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11	!![[center:[-'''Annie & Kat''' \| [[Characters/GunnerkriggCourtAnniesInnerCircle Annie's Inner Circle]] \| [[Characters/GunnerkriggCourtParentsAndCourtStaff Parents & Court Staff]] \| [[Characters/GunnerkriggCourtOtherStudents Other Students]] \| [[Characters/GunnerkriggCourtGillitieForest Gillitie Forest]] \| [[Characters/GunnerkriggCourtTheFoundersOfTheCourt The Founders of the Court]] \| [[Characters/GunnerkriggCourtOtherCharacters Other Characters]]-]]]
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15	[[folder:Antimony "Annie" Carver]]
16	[[quoteright:171:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Miss_Carver_If_You_Will_1869.png]]
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18	The protagonist and {{narrator}} of the story.
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20	Annie's childhood was quite unusual. Most of it was spent in Good Hope hospital, where her mother was bedridden and her father worked as a surgeon. When she wasn't being taught by her mum, Annie would spend hours [[SnoopingLittleKid exploring the hospital]] or [[CheerfulChild cheerfully conversing]] with the Guides who walked the halls, [[InvisibleToNormals unseen by the hospital staff]]. [[WiseBeyondTheirYears At a young age]], she [[ChronicHeroSyndrome proved herself]] very good at mediating the Guides' disputes and helping [[OurGhostsAreDifferent lost souls]] come to term with their death.
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22	She enrolls at Gunnerkrigg [[NewTransferStudent halfway through the school year]], and begins as an unflappable EmotionlessGirl, reacting to Shadow-people, Minotaurs, and ghosts with a preternatural calmness bordering on indifference. In fact, when Annie first mentions her mother's death to her friend Kat, she's less visibly shaken-up than Kat is. It takes a bout of [[IntoxicationEnsues cherry-induced tipsiness]] under TheWorldTree to crack Annie's facade: [[NotSoStoic she breaks down crying]] and admits to Kat how much she misses her mum. This, and Kat's consolation, cements the two girls' friendship. Since then, Annie has [[CharacterDevelopment grown]] [[DefrostingIceQueen more cheerful and open about her feelings and her past]].
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24	The aforementioned upbringings had several important effects on her. First, this is the reason why she [[NoSocialSkills initially has such difficulty interacting with others]] (in fact, she only meets Kat when Kat takes the initiative of introducing herself.)
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26	Second, the combination of Annie's childhood solitude, her everyday experience of things [[{{Muggles}} the hospital staff]] couldn't see, and The Guides' failure to help her at one crucial moment, all seem to have led her to the belief that AdultsAreUseless and a life of self-reliance. This is most likely the reason why she's so reluctant to seek or accept help from her teachers. The consequences of this are [[DeconstructedTrope nearly disastrous]].
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28	Third, Annie's childhood familiarity with ghosts and Etheric beings insures that [[SeenItAll very little]] of [[ExtranormalInstitute the Court's]] supernatural weirdness fazes her.
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30	Good thing, too. As it turns out, Annie possesses "a special Empathy with etheric beings". In other words, she's a MagneticMedium, which is a [[ISeeDeadPeople Spirit Medium]] who is also a literal WeirdnessMagnet. This extra-normal ability makes her a promising candidate for the position of the Court's Medium -- the mediator between The Court and [[MagicalLand Gillitie Wood]].
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32	Her interactions with those members of the Court outside her circle of friends are complicated. She's respectful towards the teachers, even when she disagrees with them, but she doesn't hesitate to disobey them if she thinks it necessary. She also seems to dislike and distrust Mr. Eglamore, far in excess of anything he's done. For their part, her parents' old friends like Annie, partly because she reminds them of her mother, both in actions and [[StrongFamilyResemblance appearance]]. Aside from Kat, Annie's interactions with her classmates are limited, so these classmates tend to [[LonersAreFreaks view her]] as an [[IceQueen aloof]] [[CreepyChild weirdo]].
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34	Over the first two years she seems to fall into neutrality, not by choice, but by virtue of being young and confused. She'll steal from her best friend's parents, and then she'll put herself in danger to help another friend, within the course of a single day. She'll copy answers from Kat, but also trust her with her most intimate secrets. She'll bear misfortune or mockery with a stiff upper lip, but lash out with surprising cruelty at someone who successfully pushes her BerserkButton. Her moral compass has yet to stabilize.
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36	By the time of the third year, after six weeks spent in Gillitie Wood, and her growing contempt, most of her previous characterization changed.
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39	!!Associated tropes:
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41	* AdultsAreUseless: Prior to the comic's start, and until Chapter 31, she merely didn't seek out adult assistance. From Chapter 32 onwards, she also completely ignored punishments. At least until she messed up badly [[spoiler:with Jack's possession]] because of this and Jones demonstratively let Antimony try and finish the case on her own to solidify this lesson. It doesn't help that about the only available adult Annie does [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=719 trust]] in regards of ''both'' competence and [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=977 intentions]] is Jones herself.
42	* AlternateSelf: Annie and Loup's meeting in Chapter 69 results in [[spoiler:Loup capturing Annie in a YearOutsideHourInside situation where by the time the two are done talking and he's asked her to retrieve the gifts Coyote gave her, six months have passed. By the time she heads back to the Court, everything has changed and in fact ''an entirely different'' Annie has spent the last 6 months in the Court in her place. Both confirm the other is as real as they are through their Etheric powers, and but neither treats the other as their true self. This causes some tension between the two selves until their friends throw them in a situation where they must cooperate together, and now both treat each other as equals. An encounter with magical lawyer Arbiter Saslamel only muddies things, when he reveals that the two Annies have been shifted through time and space, and that neither should exist in the current timeline, a fact that greatly upsets Kat who surmises she has discovered time travel and managed to prevent Annie's fall to her death on the Annan Bridge two years earlier ''in Chapter 7'' through her invention of the Tic-Tocs ''in Chapter 76''.]]
43	* {{Ambadassador}}: She was in training to become the Court's Medium. After [[spoiler:her rejection]], [[spoiler: Coyote]] announces he'd like Annie to be [[spoiler:the Forest medium, replacing Ysengrin]].
44	* ArmourPiercingQuestion: Potentially:
45	-->'''Annie''':[[spoiler: My father... has returned.]]\
46	'''Ysengrin''': [[spoiler: (after observing that she has literally cut off her anger/fiery side rather than deal with it and seems to be suffering for it) So?]]
47	* AstralProjection: Her ability to enter the ether eventually reaches this state under Coyote and Renard's tutelage. It becomes severely limited after Ysengrin crushes her blinker stone, but gradually returns to its former strength as she learns to focus it better.
48	* AudienceWhatAudience: Has this reaction when [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1067 Coyote apparently narrates the strip]].
49	-->'''Coyote:''' And so Fire Head Girl told Coyote lovely stories about how amazing he is. But what was this dark secret he promised to tell her? Now we shall find out...\
50	'''Antimony:''' Who are you even talking to?\
51	'''Coyote:''' HAHAHA!
