History Characters / LovecraftCountry

* HumanoidAbomination: They seem human except for their talons and enlarged moths with deformed teeth.

* StreetSmarts: She's no scholar, but she can suss out when people know more than they're letting on.

* DecompositeCharacter: She and William share the role of Caleb from the book. Christina takes on the aspects of Caleb's character centered around being Samuel's heir and his thirst for personal power, while William [[spoiler:gets Caleb's sexual relationship with Ruby (though that was secretly Christina).]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Christina would’ve won if Ji-Ah didn’t use her kumiho tails to form a physical connection between her and Atticus, allowing Leti to cast a spell to bind Christina’s magic.]]

* LovecraftLite: Ji-Ah [[spoiler:only kills men at the behest of her mother, who wants her to become human and truly be her daughter again. She only had a shaman summon a fox spirit into her daughter's body as a means to get rid of her abusive husband who was also sexually abusing Ji-ah before being possessed]].

** [[spoiler:The Ambiguous part immediately gets dropped once it becomes clear she intends to gain immortality at the expense of Atticus's life.]]

* LeonineContract: Every time Christina offers her direct assistance to Atticus and his family, it's always when they're conveniently in dire straits, leaving them desperate enough to fork over what little supernatural advantages they have directly to her just so they can keep the more immediate danger at bay. [[spoiler: This dynamic is finally subverted in the season finale when Atticus and his family refuse to give Christina the Book of Names in exchange for her finally leaving them alone. Leading to Christina [[EvilIsPetty rescinding the Mark of Cain she put on Leti out of spite.]]]]

* RightForTheWrongReasons: More than once she helps Tic and co get one over on the racists making their lives miserable, but she almost always does so when it also benefits her.

* CreepyTwins: They give of this vibe despite being portrayed by two different actresses and one even being ButNotTooBlack compared to the other.

* {{Blackface}}: Their resemblance is based on the pickanniny stereotype of blackface minstrel shows.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jamie Harris

* ShesGotLegs: She has a spectacular set of legs, and she deliberately dresses in outfits that show them off: during a road trip she wears tiny shorts, and while in the Ardham lodge she picks a pair of extremely tight riding breeches.

* CorruptHick: He’s a racist bastard who enforces “sundown town” rules on the entire county of Bideford and tries to frame George, Leti, and Atticus for burglary because they were black and because he thinks Atticus is a smartass. He’s clearly done something like this before, and has racked up a LongList of violations of the law.

* AsianFoxSpirit: [[spoiler:She's a ''{{Kumiho}}'' (well the host of one), the Korean version of the fox spirit. She doesn't show things like the fox-bead but she's called as such in ancillary materials and interviews.]]

* {{Kitsune}}: [[spoiler:She is a ''kumiho'', the Korean version of the fox spirit.]]

!!!Bideford County Police Department

->'''Portrayed By:''' Kaelynn Harris & Bianca Brewton

* RaisedCatholic: Protestant more likely, but Leti frequently struggles with the fact she was raised to be Christian but can't quite seem to make herself fully believe in it. She does seem scared that the magic they are dealing with could be Satanic, but doesn't seem sure if that's just a knee jerk reaction to what she was taught or not.

* [[spoiler: BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy]]: Averted. Aside from a brush with the supernatural using a ouijia board, Bobo appears to have a mundane life.

* [[spoiler: HistoricalDomainCharacter]]: Not revealed until he's a [[spoiler: PosthumousCharacter]] though.

* MsFanservice: Ji-Ah is gorgeous, and has multiple sex scenes the first episode where she's introduced, in which she shows her breasts along with shots [[ToplessnessFromTheBack from the back]] and [[{{Sideboob}} side]].

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* NotSoDifferent:

** The series also implies that the sexism of the Sons of Adam is a major reason why she sympathizes with Tic and his family.

** While she regularly lambasts the patriarchal Sons of Adam for their sexism, she's ultimately no better than they, as she is also willing to [[spoiler:unapologetically sacrifice black lives in order to obtain unrivaled power and prestige, just like her father Samuel and Captain Lancaster.]]

->'''Portrayed By:''' Aunjanue Ellis

* [[spoiler: {{Retirony}}]: [[spoiler: A happy, well-adjusted family man heading into LovecraftCountry AND making a deal to spend a romantic trip with his wife? He's a dead man.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Ji-Ah herself voices doubt on whether she is [[spoiler: the original Ji-Ah possessed by a Kumiho spirit, or a Kumiho spirit that has merely taken on the appearance of Ji-Ah. What complicates matters is she has absorbed all the memories of Ji-Ah's stepfather, which includes enough memories of how Ji-Ah was that she could convincingly pass as her.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Goes on a small rant about white people music such as "Life Could Be a Dream" in the first ep, but starts singing it during the road trip in the last one, out of good humor. [[spoiler: Horrifyingly subverted. This is actually a clue that Christina has replaced Ruby, but everyone else thinks it's to ease tensions.]]

* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's hard to pin down where she stands in relation to the others. She's very ominous and willing to manipulate the main characters to get what she wants. But she's also clearly chafing under society's (specifically the cultist society she belongs to) gender restrictions and seems to just want to make her own way in the world. She helped out Atticus and Ruby, but she also used Ruby to get back at the head of the Chicago PD and rubbed Atticus's blackness in his face when he attempted to kill her, noting that a black man should know better than trying to kill a white woman.

* BlackWidow: Byung Ho (and all the men like him) were killed by Ji-Ah right after he had sex with her.

* BlackWidow: Byung Ho (and all the men like him) was killed by Ji-Ah right after he had sex with her.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Wunmi Mosaku