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* DissonantSerenity: On the one hand she has no problems hacking innocent school children to bits; on the other hand she takes time to complement one on her combat skills.
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* MagicPants: When his aetheric form "revives" (similar to the Headless Horseman in ''Film/SleepyHollow'') after the arrow's removed his pants are there too.
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* MagicPants: When his aetheric form "revives" (similar to the Headless Horseman in ''Film/SleepyHollow'') 1999 film ''[[Film/SleepyHollow1999 Sleepy Hollow]]'') after the arrow's removed his pants are there too.
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* EtherealWhiteDress: Her dress on the night of her death, and thus her appearance as the ghost by the Annan Waters, is white. [[spoiler: If she turns red ''watch out'']].
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* WomanInWhite: Her dress on the night of her death, and thus her appearance as the ghost by the Annan Waters. [[spoiler: If she turns red ''watch out'']].
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Turns out it's [[spoiler: not The Seed Bismuth, but [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 a wisp]] that was trying to lure Annie away.]]
* CallBack: The [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1247 Seed]] looks a lot like how [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049 Kat appears to Zimmy.]]
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* LivingMacGuffin: Turns out it's alive. Who knew?
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* LivingMacGuffin: Turns out it's it was alive. Who knew?knew? [[spoiler:Though whether still is alive is up in the air, as well as whether it was even sentient to begin with, given the truth of its "appearance" in Chapter 44]].
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* UnreliableNarrator: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 Turns out to be]] some kind of [[spoiler:wasp monster called a wisp]], however not everything it says is a lie.
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* UnreliableNarrator: When it appears in Chapter 44, [[spoiler:it's nothing but [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 Turns out a creature of the forest]] using illusions and lies to be]] some kind of [[spoiler:wasp monster called a wisp]], however try and trick Annie into carrying it across the bridge.]] However, not everything it says is a lie.lie, making it ambiguous what parts of its claims were real and which were lies. Of course, this is the claim of Coyote, an UnreliableNarrator himself, so it's possible none of it was true.
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* TheSparkOfGenius: His work was partially etheric; no one in all the years since has been able to equal his creations. Even Kat, who has come closer to understanding his work than anyone else, still finds much of it mysterious.
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* MurderIntoMalevolence: [[spoiler:{{Invoked|Trope}} by the Court founders, who murdered her lover in front of her, left her to die, and used {{Magitek}} to bind her furious ghost to the Annan River, killing anyone who tries to cross from the Forest.]]
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One of the founders' lover from Gillitie Wood. Another founder referred to him as a "traitor".
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One of the founders' founders', a.k.a [[spoiler:Jeanne's]] lover from Gillitie Wood. Another founder referred to him as a "traitor".
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* ArcVillain: A lingering threat whose abilities far exceeded the gang's for quite a while.
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* HeroKiller: Has killed ''GrimReaper[=s=]'' and supernatural fighters who wanted a challenge; she also [[spoiler: stabs Smitty the luck master in the heart and/or lung. Smitty is fine with it since Parley wasn't hurt (he either doesn't know Jeanne was trying to [[KillTheMedicFirst kill the luck manipulator first]] or was lying to make Parley feel better)]].
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* HeroKiller: Has killed ''GrimReaper[=s=]'' and supernatural fighters who wanted a challenge; she also [[spoiler: stabs Smitty the luck master in the heart and/or lung. Smitty is fine with it since Parley wasn't hurt (he either doesn't know Jeanne was trying to [[KillTheMedicFirst [[ShootTheMedicFirst kill the luck manipulator first]] or was lying to make Parley feel better)]].
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* HeroKiller: Has killed ''GrimReaper[=s=]''; she also [[spoiler: stabs Smitty in the heart and/or lung]].
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* HeroKiller: Has killed ''GrimReaper[=s=]''; ''GrimReaper[=s=]'' and supernatural fighters who wanted a challenge; she also [[spoiler: stabs Smitty the luck master in the heart and/or lung]].lung. Smitty is fine with it since Parley wasn't hurt (he either doesn't know Jeanne was trying to [[KillTheMedicFirst kill the luck manipulator first]] or was lying to make Parley feel better)]].
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* NiceGuy: Somehow found Annie's hairclip from her first visit to the Annan Waters and was able to give it back to her several years later.
