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The story's antagonist, leader of TheWildHunt, and very powerful. Unlike most fairies, he can pass through Cloncarrig's town walls, although it takes him a few hours. According to Maidin and a children's rhyme, he's called the "King Under the Hills," and the twenty-eighth chapter officially calls him the Horned Hunter of Myth/CelticMythology. [[PublicDomainCharacter This version]] is a full-on [[AnthropomorphicPersonification force of nature,]] and [[NatureIsNotNice that's VERY bad for the Songs.]]

* TestosteronePoisoning: Maidin name-drops this trope regarding the Hunter's brutal and arrogant personality.

* {{Reincarnation}}: Dandelion's son used to be Alima's childhood cat, Ruby.[[/folder]]

The story's antagonist, leader of TheWildHunt, and exceptionally powerful. Unlike most fairies, he can pass through Cloncarrig's town walls, although it takes him a few hours. According to Maidin and a children's rhyme, he's called the "King Under the Hills," and the twenty-eighth chapter officially calls him the Horned Hunter of Myth/CelticMythology. [[PublicDomainCharacter This version of him]] is a straight-up [[AnthropomorphicPersonification force of nature,]] and [[NatureIsNotNice that's VERY bad for the Songs.]]

** One generation earlier, his Muslim sister-in-law was killed in a hate crime after the September 11 attacks. It's implied Ned still has trouble dealing with it, since he's avoided even ''thinking'' about her for years.

A stray whose unnamed juvenile son fell in Maidin's river, and was taken to Alima's house. She used to be a housecat until her owner died, and she's been living in the forest since then. She's a marbled tabby with a limp, and her son is spotted. They're currently being fostered by Alima.

* {{Seer}}: He has "the wyrth eyes." He experiences visions of the future, has [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic "oak dreams,"]] and can see spirits.

* AdventureDuo: Trackers work in pairs; Jude is the {{Seer}} and Duyen is his BadassNormal partner.

* {{Seer}}: He uses his second-sight both to find people and to [[MundaneUtility shoot them]]. He actually senses Ned's presence at Alima's house, but nobody except Lucy and Ogma know that [[DramaticIrony he's literally pointing at Ned, instead of just sensing which direction he's in.]] Later on, petting the canine-Ned gives him some kind of magical shock.

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: There wouldn't be a story if Alima and Mal didn't end up living together [[ForegoneConclusion as in the summary]], but according to her friend Danielle, Alima "has a track record" for blondes.

* BadassDriver: She drives them home from Doolin when Ned and Brighid sense TheFairFolk roaming around. She takes another route to Cloncarrig to split the Hunt up and wear out the horses, but when they join back together and clearly outnumber the humans, [[CarFu she drives into one of the Wild Hunt's groups and takes out almost thirty riders from]] [[RealityEnsues their horses' panicking.]]

* HotAmazon: Significantly tall and sinewy, and casually rips oak roots out of the ground. In "Can I get there by candlelight," she can NeckLift a grown man and carry a wolf. Appropriate for a bear-goddess.

!!!Ned Song/Bulan
Alima's Chinese-American father, a carpenter who got abducted and transformed into a white wolf by the Hunter.

!!!Ned Song/Moony

* FluffyTheTerrible: "Moony" isn't the most intuitive name for a massive wolf, even if he's white.

** He also remarks that ''humans'' have many names--Ned, for example, is called "Ned," "Moony," "Dad," and "Uncle." And that's just in English.

May O'Luain's adolescent gray tabby. He's attached to her, but extremely contrary to everyone else. Along with the spirits, he can tell that "Moony" is actually a human.

* [[DramaQueen Drama King]]: His first scent of Moony/Ned makes him start shrieking and hissing. Thirty seconds later, [[DeadpanSnarker he wonders if Ned's brainwashed after Ned calls himself a dog.]]

* [[spoiler: SuddenlySexuality]]: TheFairFolk state that [[spoiler: Brighid is gay out of nowhere]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since she's seen numerous times what Owen goes through, so of course she wouldn't tell anyone. Then TheFairFolk have already been seen to read minds, so they'd know a lot of secrets about people.

* WomanInWhite: Fitting for a moon-goddess.

* WhenSheSmiles: When He Smiles: Maidin is delighted when Owen smiles at something he said.

* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: His long black hair covers up a scar from his twentieth birthday. When a man in Galway chops Owen's hair off because he's restrained from actually killing him and reveals said scar, [[BerserkButton Owen goes nuts.]] Later on Maidin sees a scar on Owen's chest despite him wearing a shirt, but there's no physical scar there.

