History Characters / HelloSandybell

* {{Jerkass}}: His pasttime is following Sandybell and her friends around, and looking for ways to prank them. The vilest thing he did was tear up the garden that Sandybell worked hard on, but luckily Mark appeared and gave Carlos and his goons a good beating.

* CoolCrown: At Mark's party, she wears a thin, wired crown alongside a FairytaleWeddingDress.
* ControlFreak: Kitty tries to control Mark's.

* {{Fainting}}: When he hears that Kitty has been kidnapped, he collapses on the floor clutching his chest while wife holds him. He starts sweating from shock, while Alec tries to calm him down and promises that he will save Kitty. He is carried to the van,

* GreenThumb: Sandybell is a NatureLover, and works for the Countess by tending to her secret garden, after she rejected the Shearer's gardener to do it for her.

* GreenThumb: One of the things her and Ricky do while out is tend to a garden and plant daffodils.

!Residents of Scotland

!'''Residents of London'''

!Residents of France

* DubInducedPlotlineChange: In the Latin American dub, it's stated that Leslie had a fiancee who he left because she didn't agree to raise Sandybell. This wasn't present in the original Japanese version.

* {{Fainting}}: He faints constantly as part of his illness. When he faints in the middle of the night, it's a sign that things aren't going ti get any better.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Kitty can clearly see he likes Sandybell, making her green with envy.

* {{Jerkass}}: His pasttime is following Sandybell and her friends around, and looking for ways to prank them.

* KidDetective: When thieves steal important from items Mr. Longwood's office, Sandybell and Oliver work together to find the culprit.

* PinkIsFeminine: Her default outfit is a pink dress with blue ruffles, with a white apron over it.
* PluckyGirl: She stands up to Charles' GangOfBullies, tells Kitty off for being an unpleasant person and pulls out all the stops to discover her MissingMom, [[spoiler:with her determination paying off in the end]].

* WantedPoster: In one episode, Mark becomes a wanted criminal after stealing a bike (to chase some thrives who ran off with his paintings), and Sandybell and Ricky are shocked to see his mugshot in the local newspapers.

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* TheRival: Alec views Sandybell as one in Longwood's newspaper agency, and is willing to do anything to get one over her, even if it means using dirty tricks.

* BrutalHonesty: Alec is blunt and to the point, having no tact when he tells people what he thinks of them. I

* BigDamnHeroes: Alec, regularly. When Kitty is kidnapped by [[ScaryBlackMan Jirobi]]'s drug gang, Sandybell & Co. appear in their [[CoolCar multipurpose vehicle]] and Alec delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to the members. He also comes to Sandybell and Ricky's aid when they're being intimidated by his goons. Being the oldest of the team and having a pretty messed up DarkAndTroubledPast, he's a skilled martial artist and a friend to the weak and helpless.
* BitchSlap: He delivers one to Kitty after she slaps him first, causing her to run away while crying.

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* AlphaBitch: She is stuck-up, petty, domineering and rude, and her most prominent trait in the first few episodes is her [[SpoiledBrat entitlement]] due to being born a Shearer. She treats Sandybell as a punching bag for her wrath, screams at her BeleaguredAssistant Scappan, and tries to strong arm Mark into doing things she wants, even if he doesn't want it. Kitty's main desire is to get whatever she wants, and when she's denied that, she becomes a monster.

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* MissingMom: She was raised by a single father, Leslie, and would constantly question him about her mother. However, he refused to tell her anything. The last arc of the anime is about Sandybell looking for her, [[spoiler: and eventually finding her in the Greek island of Lefkada]].

* OrphansPlotTrinket: Before Leslie dies he gives Sandybell a daffodil earring and says it's all he has of her biological mother. [[spoiler: Linda has the other earring]].
* PerpetualSmiler: It's just in her nature.

* ThePollyanna: Sandybell is this to the point she can be considered an {{Expy}} of the original ''Literature/{{Pollyanna}}'', being a jovial HeartwarmingOrphan who doesn't let the bad things in her life weigh her down.

* SearchingForTheLostRelative: Sandybell longs for the mother she never met and, after becoming a journalist, she travels across Europe to find clues about her mother's fate.