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* NiceGuy: Somehow Somehow, despite being an immobile skeleton in the real world, found Annie's hairclip hair clip from her first visit to the Annan Waters and was able to give it back to her several years later.later.
* NoNameGiven: As of [[spoiler: him and Jeanne going into the light]] his name hasn't been revealed.
* NoNameGiven: As of [[spoiler: him and Jeanne going into the light]] his name hasn't been revealed.
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler: Gives Annie her aetheric scar and ~50 chapters later casually wipes it off.]]
* HeroKiller: Has killed ''GrimReaper[=s=]''; she also [[spoiler: stabs Smitty in the heart and/or lung]].
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* SinsOfOurFathers: The Court founders are the direct responsibles for Jeanne's etheric presence on the Annan Waters. After such acts, no creatures were able to pass the waters without facing her.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[InterspeciesRomance With]] [[spoiler:a Gillitie Woods elf]].
* StarCrossedLovers: [[InterspeciesRomance With]] [[spoiler:a Gillitie Woods elf]].
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* SinsOfOurFathers: The Court founders are the direct responsibles directly responsible for Jeanne's etheric presence on the Annan Waters. After such acts, no creatures were able to pass the waters without facing her.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[InterspeciesRomance With]][[spoiler:a [[spoiler: a Gillitie Woods elf]].
* StarCrossedLovers: [[InterspeciesRomance With]]
* VictoryGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: After being reunited with her lover she, like Mort, starts losing her memory as they GoIntoTheLight.]]
* MagicPants: When his aetheric form "revives" (similar to the Headless Horseman in ''Film/SleepyHollow'') after the arrow's removed his pants are there too.
* MobileMaze / PsychologicalTormentZone: Where his "soul" is inside the arrow.
** AFormYouAreComfortableWith / YourMindMakesItReal: Played with: Similar to the ROTD, Annie sees a giant incomprehensible maze [[spoiler: and Kat's terrifying god-form]] while Kat sees a small room, the "maze" apparently being the simple lock on the shackles binding his hands (and nothing else).
* NiceGuy: Somehow found Annie's hairclip from her first visit to the Annan Waters and was able to give it back to her several years later.
* MobileMaze / PsychologicalTormentZone: Where his "soul" is inside the arrow.
** AFormYouAreComfortableWith / YourMindMakesItReal: Played with: Similar to the ROTD, Annie sees a giant incomprehensible maze [[spoiler: and Kat's terrifying god-form]] while Kat sees a small room, the "maze" apparently being the simple lock on the shackles binding his hands (and nothing else).
* NiceGuy: Somehow found Annie's hairclip from her first visit to the Annan Waters and was able to give it back to her several years later.
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* GadgeteerGenius: This guy created ''self-aware robots'' out of {{Magitek}}.
* HeelRealization: Of a sort. While he never acknowledged that he was in any way responsible for [[spoiler: Jeanne's death]], some of his last words were [[spoiler: "She was all alone, waiting, when she died and I did nothing", which show that he regretted [[BystanderSyndrome not doing something to save her]]]].
* HeelRealization: Of a sort. While he never acknowledged that he was in any way responsible for [[spoiler: Jeanne's death]], some of his last words were [[spoiler: "She was all alone, waiting, when she died and I did nothing", which show that he regretted [[BystanderSyndrome not doing something to save her]]]].
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* GadgeteerGenius: This guy created ''self-aware robots'' out of {{Magitek}}.
{{Magitek}} and a magical glowing green arrow that A) bound the soul of the person shot by it to this world, B) apparently bound his (unshot) lover's body and soul to this world, C) damaged the records in the Realm of the Dead so they couldn't ID the (unshot) person.
* HeelRealization: Of a sort. While he never acknowledged that he was in any way responsible for [[spoiler: Jeanne's death]], some of his last words were [[spoiler: "She was all alone, waiting, when she died and I did nothing", whichshow shows that he regretted [[BystanderSyndrome not doing something to save her]]]].
* HeelRealization: Of a sort. While he never acknowledged that he was in any way responsible for [[spoiler: Jeanne's death]], some of his last words were [[spoiler: "She was all alone, waiting, when she died and I did nothing", which
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That night, while he swam across the Annan, an arrow was fired from the Court, killing him. He was the lucky one.
