and she can hardly speak comfortably around [[LoveInterest Calliope]] (at first).
StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: A heroic example. [[spoilers:When Cal gets angry at Juliette for turning Theo and tells her to leave, Juliette tries to get through to her, prompting Cal to grab a silver-tipped spear and hold it at her heart. Juliette simply tells her she can stab her if it should make her feel better, even though it wouldn’t kill her.]]
SucksAtDancing: In 1x06, Elinor takes her to a club and they go dancing. As venues like this aren’t her forte, Juliette is awkward about her moves and Elinor tells her to stop moving as if she has a “raging UTI”.
SureLetsGoWithThat: After coming home from Noah’s party, her family assumes from the blood on her that she’s had her first kill. She allows them to believe it for the time being.
TeamSwitzerland: Concerning Oliver’s drama with Elinor, as she doesn’t know the whole reason why he hates her. [[spoilers:Not anymore as of 1x08.]]
* TearsOfBlood: She cries at [[spoilers:Ashley’s vigil]], but since she still hasn’t had her first kill by this point, her body is still acting up, so the tears aren’t water.
* TechnicalPacifist: She’s perfectly willing to fight in spite of her distaste for violence, but finds the idea of taking a life repulsive and only ever resorts to it if her predator instincts take over. [[spoilers:She kills and feeds on Cook to defend Ben and Cal, which also gets her inevitable first kill out of the way. She also helps Elinor feed on a stranger at a bar and starts to enjoy it after becoming affected by the ecstasy he was on, but immediately sobers up when she can no longer feel his pulse.]]

* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoilers: After she bites Elinor’s head off about killing so many innocent people and being the cause of Theo’s (apparent) murder, Elinor attacks Juliette, blames her for everything bad that’s happening to their family, and implies that she plans on killing the rest of the Burnses. Juliette declares she’ll never forgive her for this.]]

'''(to Elinor)''' We don’t have to kill to survive.

* TragicMistake: [[spoilers:Drinking Theo’s blood was a bad idea.]]

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: When she sees Cook hobbling a subdued Cal into his truck, she slams him, holds him at knifepoint, and threatens to feed him to her family. [[spoilers:When he attacks again later that night, she kills him and drinks his blood.]]
* WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere: She intermittently suffers this in the beginning because she’s yet to feed for the first time, though it tends to vanish whenever Calliope enters the scene. [[spoilers:It goes away entirely after she kills Cook.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: When Ben rudely otherizes her after [[spoilers:finding out she’s a vampire]], she calls him out for deluding that he’ll ever be with Noah, who is currently dating Phillipa. She tells him that he’s a sidepiece who’s been dragged back into a closet. He’s offended in turn, but Noah winds up validating her minutes later.