History Characters / TheDresdenFilesTheFae

* BalanceOfPower: Summer and Winter operate in a perpetual balancing act. As one gains power over the year, the other loses, until the summer solstice or winter solstice, when things move in the other direction. If one side gains an outside gain to power, the other will either seek to stop it or gain an equal amount.

** In fact Harry mentions he and Molly did this as a regular training exercise, with Harry's mind being a [[SuperToughness solid fortress]] defended by [[MightyGlacier powerful but slow]] mental constructs, while Molly's is [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles next to impossible find]] and defended by a [[ZergRush comparable Mongolian horde of mental constructs]]. Both realize how dangerous is to lose a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind and how easily a thought could be implanted by the winner to put a gun in the other's mouth.

** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''Ghost Story'': Molly simply not mentally equipped for violence, and is suffering psychologically.

** [[invoked]] The origin of her name "Medb(h)" is Celtic for "She who intoxicates". Not only is Mab [[EvilIsSexy inhumanly beautiful]], but she's ''excellent'' at [[ManipulativeBastard convincing people to follow her orders and wishes no matter what they so desire]].

* DumbMuscle: Very much averted. He is very sharp, quick thinking, and respects these traits in others too. It is one reason he respects Harry, for while he may be weaker than the Erlking physically and magically, he was more than quick enough to take a slip of the Erlking's tongue and use it against him.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Though her drawings suggest otherwise, in the books it is heavily implied that she is above average if not outright absurd. She is frequently described across most books[[note]]Yes, even the ones where she is explicitly still underage[[/note]] as exceptionally curvy regardless of what she is wearing[[note]]In ''Ghost Story'' she wore enough rags to shield her from the cold and her curves were clearly still visible[[/note]], and her mere presence has caused MaleGaze from multiple characters and jealousy from other women. At one point, Molly's first meeting with Susan caused the latter to immediately become '''very''' possessive over Harry.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Though her drawings suggest otherwise, in the books it is heavily implied that she is above average if not outright absurd. She is frequently described across most books[[note]]Yes, even the ones where she is explicitly still underage[[/note]] as exceptionally curvy regardless of what she is wearing[[note]]In ''Ghost Story'' she wore enough rags to shield her from the cold and her curves where clearly still visible[[/note]], and her mere presence has caused the MaleGaze from multiple characters on many occasions and a degree of jealousy from other woman. At one point, Molly's first meeting with Susan caused the latter to immediately become '''very''' possessive over Harry.
->'''Molly:''' Yeah the breast fairy came to visit and everything.

* GracefulLoser: When Harry beats him in a five card draw at poker, having baited him into it, he leaves peacefully, bowing to Dresden and acknowledging his victory and accepting his century long ban from Chicago.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Implicitly when he calls in a debt to get Lea out the way, suggesting that while he's perfectly comfortable sucker punching her, he'd much rather not get in a stand up fight with an equal, and literally when he loses the five card poker draw with Dresden.

* MindOverMatter: Is capable of telekinetic blasts. They can be weak enough to knock over a moving motorcycle, or powerful enough to drop Leansidhe for some time.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Though her drawings suggest otherwise, in the books it is heavily implied that she is above average if not outright absurd. She is frequently described across most books[[note]]Yes, even the ones where she is explicitly still underage[[/note]] as exceptionally curvy regardless of what she is wearing[[note]]In ''Ghost Story'' she wore enough rags to shield her from the cold and her curves where clearly still visible''[[/note]], and her mere presence has caused the MaleGaze from multiple characters on many occasions and a degree of jealousy from other woman. At one point, Molly's first meeting with Susan caused the latter to immediately become '''very''' possessive over Harry.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Though her drawings suggest otherwise[[note]]understandably[[/note]], in the books it is heavily implied that she is above average if not outright absurd. She is frequently described across most books[[note]]Yes, even the ones where she is explicitly still underage[[/note]] as exceptionally curvy regardless of what she is wearing, and her mere presence has caused the MaleGaze from multiple characters on many occasions and a degree of jealousy from other woman. At one point, Molly's first meeting with Susan caused the latter to immediately become '''very''' possessive over Harry.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Though her drawings suggest otherwise[[note]]understandably[[/note]], in the books it is heavily implied that she is above average if not outright absurd. She is frequently described across most books[[note]]Yes, even the ones where she is explicitly still underage[[/note]] as exceptionally curvy regardless of what she is wearing, and her mere presence has caused the MaleGaze on many occasions and a degree of jealousy from other woman. At one point, Molly's first meeting with Susan caused the latter to immediately become '''very''' possessive over Harry.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Though her drawings suggest otherwise[[note]]understandably[[/note]], in the books it is heavily implied that she is above average if not outright absurd. She is frequently described across most books[[note]]Yes, even the ones where she is explicitly still a kid[[/note]] as exceptionally curvy regardless of what she is wearing, and her mere presence has caused the MaleGaze on many occasions and a degree of jealousy from other woman. At one point, Molly's first meeting with Susan caused the latter to immediately become '''very''' possessive over Harry.

* BuxomBeautyStandard: 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.