52	* BeneathTheMask: In "Divine" Annie's dream has Jones bringing her a blank, [[StepfordSmiler calm-looking mask]]; in "Annie in the Forest" Jones actually brings her her makeup -- despite the fact that the elves she's staying with don't use makeup and actually mock her for wearing "funny face paints". In the dream Annie puts the mask on when she realizes Kamlen just wants to be friends and only takes off the mask around Kat and when Zimmy starts needling her about her father; even Annie's fire-elemental "part" clutches weakly at the mask. When she wakes up she promptly puts her makeup on and states her father can't possibly be doing anything suspicious despite the fact that he was the cause (either actually or "just" emotionally) of her falling unconscious in the first place. At the end of Chapter 47, as Kat praises her toughness and self-control, her (lack of) expression resembles this mask, complete with closed eyes... and then she stumbles forward into Kat's arms and lets it all out. She puts on the same blank, close-eyed expression at the end of chapter 51 to keep herself from completely losing it, and at the end of chapter 53 when she is making excuses to herself, denying and suppressing her feelings.
53	* BerserkButton:
54	** Don't speak ill of her parents.
55	** Don't try to "lay a claim" on people either, especially if you can't or won't, like the spirit guides did (or didn't) with [[spoiler:Annie's mom]].
56	* BewareTheNiceOnes: As [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=106 Eglamore]], [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=523 Mort]], and [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=801 Renard]] found out, in rare cases when she's really angry, it's not nice in the "[[DissonantSerenity coldly furious]], [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no rules]], [[AchillesHeel hit-'em-where-it-hurts]], [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech twisting the knife]]" levels. Earlier friendliness doesn't hold her back ''at all'', or even gives her more pain to return. This habit began to [[LooseLips endanger third parties]], even without her using her powers. And Ysengrin [[spoiler:destroying the one memento she had of Mort]] prompts her to ''[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1580 burn his entire hand off]]''.
57	* BodyMotifs: She rarely appears in public without wearing eye-shadow and lipstick. Her makeup is often used as a metaphor for her hiding herself from the rest of the world, as a mask.
58	* BondOneLiner: When forced by her classmates to give one after defeating the Enigmarons, it turns out she's not very good at them.
59	* BullyHunter: She performs a rather elegant throw on Winsbury when he's bullying Kat.
60	* CelibateHero: She has no romantic experience and her extremely reserved personality makes it very difficult for her to respond to anyone's interest. When Kat tries to arrange a date for her in Chapter 57, she simply says that she isn't interested in anything beyond friendship at the time. That said, she has shown interest in Jack and Kamlen. Based on her conversation with her other self in [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2122 Chapter 70]], where she becomes extremely flustered at the mere prospect of having her crush's name mentioned aloud, it seems that Annie just has problems expressing her desires.
61	* CheerfulChild: When young.
62	-->'''Tom:''' This is back when Annie still knew how to act like a kid.
63	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Since roughly ''age six''. She'll go far out of her way and ignore any boundary or consequence to help anyone in serious trouble, no matter who, whether or not they want her to.
64	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: There are times where Annie seems to operate on a completely different frequency from her classmates. This may be due to her lack of social skills from being raised in hospital most of her early life. [[spoiler:It may also have to do with her status as a fire elemental descendant, and her interactions with Coyote]]. Either way, Annie is not exactly normal.
65	* CreepyChild: She's perceived as such by her classmates.
66	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Because she was [[spoiler: descended from fire elementals, Annie's mother, Surma, passed her life force to her daughter upon her birth]]. As she was too sick to leave the hospital and Annie and her mother "couldn't bear to be apart", Annie lived in the hospital with her mother and distant, emotionally detached father, the latter of whom was a surgeon who devoted nearly all of his time to finding a cure for Surma's condition, which Annie believed he blamed her for. The only people she interacted with besides her parents were the psychopomps and dead/dying patients, some of whom she helped guide into the ether. [[spoiler: She later had to do this for her mother upon her death, literally guiding her into the afterlife and witnessing her death.]]
67	* DeadpanSnarker: Emphasis on the [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=577 deadpan]]. She isn't yet very good with one-liners.
68	* {{Delinquent}}: Her AdultsAreUseless attitude has evolved into outright contempt for authority. She was already reluctant to entrust adults with her problems, and despite this getting her into innumerable problems, from third year onwards, she started to ignore school punishments. Both Eglamore and Jones have called her out on this attitude.
69	* DisappearedDad: After her mother's death, her dad went off to do... something. [[spoiler: He later returns, which turns out to be not so good for her.]]
70	* DissonantSerenity: She tends to be smooth, calm and dismissive while in [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=106 quiet rage]] or [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1003 struggling]] to hold back a thermal lance. At least, until the explosion.
71	* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Her fire powers are twice as strong after [[spoiler: she goes from being two Annies to one Annie again]] and she has to relearn fine control.
72	* DoNotTauntCthulhu: She has no qualms about striking Coyote when she thinks he's out of line, to which he reacts with amusement (the first time) and rage (the second) [[spoiler:which turns out to be him putting on a show and not mad at all]]. Jones sees this as quite remarkable.
73	* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Annie's time living in the woods basically enabled and magnified her penchant for feeling the ground beneath her feet. It doesn't matter that she learned to make perfectly fitting boots, because what she really wants to adorn her feet with is the earth itself! She returns from the experience sans shoes and wearing ''lots'' of dirt underfoot, and chucks her shoes and socks aside while meditating in the next chapter. In Chapter 39, right after she's finished crossing the bridge to Gillitie Wood, she decides to kick off her shoes, abandons them, and runs into the woods barefoot. In the next chapter to follow, she returns to the Court just like so, shoes still forgotten. Chapter 50 sees her in the woods already barefoot and happy to stay that way no matter where she goes, [[spoiler:even the incubation facility to convert Court creatures into demi-humans.]]
74	* EmotionalRegression: To an extreme degree when [[spoiler: her father, who she has not seen since she came to the Court, returns and basically takes away everything important to her in her life.]]. Throughout their conversation, Antimony begins to [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1489 rapidly revert]] from a strong young woman to an obedient child. [[spoiler: By the time [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1499 Kat catches up to her]], Annie even looks [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=122 like she did when Surma was still alive.]]]]
75	* EmotionSuppression: Largely as a result of her father's influence, Annie tends to suppress and push away her emotions until they become impossible to continue to internalize. This is partially in order to avoid hitting an UnstoppableRage and literally BurningWithAnger.
76	** She seems to do this much more when in response to things that happen to her, as opposed to people she cares about. If someone she loves is hurt, she almost always immediately flies off the handle, but she seems to believe that [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1501 asking for help]] or [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1503 showing sadness]] is a sign of weakness.
77	* EnemyWithout: The reason that Annie is so passive around Anthony seems to be that [[spoiler: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1535 by cutting her hair, she physically split her negative emotions into a separate being]] and is using it as a repository instead of dealing with them.]]