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That night, while he swam across the Annan, an arrow was fired from the Court, killing him. He was the lucky one.\n [[spoiler: It isn't until Chapter 59 that it's shown that his ghost has been trapped inside that arrow.]]
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Chapter 59 reveals that while his body is rotting at the bottom of the Annan, his soul has been bound to the arrow that struck him.]]
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* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler: Well, she died due to a combination of this, starvation, and being exposed to the elements, probably)]].
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* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler: Well, she died due to a combination of this, starvation, and being exposed to the elements, probably)]].probably]].
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* JeanneDArchetype: A French LadyOfWar, and [[spoiler:human sacrifice]] in the early days of the court.
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Dating in high school and being stalked hardly qualify for unrequited love. Re Black Eyes Of Evil, they\'re stylized the same way as Ms. Donlan\'s, so the application seems uncertain.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Most people towards her.
* BerserkerRage / ThePowerOfHate: All that death and suffering that to ensure that nothing and no one crosses the Annan river. There's an odd metaphysical effect of her sword: Way, way back in chapter 8, she cuts Annie on the cheek with her sword. Much, much later in ch 27, when Annie uses her blinker stone, ''the cut is still there''. The significance of this has yet to be seen. Chapter 46 reveals she's even [[spoiler: killed a number of psychopomps.]]
* BerserkerRage / ThePowerOfHate: All that death and suffering that to ensure that nothing and no one crosses the Annan river. There's an odd metaphysical effect of her sword: Way, way back in chapter 8, she cuts Annie on the cheek with her sword. Much, much later in ch 27, when Annie uses her blinker stone, ''the cut is still there''. The significance of this has yet to be seen. Chapter 46 reveals she's even [[spoiler: killed a number of psychopomps.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: Her spirit, formed from rage and hatred, is powerful enough to inflict a WoundThatWillNotHeal on Antimony's etheric body and [[spoiler:kill several psychopomps]].
* UnstoppableRage: Even the psychopomps and the Realm of the Dead have no idea how to stop her.
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An [[{{Gonk}} odd-looking]] inventor and technological genius, who clearly understood machines better than people. All the Court's robots (except possibly the Tic Tocs) are derived from his designs.
He loved Jeanne unrequitedly ([[StalkerWithACrush or was at least obsessed with the idea of her]]) and showered her with gifts of robots, which had little effect on her (in retrospect, giving robots to a girl who was pining for the forest was probably a bad idea).
He loved Jeanne unrequitedly ([[StalkerWithACrush or was at least obsessed with the idea of her]]) and showered her with gifts of robots, which had little effect on her (in retrospect, giving robots to a girl who was pining for the forest was probably a bad idea).
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An [[{{Gonk}} odd-looking]] inventor and technological {{Magitek}} genius, who clearly understood machines better than people. All the Court's robots (except possibly the Tic Tocs) are derived from his designs.
Heloved Jeanne unrequitedly ([[StalkerWithACrush or was at least obsessed with the idea of her]]) Jean and showered her with gifts of robots, which had little effect on her (in her. In retrospect, giving robots to a girl who was pining for the forest was probably a bad idea).
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* GadgeteerGenius: This guy created ''self-aware robots''.
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* BlackEyesOfEvil: Beneath his glasses, his eyes are solid black. It isn't clear if he suffered the same condition that Zimmy does.
FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears thick round spectacles and is an [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=655 unreservedly awful person]].
* GadgeteerGenius: This guy created ''self-awarerobots''.robots'' out of {{Magitek}}.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Strongly hinted to be his motivation for having Jeanne sacrificed.
* {{Jerkass}}: This was the guy who [[spoiler:condemned the one he 'loved' to a slow and miserable death by exposure essentially, because she liked someone else. And [[SarcasmMode which coincidentally]] killed the other man as well]].
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* IfICantHaveYou: Strongly hinted to be his motivation for having [[spoiler:having Jeanne sacrificed.
sacrificed]].
* {{Jerkass}}: This was the guy who[[spoiler:condemned the one he 'loved' to a slow stalked an uninterested woman, [[spoiler:then had her and miserable death by exposure essentially, because [[MurderTheHypotenuse her lover]] murdered and [[AndIMustScream trapped her spirit as a ghost]]]] when he finally realized that she liked someone else. And [[SarcasmMode which coincidentally]] killed the other man as well]].didn't like him. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking kind of racist against elves]].
