History Characters / HereticalEdgeStrangers

* GutturalGrowler: Flick thinks he sounds like he's auditioning to play Batman.

* BladeOnAStick: They're quite fond of spears.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Big time. He can kill multiple werewolves with little effort.

* KillEmAll: The prevalent attitude of Heretics against Alters.

* DotingGrandparent: [[spoiler: He adores humanity and will fuss over any human he meets.]]

* AdventurerArchaeologist: She's basically vampire [[VideoGame/TombRaider Lara Croft]].

* KnifeNut: He carries a lot of bladed weapons.

%%* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl and Her Peryton]]: Seller describes Salten and Hannah as having been more like siblings than mistress and steed. He misses her. %% Add more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%

* AdultFear: A species wide one. While Akharu who were alive when the blood plague was cast are still free of Vestil control, purebloods born ''after'' that point get the full package: total slavery to the Vestil.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Many Meregan have bright hair colors.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is a deep bronze color.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is green.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She dyes her hair purple.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* HumanMomNonHumanDad: Human mother, Reaper father.

* WitchSpecies: They're very, very good at magic.

* BadassGay

* BadassGrandpa: He's extremely old[[spoiler: and metaphorically a grandfather to the entire human race]]. WordOfGod has some choice words about how powerful he is.
--> Fighting Grandfather is basically like when you're a little toddler and you 'fight' your father until he picks you up, spins you around a bunch, and then sets you down so that you stumble off dizzily. He thinks you're adorable for trying your best, and the way your little fists swing around makes him want to hug and cuddle you.

* {{Geek}}: He's named himself after Wrestling/AndreTheGiant's character from Film/ThePrincessBride and is a huge StarTrek fan.

* NamedByDemocracy: They don't actually call themselves Fomorians, that's just a name the Seosten gave them. But even other Alters use it to refer to them, and the Fomorians themselves [[SureWhyNot don't seem to have any problem with the name]]. The Fomorians of Irish myth are based off of them, and humans THINK we named them after those myths.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl and Her Peryton]]: Seller describes Salten and Hannah as having been more like siblings than mistress and steed. He misses her.

[[spoiler: She's set on Ammon's trail by the mother of one of his victims and catches up to him on the same night he makes his move against Flick. After Flick's traumatic encounter with Fossor, she promises to help her deal with him in any way she can. For the time being, that means protecting Lincoln Chambers from Fossor, Ammon, or anyone else that might seek to harm him.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Enters the story proper by busting in through a window and saving Flick from Ammon.]]

* CoolBigSis: To her half-sister when they meet again. [[spoiler: And to Columbus, because being Shiori's brother makes him Senny's brother too.]]

* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: With Flick.]]

* GenreSavvy: Asenath quickly guesses that the odd RecurringDreams she and Twister start having are actually memories they can't quite recall, [[spoiler: and that meeting Flick is what set them off.]]

* GoodIsNotSoft: Asenath is one of the nicest, most heroic characters in the story. That doesn't stop her from eating unrepentant criminals. [[spoiler: Or stabbing a nine year old SerialKiller in the chest. AmbiguousInnocence or not, she has every intention of killing Ammon for what he's done.]]

* LongLostRelative: Asenath has a much younger half-sister named Reathma who their mother gave up for adoption. [[spoiler: But she has no idea that Reathma was recruited by Crossroads under her new name, Shiori Porter.]]

* WeHelpTheHelpless: It doesn't matter to Asenath if you're a kidnapped boy in need of rescue, a grieving mother who needs justice for your murdered daughter, [[spoiler: or a teenage Heretic who just had your entire world turned upside down]]. She'll help you. It's what she does.

Jiao later had another daughter with a different man over two hundred years later in 2000. She gave her younger child, Reathma, up for adoption for her protection, going so far as to have the man she entrusted Reathma to change her name ([[spoiler:to Shiori]]) before placing her in the foster care system.

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Not only was Gaia able to ascertain Shiori's biological relatives in spite of the steps Jiao took to hide that information, she had Shiori recruited specifically because she's part-Alter. This could easily place Shiori in the very danger Jiao sought to protect her from.]]

