History Characters / TheDresdenFilesTheFae

* BadassBaritone: Played with. By pixie standards, Toot-Toot's voice is a commanding, resonant ''basso profundo''. By human standards, he sounds like a cutesy cartoon character.

** In ''Proven Guilty'' Dresden agrees to take Molly as an apprentice, and asks if she is sexually active. She replies that she is "technically" a virgin, and has "''explored'' most of the bases." Dresden tells her that there is to be no more "exploring" (and that she is not to start any [[ADateWithRosiePalms "solo expeditions"]]) until she develops better mental discipline.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: All of the Queens could qualify with the way their mantles gradually consume their personalities, but Mab still stands out: she has to murder her beloved daughter, even if by proxy, for TheNeedsOfTheMany.

* BareYourMidriff: Her first appearance has her wearing a shirt that she cut in half to wear.

* BareYourMidriff: In "Down Town", ''Proven Guilty'' and "Wild Card".

* JustToyingWithThem: As he's powerful emough to walk through ''everyone'' in Chicago, he can afford to be this at times.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: It's rather unclear whether it's this or AuthorityEqualsAsskicking, and may be a combination, but it's clear that Mab is ''powerful''; as [[WordOfGod Jim Butcher]] put it, there's a reason why when Mab wrote the accords and told the various supernatural nations to abide by them, they ''listened''.

* BuxomIsBetter: Though her drawings suggest otherwise, in the books she frequently described as very curvy. In ''Ghost Story'' in particular, despite being somewhat lean and wearing several layers of clothing her curves were still quite obvious to anyone.

Leader of a group of cobbs based in Shoegasm, a shoe store in Woodfield Mall. Appears in the short story "It's My Birthday, Too".

* TheElvesAndTheCobbler: The cobbs, Keef included, are based on the legend of elves building shoes. Harry helped make a deal between Shoegasm and Keef's clan to allow them to stay there in return for likely helping with some repairs.

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, with her daughter Maeve. Mab comes from the Celtic "Medb(h)." This was sometimes Anglicized into "Maeve."

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, with her mother Mab. Mab comes from the Celtic "Medb(h)". This was sometimes Anglicized into "Maeve".

* [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Woman]]: With a bit of SerialKillerKiller thrown in. She murders ''several'' mortal criminals and Fomor while leaving her CallingCard in place, to invoke TheDreaded.

* NamesTheSame: Harry and Thomas at one point call him [[Franchise/StarWars Sith]]. It was during an AfterActionPatchup, and Harry has to point out to Butters that it's not the same Sith, to Butters' disappointment.

Gigantic monsters that weigh over a quarter ton. Strong, fast, and able to cast some spells, they are very dangerous foes. One appears in the short story "Heorot".

* BizarreAlienReproduction: They can only sire children with virgin women, their babies burst lethally out of their victims' bodies, and drinking mead apparently makes them fertile.
%%* BodyHorror

* IncestSubtext: While she's not actually related to Harry, she ''is'' his godmother, and vacillates between maternal affection (referring to him as "poppet") and seductive behaviour that wouldn't be out of place from a [[HornyDevils White Court vampire]]. Harry finds it somewhat disturbing, and the bizarre dichotomy is lampshaded by [[spoiler: Puck]] in ''Wild Card''.

* AlasPoorVillain: Both Harry and the reader feel pity for him when the former finally kills him. Mostly because he probably wasn't a bad guy before the winter mantel overtook his personality.

* RuleOfThree: {{Averted|Trope}}. There are eight total (six after two die in the initial attack) and they go after Harry in four "waves" in ''Small Favor'' not counting the encounter with one at MacAnally's

* AlasPoorVillain: Both Harry and the reader feel pity for him when the former finally kills him.

* AlasPoorVillain: Much of her final confrontation with Harry and Sarissa outlines Maeve's family issues - jealousy for Sarissa having the ability to live and pursue what she wants, and resentment for Mab whom she feels sees her more as a tool than a daughter. It's those anxieties that Nemesis preyed on to corrupt her. As such, while she's still an AssholeVictim, one can't help but pity her to an extent.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In ''Cold Days'', Maeve coldly asks Sarissa "Does she [Mab] talk about me?" when her sister is trying to encourage her into a HeelFaceTurn and fight against Nemesis' influence. Sarissa's [[OhCrap brief hesitation]] only further confirms to Maeve that she is TheUnfavorite and she shouldn't fight Nemesis as it's giving her the chance to get revenge on their mother.

