History Characters / YoungWizards

* BlackSheep: The Powers That Be kicked It out for inventing entropy and death. More specifically, it did it without working with them to make it fit in properly.

Kit's big, friendly sheepdog. While it's common for wizardly pets to pick up strange habits, Ponch starts demonstrating unusual ''talents'', such as being able to create and enter other universes. His character arc comes to a head in ''Wizards at War'' where all the wisdom he's gained will be used to change the tide of the battle and the fate of the canine species.

* BadassAdorable: A cute little dog with enough personal power to [[spoiler: create brand new universes.]]

%%%* PeekABangs

-->'''Ed:''' My lady wizard, you're also scared out of your wits.
-->'''Nita:''' Master-Shark, if I was, it would be stupid to say so; I'd be inviting you to eat me. And saying I wasn't scared would be stupid too - and a lie.
-->'''Ed:''' That's well said, Nita. You're wise not to lie to a shark, nor to tell him that particular truth. After all, fear is distress. And I end distress; that's my job.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His title is "Master-Shark", and that's exactly what he is: the Master of ''all'' sharks, everywhere throughout the world's oceans.

* HeroicSacrifice: He's the facilitator of a literal sacrifice wizards perform regularly to keep one incarnation of the Lone Power trapped. [[spoiler: He takes over the Silent Lord's song so that his blood, amped up by the power of Nita's wizardry, will call all the sharks on the planet as reinforcements against the Lone One.]]

* LegacyCharacter: Nita suspects that his name is more of a title because in the Song of Twelve's Cast-list, so to speak, it just says "Master Shark", like how human executioners wore hoods to hide their identities. [[spoiler: He is definitely going to need a replacement after the end of book 2.]]

* {{Megalodon}}: Ed's physical description is clearly based on the idea (generally accepted in 1985 when ''Deep Wizardry'' was written) that megalodon was essentially a super-sized great white shark.

%%%%* TheUnfettered

* OverprotectiveDad: As overprotective as he ''can'' be, considering that his children can rewrite reality.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Tom and Carl happen to live side by side in a single house and have dogs and koi fish but it's unclear on what the nature of their relationship with each other is. They're shown sharing a bed in ''Owl Be Home For Christmas'', rendering things a bit less ambiguous.

* BlackSheep: The Powers That Be kicked It out for inventing entropy and death.

* {{Satan}}: A divine being that was cast out of Its home for rebelling against the others and is called the source of evil. In-universe, It was the inspiration for the figure of Satan in human religions. However, treating It with contempt or hatred is both dangerous and counterproductive: It opens up the wizard to being manipulated and the ultimate goal is not to destroy or defeat the Lone Power but to make it give up and start helping out again.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Suggested time-weariness in Book 3 but not brought up again. Like for many other Powers, [[LivingForeverIsAwesome eterntiy is something to look forward to.]]

* ImpossibleTask: "Tell me three things I don't know and I'll tell you one thing you don't know." He is TheOmniscient; just ''one'' is too much for most wizards.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Some things Ed says make him seem terribly lonely...

* BadassNormal: He isn't a wizard, but he's just as powerful in his own way. Though 'his own way' still isn't exactly normal.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Suggested time-weariness in Book 3 but not brought up again. Like for many other Powers, [[LivingForeverIsAwesome eterntiy is something to look forward too.]]

* DisabilitySuperpower: Though his autism is bizarrely portrayed (his behaviour on the outside is accurate enough, but his experience from the inside not so much), Darryl makes his first appearance as a severely autistic boy who also turns out to be a human conduit for a large amount of the wizardly power available to Earth. It is a JustifiedTrope: Darryl's autism is something the Lone Power has done to him; it's reasonable that it would only superficially resemble an organic condition. So in other words, it's not really autism.

* BarrierMaiden: A SpearCounterpart version. He is a Font of The One's power, I.E. the means by which Nina, Kit, etc receive their power. If he realizes it, he'll die, so everyone is very careful about preserving the {{Masquerade}}.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: If he ever learns that he's an abdal, he'll immediately a) stop being one and b) die.