78	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1654 The end of Chapter 57]] has both a boy and a ''girl'' blush furiously when Annie greets them.
79	* ExhaustedEyeBags: Sports some in Chapter 51 [[spoiler:after the numerous bombshells her father dropped on her throughout the chapter.]]
80	** She seems to sport them in addition to looking thinner in Ysengrin's aether-vision after [[spoiler: being separated from her fiery-half for a long period of time]].
81	** May have had them in Chapter 32 after a long journey home, unless it's an earthen kind of eye shadow to go along with her GoingNative.
82	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Cuts her hair short after [[spoiler: her father returns to the Court in an attempt to stabilize her own emotions, demonstrating visually how she's regressed into a little girl again under his control]]. By Chapter 63, she's growing it out again, symbolizing her returning confidence.
83	* FacialMarkings / MarkedChange: Has two that only show up under certain circumstances: [[spoiler:Jeanne's sword cut]], which appears when she's in the ether, and a line down her face when she shows [[spoiler:her fire-elemental form]]. She also has a little "[[ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} Mignola]]-esque" "fire-spike" crown that appears near her head whenever she [[spoiler:unleashes her fire powers]].
84	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Her [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1632 first attempts]] at [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1633 bowling]]. Bonus points for setting the lane on fire.
85	* FieryRedhead: She's got an extreme temper and is incredibly impulsive.
86	* FieryStoic: Annie zigzags between this trope and FieryRedhead. She develops an affinity for creating [[FunctionalMagic etheric]] flames, and in her second year, [[spoiler:learns that she's descended from a fire elemental]]. She starts out as reserved and calmly polite, often to EmotionlessGirl levels. On the other hand, with time she is revealed to have a temper that can flare up unexpectedly fierce if her buttons are pushed. With further character development, [[DefrostingIceQueen she becomes a lot more open about showing emotion]], but still tends to retreat into stoicism under stress.
87	* FireOfComfort: Just about any Etheric creature needs only a little excuse to seek her company. Coyote said [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=487 Surma was just as popular]]. She later [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=871 implied]] that [[spoiler:Fire Elementals]] have the same reputation. More directly, when she demonstrated her [[WreathedInFlames phoenix-like form]] to Foley House kids, they enjoyed pretty fires very much.
88	* FlamingHair: In a few {{Art Shift}}ed pieces. She does this for real (using her blinker stone) when [[spoiler:she accepts the job as the Forest's Medium]].
89	-->'''Kat:''' Whoa, you set your hair on fire?!\
90	'''Annie:''' I thought it might look impressive...
91	* FriendlessBackground: While this isn't explicitly touched upon or discussed often, it's worth pointing out that she spent the first eleven years of her life living in a hospital and interacting basically only with her mother and father and the psychopomps.
92	* FusionDance: [[spoiler:In Chapter 79, Zimmy merges the two iterations of Annie into [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2442 a singular entity with the memories of both iterations]], with their clothes becoming one outfit. Tom even says in the comments it operates on ''Manga/DragonBall'' rules.]]
93	* GoingNative: When Annie is [[spoiler:rejected as Court Medium]] (presumably because of this trope) she is chosen by [[spoiler:Coyote]] as [[spoiler:representative of the Forest]]. Takes on this a bit more literally after spending time in the forest for a while, choosing to make an outfit out of grass and run around barefoot like the forest folk do, but is made to stop doing these things when Kat politely informs her she ''really'' needs a shower.
94	* HairTriggerTemper: At the start of Chapter 57 [[spoiler: she's still adjusting to her emotions and gets angry at the slightest thing. Unfortunately for her (and the school's property) when Annie gets mad things get vaporized]]. She gets better; heck, not even hearing [[spoiler: what a relief it is that she ''doesn't'' want to date someone, ''again'']] bothers her.
95	* HeroicBSOD: In Chapter 31, upon discovering [[spoiler:the true cause of her mother's death]] and the fact that [[LockedOutOfTheLoop darn near everyone]] has been hiding it from her, and again in Chapter 51 when [[spoiler: her father returns]].
96	* HotWings: She only needed to learn how to [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=986 spread them]], [[PowerGivesYouWings raising]] on the new height of fiery awesomeness.
97	* IceQueen: Jack accuses her of being one. She [[InformedFlaw really isn't]], but ''does'' have a lot of trouble with properly expressing her emotions towards others.
98	* IdenticalTwinIDTag: [[spoiler:After Loup's actions cause more than one of her to exist, the two Annies continue to use differently lengthed hair.]]
99	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: By proxy. Red suggests this as a reason for endangering others to free Jeanne.
100	* ISeeDeadPeople: Literally. Annie, as a child, helped the Guides usher souls into the afterworld.
101	* JerkassHasAPoint: Her point blank refusal to trust the adults she regularly interacts with is not completely unreasonable when it comes to the Court, which is bogged down in so much secrecy and [[AwfulTruth awful truths]] that even the senior members of it don't always know what is going on. Granted she had the attitude before finding out about these things in depth but continually witnessing how various members of the Court have proven at best incompetent and at worst exploitative towards the troubles that occur hasn't done much to dissuade her beliefs, a prime example of this being the headmaster choosing by himself to appoint someone else to the position of the Court's medium despite other members having actively pushed for her to take the role.
102	** Her dislike for Eglamore falls into this a bit as well. The man is one of the few adults that is willing to help her unconditionally with things, but it is also obvious that he does so mostly because she is Surma's daughter.
103	* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: While Annie is nice to Kat, she can be ''awful'' to people if they get on her bad side. She could either [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=801 go straight for the throat]] or be [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=458 creepy as hell]]. (last panel) This is often exacerbated by her lack of social skills.
104	* KidWithTheLeash: Towards Reynardine, to the extent of [[http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=general&thread=361&post=11336 leaving instructions to not mess up when she's absent]]. If Annie dies, [[http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=general&thread=361&post=11892 the ownership passes on to someone else she decides]]. Kat and Jones (the latter during [[spoiler:Annie's time in Gillitie Wood]]) also took care of him for her at times. Later, when [[spoiler: Anthony tries to take possession of him]], Annie chooses to instead [[spoiler: pass ownership to Kat to protect him]].
105	* LaserGuidedKarma: Her constant cheating off Kat comes back to bite her when [[spoiler:her father returns as a teacher and arranges for her to retake Year 9 and separates her into an isolated dorm room.]] Granted, the reasoning is not all that it seems. [[spoiler:This was actually part of a bargain he'd struck with the Court, which knew about her cheating and had planned to let the offense build so they could expel her publicly on graduation day--not because of her academic behavior, but because of her ties to the Wood.]]
106	* LiteralSplitPersonality: After year 9, [[spoiler: after her father arrived at Gunnerkrigg Court and she dissociates her emotionality and confidence into her blinker stone as her fire elemental self.]]
107	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She comes to the court without knowing [[spoiler: her non-human ancestry]], the cause of her mother's death, her mother's activities as a Medium, or her family's history with Coyote and Renard.
