History Characters / PaleKennetPowers

* DisappearedDad: He died when she was young. Paul, the closest thing she had to a stepdad, abandoned them years later. Lucy's got some issues, suffice to say.

* {{Teleportation}}: After going through the Forest Ribbon Trail, Miss gives her a rope that lets her teleport over short distances as long as she's out of everyone's sight, with the rope's texture changing to inform her of whether or not she's being watched.
* ThreePointLanding: Avery lands on her feet and one hand after completing the Stuck-In Place Path, giving her the ability to safely fall from any height and ejecting her miles over Kennet.

* HumanlikeAnimalAging: She's still aging like a normal opposum and isn't expected to live more than three years. Even in the first few weeks she's around she visibly ages, getting closer to being a young teenager like the trio. One of the benefits of the familiar bond is a concomitant lifespan to Avery, her partner, so she'll live as long as Avery does. Her aging slows down to the rate of a human's after the bond is established.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She across as this before the reveal that she can ONLY speak in lies.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's basically the opposite of what people expect a Pactverse Goblin to be - civilized, intelligent, subtle, and focused on long-term plans.

* WingedHumanoid: She appears as a woman with long, flowing moth-like wings that she drapes over herself to remain revealing but decent. [[spoiler:She loses her wings after the Carmine Contest, though in Wild Abandon 17.1 she implies that she regained them some how after becoming a PhysicalGod.]]

* TheResenter: A lot of Charles' motivations are rooted in a deep-seated resentment for how his life has gone, from being considered not good enough to directly assist in binding the Blue Heron god and being a nobody living in a dying ski town while Alexander and the others became regional if not global names, to getting foresworn and having to live off other's mercy while the likes of Alexander, Bristow, and Musser became yet more powerful.

* BigBad: It's revealed in Shaking Hands 9.9 that Edith is part of the conspiracy behind the Carmine Beast's murder. Later interludes reveal that she initially helped Charles because he'd helped her in the past, but got more involved because of the potential benefits.]]

* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Maricica was her best friend, which causes her significant pain after it becomes clear how thoroughly the faerie betrayed Kennet.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:One After Another 10.z reveals that Maricica's one of the people behind the Carmine Beast's murder, and Dash to Pieces 11.z further reveals that she's not just a conspirator but the mastermind.]]

* BigBad:
** [[spoiler:Charles was the original mastermind of the Carmine Conspiracy before Maricica took over. He and Edith originally created the Hungry Choir to trap Alexander, but turned it onto the Carmine Beast after she interfered with its creation.]]
** [[spoiler:After becoming the Carmine Exile, he spends a few arcs as a GreaterScopeVillain, but becomes the main threat again in Arc 20, when he declares war on the Kenneteers after they sell out Maricica's weakness to the Winter Court.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He and the Aurum serve as the last major antagonists of ''Pale'' after Charles offers control of the Crucible in order for the Aurum to not have to worry about getting unmade by a future challenger]].

* MinionMaster: His specialty is being able to reach into the Warrens from random places and bullying minor goblins sent against him into switching sides.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Justified as Snowdrop is a magical creature and retains her human level intelligence in animal form.
* CombatPragmatist: While fighting brownies she remembers the first rule Toadswallow taught her about goblin fighting, which is [[GroinAttack to go first for anything that jiggles]], and she's taken to using a goblin-tainted fork [[spoiler:(Actually a transformed Cherrypop)]] as a weapon. Nicolette implies that hanging around the goblins so often has made her nature somewhat goblin as well, which makes the fairy-adjacent brownies particularly thrown off by her.

* {{Familiar}}: In [[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/27 One After Another 10.1]], she and Avery do the ritual to make Snowdrop Avery's official familiar.
* FunTShirt: Always wears one, usually pertaining to opossum memes, which changes whenever she changes form, though Interlude 4.x reveals she can keep the logos between transformations if she concentrates enough.
* FurryReminder: Will do things like hang upside down or crouch on all fours while in human form, then there's her eating habits and opinions on trash and things like birds. While fighting she'll even hiss as opossums often do to intimidate predators.
* HumanlikeAnimalAging: She's still aging like a normal opposum and isn't expected to live more than three years. Even in the few weeks she's around she's visably aging getting closer to being a young teenager like the trio. [[spoiler:One of the benefits of her familiar ship is a concomitant lifespan to Avery, her partner, now she'll live as long as she does.]]
* InstantExpert: Being made Avery's boon companion gave her a 'download' of everything she needed to be a good companion to Avery, which included things like speaking and some of Avery's knowledge about playing soccer.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Comes across as this before the reveal that she can ONLY speak in lies.