Gavant is a Meregan, an Alter race capable of space travel. They grow to be around nine feet tall. He appears to be a leader, or at least an influential member, of his people. [[spoiler: And he's a good friend of Flick's mother.]]

* AFriendInNeed: Is always willing to help his friends, even when he has problems of his own to deal with. He tries to help Tristan Moon while his people are in the middle of a crisis [[spoiler: and immediately promises to help save Joselyn from Fossor when he hears what happened (while still facing the same crisis)]].
* BerserkButton: Fossor. He pushed the Meregan people to the brink of extinction to obtain their corpses. [[spoiler: Gavant is furious to learn what happened to Joselyn.]]
* BoldExplorer: Gavant and his crew were exploring space before they were called back to their homeworld to help fight Fossor. [[spoiler: By the time they made it back, he had already destroyed their civilization.]]

* MrExposition: Very knowledgeable, and is much more comfortable explaining things to people than he is threatening them. [[spoiler: He quickly falls into this role when Flick and Shiori wake him up]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: What does Gavant do when he finds strange humans in his ship after being woken up from long-sleep? Calmly give them the chance to explain themselves, that's what. Although he keeps weapons trained on them, just in case. [[spoiler: It helps that they're there because of a beacon meant to call for "Friend-Joselyn Atherby."]]

Mateo is a Colombian werewolf who leads a small pack in Bogota, the nation's capital. [[spoiler: He's also Sean Gerardo's uncle. Not by blood, but because he's in a long and committed with relation with Sean's biological uncle, Sebastian Gerardo.]]

* CoolUncle: [[spoiler: To Sean. Not by blood, but he and Sebastian are close enough that they might as well be.]]

* PapaWolf: One day when his nephew was a kid, Mateo found him about to be tortured by a gang who had mistaken him for someone's brother. Mateo promptly went wolf and tore into the bastards.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: He spend his fight with [[spoiler: Flick]] assuming it won't take him much effort to win.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's killed [[spoiler: by Flick]] soon after his introduction.

The Fomorians are another inter-dimensional powerhouse on par with the Seosten, their most hated enemy. They're bio-engineers that field armies their monstrous creations. They tried to invade earth in the late nineteenth century, at roughly the same time as the beginning of the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar. It lasted a few years until Gaia Sinclaire, working with an independent Heretic named Joshua [[spoiler: Atherby]], managed to seal them off from earth [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of Joshua's life]].

* NoNameGiven: "Grandfather" obviously isn't his real name, it's just how he introduces himself [[spoiler: to humans]]. Other members of his species only refer to him as a traitor.

* InspectorJavert: He's highly suspicious of [[spoiler: Flick and Shiori]] for being Heretics before they actually do anything.

A [[DreamStealer Bebarlang]] who recently inherited his position after his father's death. [[spoiler: He's also Flick's old boss, the one she busted for dealing drugs]].

* ComplexityAddiction: Flick says his feeding plans are too complicated to go smoothly. [[As she's telling him she knows about his drug dealing.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Checks Flick out minutes before [[spoiler:she has him arrested]].
* DreamStealer: As a Bebarlang, Cal feeds off the psychic energy given off by people's dreams. Or drug based hallucinations.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He doesn't like Flick, but he more or less decides to leaves her alone after learning about all the shit she has to deal with. He later speaks up in her defense after [[spoiler: Lemuel's pack's assault on Wonderland]] at least partially because he can taste her horrified reaction.

* HonoraryUncle: He describes himself as being "practically family" to Asenath, mostly to mess with her. [[spoiler: He also alternates between describing Shiori as a little sister and a niece.]]

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nonetheless manages to treat Namythiet [[spoiler:and Shiori]] with kindness.
* JerkassHasAPoint: The point he raises to his colleagues against [[spoiler: allying with Flick]], that doing so could attract dangerous attention, is entirely valid.
* NominalHero: Seth is pretty firmly on the side of the protagonists, but only because it's where his family is. He's still a largely amoral dick, at one point admitting flat out that he's only saving a group of humans because [[spoiler: Shiori]] would be upset if he didn't, and he would be fine with letting them die otherwise.
** Also ties into PragmaticHero. He's eager to [[spoiler: weaken Alter beasts so Shiori can kill them for their powers]].

