History Characters / TheGuardiansOfChildhood

* KidHero: Nightlight's an immortal 14 year old who once single-handedly defeated Pitch.

* Voluntary Shapeshifting

* Invisibility

** NeverGrewUp: Begins to fear this after Katherine loses her last baby tooth
* OfficalCouple: Implied to be this with Katherine at the end of Book 4.

** There's also the fact that Nightlight willingly gave up being a "Nightlight" by kissing Katherine so she could wake up, resulting in him being able to grow older [[spoiler: And thus allowing him to grow into his role as Jack Frost)]].
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Katherine is so sweet and innocent that Pitch decides to try and turn her into his Darkling Princess. [spoiler: He fails.]] But Katherine never meant harm to anyone, to the point that she prevents others Guardians to kill Pitch because she thinks he can be redeemed. [[spoiler: Unfortunately he doesn't.]]

** There's also the fact that Nightlight willingly gave up being a "Nightlight" by kissing Katherine so she could wake up, resulting in him being able to grow older [[spoiler: (And thus growing into Jack Frost)]].

* PuppyLove: It's obvious in the book that Nightlight has a

* OfficalCOuple: Implied to be this with Katherine at the end of Book 4.

* OfficialCouple: With Nightlight in the book 4.

[[folder: Ombric Shalazar]]
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The founder of the village of Santoff Clausen, Ombric is the last remaining citizen of Atlantis. A talented sorcerer, he eventually serves as a mentor to North.

* CoolOldGuy
* DisneyDeath: He's eaten by a bear in the first book, but gets better through [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the power of belief]].
* FriendToAllChildren
* LastOfHisKind
* TheMentor
* SpeaksFluentAnimal
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* TheStoryteller: To where she culd be the guardian of it.

A young girl from Santoff Claussen and Ombric’s foster daughter. Implied to grow up to be Mother Goose.

* TheStoryteller

* MasterSwordsman: Supposedly, he once defeated an entire regiment of cavalry with a bent steak knife. ‘’While he was eating.’’

* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:The best trope of the story. Her mother sacrificied herself to prevent the Dreams Pirates to kill her, and her father never returned from his mission, and thought she was dead like his wife.]] She had a foster father in Typhan, but that was temporary.

In the forested hinterlands of Eastern Siberia lies the village of Santoff Claussen, where the impossible is made possible through belief. A haven first creted by Ombric when a meteor landed in the area and a small sapling grew into a large tree inside of which Ombric and his library could reside, called Big Root. A haven to scientists, engineers, inventors, artist and dreamers, Ombric has taught the village the ways of magic, speaking insect languages and many other wonders not known to the outside world.

Students of the wizard Ombric and loyal friends to Katherine and the guardians. The children of Santoff Claussen love playing games, magic, inventing new things and most of all, learning! But while they can make water flow backwards and build staircases to the sky, they can't seem to avoid that pesky nuissance called bedtime no matter how hard they try.

A glowworm that dresses like a scholar with a long beard and glasses perched on the end of his nose. Mr. Qwerty resides in Big Root where he is in charge of the expansive Santoff Clausen library and able to speak human language, a rare feat for an insect. He is a brilliant scholar and trusted comrade, also starved for knowledge, normally seen taking care and cleaning the books. [[spoiler: When Pitch attacks Santoff Clausen to gain access to Ombric's library, Mr Qwerty eats every book and tome to protect the knowledge and spells from Pitch's grasp. Mr Qwerty then wraps himself in a caccoon, eventually ermerging as a hybrid between a butterfly and a book. Having absorbed all the knowledge from the library, Mr Qwerty can call upon any information and display them on his wings to be read from. He only lets Katherine write in him though.]]

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: How humans with impure hearts react when in her prescence.
* EnthrallingSiren: a non singing example. While the Spirit of the Forest is described as extraodinary beautiful, it is the various jewels decorating her form that captures the hearts of men. Those who seek out the village are normally after a vast treasure Ombric supposedly posesses and bandits believe she is the treasure the stories refer to.

A Mechanical man built by Nicholas St. North, designed to do anything asked of it, to household chores to sword-fighting. In order to ensure Dijinni's loyalty to the village, in the chest centre of the Dijinni, where a heart would be is a small box filled with small bits and bobs from the children of the village, from pennies to stones to old combs, their treasures. Katherine was the last to present her treasure, a picture she drew of North so the Dijinni would be able to recognize them both.

[[folder: Nightlight[[spoiler:/Jack Frost]]]]

* [[spoiler:DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: indeed he thought that his daughter had been killed by Dreams Pirates]]. Unfortunately Mother Nature never knew this.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassLongcoat
** BadassSanta: His eventual identity.

* {{Badass}}

* BFS: More like Big Frigging Harpoon

[[folder: Nightlight]]

A enigmatic immortal boy that was once the Man in the Moon's bodyguard until he helped seal Pitch away the first time. Since his and Pitch's reawakening, he's mostly enjoyed wandering the earth in addition to bringing his own abilities to the fight. Becomes Katherine's closest friend.

[[folder: Jackson Overland Frost]]
A young boy with the powers over wind and cold, Jack Frost is the spirit of Winter.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Jack actually made his first appearance back in book one, the Man in the Moon, as a constellation.
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!!'''Nightlight'''

!!'''Jackson Overland Frost'''

* EarlyBirdCameo: Jack actually made his first appearance back in book one, the Man in the Moon, as a constallation.

[[folder:Villains]]
!!'''Pitch'''

!!Fearlings

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!!The Monkey King

[[folder:Residents of the Golden Age]]

!!'''Mother Nature/[[spoiler:Emily Jane Pitchiner]]'''

!!'''Typhan'''

[[folder:Residents of Santoff Claussen]]

!!The Children

* ChildProdigy: It's the norm
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: While never actually said outloud, the sons of Old William are called "Tall William", "William the Almost-Youngest" and "William the Absolute Youngest". Yeah, it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

!!The Adults

!!Mr Qwerty

* NumberTwo: In charge during Ombric's absence

!!The Bear

!!Spirit of the Forest
The last line of defence against invaders that would endanger the village and its people is the Spirit of the forest, a beautiful ghostly visage who's form shimmers with priceless gems.

* TakenForGranite: If you take one of her gems

!!Dijinni Robot

!!Petrov

* CoolHorse

[[folder:Lunar Lamadary]]

!!Lunar Lamas

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[[folder:Guardians]]
!!'''The Man in the Moon'''

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!!'''[[SantaClaus Nicolas St. North]]'''

!!'''[[EasterBunny E. Aster Bunnymund]]'''

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!!'''Sanderson [=ManSnoozie=]'''

!!'''Toothiana'''

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!!'''Katherine'''

!!'''Ombric Shalazar'''

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* AllLovingHero: She never meant harm to anyone, to the point that she prevents others Guardians to kill Pitch because she thinks he can be redeemed. [[spoiler: Unfortunately he can't. ]]

* [[spoiler: JustEatTheMacGuffin]]

* TheMessiah

* TheMessiah: [[spoiler: Refuses to let the Guardians kill Pitch because she thinks he can be redeemed.]]

* SirNotAppearingInThisGame: Despite the Toothiana book ending with a full page spread teaser poster, telling the reader Jack Frost would have a major role in The Sandman, he does not even make a cameo appearance. The reason for this is a sudden change in plot by the author, so that the books would lead up to the events of the film (despite the fact the books were never meant to be a direct prequel to the film).

* [[spoiler: Daddy'sLittleGirl]]: Once