* SpiritedYoungLady: Nothing can keep Sandybell down, be it Kitty, a dangerous situation and Mrs. Ronwood's attitude. Even after she's kidnapped and BoundAndGagged and watches the informant get shot, she refuses to stop searching for her mother and pushes against everything else to find her.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: [[spoiler: After the deaths of the Count and Countess of Wellington]], Mark becomes a shell of his former self. To make matters worse, he is

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikoYamamoto (Japanese), Barbara Delsol (French), Alessandra Karpoff/Creator/CinziaDeCarolis (Italian), Marianna Triantafyllidou/Creator/MatinaKarras (Greek), Nawal Hijazi (Arabic), Demi Chávez/Adriana Carillo (Latin American Spanish), Mario Dolores Gispert (European Spanish), Zélia Santos (Portugeuse), Creator/AnitaWall (Swedish), Tamara Zsigmond (Hungarian)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamiKoyama (Japanese), Raphaëlle Schacher (French), Emanuela Pacotto/[[DuelingDubs Anita Bartolucci]] (Italian), Vina Papadopoulou/Leta Musouti (Greek), Marcel Marina/Wafa Tarabih (Arabic), Denise Libre (Latin American Spanish), Azucena Díaz (Portugeuse), Creator/ElisabethBolmeNordqvist (Swedish), Ágnes Zsíros/Zsófia Riha/Éva Madarász (Hungarian)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Minori Matsushima (Japanese), Ophélie Brissot/Marine Boiron (French), Irene Scalzo (Italian), Rania Ioannidou (Greek), Giselle Nasr (Arabic), Creator/JesusBarrero (Latin American Spanish), Unknown (European Spanish), Unknown (Portugeuse), Mia Benson (Swedish), Károly Kassi/Zoltán Fekete/Péte Minárovits(Hungarian)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mugihito (Japanese), Michel Modo/Jean-Claude Montalban (French), Marco Balbi (Italian), Unknown (Greek), Ismail Nanoua (Arabic), Edgar Wald (Latin American Spanish), Unknown (European Spanish), Unknown (Portugeuse), Unknown (Swedish), László Horányi (Hungarian)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YurikoYamamoto (Japanese), Barbara Delsol (French), Alessandra Karpoff/[[DuelingDubs Cinzia de Carolis]] (Italian), Marianna Triantafyllidou/Creator/MatinaKarras (Greek), Nawal Hijazi (Arabic), Demi Chávez/Adriana Carillo (Latin American Spanish), Mario Dolores Gispert (European Spanish), Zélia Santos (Portugeuse), Creator/AnitaWall (Swedish), Tamara Zsigmond (Hungarian)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Unknown (Japanese), Unknown (French), Unknown (Greek), Samara Nohra (Arabic), Unknown (Latin American Spanish), Luisita Soler (European Spanish), Federica Valenti/[[DuelingDubs Paola Del Bosco]] (Italian), Unknown (Portugeuse), Gunilla Norling (Swedish), Ilona Molnár (Hungarian)

* {{Jerkass}}: She's hot-blooded, stubborn, refuses to budge unless she gets her way and believes she's entitled to treat people however she wants. When Alec slaps her across the face, she cries and runs away, having suddenly learned that not everyone is going to tolerate her bitchy attitude.

* TheRival: A one-sided example. She views Sandybell as a rival for Mark's affections, but Sandybell doesn't hold any contempt for her.

* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler: In the GrandFinale, she gushes about what an adorable couple Sandybell and Mark are, to everyone's surprise]].

* FairytaleWeddingDress: During Mark's party, Kitty wears a blue, frilly dress with her signature cravat.

* GreenEyedMonster: She wants Mark to herself and tries to sabotage Sandybell's chances with him, and is obsessed with coming between the two. She is so paranoid that when Sandybell receives a letter, Kitty steals it, thinking it's from Mark, when it's actually from her old friend Charles.

* RedheadInGreen: In the first arc, she' predominantly wears a green shirt and a ClassyCravat. Her equestrian outfit consists of the same shirt but with denim overalls and a white coat.

* UpperClassTwit: Kitty and her mother are both stuck-up snobs, while Mr. Shearer is more modest.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Mark. [[spoiler: Part of her JerkassRealization includes realizing that she's been horrible to him, and no longer pursuing him ]].

