History Characters / FirstKill

* BerserkButton: Cal cares deeply for her family, so hurting them is a great way to piss her off. [[spoiler:Juliette would find this out the hard way by accident in 1x04.]]

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: He and Apollo try to manipulate [[SerialKiller Eli]][[TheSociopath nor]] into giving them information about [[spoiler:the legacy who killed Theo’s birth mother, which led to him getting staked and the situation between the two families getting even worse.]] A wiser alternative would’ve been to consult [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Juli]][[NiceGirl ette]], because, especially as she’s dating his sister, she has no incentive to hurt him.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Big time in 1x08. [[spoiler: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 AHouseDivided. [[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.]]

* TeamSwitzerland: Concerning Oliver’s drama with Elinor, as she doesn’t know the whole reason why he hates her. [[spoiler:Not anymore as of 1x08.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: Brevity tends to take a nosedive whenever he enters the room. His sly demeanor makes him off-putting to others, but it's shown in a more ominous light than the more two-faced light Elinor's is shown in.

* BlackSheep: [[spoiler:He was disowned by his parents and the legacy community at large for jeopardizing their safety with savage murders 5 years prior to the events of the show. It turns out they were all orchestrated by Elinor.]]

* TheCassandra: [[spoiler:He tried to tell his family that he was tricked and manipulated into committing the murders he was kicked out for.]] Juliette preferring to remain neutral due to not knowing the whole story is the closest any of them come to believing him.

* WhatWereYouThinking: [[spoiler:After Juliette turns Theo, she rips into her for “playing innocent” and making dumb decisions, leading to their breakup.]]

* RelativeButton: She cares deeply for her family, so messing with them is a good way to get on her bad side. [[spoiler:Juliette turned her brother into a vampire by mere accident and Cal bit her head off for it.]]

* 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. [[spoiler: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.]]

* DisappointedByTheMotive: After learning that [[spoiler:Elinor screwed him over [[ForTheEvulz just for fun]]]], he gives her a look that screams [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe boredom]].

* SevenMinutesInHeaven: Ben rigs a game of SpinTheBottle so the girls can make out in the pantry. It starts out with Juliette randomly kissing Cal and confessing to a crush. The girls continue, but after a few minutes Juliette enters a state of euphoria where she loses control of her bloodlust and bites Cal on the neck, prompting her to stake Juliette in the heart.

* HemoErotic: Downplayed. While rutting with Cal at Noah’s party, she loses control of herself and bites Cal on the neck.

* TenMinutesInTheCloset: Ben rigs a game of SpinTheBottle so the girls can play Seven Minutes in Heaven.

* GlassCannon: They're really strong and are born with incredible combat skills, but they don't have enhanced durability and thus can still be hurt as easily as any human (but not killed).

* NighInvulnerability: Played with. They’re not immune to typical methods of offense (as seen when Cal fights Juliette and [[spoiler:Theo and Apollo fight Elinor]], but they’re extremely hard to put down for good.

* QuestForIdentity: She spends a good chunk of the series trying to discover herself in spite of what everyone around her tries to dictate. This is reflected in the book she's seen reading with Ben in their childhood, ''Literature/TheBellJar''.

* AnimalMotifs: Snakes, though downplayed. They have fangs and are capable of regrowing lost appendages. They also get their power from a particular snake.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:No tears are shed when Juliette murders him. The kill isn't shown in that terrifying of a light, and even Cal's parents don't show any emotion upon learning he's dead, caring even less for him upon learning why she killed him.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:No tears are shed when Juliette murders him. The kill isn't shown in that terrifying of a light, and even Cal's parents don't show any emotion upon learning he's dead.]]

* BoundAndGagged: Twice in the same night; first by Elinor to coax Juliette into feeding on her, and second by Cook in the hopes of reporting her to the Guild as a traitor.

* AssholeVictim: He assaults Cal, Juliette, and Ben, so no tears are shed when [[spoiler:Juliette murders him]].

* WouldHurtAChild: He tries to kidnap Calliope at knifepoint in the hopes of earning a promotion by reporting her as a traitor. He later hits Ben in the stomach with a shovel for no real reason. He also attacks Juliette, but given that she’s a vampire, it’s his job.

* 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.

* OppositesAttract: Juliette is bright, friendly, and uncertain of herself. Calliope is closed-off, skeptical, and confident in who she is. On top of that, Cal is a hunter whose job naturally opposes the existence of a vampire like Juliette. The two mix remarkably well.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Legacy vampires survive on blood, can turn other creatures into vampires, need to be invited into households, and have a weakness to silver, but they can easily take sunlight, can't be killed by a wooden stake, have paralyzing blood, can establish psychic links with whomever they bite, and are associated with serpents as opposed to bats. Their community is also strictly female-led.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The line between person and monster starts to blur after she meets Juliette, to the point where she starts viewing vampires in general as people. She muses that Juliette is very different from the monsters she was warned about, especially after Juliette saves her from Cook. [[spoiler:It doesn't take much for her to swing back into the non-person camp, however, as 1x08 reaction to Juliette turning Theo (even unintentionally) is to call her a monster and swear to kill her and every legacy around. How sincere she is about this, though, remains to be seen.]]