History Characters / GONE

* DoggedNiceGuy: Implied to be this for Lana. [[spoiler:Until she shoots him. Yeah, she's forming a habit. Tossed out of the window entirely in ''Fear''; see SuddenlySexuality for more]].

* SuddenlySexuality: He is revealed to be [[StraightGay gay]] in ''Fear.'' [[spoiler:He points this out by saying that he just figured it out. Possibly justified, considering his age and the situation .]]

** Also, [[spoiler: with Diana by ''Light'', who he actually does end up living with.]]

** With Edilio afterwards, although [[spoiler: Edilio doesn't fit the 'heterosexual' part, but they're still essentially brothers by the end of the story. So it still counts]]

* ImportantHaircut: In ''Fear'', [[spoiler: she cuts her hair short to [[TookALevelInBadass symbolize her move]] from a CelibateHeroine to a [[DareToBeBadass more gritty character]].]]

* RaisedCatholic: Averted; seems to genuinely believe in her religion as opposed to holding to it due to upbringing, [[spoiler: although, in ''Plague'', starts questioning and has a quasi-HeelFaithTurn.]]

* LoveTriangle: [[BadassNormal Edilio]], [[TheChick Quinn]], and [[ThirdOptionLoveInterest Sanjit]] have one revolving around her, although it's a pretty minor subplot. It's only hinted at in Edilio's case, and definitely not going anywhere there, what with him and [[spoiler: the Artful Roger]]. She ultimately hooks up Sanjit and blackmails him into buying her smokes by refusing to have sex with him.

* SmokingIsCool: Doubts she'll live long enough to suffer the consequences. Not to mention that her healing power would probably fix any damage caused. [[spoiler: She quits in Light]]

* TookALevelInBadass: ''Fear'' really picks up when he punches Penny in the nose for [[spoiler: torturing Cigar]]. It only escalates from there.

* BadassGay: As of ''Fear'', he is revealed to be homosexual, which in no way diminishes the fact that he is one of the more capable characters.

* BerserkButton: Hit a girl in front of him? Accuse him of not caring about anyone? Then you're on the wrong side of Edilio; is pressed HARD in Fear [[spoiler: by Sam and Dekka of all people; but more Sam than the latter, as she just happened to be there]].
* BigGood: As of ''Light''. [[spoiler: Especially when Caine gives him control of Perdido Beach]].

* TheDulcineaEffect: A side effect of the trope [[ChronicHeroSyndrome above]], if someone's in danger? Edilio will jump at the call, if a girl is in danger? [[BerserkButton Steer clear]]. To give an example, he charged [[spoiler: Orc]] to stop him from hurting a girl. [[spoiler: Granted he failed, but still]].
* DoggedNiceGuy: Implied to be this for Lana. [[spoiler: Until she shoots him. Yeah, she's forming a habit. Tossed out of the window entirely in ''Fear''; see SuddenlySexuality for more]].

* SuddenlySexuality: He is revealed to be [[StraightGay gay]] in ''Fear.'' [[spoiler: He points this out by saying that he just figured it out. Possibly justified, considering his age and the situation .]]

* TheAtoner: Feels horrible about killing Bette and even puts his life at risk putting out fires in ''Lies'' and refuses to take payment for it]]. However, he does [[spoiler: accidentally kill a little boy in ''Plague''.]]

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Which leads him to accidentally kill Bette [[spoiler: and a random kid on the street.]]

* BerserkButton: Call her a bitch. See what happens. [[spoiler: Howard found this out the hard way in ''Gone''.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: How are you reacting to [[spoiler: your only remaining family member's suicide]]? Not at all? Okay...

One of Edilio's ChildSoldiers, she was working in the power plant when it gets attacked, and she is killed. [[spoiler: She later revives as an undead being capable of regenerating from any injury, but is SharingABody with Drake. She eventually succumbs to madness and starts worshipping the Gaiaphage, becoming a variation of ThoseTwoBadGuys with Drake.]]

The series medic, runs the hospital with her boyfriend Elwood [[spoiler: until they break up between Lies and Plague]]

%%* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]

* AlasPoorVillain: In ''Light'' all the time, and in ''Fear'' when [[spoiler: Penny cements his hands and staples an aluminum crown to his forehead.]]

* EvilOverlord: His ambition. [[spoiler: Actually succeeds, although it takes him four books.]]

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: In ''Lies'' she tells Caine she loves him... [[spoiler: before launching herself off a cliff]].