* OutsideContextProblem: Boon Companions all have some kind of trait depending on what kind of animal they started out as. Snowdrop was an opossum, which are known for deceiving people by playing dead, so her trait is that everything she says is the opposite of what she means. Practitioners are used to Others who can't lie, so an Other who can ''only'' lie- and there's no way of telling this without talking to her for some time- tends to blindside people.
* ParentalNeglect: Was abandoned by her mother and was barely surviving right up until Verona found her for the Forest Ribbon Trail ritual.

* PlayingPossum: As any self-respecting humanized opossum would be. A human child suddenly keeling over, with or without screaming, is very alarming and the Kennet Trio knows how to take advantage of the confusion.
* SuperSenses: While her eyesight is normally as poor as any other opossum, as a result of the Paths turning her into a boon companion, it's particularly keen when it comes to finding hidden things, allowing her to perceive entrances that others can't see such as Warren holes, or the paths the brownies use to get around the Blue Heron Institute. It's implied that this is probably how Snowdrop can perceive Miss fully while others can't.

* DifferentlyDressedDuplicates: Once she and Verona start coexisting, Julette's slight difference in clothing serves as a tell for which is the original.

* BreakingTheFellowship: Downplayed. While they don't outright break up, the aftermath of the battle for the Carmine Throne puts a major strain on their relationship, with Avery moving to Thunder Bay, and Lucy and Verona becoming more distant from one another as the latter delves more into the new underbelly of the town. This is further [[PaintingTheMedium signified]] by the chapter headers showing the trio by themselves rather than together as they were previously.
* BroughtDownToBadass: In the latter portion of Finish Off the trio gets effectively gainsaid, but still manage to get the upper hand without being able to call upon their magic.

* FighterMageThief: While they're all practitioners and by extension have elements of the Mage, they each fall into one archetype more than the others:

* FromNobodyToNightmare: At the beginning of the story the trio are three novice practitioners in a podunk town that don't come from any notable families and only have an edge thanks to the power given by the Kennet Others, but by the end of the story they've become big regional players that the likes of the Mussers, Hennigars, the Finder corporation Wonderkand, and the Carmine Exile are forced to take seriously as threats.

* MoralityChain: Verona mentions to Charles that she feels that were it not for Lucy and Avery, there's a big chance that if she'd awakened in a more usual way and grew up within regular practitioner culture, she'd end up being just as conniving a person as Alexander and see nothing wrong with binding and enslaving Others.

* AuraVision: Her Sight is keyed to violence, with swords representing wounds and daggers representing a person's association with violence. The more daggers, the more associated with violence they are.

* CurbStompCushion: Lucy is almost completely outclassed in her duel with Anthem, but she does give a good enough showing that he admits he's impressed and that America could learn from her.

* DuelBoss: She can invoke this by using her duelist circle, as it'll trap her opponent until either she or them is defeated.

* KidDetective: While all three of the protagonists are acting as this while investigating the Carmine Beast's disappearance, Lucy seems to be the most eager of the three to act as a detective.

* MageMarksman: Miss gives her a magic ring that can turn harmless objects into weapons. She often uses it on soda cans, turning them into handguns.
* MagicalAccessory: Is the first of the Trio to acquire an Implement, an earring made with the help of Verona and Avery that has the effect of allowing her to sharpen her hearing and listen in on conversations.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Invoked, her fox mask is enchanted to have red eyes in order to make her seem more intimidating.

* YinYangBomb: Following the Battle for the Carmine Throne, she's been mixing together both fae and goblin magic when she fights.
* YouAreNotAlone: Acknowledges this during the Implement ritual-as much it affirms for her the various awful things that people say about her (and a great deal of the casual racism she's struggled with suspecting but never being able to confirm) it also provides her insight into the good aspects of her life, and she reaffirms that she loves her friends and family and they love her back.

* DimensionalTraveler: As a Path Runner Avery Practice deals with traveling the Paths and gaining their boons, and by the time of the final epilogue three years later, she's started traveling to Realms on the regular.