* AnythingThatMoves: Twisted about. While Maeve has the desires to have her way with anything, if she should act on it the Mantle will defend itself and viciously attack her would be sexual partner before they get beyond kissing. Understandably, she's ''not'' happy about it.

** Inverted in "Cold Case": she has the dig on for the very valorous Carlos Ramirez. However, in that case her [[AnythingThatMoves Mantle was partially responsible for her behavior there as well]].

* AnythingThatMoves: Lust is a built in part of the Winter Court to keep their numbers up so they can continue their eternal fight against the Outsiders. Molly had, while human, killed her sense of lust by the time of ''Ghost Story''. On becoming the Winter Lady, it comes back -- strongly.

* TakeThat: Occasionally favors a Cincinnati Reds hat. Harry, [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams naturally,]] is scandalized.

* MonsterProgenitor: Of the Malks, according to Harry, who refers to Cat Sith as "[[{{Transformers}} the Optimus Prime]] of Malks."

* FigureItOutYourself: She has no use for weakness, and stupidity is a weakness. So she won't explain things, she'll rather manipulate and threaten Harry or Molly into doing what she needs them to do. One of the few times she has been forthright with information is when she had imprisoned Lea and subbed in for her when Harry calls for her in ''Dead Beat''. This is because at that moment she is honoring Lea's contract and going only as far as Lea would know, and anything further would need more payment from Harry.

* 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’s TheUnfavorite and she shouldn't fight Nemesis as it's giving her the chance to get revenge on their mother.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: She has the ability to lie thanks to Nemesis. This is physically impossible for a Fae to do so knowingly, but all one needs to do is take a passing glance at ''Cold Days'' to see how terrifyingly dangerous this makes her.

* {{Jerkass}}: Oh ''hell'' yes. She can be petty and abusive to anyone just for kicks.

* DarkIsNotEvil: As Lady Winter, she is now an incarnation of the forces of darkness, decay, and death. Still on the side of the good guys, though, and probably the single "nicest" extant Faerie Queen outside of ''maybe'' Sarissa.

** Furthermore, while Thomas is a near-immortal vampire, the fact he loves Justine so deeply is reason enough to consider him mortal enough to offer him the Mantle of the Winter Knight, should something untoward happen to Harry. Mab was likely just saying this to play on Harry's emotions at the time.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: According to Corb, she rode with [[spoiler: "the Conqueror" as a young woman, making her almost a thousand years old]].

* 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 mantle overtook his personality.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Apparently a conflict between he and Ronald Ruel that spiraled out of control, caused the necessity to update the Unseelie Accords to the most recent version.

* {{Bishonen}}: Just as pretty as a fairy noble, just, you know, tiny.

** ''Peacetalks'' also implies she once had a very close relationship with [[TheArchmage Merlin]], Corb mocking her by saying he would be disgusted with the person she's become is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness one of the few things that have gotten her to show outright fury]].

* 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 [[SuccubiAndIncubi White Court vampire]]. Harry finds it somewhat disturbing, and the bizarre dichotomy is lampshaded by [[spoiler: Puck]] in ''Wild Card''.

** In ''Changes'', she's less concerned with getting to Chichén Itzá on time, and more with how Harry looks. After all, Harry is now the Winter Knight, and his appearance reflects upon Mab now.

* SuperStrength: Like all high level fae.

* WouldHitAGirl: Murders a pair of girls in his first scene, shoots dead a trio of female White Court vampires offscreen, blasts Leanansidhe, puts Murphy in the hospital, and tries to kills Gard and Lara Raith.

** From the point of view of an archangel such as Uriel, however, Mab's {{Jedi Truth}}s to manipulate Harry at the end of ''Ghost Story'' were deceptive enough that he could outright call them "lies."

** From the point of view of an archangel such as Uriel, however, Mab's creative use of words to manipulate Harry at the end of ''Ghost Story'' were deceptive enough that he could outright call them "lies."

* TheDarkChick: To the Justice League of Chicago.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: By the time of ''Battle Ground'', if [[spoiler:the Redcap is anything to go by]], the Winter Sidhe seem to absolutely love her and strongly appreciate her generosity, competence, and efficiency (especially when contrasted against her predecessor [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Maeve]]).

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: If ''Peace Talks'' is anything to go by, [[spoiler:she's at least as old as the mythical time of King Arthur, making her over 1500 years old]].

* CombatPragmatist: She justifies not coming to Harry's aid sooner in ''Summer Knight'' with "If I had, it'd have been a fair fight. And I try to avoid those." In ''Cold Days'' she kills Lily with a gun.

** Also at the end of ''Cold Days'' Maeve didn't see what Lea was doing with Molly as relevant to her plots against Mab and damning Sarissa to the Summer Court. She didn't realize Mab had Molly prepared as a back-up to Sarissa, in the event something did happen to Sarissa. So when Maeve died, her Mantle did not pass to some potential Nemesis infected soul, but Molly Carpenter.

Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Fae.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]

* NotGoodWithPeople: By his own admission, he isn't a people person and generally dislikes the Sidhe rule twisting that goes about in the courts.