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* StalkerWithACrush: To Towards Jeanne.
* FalseFriend: He helps [[spoiler:Jeanne]] arrange an escape with [[spoiler:That Elf]], knowing that it will be an ambush.
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The roots of the Court date back to an ancient union--older even than Coyote's presence in Gillitie--between a group of humans and the creatures of the Wood. Over the ages, much information about this first generation has been lost... and some has been deliberately hidden.
[[folder:Jeanne]]
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Formerly a swordswoman torn between the Court and the Wood; later, a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] trapped between the Court and the Wood.
In life, she was quite beautiful, with blonde hair and [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience green]] [[BodyMotifs eyes]]. Her exact role in the Court is not yet clear.
Jeanne died under unusual circumstances, leaving her outside the jurisdiction of any of the Guides. Her spirit remained trapped by the Annan -- attacking anyone, from the Court or the Forest, who entered the Court's side of the gorge.
And that's the situation when Annie fell into the gorge. Annie landed on the Forest side, and Jeanne crossed the Annan (an act that was believed impossible for her) to attack, giving Annie's face a nasty cut before being driven away by Kat's sudden arrival. (Incidentally, this event was Annie's and the readers' introduction to Jeanne -- details about her past, including her name, were not forthcoming for many more chapters.)
Subsequently, Annie and Kat have taken it upon themselves to uncover Jeanne's past and help the ghost find eternal rest. Even the Guides believe that Annie is the best hope of helping Jeanne.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Most people towards her.
* BerserkerRage / ThePowerOfHate: All that death and suffering that to ensure that nothing and no one crosses the Annan river. There's an odd metaphysical effect of her sword: Way, way back in chapter 8, she cuts Annie on the cheek with her sword. Much, much later in ch 27, when Annie uses her blinker stone, ''the cut is still there''. The significance of this has yet to be seen. Chapter 46 reveals she's even [[spoiler: killed a number of psychopomps.]]
* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler: Well, she died due to a combination of this, starvation, and being exposed to the elements, probably)]].
* DissonantSerenity: On the one hand she has no problems hacking innocent school children to bits; on the other hand she takes time to complement one on her combat skills.
* EmotionlessGirl: [[NotSoStoic Only her face is emotionless]].
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: A (very) mild example. Though [[spoiler:the Court founders]] tried to {{Unperson}} her, [[spoiler:Diego]] kept the memories of her existence in several ways, such as a hidden room, and recordings in a Court's robot.
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: A subtle but very powerful use at the painfully emotional climax of chapter 30:
--> '''Jeanne:''' You come here to mock me with this gleaming heart of yours. Coddled child of that damned place. This luxury afforded by my death... it should be mine to take.
* LadyOfWar: Renard notes in her portrait that she is more comfortable with her sword than her fine clothes.
* NightmareFace: She drops her expressionless look when she's had enough of [[spoiler: Parley's secret love for Smitty, made possible by her unwilling sacrifice to protect the Court, mocking her doomed love for "that elf"]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Still around as a ghost, though.
* ResistTheBeast: Possibly. With her [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1298 speed]] and [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1315 power]], she almost certainly could have killed [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=140 Annie]] and [[spoiler:[[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=778 Parley]]]] without any trouble, as [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=781 Parley points out]].
* SinsOfOurFathers: The Court founders are the direct responsibles for Jeanne's etheric presence on the Annan Waters. After such acts, no creatures were able to pass the waters without facing her.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[InterspeciesRomance With]] [[spoiler:a Gillitie Woods elf]].
* {{Unperson}}: After her death, [[spoiler:the Court Founders]] tried to erase all evidence of her existence. They even went so far as to [[spoiler: damage the records of The Realm of the Dead so that they can't access any files on her directly.]]
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Her face is mask-like and she spells doom to anyone or anything that enters the Annan waters.
* WomanInWhite: Her dress on the night of her death, and thus her appearance as the ghost by the Annan Waters. [[spoiler: If she turns red ''watch out'']].
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[[folder:That Elf (real name unknown)]]
One of the founders' lover from Gillitie Wood. Another founder referred to him as a "traitor".
Following the separation of the Court and the Wood, he and his LoveInterest kept in touch secretly (or so they thought) by letters. Upon learning that the Court wished her to go down to the Annan Waters for an unknown reason, they made plans to use this event to rendezvous and escape elsewhere together.