* BreakTheHaughty: Pretty much the entirity of her storyline. [[spoiler: Though she does get a happy- albeit bittersweet ending eventually in ''Light''.]]

** In ''Fear'', she stresses to Sam her fears that [[spoiler: [[FetusTerrible Gaia is not a normal baby]]. Guess who ignores her and unwittingly dooms her to a torturous birth in which the Gaiaphage is incarnated in human form? ]]
** Finally in ''Light'', she tries to warn everyone of [[spoiler: Gaia coming to destroy Lake Tramonto.]] And of course they listen to her and evacuate. Oh wait. Astrid just tells her to shut up. Big consequences indeed.

* DamselInDistress: In ''Fear'' and ''Light'', Caine's main motivation for his HazyFeelTurn is to rescue Diana from [[spoiler: Gaia]] and Drake.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: She's definitely not a nice person, but [[BigBad Caine's]] worse plans get her upset, and [[spoiler: eating Panda in ''Lies'']] really shakes her up.
** She also [[spoiler: almost kills herself to prevent Caine from smashing a helicopter full of kids into a cliff.]]

** And finally averted in ''Light''. [[spoiler: They actually both end the series as protagonists and furthermore, ''friends''. ]]

* HoneyTrap: This is how she manipulates people, most notably Jack in ''Hunger''. It's also debatable that she's doing this to Caine the entire time, although [[spoiler: it's pretty much thrown out the window in ''Light''.]]

* PragmaticVillainy: Objects to mindless violence, such as [[spoiler: letting the coyotes eat the children at the end of ''Gone'' or crashing island kids' helicopter in ''Lies'']], partly on the basis that they're not serving any purpose.

* BackFromTheDead: Caine kills him in ''Hunger'', but he comes back fused with Brittany. [[spoiler: After dying again in ''Light,'' he comes back in ''Monster'' after the remaining meteorites the Gaiaphage spawned from come to Earth]].

** Realizing that calling Diana a bitch in front of Caine is a bad idea? Great job. Then you decide to [[spoiler: Whip her, throw her into the air and drop her onto a rock because she ''[[DisproportionateRetribution yelled at you?]]'']] Really?

* BerserkButton: Threatening Brianna is enough to make him stand up to [[spoiler: ''Drake'']] in ''Hunger''.

* BadassGay: She's tough, good in a fight, and is also a lesbian.

* ObliviousToLove: Dekka's feelings were pretty obvious, especially since, as her best friend, Brianna was probably aware of Dekka's lesbianism, which seems to be fairly common knowledge in Perdido Beach [[spoiler: Tossed out of the window as of ''Fear''.]]

** In ''Light'' [[spoiler: she has one moments before her death.]]
* StaringDownCthulhu: Does this to Drake in ''Plague''. [[spoiler: Subverted by the fact that Drake doesn't back down. He just breaks her ankles.]]
** Does this to [[spoiler:Gaia]] in ''Light''. [[spoiler: However, this time leads directly to her death.]]

Introduced in ''Lies'', Penny is a twelve-year-old with the ability to make people visualise their nightmares and dreams and acts as TheDragon for Caine after [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Drake's betrayal]]]].

* DemotedtoExtra: In ''Plague''. [[spoiler: Though his power is a brief plot point in ''Light'' since Gaia can access other moof's powers.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't know what happened to her after [[spoiler: The FAYZ came down; only that she did make it out after all.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Beats up [[spoiler: Hunter]] enough to give him severe brain damage.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: With the rest of the Crew dead or serving Caine]], we have no idea what happened to her.

* TookALevelInKindness: More out of fear than anything else since he watched Caine brutally kills [[spoiler: [[{{Jerkass}} Lance]]]]

* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards [[spoiler: Lana]].

* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: For [[spoiler: Lana]] in ''Plague.''

* BreakTheCutie: Pre-FAYZ she was the lonely, homeschooled only child whose father never paid any attention to her, and was left confused about the disturbing dreams she saw. In ''HUNGER'' she is threatened with being killed and eaten, is enslaved by Caine, starved and the Gaiaphage causes her to nearly bite off her tongue. In ''LIES'', [[spoiler: [[FromBadToWorse she is manipulated by Nerezza ]] to giving false prophecies, these prophecies involve her electrocuting herself on the barrier and she is strangled to death.]] Break the cutie, indeed.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Decides to befriend [[spoiler: evil incarnate]]. Bad idea.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She just wants to help everyone, but she ends up [[spoiler: driving several teenagers to (probable) [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] before getting strangled herself.]]