* MistakenIdentity: Those within Crossroads are quick to attribute her actions to [[spoiler: Joselyn]] when she kills eleven Heretics to protect Alter children.

* BloodMagic: If they get some of your blood they can do some nasty things to you.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: When Heretics kill other Alters, they briefly glow with a brightly colored aura that only other Heretics can see. [[spoiler: The color denotes which Reaper or Hangman the Heretic is connected to.]] Colors we've seen (as well as the Heretics who have them) include:
** Gold: Flick, [[spoiler: her mother]], Gaia Sinclaire, and Bastet.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Despite their crusade against Alters, most Heretics consider themselves human.

The Reapers are a highly secretive Alter race capable of absorbing the memories of those who die in their presence. Or, if they're responsible for the death, they also get the abilities and powers of said victim. Those that indulge this secondary ability are called Hangman Demons instead of Reapers.

* TheAssimilator: Just like Heretics, Reapers absorb powers and abilities from those they kill ([[spoiler:this is because the Heretic version of the ability is derived from the Reapers]]). Unlike Crossroads and Eden's Garden Heretics, Reapers also absorb the memories of those they kill.

* TheGhost: No Reapers have yet been seen in the story.

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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections

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* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Not only was Gaia able to ascertain Shiori's biological relatives in spite of the steps Jaio took to hide that information, she had Shiori recruited specifically because she's part-Alter. This could easily place Shiori in the very danger Jiao sought to protect her from.]]

* TakenForGranite: The Meregan have a method of inducing "long-sleep" that turns people into statues for long periods of time. It's mostly used when traveling in space.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He's by far the sept that that's most resistant to opening contact with possibly friendly Heretics.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her were-ism led to her father Liwanu seeking help from a "witch" (Bastet) who crafts the Ring of Anuk-Ite with Grandfather for her.

* PowerCopying: Heretics made from Reaper blood gain the abilities of anything they kill. A species of Alter may give different powers to different individuals, but the same individual will almost always get the same power from the same species.

* Animal Motifs: Each theriangelos takes the form of a specific animal determined by which created it. It's not known for sure whether the form they take means something about the creator, but that doesn't stop people from using it as ammunition.

* PayEvilOntoEvil: Asenath will do revenge assassination jobs if the targets are sufficiently deserving. Like rapists.

* NominalHero: Seth is pretty firmly on the side of the protagonists, but only becuase it's where his family is. He's still a largely amoral dick, at one point admitting flat out that he's only saving a group of humans because [[spoiler: Shiori]] would be upset if he didn't, and he would be fine with letting them die otherwise.

* BarrierBurstingBlow: With enough zombies and time, they can batter down any obstacle.

Called Vampires by Heretics, the Akharu are an ancient warrior race seeking a cure for the Blood Plauge inflicted upon their race by their mortal enemies, the Vestil. All Akharu possess SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperSenses, and {{Immortality}}. The blood plague forces them to replace their cursed blood by drinking that of other creatures. They can also share blood with human beings, which turns said humans into Akharu-hybrids with all the same powers on top of an added weakness to sunlight.

A pureblood Akharu warrior who was one of the explorers that found earth after millenia of searching for a cure to the blood plague. There he met Jiao, a dying Chinese woman who he saved by turning her into a human vampire. They soon had a daughter they named Asenath. In 1803, when Asenath was eight, Tiras was forced to return to his homeworld to once again combat the Vestil, who were preparing another curse that would wipe out everyone that had Akharu blood (which by then included Jiao and Asenath). He promised to return as soon as possible.

* OccultDetective: She spends a fair amount of her time investigating supernatural occurances on behalf of those who can't help themselves. She mentions that she's earned journalism degrees from three separate universities over the past century as a way of keeping her detective skills up in a changing world.

A "baby" Jekren that Shiori kept as a pet after her team killed his larger selves. He lives in the jungle outside Crossroads, protected by a privacy generator, where Shiori brings him food.

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* AncientAliens: [[spoiler: They created the human race, and a traitor brought them to earth.]]