108	* LooseLips: She never thinks about consequences when angry. Since the relations between the Court and the Wood is one big old minefield, this endangers not just herself. Trickster gods generally don't hold back much, so Annie was given a lesson of silence [[ExplosiveLeash the hard way]].
109	* MagicAIsMagicA:
110	** Her ownership of Reynardine gets nullified [[http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=general&thread=361&post=11349 if Annie orders him to take a new body which isn't controlled by her]] or [[http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=general&thread=361&post=11361 if Annie steals a body for him to take, which isn't of her own property]].
111	** The ether operates on the principle of "It just ''does'', okay", so Annie's spirit fire only burns [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=410page what she wants it to burn]]. She does singe her clothes by mistake when she cuts loose in Chapter 44.
112	* MagicFire: Antimony, as the descendant of a [[ElementalEmbodiment fire elemental]], can use her [[AmplifierArtifact Blinker Stone]] to make fire that gives off warmth without spreading and is undetectable to [[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaid Laser Cows]], who would otherwise put it out. She later learns to use fire without the stone and to make fire that more or less only burns what she wants it to burn.
113	* MagneticMedium: She is actually described by Mort (a ghost) as "attractive... like a magnet", and not just with ghosts: psychopomps and various other "etheric" creatures think she's pretty neat too.
114	* ManipulativeBastard: While Kat doesn't believe this is true, Antimony has been accused of being a malicious manipulator by many, including the psychopomps, Red, Paz, Jenny, and Jack.
115	* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: To an extreme degree. Annie believes that her father blames her for the death of her mother.
116	** Tragically, [[spoiler: this turns out to be true, in a literal sense. Because Annie's mother was descended from a fire elemental, the spirit passed from Surma to Annie when the latter was born, and Annie essentially drained Surma's life force the older she got. However, this was absolutely no fault of Annie's, and Surma made the decision to have a child knowing what would happen.]].
117	--> Ysengrin: [[spoiler:[[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=828 You did not 'take' Surma's life, she 'gave' it to you. A gift beyond possession. Beyond kno-]]]]
118	* MeaningfulName:
119	** Antimony was known as [[spoiler:"a killer of doctors' wives" - it's a convenient poison]] and was also used as a reusable laxative which [[spoiler:was passed from parent to child]].
120	** Also, Antimony was historically used for cosmetics (Antimony has almost always been shown wearing makeup) and a flame retardant. It's also in the same period as [[spoiler:Bismuth]], being directly above it, and thus has similar properties to it.
121	** In alchemy, Antimony is known as the Gray Wolf (Reynardine's current form is a white wolf... close enough) and is the penultimate step in making a Philosopher's Stone.
122	* MemeticBadass: In-universe. She's become this to the denizens of the forest, with her exploits being incredibly exaggerated. Helped Red and Ayilu become friends again? She settled a dispute between two warring moons that had been fighting since the beginning of time. Stayed with a family of elves for the summer and had a very minor ShipTease with their son? She trained with their greatest warriors for a hundred years, learning their secrets and breaking their prince's heart by rejecting his love [[StarCrossedLovers out of duty to the forest]]. Lampshaded in TheStinger [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1381 for Chapter 48]]. She mentions she slapped Coyote's rump once.
123	--> '''Tom''': She beat up Coyote single-handed?!
124	* MindOverMatter: Coyote teaches Annie to pluck flowers and suchlike. We see her pushing a boat and opening a door from the other side. And then Zimmy [[spoiler:insults Anthony to stir Annie awake]] and gets [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom hurled across the room]] for her trouble.
125	* MomentKiller: While Smitty and Parley are finally being sweet with each other, her focus on needing to gather more information about Jeanne ends up butting into that, to the annoyance of everyone. Possibly intentional, since she refers to their antics as "[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=641 unbearable]]" before that.
126	* MoralityPet: She serves as this to a ''lot'' of characters.
127	** Annie is the only one who can even marginally influence Coyote's behavior, though it's often ambiguous as to who's controlling whom at any particular moment.
128	** She's the only person at the Court other than Gamma that Zimmy doesn't treat like a {{Jerkass}}.
129	** Befriending her is a major contributor to Ysengrin reversing his previous KillAllHumans mentality. Compare their first meeting (where he tries to ''kill her'' for disrespecting Coyote) to their later interactions, where he's become something of a parental figure towards her.
130	** Renard underwent CharacterDevelopment in large part thanks to her influence (and as a way of assuaging his guilt for trying to possess her in the past).
131	* NewTransferStudent: At the very start of the story, showing up halfway into the school year.
132	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: No matter how good her intentions or how positive the outcome, the people around Annie tend to accuse her of manipulative or sinister motives and either berate her or cut her off. The most glaring example of this is when she asks Jenny and Jack to help her find Zimmy, [[spoiler:because Annie wants to warn her of the Court's twisted plans for her]]. When Zimmy loses it [[spoiler:at the mention of the Omega Device]] and claims she is colluding with the Court, Jenny and Jack turn on Annie, accusing her of tricking them into trapping Zimmy for the Court. Particularly galling is Jenny scolding Annie for having Jenny summon Zimmy in a particular location ([[spoiler:the Star Ocean]]), where Zimmy is especially vulnerable...but Annie didn't choose the location -- Jenny did.
133	* NoSocialSkills:
134	** Initially, her interactions with the other kids are lacking a certain something due to her isolated upbringing. When she had to interact with people, keen instincts usually compensated for this.
135	** This is a weird one. Kat and Annie are genuine friends, but due to Annie's, er, let's say ''unique'' upbringing, she could copy off of Kat's homework without her permission without a shred of guilt, but a passing comment about her father triggers her BerserkButton. Her EmotionlessGirl status does not help at all.
136	* NostalgicNarrator: Annie's narration is being delivered from at least two years after the fact.
137	* NotSoStoic: Annie's defense mechanism for emotionally stressful situations is to freeze up emotionally and put on a stoic mask, but this can be broken. Some examples:
138	** Chapter 6, under the influence of special cherries.
139	** Chapter 19, page 27. [[LampshadeHanging "Is that some kind of face, Carver?"]]
140	** Chapter 31, where she explodes on one page and breaks down sobbing the next. In this case there were too many stresses in too short a time that the mask broke and she suffered a breakdown.
141	** The beginning of Chapter 37 shows her trying to hold on to the pieces of the mask even as it's coming apart in her hands. The rest of the chapter suggests that she takes after her father in this, very much so.
142	** Chapter 38 makes this mask literal (in a figurative way).
143	** Kat comments on Annie's calm and composure after [[spoiler: she takes Mort into the ether]], only for Annie to promptly [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1352 break down into her friend's arms]].
144	** Comes up again in Chapter 51, after [[spoiler:Kat chews her out for abandoning Renard to her father]]; Annie begins to FreakOut, but barely manages to get a hold of herself at the last minute, explicitly saying that it's taking "all of [her] energy not to break down like a complete fool".
145	** In chapter 53, she puts on a mask-like face as she pushes down her feelings.