A great white shark almost a hundred feet long, Ed is the Master of all the world's sharks and the only non-cetacean participant in the Song of the Twelve.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: His moral code is best described as ''none of the above''. He is what he is and doesn't seek to be anything else. He understands the ideas of good and evil; he just doesn't care that much about them. He knows how others see him and accepts it, because it goes with being the Master-Shark. There's no hatred or malice in him; he kills and eats, even the Silent One, because it's what he's supposed to do.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: His moral scale is best described as ''none of the above''. He is what he is and doesn't seek to be anything else. He understands the ideas of good and evil; he just doesn't care that much about them. He knows how others see him and accepts it, because it goes with being the Master-Shark. There's no hatred or malice in him; he kills and eats, even the Silent One, because it's what he's supposed to do.

!'''Ed the Master Shark'''

* BlackEyesOfEvil: he is an executioner and his eyes are completely black (though this is nothing out of the ordinary for a great white shark).

* FluffyTheTerrible: His [[TheUnpronounceable real name]] is much more impressive.

* OutnumberedSibling: The youngest and the only son of his family. He has two older sisters.

* FightingAShadow: Everytime that Nina and Kit fight the Lone One, they're actually just fighting an aspect of it, not the real deal.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In ''High Wizardry", Dairine convinces an aspect of the Lone One to redeem itself and return home. There are other aspects causing trouble but this is a good step in the right direction.]]
* IHaveManyNames: The Lone Power, the Starsnuffer, the Old Serpent, the Isolate, Esemeli...
* LightIsNotGood: Back before it was cast out, it was the fairest and brightest of the PowersThatBe. Its contribution when the universe was created was entropy and death.

* {{Satan}}: A divine being that was cast out of Its home for rebelling against the others and is called the source of evil. In-universe, It was the inspiration for the figure of Satan in human religions.

* DemonicPossession: Has the ability, but it is very difficult to use effectively, especially on a wizard.
* DontYouDarePityMe: To Dairine in Book 3 [[spoiler: and this pity leads to an aspect of itself accepting forgiveness and returning to Time Heart.]]

* FightingAShadow: Every aspect that Nina and Kit fight is an aspect of it, not the real deal.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In ''High Wizardry" Dairine convinces an aspect of the Lone One to redeem itself and return home. There are other aspects causing trouble but this is a good step in the right direction.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Suggested in Book 3 but not brought up again. Like for many other Powers, [[LivingForeverIsAwesome eterntiy is something to look forward too.]]

* GoodCounterpart: [[spoiler:Her purpose is explictly to be a match to the Lone Power; someone that can meet it blow-for-blow and be the best capable at foiling its plans.]]

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: He enjoys his role in the reoccuring reenactment of the whale's Choice and tells Nita that he's looking foward to eating her since her role is "The Silent One."

* BeyondTheImpossible: The Powers That Be, which created the Universe and everything in it, can't remember creating him. It causes them embarassment.
* ImpossibleTask: "Tell me three things I don't know and I'll tell you one thing you don't know."

* PhraseCatcher: Whenever a wizard finds him they ask "What is the meaning of life?"

* OfficialCouple: With Kit.

* GadgeteerGenius: In contrast to Nita, his initial speciality was technology. In one book, he can be seen mediating a spat between his TV and VCR.
* OfficialCouple: With Nita

* GodIsGood: [[spoiler: An Incarnation of The One and a fantastic pet. He's been working on some Powers-level scheme all this time.]]

* UpliftedAnimal: [[spoiler: At first thought to be because of exposure to wizardry, but his high intelligence is actually because He's The One.]]

* TheRainman: Though his autism is bizarrely portrayed (his behaviour on the outside is accurate enough, but his experience from the inside not so much), Darryl makes his first appearance as a severely autistic boy who also turns out to be a human conduit for a large amount of the wizardly power available to Earth. It is a JustifiedTrope: Darryl's autism is something the Lone Power has done to him; it's reasonable that it would only superficially resemble an organic condition. So in other words, it's not really autism.