* ClingyJealousGirl: A platonic example. Maggie doesn't like when Sandybell plays with other children, and complains to her mother when Sandybell spends time with the Countess instead of playing with her. Her mother tells Leslie, and Sandybell gets in trouble with him.

* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Wellingtons are near-penniless after the death of the Countess, and his father is desperately trying to avert this by making Mark marry Kitty. It backfires when Mark runs away.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Kitty can clearly see he likes Sandybell. She tries to undermine their bond, but to no avail.

* ModestRoyalty: He's the son of the Countess, but usually wears extremely worn out clothes when he's outside.

* SpoiledSweet: A variant as they're not rich, but of BlueBlood, but don't act as if they're above anyone else.

!!Mark Blanche Wellington

* BreakTheCutie: Mark's family is struggling to adapt to their new lifestyle after losing their money, and just as he makes some new friends, his mother is brutally killed in a traffic accident. Even though he's a minor, his father tries to force him to marry a girl he can't stand, and Mark is so full of grief he runs away.

* GoldDigger: Enforced. His father wants to climb the rung of the social ladder, so he forces Mark to marry Kitty. [[spoiler: It ends up being a loveless marriage and Mark pefers to pursue his dream of being a painter.]]

* HomelessHero: He was living on the streets after running away from home, and is explicitly shown to be sleeping in the gutters.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: The Wellingtons are near-penniless after the death of the Countess, and his father is desperately trying to avert this by making Mark marry Kitty. It backfires when Mark runs away.

* ModestRoyalty: In his youth, Mark spent his days painting the Scottish countryside while wearing tattered down clothes. Though, he does joke to Sandybell that he is a Prince when he first meets her.

* RedheadInGreen: When Sandybell meets Mark, he's wearing a sunhat and a white coat over a green jacket.
* RichesToRags: The Wellington family was once wealthy, but due to a number of poor financial decision on his father's part, they're left near-penniless by the start of the story.
** RagsToRiches:[[spoiler: To express his grief of losing his mother, Mark began painting unconventional and dark art. One day, an art dealer took interest in them and put them on display at the European New Artist Paintings Exhibition. His artwork was popular it won the Grand Prix award, which carried a heavy monetary reward]].

* TrueArtIsAngsty: [[spoiler: After the deaths of the Count and Countess of Wellington]], Mark becomes a shell of his former self. To make matters worse, he is engaged to [[RichBitch Kitty Shearer]] purely so that the Wellingtons can save face and access her inheritance. Mark is disgusted by this, so he breaks off their engagement and runs away, willingly choosing to live on the streets rather than enter a marriage he hates. [[spoiler: The grief of losing his parents at a young age motivates him to create dark and unconventional art. One day, famed art collector Roussanne notices Mark's artwork, likes it, and puts it on a museum, catapulting him into the public eye]].

* WideEyedIdealist: He becomes this after meeting Sandybell, inspired by her free-spiritedness and courage to do whatever he likes.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Mark. [[spoiler: Though by the end, they become proper friends, and support each other dating their new significant other]].

* BeautyIsBad: She's undeniably a beautiful woman with her frosty blue eyes and long, red, hair...but she's also a terrible person who's obsessed with Mark.

* ClingyJealousGirl: She tries to blacken Sandybell's image in front of Mark, from accusing her of theft to embaressing her, because she's jealous that he likes her and has a crush on him. She even gets Charles and his GangOfBullies to ruin their fun. She is happy when she's finally engaged to Mark, but when he runs away from home, she takes out her anger on Sandybell.
* CoolCar: Kitty owns two - a shiny red one (that she takes Sandybell for a spin in) and a blue shiny sports car, that she often uses to tail Sandybell and her friends.
* CoolCrown: At her engagement party, she wears a thin, wired crown alongside a FairytaleWeddingDress.
* ControlFreak: Kitty is extremely controlling towards Mark and disapproves of his friendship with Sandybell.
* DamselInDistress: Kitty is kidnapped by drug dealers, giving her father a near-heart attack. Luckily, Alec rescues her.

** Her many attempts to sabotage Sandybell and Mark's friendship, out of her own insecurities. And then she continues to bully Sandybell frequently, because she can.