146	* ObliviousToLove: She completely fails to notice Jerrek's [[spoiler:(Loup in disguise)]] obvious crush on her and needs to have it pointed out to her by Kat and Reynardine.
147	* {{Omniglot}}: She gained knowledge of many languages from her conversations with the psychopomps of numerous cultures.
148	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Despite everything she's been through, genuine fear is not something Annie is shown to display. So it's very telling that [[spoiler:Kat's true etheric form]] completely terrifies Annie when she first sees it.
149	* OrphansOrdeal: Annie's mum is dead, and her dad is nowhere to be seen [[spoiler: until chapter 51]].
150	* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[spoiler:Loup's actions somehow result in two Annies, one that returned to the Court right away, and one that spent several months in the forest. Forest Annie isn't happy to learn that another her took her place in the Court, and Court Annie gives Forest Annie a smug smirk when it's revealed that she managed to bond more with their father during Forest Annie's absence.]]
151	* ParadoxPerson: [[spoiler:The Court ''knew'' she was going to die falling into the Annan river and had no desire to stop it. When she ''didn't'' die like she was destined to, it messed up the Court's ability to predict the future.]]
152	* ParentalAbandonment: At the start of the story, her father enrolls her in Gunnerkrigg Court and then promptly disappears, going completely off the grid [[spoiler: until he suddenly returns, which doesn't turn out so well for her]].
153	* ParentalIssues: A truly incredible amount, especially with her father.
154	* PlayingHardToGet: The REAL reason for her behavior towards [[spoiler:Jack]] in "Faraway Morning". She was told about that technique in "Annie in the Forest Part Two" -- and also that it wouldn't work if the target already liked someone else. There's also the fact that playing-hard-to-get probably doesn't include [[spoiler:straight-up telling the "prey" you don't like them]].
155	* PlayingWithFire: When Rey and Coyote described Annie as having a fire inside her, it wasn't a bad attempt at being poetic -- ''[[LiteralMetaphor they really meant that]].'' It's a [[ElementalEmbodiment part of her nature]]. Once a [[AmplifierArtifact Blinker stone]] let this off the leash in a reasonably safe way, she became quite imaginative in finding applications for magical pyrotechnics.
156	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1286 Kat]].
157	* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: It seems only time she watches movies or TV, plays (well, watches someone play) video games, or reads magazines is when she's around Kat.
158	* PowerOfTrust / PowerOfFriendship: The only person Annie has willingly shown emotional vulnerability to is Kat. She tells her that she would "[[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1289 do anything]]" for her, which is not an empty promise coming from Annie.
159	* PowerNullifier: Has a similar effect on Zimmy that Gamma does, though Annie is much less effective at it.
160	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: She provides the page image. Annie's always shown a fondness for going barefoot. She just prefers to get her feet dirty from time to time. Although Annie will use shoes and socks when expected to, but if given unrestricted freedom, she does away with them on the spot and will walk practically everywhere barefooted nonstop, even public places. She doesn't waste any opportunity to be barefoot, and it's implied that during the summer, Annie pretty much defaults to bare feet and stays that way until school starts up again in the fall.
161	* PsychoactivePowers: Her ability to manipulate fire seems to be tied to her inner passion.
162	* {{Psychopomp}}: [[spoiler: For her mother and Mort.]]
163	* RageBreakingPoint: Happens to her twice.
164	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Has been the recipient of several:
165	** In "Faraway Morning" Jack tells her she's got too much baggage to pursue a relationship with (his other crush/obsession is ''Zimmy'') because she covered up her attempt at PlayingHardToGet by saying that manipulating his emotions was revenge for his actions after the events of "Power Station" -- things that happened when he was possessed and had since apologized for, making her appear rather petty.
166	** In "Spring Heeled pt. 2" Jones tells her a lot of the problems with Jack could have been resolved quicker if she had just told an adult what was happening and accepted help.
167	** After she "ditches" Kat in "Fire Spike" by choosing to spend summer break in the Woods instead of going on holiday with the Donlans, Kat tells her she's a difficult friend to be with.
168	** Annie can't win: In "Fire Spike", Jones, who claims to have no emotions, tells Annie that she put a lot of people in danger because she couldn't control her emotions; in "Get It Together", Ysengrin, who admits to pushing his emotions away and [[spoiler: has had all his bad memories forcibly removed by Coyote, which also removes the memory of the memory's removal]], admonishes her for ''literally'' cutting out her emotions to deal with her father's return. In "Spring Heeled pt. 2" Jones tells Annie she should've asked for help (from experienced adults); in "The Other Shore pt. 2" and "Red's Friend Gets A Name Too I Guess", Muut and Red accuse Annie of manipulating her (inexperienced, teenage) friends into putting themselves at risk [[spoiler: to free Jeanne (and, they discovered, Jeanne's boyfriend)]]:
169	--->'''Muut''' (to Kat, who thinks the Guides are being unappreciative of the risks Annie took): It seems she risked the lives of ''others'' in this task.
170	--->'''Red''': So you left [[spoiler: Smitty, who had been stabbed in the chest by Jeanne]] in pain because you didn't want to get in ''trouble''?\
171	(a few pages later) '''Red''' (who's been traumatized ever since she thought Jeanne killed her best friend Ayilu): [[spoiler: I know you an' me are ''kinda'' friends but do me a favor and never talk to me or Ayilu ever again.]] '''Ayilu''': [[MoodWhiplash (cheerfully) Bye!]]
172	** Paz calls Annie out for being too self-centered to notice how much Kat is overworking herself on Annie's behalf.
173	* RedEyesTakeWarning: When Ysengrin [[spoiler:breaks her blinker stone, preventing her from literally separating her anger]], her temper flares completely out of control and her eyes turn red.
174	* RedIsHeroic: She's the hero, has red hair, and [[spoiler: is literally part fire elemental]].
175	* RedOniBlueOni: She is outwardly TheStoic blue to Kat's more outgoing red, but she's actually got an extreme temper and a tendency towards impulsivity that Kat lacks.
176	* SafetyInIndifference: Tends to shield herself from emotions in order to protect herself, although her conscious motivation for this is more likely that she was taught by her father that emotional expression is a sign of weakness. However, she's improving on this front (mostly due to Kat's influence) and if someone she loves is hurt, she will not hesitate to fly into a rage.
177	* SeenItAll: In regards to the afterlife. Meeting the harbingers of death [[spoiler:and even serving as one for several people, including her mother]] is one heck of a way to desensitize a young girl to what one is normally led to fear about it. She's so familiarized with it that it's practically at her back now.
178	* TheShadowKnows: In a twist on the usual effect: it reveals to her that she is in a strange location, not her strangeness to others.
179	* ShipTease: With Kat and {{zig zagged\| trope}} with [[spoiler:Jack]].
180	* SignificantWardrobeShift: Her outfits become increasingly looser and more "earthy" as she grows into her role as Forest Medium. They revert to drab, form-fitting clothing as part of the EmotionalRegression inflicted by her father's return, but start to return to more forest-like attire again as her confidence returns.
