History Characters / Newsflesh

* TheUnfavorite: See BlackSheep, above.

* CharacterBlog: The site itself is a news blog, so all characters blog.

* CloningBlues: Subject 7c starts out with this, along with some understandable identity crisis issues, but starts to get over them when [[spoiler:she meets the EIS agents and is informed of their plan to break her out]]. Near the end of ''Blackout'', [[spoiler:Shaun invokes this to get Georgia II to leave when he is asked by the CDC doctor to take their side. It turns out they were only pretending, however, so that Georgia II can make plans along with Dr. Shoji, Rick and Steve to rescue President Ryman's family and allow the rest of her team to leave the White House alive]].

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The Fox tends toward just being sort of hyper once she's no longer on The Monkey's arm. .

* TalkingToYourself: Shaun, as a result of his SanitySlippage.

* TalkingToYourself: Not nearly as impaired as her brother; she's an accredited journalist who pretty much always has at least an audio recorder going, so talking to herself is just a way of making sure she doesn't lose any important thoughts before she has a chance to write them down.

* KnifeNut: The Fox is also deadly competent with scalpels -- and probably other knives.

The main characters for the Newsflesh series.

** DisappearedDad: Michael Mason is the "emotionally absent" sort. He unabashedly tries to cadge ratings from his children's successes.
** FollowInMyFootsteps: Shaun and Georgia are bloggers, taking after their parents, but not in the way their parents would prefer (obediently automatically giving their parents preferential treatment simply for adopting them).
*** Becks and Shaun discuss this in ''Blackout'', contrasting her refusal to do the same for her family, who are moneyed and don't do such gauche things as journalism.
** MissingMom: Stacy Mason. [[spoiler: Who shot her own biological child in the head when he converted, and then poses for photos at the school he used to go to.]] And if that's not bad enough? 82% of the affection Stacy shows her adopted children is ''only in public for posed shots''.
*** In ''Blackout'', [[spoiler:after being confronted by Shaun, and eventually going with her husband to rescue Alaric's sister Alisa]], she realizes what a terrible parent she's been, and writes, "I wish I'd been a better mom when I had the chance."
** ParentalAbandonment: George and Shaun were both orphans, adopted because their birth parents had died in the Rising; a situation which was true for many, many infants at that time.

** TheUnfavorite: George and Shaun are both unfavorites as compared to the Masons' first child.

* InfantImmortality: Phillip subverts this by dying.

The Cat was one of the Monkey's girlfriends. Her real name is Jane, as we find out from a very angry Monkey, and from Alaric we know she's an ex of his, who prided herself on being cold. She disappeared during the raid on the Monkey's home and has not been seen or heard from since.

* TokenEvilTeammate: The Cat took a side deal for cash against the Monkey's strict and explicit rules, resulting in the raid that destroyed the Brainpain and resulted in the Monkey's death.

Serious, determined, truth-seeking Newsie. Nigh-obsessively dedicated to the Truth at all costs. Georgia gets offended at the idea that her life is worth more than the truth. The same is true for [[spoiler: the clone of Georgia Mason, as revealed in Blackout. All tropes that apply to Georgia, also apply to Georgia II]].

* BiTheWay: Apparently most usually dates men, but there was that situation with Maggie....

* BiTheWay: Maggie casually mentions a tryst with Buffy in passing.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Played with. Since doc is the granddaughter of Dr. Matras (see below), she's almost medical "royalty" in the history of the Rising.

* GeneticMemory: Subverted. The scientists working on the clones in this case found ways of replicating memories to 97% accuracy via electrical impulse manipulation. It isn't a perfect technique. It took them at least 7 iterations to get it right, as several of the previous subjects either spontaneously zombified or, upon discovering who they were, freaked out and went immediately and irrevocably insane. Georgia II is the only one who figured it out on her own without sanity damage. She has accepted and made peace with the fact that she has a head full of memories she never actually experienced.

* WalkingSpoiler: She's the clone of the original Georgia Mason. She's also not the only one. There were at least 7 before her, and there have been more clones after her, designed never to become conscious/aware.

* SpoiledSweet: Very down-to-earth for someone so wealthy, and is quick to lavish attention, care, and material resources on her teammates.

* PoorLittleRichKid: Maggie is an extroverted, social party girl who loves company -- in a world where most people are afraid to leave their homes. She is also able to throw amazing parties because she's beyond filthy rich due to her parents pharmaceutical company. Interestingly, she refers to herself as "never having been a 'poor little rich girl' in her blog".
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Maggie is flippant about rules and does whatever she feels like, justifying it because she's rich.

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Little Brother]]: He did not make it through the Rising and had to be put down. He is why the elder Masons do not actually love their adopted children.

* HiddnInPlainSight: Her idea of a hideout while the team are in Seattle is a luxury hotel, this actually is a sensible choice as it would be hard to get past the security that the clientele of such a place would expect.

* FirstPersonSmartaas: She's the protagonist in [=PDNTTO=] and there are large amounts of snarkyness in her narration.

* AuthorAvatar/SelfInsertFic: Rather than poetry or tragic romance stories her blog contains stories about a hard boiled pre rising female Asian American detective and her red headed lover.

'''Mat Trenson''': Newsie.

* {{Woobie}}: He loses his son and wife before we even meet him. Then he loses two good friends and his cat within the first book. [[spoiler:Later, he finds out his wife was actually murdered, has to cope with President Ryman being blackmailed by the [=CDC=], and sees multiple failures at resurrecting Georgia by cloning before they finally get Subject 7c.]]

* ThemeNaming: George and Shaun were named by Michael and Stacy at the time of the adoption. It is unknown whether their birth names were known and abandoned, or if the toddlers were too little and/or too traumatized to be verbal and tell their names. But it is likely their doing so started the naming trend of naming children after zombie movie heroes.

ThemeNaming: George and Shaun were named by Michael and Stacy at the time of the adoption. It is unknown whether their birth names were known and abandoned, or if the toddlers were too little and/or too traumatized to be verbal and tell their names.

*** In ''Deadline'', Alaric's parents both amplify, and that leaves his little sister an orphan.