* UnwittingPawn: In ''Lies'', [[spoiler: she is made to believe she is the great phophetess by Nerezza, when in reality, she's being used to drive kids to suicide. ]]

* ShipTease: With Edilio. [[spoiler: Jossed as of Fear. He's gay and taken]]

* AgonyBeam: What it uses to keep its servants [[spoiler: in particular Drake in ''Light'']] in line.

* EldritchAbomination: A sentient, radiation-eating, reality-warping virus melded with human DNA, [[spoiler: specifically that of Sam's and Caine's father]].
* EnfantTerrible: In its new form as Diana's daughter Gaia in ''Fear'', and during [[spoiler: most of ''Light''. Close to the end, having grown into a teenager, she no longer qualifies.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Tends to make people do this when they see its true form. [[spoiler: Just ask Caine and Brittney.]]

* OnlyAFleshWound: To a ridiculous degree as Gaia. [[spoiler: Among other things, she takes a shotgun blast to the chest at near point-blank range and a machete to the carotid artery, inflicted within less than a minute of each other, is set on fire by Sam's lasers, and in the final battle takes a hit from a ''missile'' (although Orc was in the way of the blast).]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He was legitimately distraught when he found out [[spoiler: Erin died during his rampage]].

* BiTheWay: Cruz "mostly" likes boys, and develops feelings for both Shade and Malik. In ''Villain'', she settles for being JustFriends with them, but becomes ''very'' enamoured with Armo and in ''Hero'' hooks up with him.

* BiTheWay: Shade tells Cruz she's into guys... "in theory. Not always in reality." Despite some light teasing with Cruz, however, she and Malik rekindle their relationship in ''Villain''.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: His fate towards the end of ''Hero'', with [[spoiler:Rainbow warping him to the [[EldritchLocation virtual space outside reality]].

* InsufferableGenius: At her worst moments.

* TookALevelInBadass: After she [[spoiler:leaves Perdido Beach]] at the end of Plague, she ends up doing this in ''Fear'', learning to survive on her own and becoming a full-fledged ActionGirl.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: She can read a person's potential. In a world of [[LightEmUp pyrokinetics]] and [[CombatTentacles whiphands]], this has yet to do her any good. (Probably because Michael Grant retconned it.)

!! Keira

* OhCrap: Has three big ones in ''Light'': When [[spoiler:Brianna dices him to pieces and scatters them across the FAYZ, leaving only his head intact and fused with a lizard; when he realizes Gaia knows he's daydreaming of assaulting her; and when he finally starts to fall apart after Gaia's death.]]

* {{Sadist}}: He enjoys hurting people.

* DiscardAndDraw: DARPA exposes her to the mutagenic virus that the Gaiaphage originated from in an attempt to reactivate her gravity powers. Instead it turns her into a gorgon-like cat-snake hybrid with a modified version of her original gravity powers.

* BiTheWay: Cruz "mostly" likes boys, and develops feelings for both Shade and Malik. In ''Villain'', she settles for being JustFriends with them, but becomes ''very'' enamoured with Armo.

* {{Kaiju}}: He can transform into a massive reptilian monster capable of vomiting liquid flames. He initially calls himself Napalm, but the media dubs him Dragon.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After [[spoiler:accidentally setting Dillon Poe's hostages on fire,]] he flees in horror and shame. His guilt gets so bad that [[spoiler: he eventually kills himself.]]

* AndIMustScream / FateWorseThanDeath: People infected with the diseases his bugs carry become so sick that they literally ''seethe'' with pestilence, but they do not die no matter how much damage the diseases do. They are in exactly as much pain as they appear to be, and spend most of their time desperately pleading for someone to kill them.

* WomanInWhite: Sam frequently comments on her white clothing looking transparent in the light [[StalkerWithACrush in his POV chapters.]], especially in ''Gone'' and ''Hunger''.

* AndIMustScream/FateWorseThanDeath: People infected with the diseases his bugs carry become so sick that they literally ''seethe'' with pestilence, but they do not die no matter how much damage the diseases do. They are in exactly as much pain as they appear to be, and spend most of their time desperately pleading for someone to kill them.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After [[spoiler:accidentally setting Dillon Poe's hostages on fire,]] he flees in horror and shame.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He considers using his powers to force Saffron to have sex with him, but decides not to because he wants her to want him.