181	* SnoopingLittleKid: A little girl with some lockpicks in her teddy bear.
182	* SociallyAwkwardHero: Dealing with the supernatural? Easy. [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=610 Her classmates, on the other hand...]] As for family, ''forget it''. Her lack of social skills is understandable, considering the fact that she spent the first 11 years of her life in a hospital and spoke only to her distant father, dying mother, and ghosts.
183	* SpockSpeak: A mild case. [[spoiler: [[{{Pun}} Appears to have been left behind in the Woods]]]].
184	* StepfordSmiler: Her demeanor changes after [[spoiler:being harangued by her father]] to basically chain and padlock a HUGE burst of hatred about to detonate. Every smile she makes is forced and painful, and Ysengrin takes notice of that and makes her confront it at the source before it eats her alive.
185	* TheStoic: [[CharacterDevelopment At first, and to a lesser extent, still]].
186	* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has straight hair. Her mum had curly hair. That is the ''only'' difference in their appearances. [[spoiler:Absorbing her mother's life-force]] might have something to do with that (Annie so strongly resembles her mother that both Reynard and Coyote initially think that she ''is'' Surma). Personality-wise she's a double for [[TheSpock her father]], right down to [[spoiler:clenching her fists tightly when upset or nervous, blaming herself for Surma's death, and thinking her father hates her for it]], although it's implied she was more open and carefree before her mother's death.
187	* SugarAndIcePersonality: [[NotSoStoic She turns the stoicness down]] when there aren't any people around. With Kat's help, she has also become more open about her feelings, but she's still remarkably calm in the face of the Court's supernatural weirdness. When her father calls, though, she becomes a TinMan, convinced that she is calm until Mr. Donlan points out [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1004 she should give her hands a rest]].
188	* SurvivorGuilt:
189	** The revelation that [[spoiler:her existence is the direct cause of her mom's death]] is clearly the emotional equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
190	** It also happened in ''Chapter 47: See Ya!'' after [[spoiler:releasing Mort into the ether]].
191	* TomatoInTheMirror: Happens in [[WhamEpisode Chapter 31]] when Coyote informs her of [[spoiler:her fire elemental heritage]].
192	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Kat's tomboy. In fact, one of the alchemical symbols for the element antimony (though not the one used in-comic) is just like the female symbol (aka the astrological symbol for Venus), inverted.
193	** Separately from Kat, [[spoiler:this also appears between the two Annies she has been split to -- Forest Annie always wears pants, no make-up, and the occasional TomboyishPonytail, and she doesn't really care about getting dirty, while Court Annie is often seen in skirts, has insisted on wearing her make-up, and gets somewhat whiny when her shoes and dress are soaked with muddy water.]]
194	* TemporalDuplication: [[spoiler:As a result of Loup freezing time in Gillitie Wood in Chapter 68, one version of Annie went back to the Court while he spoke with another Annie in the forest. And according to Arbiter Saslamel, neither of the Annies should exist in the current timeline. Kat later theorizes that it's because Annie should have died after she fell off the Annan Bridge two years earlier, as only the Tic-Tocs Kat has apparently sent back in time saved her. The two Annies are eventually combined into one person by Zimmy. Somehow.]]
195	* TookALevelInJerkass: From her third year on, she's increasingly selfish and arrogant, taking for granted that she'll be the Medium of the court someday while carelessly ignoring the rules and not taking up the detention she got as a punishment for her misbehavior. She makes clear that her being in Coyote's and Ysengrin's favor gets her a way around the rules.
196	* TranquilFury: Though sometimes she gets explosively angry and emotional, when push comes to shove, and she gets ''pissed'', there's no screaming, no berserk aggression, just [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1257 rage]] and [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1258 fire.]]
197	* TraumaticHaircut: As a way to avoid [[spoiler: dealing with her anger and humiliation at her father's return, she cuts her hair using her blinker stone to separate them from her.]]
198	* UnevenHybrid: She's distantly descended from [[spoiler:a fire elemental mating with a human]]. Coyote, naturally, laughs at "what a coupling ''that'' must have been".
199	* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: At first Annie seemed indifferent to Jack's attempt to flirt with her in Chapter 31. Then, by the end of Chapter 34, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=942 things change]].
200	* WeirdnessMagnet: Annie's curiosity and desire to help constantly puts her in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's implied to be a typical property of a natural medium.
201	-->'''The Headmaster:''' Tell me, do you find strange things seem to happen around you?
202	* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Her desperate wish for her father's approval is doing quite a number on her whenever he's around.
203	* WoundThatWillNotHeal: Got it from Jeanne after falling into the ravine. Present for the ethereal vision and serves as the main indicator of this -- at least, normally. [[spoiler: Jeanne wipes it away just before Annie sends her into the ether.]]
204	* WreathedInFlames: She learned the [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=410 trick]] with [[FauxFlame torch-hand]] when she experimented with Blinker stone. Much more so in her winged etheric form -- she produces great flames merged with herself. The pinnacle example being, perhaps, [[spoiler:her fire elemental form]], seen in pages [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index.php?p=1258 1258]] and [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1259 1259]].
205	[[/folder]]
206
207	[[folder:Katerina Maria "Kat" Donlan]]
208	[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kat.jpg]]
209
210	Annie's best friend. She's energetic, outgoing, and usually cheerful. She's a natural at maths and science, and a GadgeteerGenius capable of building anti-gravity generators and robots in her spare time.
211
212	Kat's friendship with Annie is a major source of CharacterDevelopment for both of them. Like Annie, she has a natural inclination to help those in need.
213
214	Compared with Annie, she's lived a sheltered life. However, when tragedy does befall her, she is able to keep her head: When Annie falls off the bridge (to her apparent death), Kat pulls herself together to build a hovercraft and [[BigDamnHeroes go rescue her]]. When her boyfriend [[StarCrossedLovers leaves forever]], instead of being angry or self-pitying, she chooses to be thankful for the time she had with him.
215
216	Kat was shaken by the revelation that the Court's founders have blood on their hands, but she managed to pull through this.
217
218	Also, unlike Annie, Kat is well-versed in pop-culture and geek-culture, and is a [[OtakuSurrogate big fan]] of video games, comic books, and dance music.
219
220	Kat seems to have few friends in the Court, which is odd in light of her personality. Apparently, prior to meeting Annie, she'd been [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized by the other students]] because both her parents are teachers, and because of the ease with which she gets high grades. Because of this, Annie worries that her own unpopularity is one of the reasons Kat does not have many friends.
221
222	She's somewhere between an {{Arbitrary Skeptic\|ism}} and a [[FlatEarthAtheist Flat Earth Metaphysical Naturalist]] -- she has no difficulty accepting the existence of supernatural beings like fairies, psychopomps, ghosts, or the Minotaur, yet she's dumbstruck by the thought of [[{{Magitek}} a robot running without a visible power source]], and when asked if she believes in magic, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=515 she replies]], “Of course not!” In her mind, magic is just a term for something science hasn't explained... ''yet''.