That night, while he swam across the Annan, an arrow was fired from the Court, killing him. He was the lucky one.
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* HumanSacrifice: Well, elf, but the trope still applies.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Jeanne, thanks to the meddling of the other founders and Diego's jealousy.
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[[folder:Diego]]
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An [[{{Gonk}} odd-looking]] inventor and technological genius, who clearly understood machines better than people. All the Court's robots (except possibly the Tic Tocs) are derived from his designs.
He loved Jeanne unrequitedly ([[StalkerWithACrush or was at least obsessed with the idea of her]]) and showered her with gifts of robots, which had little effect on her (in retrospect, giving robots to a girl who was pining for the forest was probably a bad idea).
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* ArcWords: [[spoiler: "She died and I did nothing", part of his last words, which the robots repeat as 'She died and we did nothing']].
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Beneath his glasses, his eyes are solid black. It isn't clear if he suffered the same condition that Zimmy does.
* GadgeteerGenius: This guy created ''self-aware robots''.
* HeelRealization: Of a sort. While he never acknowledged that he was in any way responsible for [[spoiler: Jeanne's death]], some of his last words were [[spoiler: "She was all alone, waiting, when she died and I did nothing", which show that he regretted [[BystanderSyndrome not doing something to save her]]]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Strongly hinted to be his motivation for having Jeanne sacrificed.
* {{Jerkass}}: This was the guy who [[spoiler:condemned the one he 'loved' to a slow and miserable death by exposure essentially, because she liked someone else. And [[SarcasmMode which coincidentally]] killed the other man as well]].
* NeverMyFault: Even on his deathbed, he was unwilling to accept that [[spoiler:his choices led directly to Jeanne's death]], choosing instead to insist that he had been forced into it by Young.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in an old video clip [[spoiler:and a telepathy-induced flashback, courtesy of Jeanne]]. Despite this, the vast majority of the main plot is either directly or indirectly a result of his choices and creations.
* StalkerWithACrush: To Jeanne.
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[[folder:Sir Young]]
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The Court's first Dragon Slayer. He is interred in a park at the Court which bears his name -- Annie's class took a camping trip there.
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* AnimalsHateHim: The Court's animal robots, being descendants of Diego's works, will not go near his tombstone.
* DragonRider: Honestly, he fits this better than dragon slayer. Most dragons in the Gunnerkrigg verse are quite nice.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His "final record":
-->'''Sir Young''': The place we built, the sacrifices we made, it was for the greater good of our people.
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[[folder:Steadman]]
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The Archer of the Founders, and apparently a close friend of the Artilleryman (who has not appeared on screen). He had an important part in the plan to fortify the Annan Waters.
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* DeathByFallingOver: His "final record" was "I really wish I hadn't tripped over that damn dog."
-->'''Annie/Kat:''' Huh.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The shot he fired into [[spoiler:the ravine]] is so improbable that the archery nerds in the fandom have assumed that his skills must be etheric.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Jeanne]].
* PunnyName: Possible. While it may not be a MeaningfulName since "Steadman" means a farmhouse occupant, which doesn't fit the character, it may be a pun on the fact that he's a man who's a very steady shot.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[http://www.formspring.me/gunnerkrigg/q/293654759934533599 Went out]] with Jeanne "when they were younger."
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[[folder:The Seed Bismuth]]
The one who created Gunnerkrigg Court. Created by the forest people's magic, the human's technology, and nature itself, it was planted into the ground in the hopes of giving everyone a peaceful place to live together. However, the greed of the humans pushed Bismuth beyond its limits and subsequently began overtaking the forest.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Turns out it's [[spoiler: not The Seed Bismuth, but [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 a wisp]] that was trying to lure Annie away.]]
* CallBack: The [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1247 Seed]] looks a lot like how [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049 Kat appears to Zimmy.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned early on and frequently thereafter.
* LivingMacGuffin: Turns out it's alive. Who knew?
* WalkingSpoiler: Appears in Chapter 44, and everything related to it is a spoiler.
* UnreliableNarrator: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 Turns out to be]] some kind of [[spoiler:wasp monster called a wisp]], however not everything it says is a lie.
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The roots of the Court date back to an ancient union--older even than Coyote's presence in Gillitie--between a group of humans and the creatures of the Wood. Over the ages, much information about this first generation has been lost... and some has been deliberately hidden.