* TraumaCongaLine: Her parents go missing for two months, she understandably thinks that they're dead, and she moves to a different country out of grief. Not even a month in her new home, she starts getting hunted like an animal by a Fair Folk man wearing an elk skull. Unknown to her, the man is the same one who kidnapped her parents.

* AlliterativeName / AlliterativeFamily: There's a trend for O-names among male members of his family; Oscar is his father, and Ogma is his grandfather.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He first appears by [[TricksterArchetype jumping out of a tree to startle Alima and his sister May.]] [[CoolBigBro May then jumps on his back and deems him her "steed."]]

* TricksterArchetype: Definitely. When informed that he shouldn't have climbed a hawthorn tree because it gives bad luck, he replies that [[ExactWords he was on the fence behind it]].

* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles:]] Maidin is delighted when Owen smiles at something he said.

* EyesOfGold / SupernaturalGoldEyes: His canine form's eyes are frequently called "yellow," and it's the main trait that marks him as a wolf.

* FreakyFashionMildMind: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] She has several piercings and a magenta-streaked bob, but otherwise she's very professional. However, it does not stop her from being badass.

* CoolOldGuy / BadassGrandpa: He's strong even in old age and is rarely surprised. Is also a literal grandfather.

* BadassGrandpa / CoolOldGuy: His entrance involves saving Mal and Alima from the entire Wild Hunt by outwitting the Hunter in a conversation.

* CatsAreMagic: Like Jareth, she knows magic and taught her son some of it as well. Both she and her son immediately know that Ned is a cursed human, not a wolf.

* {{Reincarnation}}: Dandelion's son is the reincarnation of Alima's childhood cat, Ruby.[[/folder]]

* SubmissiveBadass: Hades opens a couple of jars for Persephone before he remembers they're both gods.

* ColorCodedEyes: He has GreenEyes that are often called catlike or cat's eyes, alluding to his predatory nature. A subtle tell when he's disguised as Malachy is [[GlamourFailure having green eyes instead of brown.]]

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: The Hunter snips a bit of Lucy's hair off, remarking that he likes Alima's better. [[{{Squick}} Lucy gets creeped out.]]

* AdultFear: Her parents go missing out of the blue, and after she moves to a different country out of grief, she gets stalked by a ''very'' threatening male stranger.

* AdultFear: Her parents go missing for no reason, and right after she moves to a different country out of grief, she gets hunted by a ''very'' threatening male stranger.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Due to his second-sight. He shoots the fairy dragging Brighid out of the car, which most people would NOT risk trying in real life. Doesn't work for long since [[ZergRush there's dozens of fairies swarming the car,]] but still a feat.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Thanks to his second-sight. He shoots the fairy dragging Brighid out of the car, which most people would NOT risk trying in real life. Doesn't work for long since [[ZergRush there's dozens of fairies swarming the car,]] but still.

* {{Seer}}: He uses his second-sight both to find people and to [[MundaneUtility shoot them]]. He actually senses Ned's presence at Alima's house, but nobody except Lucy and Ogma know that [[DramaticIrony he's literally pointing at Ned instead of just sensing which direction he's in.]] Later on, petting the canine-Ned gives him some kind of magical shock.

* TraumaCongaLine: Ned and his wife are abducted by the Hunter, he gets cursed into an animal's form, and then loses track of his wife. Meanwhile, their daughter thinks they're dead and he can't tell her otherwise because of said curse.
** His Muslim sister-in-law was killed in a hate crime after the September 11 attacks. It's implied Ned still has trouble dealing with it, since he's avoided even ''thinking'' about her for years.

* MamaBear: She doesn't trust the Hunter when he compliments Alima's hair and later calls it "a creepy pass at my daughter," and shoots down Nick's suggestion that Alima marry a god to bypass her citizenship wait. Fittingly enough, Lucy is the one who let Alima get [[ChekhovsGun the bear-tattoo that puts her under Artio's protection.]]

* QuirkyCurls: His hair is messy, he's much less coordinated than Owen, and he mentions getting hurt a lot.

* TheSacredDarkness: Hades is incensed that the Hunter's making Alima think her parents are dead for kicks, and gets angrier when he finds out that the Hunter wants to kill her ''entire family'' for kicks. Persephone also kept Hades from starting a "Natural Order" speech to Ned.

Ned and Lucy's Indian-Muslim sister-in-law, who married Ned's brother Jordan and coincidentally shares a name with her niece. Since they aren't actually junior/senior to each other, they're instead referred to as "older/younger Alima." She and Jordan had twin boys, but Alima was killed shortly after the September 11 attacks. She first appears in the twentieth chapter as a spirit.