223
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225	!!Associated tropes:
226
227	* ArbitrarySkepticism: In spite of magic being so well-documented that it's alternately referred to as the "etheric sciences", and her own parents specializing in its research, Kat is unwilling to take it seriously, and often hates even acknowledging it entirely. This may be related to the fact she [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1757 sees the Ether as completely mundane.]]
228	* BerserkButton: Insult Annie and she will chew you out, and maybe kick you out of wherever you are--even if you're a GrimReaper. Even if you're a GrimReaper affiliate and she's ''[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1319 kicking you out of your own office]]''.
229	** Related to how protective she is of Annie, she HATES Anthony for his neglect and perceived abuse.
230	* BigSisterInstinct: Punched more or less a [[{{Psychopomp}} Grim Reaper]] for making Annie sad. Clearly wants to do the same for Anthony, if she ever catches him.
231	* BlackEyesOfEvil: When Kat demonstrates one of her new abilities, her eyes turn completely black, not signifying evil per se, but showing that Kat really is getting dangerously close to discarding her humanity and becoming a TranshumanAbomination like Paz fears.
232	* BoyishShortHair: Typically has short hair to reflect her tomboyishness in contrast to Annie, who is more feminine and typically has long hair.
233	* BrainyBrunette: She has black or nearly black hair like her mom, and has amazing skills with robotics.
234	* ClosetKey: [[spoiler:For Paz]].
235	* CoordinatedClothes: [[spoiler: Wears a naval dress outfit (minus jacket) to compliment Paz's nautical-themed dress to the "Ocean-style Dance" in Chapter 49.]]
236	* CreatingLife: Her "New People" creations have actual immortal souls of their own. Even Coyote cannot do this. Such creations are usually considered to be {{Golem}}s, capable of creativity and intelligence, but lacking anything to send into the Ether upon death.
237	* CrushBlush: When she has a crush on someone she cannot be around that person without turning bright red and giving them doe eyes.
238	* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Chapter 29: A Bad Start'' and ''Chapter 45: Threads''. To some extent, this is also true for ''Chapter 13: A Week For Kat'' and ''Chapter 25: Sky Watcher And The Angel''.
239	* DeityOfHumanOrigin: [[spoiler: The ethereal bureaucracy treats her as the goddess of the "New People", a race of ArtificialHuman cyborgs she created by upgrading the court robots.]]
240	* {{Deuteragonist}}: She is Annie's thematic foil, and her robot angel storyline has received nearly as much attention as Annie's travails.
241	* EldritchAbomination: Her [[spoiler:[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049 etheric form]]]], first seen in [[MindScrew Zimmy's vision]] and later when she [[spoiler:[[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1443 destroys the rogue boat AI]]]]. It says something of just how terrifying the form is when Zimmy, [[spoiler: Annie, and Paz]] are absolutely terrified of it. Annie speculates that this appearance represents something inside of Kat, or [[TranshumanAliens something she could become]]. [[spoiler: Its later shown to be her divine form as the Machine God]]
242	* FanGirl: Obsessed with robots, dance music (especially Orbital and The Prodigy), video games, comic books, and ''Series/TheXFiles''... it's nearly impossible to predict who or what may elicit the next "{{Squee}}!". The last time, it was a clawed robot praying mantis' turn to be [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=636 cuddled on sight]].
243	* FlatEarthAtheist: Despite magic being somewhat common, so much as to even having a branch of science dedicated to it, Kat insists that all "magic" is really just [[MagicfromTechnology ill-understood technology]]. [[spoiler: For added DramaticIrony, she ends up becoming a divine entity when her experiments result in the creation of the New People, effectively making her the Machine god.]]
244	* FriendVersusLover: One she is actually mostly unaware of as Paz and Annie usually keep their animosity in check when around Kat. But its been shown here and there that the two don't really like each other. Paz doesn't like how much Annie occupies Kat's thoughts, not just due to jealousy, but also because of how stressed and overworked Kat can become when trying to help Annie. Annie for her part finds Paz's criticism of her relationship with Kat annoying and does not appreciate the veiled insinuations that she is "using" Kat.
245	* {{Foil}}: MagicVersusScience is a recurring theme of the story and setting, and is represented in Annie and Kat. Annie, who converses with psychopomps and has connections to the ether and the forest, represents the supernatural. Kat, a Gadgeteer Genius who grew up in the Court, represents technology. Personality wise, Kat is more outgoing and interested in pop culture and romance, a stark contrast to Annie, especially at the beginning of the story when she was more stoic. Annie and Kat have both had problems fitting in -- Annie because of her personality, lack of social skills, and inability to relate to most people her age, and Kat because of resentment over her grades and suspicion that, as the daughter of two Court teachers, she was being favored. Annie and Kat balancing each other is a recurring theme in the [[https://topatoco.com/collections/gunnerkrigg/products/gk-treatise-prints Treatise pictures]], where they are also [[NightAndDayDuo associated with the sun and moon, respectively]].
246	* GadgeteerGenius: To the point that the Court's robots hold her in near-religious awe (and for at least one, it's not "near-" at all).
247	* {{Gayngst}}:
248	** In ''Chapter 34: Faraway Morning'', she gets MistakenForGay by Paz, and thinks it's because she's such a tomboy, leading to a long story arc when she tries to dress more feminine. She feels absolutely terrible about the whole thing, but never properly addresses it until Zimmy and Gamma confront her in ''Chapter 38: Divine'' (and even then it's largely unspoken). Eventually, in ''Chapter 42: Catalyst'', [[spoiler:Paz reveals that she's got feelings for Kat]], Kat realises that she's fine with it, and they start going out together just to see where things lead.
249	** In ''Chapter 45: Thread'', Kat worries that she's confused friendship for love [[spoiler:with Paz]], and whether Annie would still accept her [[spoiler:after runs away after she caught them kissing. Annie does, because Kat joked she'd be willing to date a hot girl; Annie's problem is that she's worried Kat would abandon her, which Kat assures her she will never ever do]].
250	* GodNeedsPrayersBadly: [[spoiler: Rare case where this goes happens tail first and we witness an ascension in story, through this method.]] It's implied that the [[RobotReligion robots' belief]] in her as [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=898 an angel]] may be [[spoiler: turning her into [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1146 a]] [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1305 god]], something we may have already caught a glimpse of through [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049 Zimmy's perspective.]] Later on, when the first of the New People die, Kat is summoned to the place as their god, formally recognized by the cosmic order as such.]]
251	* HeadPet: Played with. [[spoiler:When one of Zimmy's illusions is in play, a pigeon is visible on her head, echoing her thoughts]].
252	* HotForTeacher: Had a mild crush on Eglamore for awhile.
253	--> '''Kat:''' [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=86 It's not everyday you find out your games teacher is some kinda big, handsome, dragon slayer guy!]]
254	* HumanoidAbomination: Her ethereal form is a vaguely humanoid figure composed of wires, tubes, meshes, and metal plating. Zimmy is completely freaked out by it, and even Antimony was startled enough that she needed to make sure it was Kat the first time she witnessed this form.