[[folder:Jeanne]]
[[quoteright:209:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/She_Died_And_We_Did_Nothing_4770.png]]
Formerly a swordswoman torn between the Court and the Wood; later, a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] trapped between the Court and the Wood.
In life, she was quite beautiful, with blonde hair and [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience green]] [[BodyMotifs eyes]]. Her exact role in the Court is not yet clear.
Jeanne died under unusual circumstances, leaving her outside the jurisdiction of any of the Guides. Her spirit remained trapped by the Annan -- attacking anyone, from the Court or the Forest, who entered the Court's side of the gorge.
And that's the situation when Annie fell into the gorge. Annie landed on the Forest side, and Jeanne crossed the Annan (an act that was believed impossible for her) to attack, giving Annie's face a nasty cut before being driven away by Kat's sudden arrival. (Incidentally, this event was Annie's and the readers' introduction to Jeanne -- details about her past, including her name, were not forthcoming for many more chapters.)
Subsequently, Annie and Kat have taken it upon themselves to uncover Jeanne's past and help the ghost find eternal rest. Even the Guides believe that Annie is the best hope of helping Jeanne.
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!!Associated tropes:
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Most people towards her.
* BerserkerRage / ThePowerOfHate: All that death and suffering that to ensure that nothing and no one crosses the Annan river. There's an odd metaphysical effect of her sword: Way, way back in chapter 8, she cuts Annie on the cheek with her sword. Much, much later in ch 27, when Annie uses her blinker stone, ''the cut is still there''. The significance of this has yet to be seen. Chapter 46 reveals she's even [[spoiler: killed a number of psychopomps.]]
* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler: Well, she died due to a combination of this, starvation, and being exposed to the elements, probably)]].
* DissonantSerenity: On the one hand she has no problems hacking innocent school children to bits; on the other hand she takes time to complement one on her combat skills.
* EmotionlessGirl: [[NotSoStoic Only her face is emotionless]].
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: A (very) mild example. Though [[spoiler:the Court founders]] tried to {{Unperson}} her, [[spoiler:Diego]] kept the memories of her existence in several ways, such as a hidden room, and recordings in a Court's robot.
* GratuitousIambicPentameter: A subtle but very powerful use at the painfully emotional climax of chapter 30:
--> '''Jeanne:''' You come here to mock me with this gleaming heart of yours. Coddled child of that damned place. This luxury afforded by my death... it should be mine to take.
* LadyOfWar: Renard notes in her portrait that she is more comfortable with her sword than her fine clothes.
* NightmareFace: She drops her expressionless look when she's had enough of [[spoiler: Parley's secret love for Smitty, made possible by her unwilling sacrifice to protect the Court, mocking her doomed love for "that elf"]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Still around as a ghost, though.
* ResistTheBeast: Possibly. With her [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1298 speed]] and [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1315 power]], she almost certainly could have killed [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=140 Annie]] and [[spoiler:[[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=778 Parley]]]] without any trouble, as [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=781 Parley points out]].
* SinsOfOurFathers: The Court founders are the direct responsibles for Jeanne's etheric presence on the Annan Waters. After such acts, no creatures were able to pass the waters without facing her.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[InterspeciesRomance With]] [[spoiler:a Gillitie Woods elf]].
* {{Unperson}}: After her death, [[spoiler:the Court Founders]] tried to erase all evidence of her existence. They even went so far as to [[spoiler: damage the records of The Realm of the Dead so that they can't access any files on her directly.]]
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Her face is mask-like and she spells doom to anyone or anything that enters the Annan waters.
* WomanInWhite: Her dress on the night of her death, and thus her appearance as the ghost by the Annan Waters. [[spoiler: If she turns red ''watch out'']].
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[[folder:That Elf (real name unknown)]]
One of the founders' lover from Gillitie Wood. Another founder referred to him as a "traitor".
Following the separation of the Court and the Wood, he and his LoveInterest kept in touch secretly (or so they thought) by letters. Upon learning that the Court wished her to go down to the Annan Waters for an unknown reason, they made plans to use this event to rendezvous and escape elsewhere together.
That night, while he swam across the Annan, an arrow was fired from the Court, killing him. He was the lucky one.