* LivingMacGuffin: She's the only Rockborn invisible to the Dark Watchers, and is capable of accessing the plain of existence that they - and formerly Little Pete and the Gaiaphage - inhabit.

* CluelessChickMagnet: to some extent.
** Astrid (multiple times), Diana (twice), Lana, Brianna, Penny (implied) & Taylor (at least thrice) all point out his good looks, with Diana saying he's a "perfect" boy (smart, brave & cute). Diana, Penny, Taylor, & Astrid all hit on/flirt with him at least once.
** Brianna admits that she has a crush on Sam, "like every other girl, aside from Dekka". Another character- I can't remember who- similarly claims that "every girl in the FAYZ has at least a bit of a crush on Sam."

* RightManInTheWrongPlace: Starts out as just a normal kid who finds himself in an abandoned McDonalds after all the adults disappear and realizes that someone has to take care of the restaurant as everything is descending into chaos. This eventually leads to him managing the whole of Perdido Beach's economy.

* AGodIAm: Delivers one of these speech at the end of ''Plague''. He's subsequently humbled and humiliated by Penny.

* DarkChick: Fills this role in [[BigBad Caine's]] FiveManBand.

* AlliterativeName: Except her middle name, [[LordOfTheRings Arwen]], break the pattern.

%%* {{Expy}}: Of [[LordoftheRings Samwise Gamgee]], extremely loyal to TheHero, [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Incorruptibly Pure]], and badass.

* ShootTheDog: Berates [[TheHero Sam]] for his willingness to do this but later goes through with it herself with her younger brother, Pete.

%%* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Fear''.

* TheScrooge Albert becomes a greedy, penny-pinching miser, eventually absconding with his wealth to the island manor in an attempt to escape.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[LordoftheRings Samwise Gamgee]], extremely loyal to TheHero, [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Incorruptibly Pure]], and badass.

%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: What it takes to work for Drake...

* KilledOffForReal: She tries to commit suicide by poofing in ''Lies'', but dies for real in ''Fear''.

* KilledOffForReal: She's killed when [[spoiler:Gaia attacks Sam's settlement in ''Light'']].

* KilledOffforReal: He is killed [[spoiler:by Gaia in ''Light'']].

* KilledOffForReal: She's killed by Sam in ''Fear''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: With the rest of the Crew KilledOffForReal or serving Caine]], we have no idea what happened to her.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:One of the few recurring POV characters this happens to. [[spoiler: Before ''Light'', anyway.]]

The fire chief

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with, but cruelly and brutally subverted. He doesn't kill people at first, but that's not out of any actual morality; he's just afraid to take that big of a step. Once he does so, he plunges into mass murder and rape with gleeful abandon, causing far more carnage than even Drake or the Gaiaphage without a shred of remorse.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He considers using his powers to force Saffron to have sex with him, but decides not to because he wants her to want him. After her death, however, he uses his powers to force a group of cheerleaders to have an orgy with him, and one of them -- Kathy -- is so overcome with rage and hatred that his hold on her barely keeps her from killing him.

* {{Jerkass}}
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* SmugSnake

* IllBoy: Bowie

* [[TagalongKid Tagalong Kids]]
* [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Who Renames Their Kid Dude?]]

* ANaziByAnyOtherName

* {{Jerkass}}
* JerkWithAHeartofJerk
* KilledOffForReal:[[spoiler:AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.]]

* FatIdiot
* FatBastard
* {{Jerkass}}
* [[spoiler: KilledOffforReal]]

* {{Jerkass}}
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

* TheDitz

* AmbiguousDisorder

* HeroKiller: Drake is so dangerous that he nearly kills Sam and Brittany.

* {{Asexual}}: Too caught up in his greed to care about women. [[{{Averted}} in ''Light'' when he starts taking an interest in [[BuxomIsBetter Alicia]].]]

* {{Asexual}}: Too caught up in his greed to care about women. {{Averted}} in ''Light'' when he starts taking an interest in [[BuxomIsBetter Alicia]].]]

The series' main protagonist. Fourteen years old at the start of ''Gone'', Sam is [[IJustWantToBeNormal reluctantly pulled into playing the role of the town's hero.]] After deposing his twin brother, Caine he takes over as the mayor of Perdido Beach at the end of ''Gone'' and does his best to protect it from external and internal threats.