255	* KidWithTheLeash: When [[spoiler: Anthony Carver]] demanded that [[spoiler: Annie hand over control of Reynard to him]], instead she gave ownership of [[spoiler: Reynard's doll]] to Kat to protect him.
256	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Annie is very bad at dealing with people, often coming across as cold and aloof, not helped by the fact that she tends to bottle up what she is feeling. But she is able to slowly grow and open up thanks in large part to her friendship with Kat.
257	* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Struggles with her sexuality for a while until [[spoiler:Paz sends her a love letter, which is when Kat realizes she's fine with it and agrees to go out with Paz]].
258	%% * LuminescentBlush
259	* MadScientist: Increasingly becomes one over time, ignoring ethical and even basic safety constraints more and more to make progress in her projects. Paz decides to dump her over it, due to predicting that Kat is eventually going to turn herself into a TranshumanAbomination without regard for Paz's opinion on the subject.
260	* MagneticHero: For robots. From S13 to Sky Watcher, they tend to view her as an "angel" from the first meeting on, or at least be very friendly and helpful. The contrast between her own enthusiasm and [[JustAMachine the Court's general policy]] doesn't hurt, of course.
261	* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Kat invented anti-gravity for the sole purpose of containing a simple science project concerning the growth rate of protein crystals and is annoyed when the judges pay more attention to it instead of her project.
262	* MistakenForGay: [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=923 By Paz]]. Unlike most other examples of this trope being used for comedy, this serves the purpose of setting up a sub-plot of Kat becoming unconfident with her sexuality, later attempting to present herself as more girly by wearing a [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics generic flower hairpin]] and Annie's clothes. According to Zimmy, rumors about her are circulating among the "rats," and other characters have commented as if she really ''was'' gay and it was just something that has always been. She's clearly more comfortable [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=968 with being herself]] when nobody is around in her own environment, without trying to present herself as girly. Eventually, [[spoiler: Paz directly confronts her, [[SubvertedTrope the two of them realize that they might really like each other as more than friends, and they agree to go out together]]]].
263	* MuggleBestFriend: Well, as mugglish as a gadgeteer genius can be. Inverted when it comes to robotics, where Antimony has ''no'' clue what's going on.
264	* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork: "One does not 'get bored' in double physics!"
265	* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:The steady advancement of her biomechanic experiments cause the robots to start workshipping her, and with the final culmination of the creation of the New People she's fully considered the Machine God by the Ether. The fact that the New People truly have souls solidifies her role as a divine entity on the cosmic order. She's however still visibly human in the normal world, albeit in the Ether and to those with TrueSight she appears as a terrifying, insectoid entity of metal and wires.]]
266	* OhCrap: In reaction to Annie's OhCrap when she realizes the giant crab is, indeed, real.
267	%% * RedOniBlueOni: Blue after her CharacterDevelopment, though still a GenkiGirl.
268	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The girl invented (among other things) anti-gravity and artificial muscles. And she's just using crap she finds laying around. Despite the obvious benefits these two inventions alone, much less all her other ones, could provide to a number of industries she uses them to screw around doing nothing at all.
269	* ShipperOnDeck: For Parley/Andrew.
270	* StarCrossedLovers: With Alistair. This seems to have made her something of a bird enthusiast... or possible [[{{Fetish}} fetishist]].
271	* TechnoBabble: Can lapse into this on occasion. Lampshaded at one point, which is actually the image for the trope page.
272	--> '''Kat''': But what do you use to jargon jargon babble babble strange words?\
273	'''Anja''': Haha, it took a while to perfect, but chatter chatter jargon computers technical wizardry babble jargon.
274	* {{Technopath}}: [[spoiler:In Chapter 88: An Aside (in which Kat goes too far), Kat has Annie and Paz install a chip in her neck that lets her directly interface with any security cameras, microphones, speakers, networked computers, and so on, with her mind.]]
275	* TeenGenius:
276	** In ''Chapter 5: Two Strange Girls'', she invented ''an antigravity device in her first year of junior high school.''[[note]]More correctly secondary school as this is a school in the UK which has a 2 stage system. For non UK readers Year 7 pupils are 12 or 13.[[/note]] Out of a thermos and coat hangers, no less. She got frustrated when people were too distracted by it to focus on the real point of her science project. Later, she used [[ChekhovsGun said device]] to create a hovercraft [[BigDamnHeroes in order to]] [[spoiler:rescue Annie]] at the end of ''Chapter 8: Broken Glass And Other Things''.
277	** In ''Chapter 33: Give And Take'', she resurrected an ancient robot by [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=886 reading the robots' programming language]] -- a language so complex it '''cannot''' be read by humans.
278	** In ''Chapter 41: Changes'' it's revealed she's "growing a robot" -- not quite artificial life (it's going to be Robot's next body) but close enough that the other Seraphs accept Robot calling her an Angel and give her "the mark of the Creator", which just so happens to be the light bulb-looking glyph she's associated with.
279	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Annie's [[spoiler:and Paz's]] GirlyGirl.
280	** In [[https://topatoco.com/collections/gunnerkrigg/products/gk-treatise-prints most of the Treatise pictures]] Kat wears masculine clothes while Annie wears dresses.
281	* TookALevelInJerkass: In her worry over Annie's predicament her actions regarding Anthony go above and beyond the call of duty, causing her to assume out of hand that he's been torturing Renard with "cruel experiments" and tell Renard to do ''anything'' it takes to defend himself from Anthony, implicitly including lethal action, as well as being actively detrimental to her father's attempt to get some answers out of Tony by interrupting their conversation to yell at him.
282	* TrueSight:
283	** She sees everything in the Realm of the Dead as a cheap haunted house with paper bats hanging from strings and [=VCRs=]. This is actually pretty much the truth, since the Realm of the Dead is mostly window dressing. It lets her interact with things with shocking ease, leaving Annie and Mort (a medium and ghost, who you'd expect to be the competent ones) completely flabbergasted.
284	** When Kat enters the Ether in "The Other Shore", she sees a tiny cell containing an unconscious, bound prisoner shackled by a simple lever lock: [[spoiler: Jeanne's elf boyfriend's spirit, trapped by Diego's arrow]]. Annie sees a vast maze holding a powerful etheric being who attacks her; she also sees [[spoiler: Kat's etherical form, which is huge, insectoid, and absolutely terrifying]].
285	* UnwantedAssistance: Happened in-universe when she blew up at Anthony when Donald was finally getting somewhere in the way of answers out of Anthony, causing Anthony to clam up and leave. Anja's reaction is pretty much this.
286	* WhatTheHellHero: She calls Annie out for [[spoiler: not only agreeing to transfer her ownership of Reynardine to her father, but also forbidding him to speak so he can't protest at this treatment.]]
287	--> "How ''could'' you? ''He's our friend!''"
288	* WrenchWench: The outfit she's most comfortable in seems to be a [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=635 mechanic's boilersuit]]. Sometimes holds a literal wrench.
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