* {{Gayngst}}: Avery's a lesbian and is fine with her sexuality, but she hasn't come out to her family and is also (as far as she knows) the only queer girl in her age group in Kennet, which doesn't help. It gets worse when Maricica flat out tells her that while there's three other queer girls in Kennet, one has already found true love and neither of the other two would be a good match for her.

* HasAType: Has a noticeable preference for full-figured women.

* LesbianJock: Avery is gay and happens to play hockey, with her main melee weapons being hockey sticks enchanted to hit extra hard.

* {{Teleportation}}: After going through the Forest Ribbon Trail, Miss gives her a rope that lets her teleport over short distances as long as she's being unobserved, with the rope's texture changing to inform her of whether or not she's being watched.
* ThreePointLanding: Lands on her feet and one hand after completing the Stuck-In Place Path, giving her the ability to safely fall from any height and ejecting her miles over Kennet.
* TrickedOutShoes: Has enchanted a pair of shoes with runes to make her jump farther while wearing them.

* BeingHumanSucks: She does ''not'' like her life as a human, and constantly considers turning into an Other or otherwise forsaking her humanity to escape it.
* CallingTheOldManOut: She finally loses her shit with her father in Out On A Limb 3.1.

* DualityMotif: Starts getting into Halflight practices, which blur the line between human and Other.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With [[spoiler:[=McCauleigh=] in the epilogue, who lives in Verona's demesne full-time after Verona secures her freedom from her family and calls Verona her "lifemate."]]

** We know from her POV narration that she was scared when John held a knife to her face, but Lucy's subsequent chapter makes it clear that she didn't show it.

* TheSmartGuy: Out of the Trio, she's the most interested in studying and learning practice. Which isn't to say the others aren't, she's just ''that'' much more into it, and at one point she says she might be the student at BHI who most wants to learn.
* StatuesqueStunner: By the final epilogue Verona is revealed to have taken after her father in terms of height, being almost a head taller than her mother, and is now the tallest of the trio. She's also got a few admirers.

* TheUnfavorite: Verona mentions feeling left out that compared to Miss and Avery and John ([[spoiler:plus his Dog Pack]]) and Lucy, none of the other Kennet Others have taken a special shine to her.

* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:Chooses to interfere with Miss because she's pissed that Miss has control over a third of Kennet even though she controls just about everything else, and is even willing to conspire with Musser-aligned practitioners to have Copycat Cassandra bound and her Aware friend critically injured if not killed to facilitate that.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Nibble looks like a man in his 20's, but may be much older, though he can't specify outside of naming TV shows.

* FedToPigs: It's implied the conspirators have been using her as an unwitting garbage disposal for the corpses of those they've killed, as the arm of [[spoiler:the woman with the clockwork heart that Edith kills]] is seen in her and Nibble's fridge later on.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: She doesn't seem to mind being a ghoul that much, but she clings to remnants of 'normality'- listening to pop music, cleaning the abandoned factory she and Nibble live in so it's an actual home, taking showers with soap and conditioner.

* TheGift: Out of the three, Verona takes the quickest to magic in general and quickly intuits its uses, being the best at general magic within the tri0o. It's for this reason that she's started to become a Sorcerer.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With [[spoiler: [=McCauleigh=] in the epilogue, who lives in Verona's demesne full-time after Verona secures her freedom from her family and calls Verona her "lifemate."]]

* ForWantOfANail: In a simulated alternate reality where Avery never met Lucy and Verona or awakened with them, she becomes a Ruins practitioner.

* IncompatibleOrientation: With Jeremy. Verona's heterosexual aromantic, and Jeremy wants an actual relationship with her, which she isn't willing to try.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler:In the end, Charles ends up becoming the exact sort of practitioner he claims to despise, as his last conscious act is trying to foreswear the Trio, only for the hypocrisy in doing so to cause his Self to be subsumed by his Role]].

** And at the ''very'' end of the story, [[spoiler:his hypocracy proves to be his undoing. He became the Carmine, and defined his relationship to the role, entirely around ending the injustice of foreswearing; when he tries to foreswear the girls unjustly, it does so much damage to his self that he's left as an EmptyShell, completely subsumed by his role.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Early in the story, he's appalled by the new practitioners of Kennet being young teenagers and makes it clear that he doesn't want kids to get hurt. Later in the story, [[spoiler:he has no problem with his side recruiting kids to be child soldiers, or all the damage they take as a result.]]