* MasterOfIllusion: In ''Cold Days'', she uses magic to alter what Harry says to Lily, driving her into an UnstoppableRage. And this is while she is still attacking Demonreach.

Harry's [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]] [[TheFairFolk godmother.]] The second most powerful being in the Winter Court, next only to Mab. Genuinely cares about Harry, and for a long while tried her best to keep him safe . . . by [[BalefulPolymorph turning him into a hound.]] Is strongly suspected to be batshit insane.

* AffablyEvil: In ''Changes'', he treats Harry and Susan courteously when they land in his hall, even warning Harry not to SpeakOfTheDevil. And in other books he is outright helpful to the wizard. But he's still a vicious wyldfae whose prime passions are violence and death.

* ImmortalsFearDeath: Averted. He loves the hunt and when a certain astronomical event occurs and renders him able to die, he doesn't hide. He just fights harder.

* NobleDemon: He'd hunt you down for fun and sport without blinking, but he'd give you something like a fair chance to get away. There's no sport in quarry that doesn't even stand a chance. He also follows his own code of honor, even if it's a primal, bloodsoaked one; he's so impressed by Harry summoning a '''[[CoolMeetsAwesome zombie T-rex]]''' that he allows him to live in spite of the insult Harry offered him earlier that same night.

* BloodKnight: To say he enjoys combat and the hunt is an understatement.

* [[invoked]] LawfulGood[=/=]LawfulNeutral[=/=]LawfulEvil: InUniverse. Within their own set of morals and attitudes, the Fae generally fall under this spectrum. Summer is generally the Good, Winter is generally the Evil, and the Wildfae fall somewhere in between based on their personal natures. They are strict followers of their codes and contracts. They could no more break their word than swallow iron and expect to live happily. Regardless of their place in nature, they must be Lawful.

* NiceHat: Never seen without one. It is, naturally, red.

* EvilCounterpart: To Aurora, even without their opposing Mantles. While both of the two were corrupted by Nemesis, it's unclear whether or not Aurora was aware she was under the influence of Nemesis's MoreThanMindControl, and had somewhat good intentions. Maeve openly refused to be healed of Nemesis, knowing what it was and that it was influencing her, and was partly acting just to spite Mab and Sarissa.

* TheBusCameBack: He gets a cameo appearance in ''Peace Talks'' as part of Winter Lady Molly's group at the meeting, and plays a small role in ''Battle Ground'' (most of the latter book taking place in the same night the former book ends on).

* TheChampion: To Summer as a whole but to Lily in general.

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Harry, as they share magical talent, [[ChaoticGood general alignment]], problems with authority, got involved with BlackMagic before they knew better and all-around geekiness. Comes close to DistaffCounterpart, but Molly and Harry are also {{Foil}}s of each other in many other aspects.

* SecretKeeper: Molly figured out Thomas is Harry's half-brother, on her own. Based on how he and Harry argues. Since she has a ton of siblings herself, she immediately spotted the similarity.

** In "Cold Case" Molly realizes Mab wants to prove herself and become this to prevent any usurpers from directly trying to kill her as the new Winter Lady. Once the children the cultists would have sacrificed are away, [[PayEvilUntoEvil she unleashes icy hell on them]].

** Way back in ''Grave Peril'', Lea offered to trade ''Amoracchius'' for his unborn child, showing that the Sidhe are ''very'' interested in the Carpenter family.

* AlasPoorVillain: Both Harry and the reader feel pity for him when the former finally kills him.

* [[invoked]] LawfulGood[=/=]LawfulEvil: InUniverse. Within their own set of morals and attitudes, the Fae generally fall under these two. They are strict followers of their codes and contracts. They could no more break their word than swallow iron and expect to live happily. Regardless of their place in nature, they must be Lawful.