History Characters / GunnerkriggCourt

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Turns out it's [[spoiler: not The Seed Bismuth, but [[[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 an wisp]] that was trying to lure Annie away.]]

* TraumaticHaircut: After [[spoiler: her father comes back into her life and orders her to [[spoiler: give up being the Forest Medium, move out of the dorms, repeat Year 9 due to her cheating habit, and give up control of Reynardine to him.]]

* AintTooProudToBeg: First he tries a threatening attitude to get Annie to tell him stories, but she knows that there's no way he would really attack her. Next step is to cry and whine while rolling on his back. Annie isn't too impressed, but Ysengrin is mortified.

* StepfordSmiler: Occurs (and is promptly {{lampshaded}}) [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1503 here]], albeit without smiling.
-->'''Annie''': Kat, [[spoiler: my father has returned]]. And it's taking all of my energy not to [[InelegantBlubbering break down like a complete fool]]. I have to... I have to...

* ADayintheLimelight: Chapter 43: Quicksilver focuses on on him, his reflections and regrets on his past decisions and actions, and his interactions with Hetty.

** Comes up again in Chapter 51, after [[spoiler:Kat chews her out for abandoning Reynardine to her father]]; Annie begins to FreakOut, but barely manages to get a hold of herself at the last minute, explicitly saying that it's taking "all of [her] energy not to break down like a complete fool".

* UnevenHybrid: [[spoiler:She's descended from a fire elemental]].

* OrphansOrdeal: Annie's mum is dead and [[spoiler:her dad is nowhere to be seen]].

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Evil may be a stretch but details about the past imply that Surma wasn't the beacon of light that her friends constantly describe her as. She is mentioned to have been something of a rule breaker who was able to avoid being caught, actively manipulated Reynardine into falling in love with her so the Court could capture him, and was said to dislike Jones, someone even her AdultsAreUseless minded daughter actually trusts.

* TheTease: GoneHorriblyWrong. When [[spoiler:she led the lovestruck Reynardine on]], people died.

---> "How ''could'' you? ''He's our friend!''"

* WhatTheHellHero: She calls Annie out for [[spoiler: not only agreeing to transfer her ownership of Reynardine to her father, but also forbidding him to speak so he can't protest at this treatment.]] "How ''could'' you? ''He's our friend!"''

* AffablyEvil: Coyote is most definitely this. He's willing to hurt and betray his friends and colleagues, even with moon-poking power and dictatorship over the entire woods. Examples include [[spoiler:manipulating Ysengrin into trying to murder Annie, and then eating Ysengrin's memory of the event]]. On the other hand, he's very generous with sharing information, constantly laughs and jokes at what should be BerserkButtons to any other dictator, and his reaction to a farce of an official meeting between ambassadors?
-->Coyote: ...Party. Party. Party! Par-tay! Par-Tay! PARTY-AY!
-->Minions: YAY!

* TraumaticHaircut: [[spoiler: After her father comes back into her life and orders her to give up being the Forest Medium, move out of the dorms, repeat Year 9 due to her cheating habit, and give up control of Reynardine to him.]]

* TraumaticHaircut: [[spoiler: After her father comes back into her life and orders her to give up being the Forest Medium, move out of the dorms, repeat Year 9 due to her cheating habit, and ''give up control of Reynardine to him.'']]

* SadistTeacher: The first thing he does upon his return to the court is [[spoiler: go out of his way to humiliate Annie in front of the class, ordering her to remove her makeup, describing it as "ridiculous". When Annie returned to the classroom after washing her make-up off, Anthony says "You have delayed your classmates long enough." Also, he deliberately did not giving her a copy of the textbook (Not that she would need it, since she's got to retake the school year, but he could have explained why). He also waits until the first day of the new school year to inform Annie that she's going to repeat the previous year and have to move out of the dorms (While these aren't necessarily examples on their own, it seems unnecessary to wait so long to tell a student such vital information about their school life.)]]

* SadistTeacher: The first thing he does upon his return to the court is [[spoiler: go out of his way to humiliate Annie in front of the class, ordering her to remove her makeup, describing it as "ridiculous", and deliberately not giving her a copy of the textbook. Also, when Annie returned to the classroom after washing her make-up off, Anthony says "You have delayed your classmates long enough." He's basically shaming her in front of everyone.]]
** [[spoiler:He also waits until ''the first day of the new school year'' to inform Annie that she's going to repeat the previous year and have to move out of the dorms. It seems unnecessary to wait this long to tell a student such vital information about their school life.]]

* AffablyEvil: Coyote is most definitely this. He's willing to hurt and betray his friends and colleagues, even with moon-poking power and dictatorship over the entire woods. Examples include [[spoiler:manipulating Ysengrin into trying to murder Annie, and then eating Ysengrin's memory of the event (he's done this hundreds of times to keep said forest god loyal)]]. On the other hand, he's very generous with sharing information, constantly laughs and jokes at what should be BerserkButtons to any other dictator, and his reaction to a farce of an official meeting between ambassadors?

* ExhaustedEyeBags: Sports some in Chapter 51 [[spoiler:after the emotional abuse received from her father throughout the chapter.]]

* ExhaustedEyeBags: Sports some in Chapter 51 [[spoiler:after the numerous bombshells her father dropped on her throughout the chapter.]]

* HateSink: Judging by practically every comment from his first present-day appearance, it's safe to say he falls under this. '''Strongly'''.

** [[spoiler:However, he himself mentions that the court is well aware of Annie's cheating and ''he's'' the one that decided to fail her. While he has a point that she shouldn't have been cheating, it seems that the nobody cared until Anthony came along. Making her repeat the grade, making her move out of the dorms, and all his other rules come off as an abuse of power on his part.]]

** [[spoiler: He also says that he's subtracted all the plagiarism from her overall marks, and decided to have her repeat year 9. Given that Annie's been cheating for a ''long'' time, she quite probably hasn't learned enough to justify her being in year 10, nor does she deserve to be there. Considering many institutions in real life have a zero tolerance approach to cheating and how it's indicated Annie has been doing so extensively, it wouldn't raise many eyebrows if she had been expelled, though as he's a teacher rather than an administrator his ability to fail her in classes not his own seems excessive.
** However, he himself mentions that the court is well aware of Annie's cheating and ''he's'' the one that decided to fail her. While he has a point that she shouldn't have been cheating, it seems that the nobody cared until Anthony came along. Making her repeat the grade, making her move out of the dorms, and all his other rules come off as an abuse of power on his part.]]