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!!Associated tropes:
* HumanSacrifice: Well, elf, but the trope still applies.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Jeanne, thanks to the meddling of the other founders and Diego's jealousy.
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[[folder:Diego]]
[[quoteright:143:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Diego_of_Gunnerkrigg_5558.png]]
An [[{{Gonk}} odd-looking]] inventor and technological genius, who clearly understood machines better than people. All the Court's robots (except possibly the Tic Tocs) are derived from his designs.
He loved Jeanne unrequitedly ([[StalkerWithACrush or was at least obsessed with the idea of her]]) and showered her with gifts of robots, which had little effect on her (in retrospect, giving robots to a girl who was pining for the forest was probably a bad idea).
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!!Associated tropes:
* ArcWords: [[spoiler: "She died and I did nothing", part of his last words, which the robots repeat as 'She died and we did nothing']].
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Beneath his glasses, his eyes are solid black. It isn't clear if he suffered the same condition that Zimmy does.
* GadgeteerGenius: This guy created ''self-aware robots''.
* HeelRealization: Of a sort. While he never acknowledged that he was in any way responsible for [[spoiler: Jeanne's death]], some of his last words were [[spoiler: "She was all alone, waiting, when she died and I did nothing", which show that he regretted [[BystanderSyndrome not doing something to save her]]]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Strongly hinted to be his motivation for having Jeanne sacrificed.
* {{Jerkass}}: This was the guy who [[spoiler:condemned the one he 'loved' to a slow and miserable death by exposure essentially, because she liked someone else. And [[SarcasmMode which coincidentally]] killed the other man as well]].
* NeverMyFault: Even on his deathbed, he was unwilling to accept that [[spoiler:his choices led directly to Jeanne's death]], choosing instead to insist that he had been forced into it by Young.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in an old video clip [[spoiler:and a telepathy-induced flashback, courtesy of Jeanne]]. Despite this, the vast majority of the main plot is either directly or indirectly a result of his choices and creations.
* StalkerWithACrush: To Jeanne.
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[[folder:Sir Young]]
[[quoteright:142:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sir_young_6724.png]]
The Court's first Dragon Slayer. He is interred in a park at the Court which bears his name -- Annie's class took a camping trip there.
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!!Associated tropes:
* AnimalsHateHim: The Court's animal robots, being descendants of Diego's works, will not go near his tombstone.
* DragonRider: Honestly, he fits this better than dragon slayer. Most dragons in the Gunnerkrigg verse are quite nice.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His "final record":
-->'''Sir Young''': The place we built, the sacrifices we made, it was for the greater good of our people.
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[[folder:Steadman]]
[[quoteright:175:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steadman_archer_9747.png]]
The Archer of the Founders, and apparently a close friend of the Artilleryman (who has not appeared on screen). He had an important part in the plan to fortify the Annan Waters.
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!!Associated tropes:
* DeathByFallingOver: His "final record" was "I really wish I hadn't tripped over that damn dog."
-->'''Annie/Kat:''' Huh.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The shot he fired into [[spoiler:the ravine]] is so improbable that the archery nerds in the fandom have assumed that his skills must be etheric.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:Jeanne]].
* PunnyName: Possible. While it may not be a MeaningfulName since "Steadman" means a farmhouse occupant, which doesn't fit the character, it may be a pun on the fact that he's a man who's a very steady shot.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[http://www.formspring.me/gunnerkrigg/q/293654759934533599 Went out]] with Jeanne "when they were younger."
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[[folder:The Seed Bismuth]]
The one who created Gunnerkrigg Court. Created by the forest people's magic, the human's technology, and nature itself, it was planted into the ground in the hopes of giving everyone a peaceful place to live together. However, the greed of the humans pushed Bismuth beyond its limits and subsequently began overtaking the forest.
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!!Associated tropes:
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Turns out it's [[spoiler: not The Seed Bismuth, but [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 a wisp]] that was trying to lure Annie away.]]
* CallBack: The [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1247 Seed]] looks a lot like how [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049 Kat appears to Zimmy.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned early on and frequently thereafter.
* LivingMacGuffin: Turns out it's alive. Who knew?
* WalkingSpoiler: Appears in Chapter 44, and everything related to it is a spoiler.
* UnreliableNarrator: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1251 Turns out to be]] some kind of [[spoiler:wasp monster called a wisp]], however not everything it says is a lie.
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