History Characters / TheBabySittersClub

*** To be fair, she made the assumption that her father didn't want her around anymore, which was why she thought going back to Connecticut was the right decision. However, it's not made clear why she thought her dad getting engaged meant he didn't want her.

* SatelliteCharacter: Frustratingly, she receives both the least amount of characterization and development of all the girls. While the others have been through several life experiences and gain some perspective on their lives, she is only seen as the frumpy redheaded girl with a lot of siblings.

* OverprotectiveDad: She has one though he becomes less strict.

* OverprotectiveDad: In early books, sometimes to unreasonable levels. He softens up after Mary Anne calls him out on it in the fourth book.

* OverprotectiveDad: Like his wife, he can be overprotective after Stacey is diagnosed with diabetes.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It's mentioned a couple times that "Mimi" is a nickname. We never do find out what her given name was.

* TheAce: They are always exceptionally good at nearly everything they do. All their activities are always successful. They also tend to be the absolute Ace at their respective hobbies (Kristy with sports, Jessi with ballet, Claudia with art), with all the others gushing over how talented they are. Even [[ButtMonkey Mallory]] wins the first prize for a short story contest in ''Mallory on Strike''. In ''Claudia and the New Girl'', Claudia enters a sculpture contest, and even if [[ItMakesSenseInContext her sculpture wasn't finished]], she's ''so'' talented that she gets an honorable mention anyway. The books where they ''don't'' come out on top (like ''Mallory and the Dream Horse'' or ''Kristy and the Baby Parade'') are very rare.

* SuperOCD: As Dawn discovers in "Dawn's Wicked Stepsister". Among other things, he arranges his socks in the drawer in alphabetical order by color.

* ACupAngst: Kristy is the only 8th grade BSC member to not wear a bra and sometimes feels bad about it.

* BrutalHonesty: Lampshaded by other characters and even Kristy herself since the very first book. It sometimes causes a bit of problems between Kristy and her friends, who tend to get annoyed by her tactless ways.

* DaddysGirl: Both her biological father and stepfather seem to favor her over her brothers, although in the first case it's probably because she's the only girl and in the latter case, it's because she took the longest to warm up to him. It also could be a bit of skewed perspective because she's the main character.

* LimitedWardrobe: Her "uniform".

* TomboyishPonytail: Her default in official art

* BookDumb: She's hopeless at school, hates math, and has serious spelling problems. However she likes to read ''Literature/NancyDrew'', which aren't approved of by her parents, and is in general loves reading novels. She even states the Nancy Drew books teach critical thinking and problem solving.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Like her best friend Stacey, she's very boy crazy.

-->Kristy: Is 'Stacey' your real name?
-->Stacey: No, it's fake.

** In early books, Dawn is into health food and "prefers" to not eat red meat, but still eats chicken and fish. In later books, she is a strict vegetarian.

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: For her mother.

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Read.

* MeaningfulName: This is most likely completely unintentional, but "Mallory" is Norman French for "unlucky" and fans of the series see her as the resident ButtMonkey and MemeticLoser.
** Most of her family are renamed in the French-Canadian versions (though, oddly, not Vanessa); Mallory becomes Marjorie, which like most of the names is a bit unusual and old-fashioned but not meaningful.

* ThoseTwoGirls: With Jessi.

* AllGirlsLikePonies: Not as much as Mallory though.

* ThoseTwoGirls: With Mallory.

* PolarOppositeTwins: Abby and Anna.

* CoolBigBro: See TeamDad, below.

* ShipTease: With Stacey.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Karen.

* SiblingYinYang: With Karen.

* LikeParentUnlikeChild: They are both conservative, unlike the free-spirited and unconventional Claudia. Rioko is also a librarian, in contrast to BookDumb Claudia. The only books Claudia likes (Nancy Drew) are disapproved by her parents.

* ParentsAsPeople: Seem to be kind people and they clearly love both Claudia and Janine. However they are unintentionally neglectful to Claudia who believes herself to be TheUnFavorite. In ''Claudia and the Middle School Mystery'', they didn't even believe Claudia when she told them she didn't cheat on a test, unlike Janine who actually trusted and supported Claudia.

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: She's secretly jealous of Claudia because she has a lot of friends. According to the first book of the series, her only friends are a 15 year old math nerd and her computer.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Despite being friendly in most of her appearances, in ''Stacey's Ex-Best Friend'', she suddenly turns into a snobby, conceited brat who looks down on Stacey and her friends in Stoneybrook, though her getting a 15 year old boyfriend and getting to go to high-school parties might have a lot to do with that.

* NiceGuy: How he's usually portrayed, except in ''Mary Anne Vs. Logan'' where he acts like a controlling jerk.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Despite being friendly in most of her appearances, in ''Stacey's Ex-Best Friend'', she suddenly turns into a snobby, conceited brat who looks down on Stacey and her friends in Stoneybrook.

* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In the Graphic novels, Jessi's hair is now drawn naturally curly rather than straightened; she is also shown wearing a bonnet to sleep.

* {{Bookworm}}: When Jessi and Mallory become friends, they bond over their shared love for books, especially horse stories. Of course this was less emphasized in Jessi's later books, because while Mallory is an aspiring writer, Jessi's primary activity is ballet.

* CunningLinguist: As we learn in Jessi's first book, she is "good at languages": fluent in Spanish after just a one-week holiday in Mexico, and immediately able to learn sign language in order to communicate with a deaf boy.

* TokenBlackFriend: As every single book will tell you, she is the only black member of the BSC.

* ShesGotLegs: Jessi has the very long legs a dancer needs, and often lampshaded. Mallory notices her legs the first time she meets Jessi.

* {{Housewife}}: Kathy doesn’t have a job until Shannon’s Story where she decided to go back to school for an education degree at the local university.

!!Rebecca "Becca" Ramsey

Jessi's younger sister.

* OfficialCouple: With Logan.

* IllGirl: In general, but particularly in ''Stacey's Emergency''.

* IllGirl: She gets sick easily. Pretty much her main trait.

* BookDumb: The book ''Mary Anne Misses Logan'' makes it pretty clear that she's a bad student.

** She takes this UpToEleven when her dad gets engaged to his girlfriend. She's so upset about it (thinking her father is rejecting her) that she actually ''steals her dad's credit card and flies back to Connecticut alone, without telling a soul''. Yeah, she's lucky that stunt didn't get her grounded for a century (though she DID have to pay her father back for the plane ticket she secretly charged as well as the one he had to buy in order to fly her back to California).

* {{Meganekko}}: Mallory wears glasses and her friends (and the old book illustrations) depict an adorable girl.

* RapunzelHair: She has waist-length blonde hair

* CheerfulChild: A very friendly five-year-old kid, and rarely in a bad mood.

* TheQuietOne: In contrast to his sister, he doesn't talk too much.