Sam Temple's step-dad, who walked out on the family shortly before the FAYZ after Sam accidentally burns his arm off

* HookHand: This is what happens when Sam burns his arm off.

* DarkChick: Fills this role in [[BigBad Caine's]] [[FiveBadBand band.]]

* BrokenPedistal: Cruz looks up to her throughout ''Monster'', but by the time of ''Villain'' realizes that Shade isn't someone to be idolized.

Caine's [[TheDragon second-in-command]], Drake is viewed as the most evil of the kids in the FAYZ. Has no apparent goals aside from whipping anyone he comes into contact with.

* AxCrazy: Is a total psychopath and ''loves'' it.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Believe it or not, this appears to be the case, or at least it was in the past. Seeing his stepfather abuse his mother [[FreudianExcuse messed him up]] [[StrawMisogynist a lot]].

* HateDom: in universe, read anyone's POV, chances are they hate Drake.

* NotQuiteDead: Drake's original death was undone by the Gaiaphage somehow implanting him into Brittany, who was undead and could regenerate. Breeze chops his body to pieces -- each of which independently survives -- and Gaia attaches his severed head to the new body. [[spoiler:Drake's head dies when Gaia does, but ''Monster'' reveals that he somehow reconstituted himself from his scattered body parts and is still at large.]]

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: While he doesn't actually do anything, he threatens to rape Brianna after [[spoiler:she cuts him to pieces]]. She simply smashes his... equipment right in front of him. He later threatens to rape Astrid as a severed head, but she laughs in his face and shuts him in a water cooler. He also fantasizes about assaulting Gaia, and pays for it when she reads his mind and is not amused. [[spoiler: After coming BackFromTheDead in ''Monster,'' rape was listed among his crimes]].

* VillainBall: Realizing that calling Diana a bitch in front of Caine is a bad idea? Great job. Then you decide to [[spoiler: Whip her, throw her into the air and drop her onto a rock because she ''[[DisproportionateRetribution yelled at you?]]'']] Really?
** The way he [[spoiler: [[NoYay openly displays a sadistic lust for Gaia]]]] in ''Light'' wasn't terribly bright either.

* WhipItGood: How he uses his Whip Hand.

* ActionGirl: Dekka is not afraid to use her gravity powers in combat.
* BadassGay: ...and she's a lesbian.

* {{Yandere}}: Gives off this vibe, but, while she's willing to commit atrocities for Caine, she's never actually tried to kill Diana, possibly because she's aware it would be pushing a major BerserkButton.

* FilleFatale: As Gaia, she briefly tries to seduce [[spoiler:Sam over to the dark side in ''Light'', and when that fails she simply [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomp Battles]] him]]. She also notes that Drake is having an increasingly hard time following her orders as she ages and is fantasizing about mutilating and possibly raping her, and taunts him about it while punishing him.

* BiTheWay: Shade tells Cruz she's into guys... "in theory. Not always in reality."

* AmbiguousGender: Cruz is biologically male but non-binary -- what Shade calls "multiple choice, but on a true-false test". She identifies as female over the course of the book, and dresses in a manner that makes Shade initially wonder whether she's a beautiful guy or a handsome girl.
* BiTheWay: Cruz "mostly" likes boys, and develops feelings for both Shade and Malik. In ''Villain'', she settles for being JustFriends with them, but is ''very'' enamoured with Armo.

!! Aristotle "Armo" Admo

* ItsAllAboutMe: Even after his amnesia, he was very self-absorbed.

* EvenEvilHasStandard: He is sickened by Drake's pointless sadism, and eventually stops working with him because of it.
* {{Kaiju}}: He can transform into a massive reptilian monster capable of vomiting liquid flames. He initially balls himself Napalm, but the media dubs him Dragon.

* KillItWithFire: In ''Villain'', [[spoiler:he's killed using incendiary weapons]].

* CompellingVoice: When morphed, Dillon can order anyone to do whatever he wants.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with, but cruelly and brutally subverted. He doesn't kill people at first, but that's not out of any actual morality, he's just afraid to take that big of a step. Once he does so, he plunges into mass murder and rape with gleeful abandon, causing far more carnage than even Drake or the gaiaphage without a shred of remorse.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He uses his powers to force a group of cheerleaders to have an orgy with him, and one of them -- Kathy -- is so overcome with rage and hatred that his hold on her barely keeps her from killing him.