* EvilRedhead: Downplayed, but she's a SpoiledBrat from a well-off family with red hair and constantly antagonizes Sandy. When Sandybell gains the affections of Mark, she becomes absolutely livid and her bullying increases.
* FairytaleWeddingDress: During her engagement party, Kitty wears a blue, frilly dress with her signature cravat.

* GreenEyedMonster: She wants Mark to herself and tries to sabotage Sandybell's chances with him at every turn. She is so paranoid that when Sandybell receives a letter, Kitty steals it, thinking it's from Mark, when it's actually from her old friend Charles.

* NationalStereotypes: Kitty is Scottish, has red hair, very hotblooded and willing to get violent with people.

* RedheadInGreen: When Kitty is first introduced, she's wearing a green shirt and a ClassyCravat. Her equestrian outfit consists of the same shirt but with denim overalls. Later in the series, Kitty primarily wears blue, including her [[StylishSunhats hat]], coat and accessories, subverting this trope.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: [[spoiler: After the deaths of the Count and Countess of Wellington]], Mark becomes a shell of his former self. To make matters worse, he is
* TrueBlueFemininity: Almost all her clothes have some form of blue on them, whether they're her dark blue overalls over a green shirt, her blue fancy gown with a matching hat, or her all-white outfit with a blue cravat. Even the one time Kitty wears pink, it's a pink jacket over a blue shirt, with a skirt of the same colour.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: She's always dressed in stylish, fancy clothes that Sandy can only dream of having.
* UpperClassEquestrian: Kitty knows how to properly ride a horse as her father pays for her lessons, and is also mentioned to be part of an elite equestrian club.

* ViolentGlaswegian: Kitty has no qualms about slapping people, regardless of who they are, and delivers a BitchSlap to Sandybell when she sees her on her horse. She also slaps Alec. To her shock, Alec hits her back.

* InnocentBlueEyes: She has blue eyes and is a fraught, easily started child.

* ProneToTears: Maggie tends to be emotionally overwhelmed easily and often expresses it by crying.
* ShrinkingViolet: She is very shy and prone to anxiety attacks.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Alec always chooses to put the safety of his female associates above his own. Part of this is due to his traumatic upbringing.

* BitchSlap: He delivers one to Kitty, of all people, because he hates her behaviour.
* BrutalHonesty: Alec is blunt and to the point, having no tact when he tells people what he thinks of them. It entices Kitty, who, despite initially not liking him, grows to trust him because of this.

* MadeOfIron: Alec is implacable when he's in a fight, being unfazed when he's hit unless he loses blood. He easily defeats whoever he's up against and doesn't care what injuries he endures along the way.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Alec delivers many to the drug dealers he meets in Greece and France, especially when they have Sandybell and Kitty hostage. [[MadeOfIron No matter how much]] he's attacked and stabbed, Alec continues to punch them until they can't fight any longer or run.

* TheRival: Alec views Sandybell as one in Longwood's newspaper agency, and is willing to do anything to get one over her, even if it means using dirty tricks. This isn't helped by their differing outlooks on life, with Sandybell's optimism contrasting his snark.

* WouldHitAGirl: While he's generally someone who cares deeply about the women in his life, even he gets sick of Kitty's bullying and slaps her. Thrice!

* AmbiguouslyBrown: His exact race isn't specified (though in RealLife, France has a large African-descended population), but he has very dark skin, and he's even darker than Alec and Mr. Ronwood.

* ObviouslyEvil: He has scars all over his face and deals drugs for a living.
* ScaryBlackMan: His skin is dark enough to pass as black, and he's a thug CoveredInScars who nearly kills two of the anime's main characters and is part of a drug gang.

* WouldHurtAChild: He kidnaps Sandybell and Ricky, has them BoundAndGagged, and nearly kills Sandybell. Despite this, she still tries to save him from his burning car.

* DubNameChange: They became the '''Shiara''' family in the Italian dub.

* IcyBlueEyes: It adds to his handsomeness.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Alec's abrasive personality has resulted in him not being very well-liked amongst the other reporters.

* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Kitty falls for him when he saves her and Sandybell from mortal danger, and they eventually get married]].

* BeleagueredAssistant: He's often yelled at by Kitty and maltreated to petty degrees.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: She has tanned skin. Based on her hair texture, she's possibly part-black.