Line #283 Characters/Moonflowers


1	The character sheet for ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}.''
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7	!!!Alima Song
8	The female protagonist of the story. A Chinese/Filipino-American who moved to Ireland after her parents Ned and Lucy vanished, and is now getting pursued by the Hunter.
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10	* ActionSurvivor: [[TheEveryman A normal woman]] who's physically very small, up against the god-level figure of the Hunter. However, she does act rationally and isn't afraid to defend herself with the knife Ogma O'Luain gave her.
11	* AffectionateNickname: Her aunt Alima calls her "Mini-Me."
12	* DamselInDistress: Initially. Upgrades quickly to ActionSurvivor, since she heeds advice and acts reasonably.
13	* DeadGuyJunior: PlayedWith. Alima coincidentally shared a name with her Muslim aunt Alima, who was killed in a hate crime.
14	* DumbStruck: Alima was unable to speak for two weeks after her parents vanished due to unknown magic, and it took her friend's mambo aunt to help in addition to normal doctors. Early in the story, she has moments of unusual grammar or syntax.
15	* EveryoneLovesBlondes: According to her friend Danielle, Alima "has a track record" for blondes.
16	* TheGadfly: She enjoys trolling Mal, and Ned mentions that she likes teasing guys in general.
17	* HereditaryHairstyle: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Lucy and Ned both have curly hair, and Alima has wavy hair.
18	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She's frequently described as small, and Mal needs to get stuff off of high shelves for her. Family-wise, her father Ned is stated to be 6'4.
19	* TokenMinority: She's one of two main character minorities; justified since Ireland is mostly homogenous. However, back in America she has a Louisianan/Creole friend called Danielle [=DeTour=], and a Blackfoot friend called David Sandpiper. She becomes much less token when her family and friends arrive for the police investigation.
20	* TraumaCongaLine: Her parents go missing for two months, she understandably thinks that they're dead, and she moves to a different country out of grief. Not even a month in her new home, she starts getting hunted by a Fair Folk man wearing an elk skull. Unknown to her, the man is the same one who kidnapped her parents.
21	** Her aunt was killed shortly after the September 11 attack.
22	* TwoferTokenMinority: Half-Filipino and half-Chinese.
23	* YourMindMakesItReal: Hades mentions that since Alima thinks her parents are dead, Lucy can't reach her offerings precisely because she's still alive.
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25	!!!Malachy "Mal" Bray
26	The main male protagonist, a low-key and friendly young man. He's been taking care of his little brother Logan since their parents died three years ago.
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28	* DarkAndTroubledPast: One of his friends was nearly killed for being gay five years ago. Two years later, his parents died and left him as his brother Logan's legal guardian. Owen says Mal hasn't told anyone the whole story.
29	* {{Determinator}}: After a beat-up Owen jumps into an icy river to escape the Knights of Aaron, Mal follows Owen along the river until morning because [[TrueCompanions they're best friends]]. Then when his shoulder gets dislocated in a run-in with the Wild Hunt, he just switches the knife to his other hand.
30	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He's blonde, tries to avoid swearing in front of Logan, and is very attached to his friends. He also takes a newcomer home so she can dry off after a storm, and then insists on driving her to her inn instead of letting her wait for a cab. Although it's also because he doesn't want her to get messed with by TheFairFolk.
31	* FormerTeenRebel: He used to go to raves. [[PlayedForLaughs He's mostly embarrassed by it.]]
32	* GoodIsNotSoft: He carries an iron knife in his jacket to deal with the Folk, as many in Cloncarrig do. When the Wild Hunt shows up to run him and Alima down, they dislocate Mal's shoulder but [[{{Determinator}} he STILL manages to stab one of them with his good hand.]]
33	* NiceGuy: Among the nicest in the cast.
34	* OneHeadTaller / HugeGuyTinyGirl: At least above-average height, since he helps Alima get stuff from the top shelves while grocery shopping.
35	* PromotedToParent: After his parents died, he got custody of his little brother Logan.
36	* RunningGag: His friends constantly call him stupid, even though he shows no sign of it. Apparently, [[NeverLiveItDown he shorted out his laptop when he was sixteen.]]
37	* SaintlyChurch: He's Christian and is a thoughtful, considerate person who takes care of his little brother. He also saved Owen from a homophobic mob five years ago.
38	* UsedToBeMoreSocial: After his parents died, Aine mentions that he keeps to himself and Owen says that he "stopped being fun." When they go to a concert, Decker asks if he's gone anywhere ''without'' Logan or his friends.
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40	!!!Ned Song
41	Alima's Chinese-American father, a carpenter who got abducted and transformed into a white wolf by the Hunter, and then "adopted" by Alima.
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43	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: His canine form is white, which fits the FairyTale genre since white animals are highly symbolic in myth and fairy-tales. Blends in with WhiteWolvesAreSpecial, as noted on the main page.
44	* DeadpanSnarker: Mainly towards Mal. Ned constantly calls him "Goldilocks."
45	* DramaticIrony: Alima thinks her parents are dead, but her mother was stuck in the Otherworld and her father is her new pet. On a lighter note, Ned got cursed into a wolf's form, but he's more of a cat person.
46	* FluffyTheTerrible: "Bulan" isn't the most intuitive name for a massive wolf, even if he's white.
47	* ForcedTransformation: He's cursed to be a white wolf. Though he still has his human mind and memories, he can only talk to gods/spirits and animals.
48	* GoodParents: Ned and Lucy are very good parents, seeing as Alima's so upset at their disappearance that she ''leaves her country.'' Ned sought her out while escaping from the Hunter, and neither he nor Lucy take the news that their only daughter thinks they're dead very well. Ned also gives up his eye-color to save Alima, despite the risk of going blind.
49	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: His wife Lucy is average height, but he's still six feet and four inches. His daughter needs help getting stuff from the high shelves.
50	* InvisibleToNormals: Due to the curse, living people can't hear him talking, but gods/spirits and animals can. Also, Persephone and May's cat say that he's a wolf, but the curse makes average people think he's a wolfdog. Ned's curse extends to blocking ''conversations'' with other spirits/people, since Owen doesn't hear anything that May's cat King Brian says to Ned.
51	* KindheartedCatLover: Shows quite a few signs of this. He talks with the stray cat Maidin got out of his river, and he immediately offers to find the cat's mother.
52	* PapaWolf: He's very protective of Alima and was transformed into [[ExactWords a literal wolf]] by the Hunter.
53	* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His canine form's eyes are frequently called "yellow," and it's the main trait that marks him as a wolf.
54	* TraumaCongaLine:
55	** Ned and his wife are abducted by the Hunter, he gets cursed into an animal's form, and then loses track of his wife. Their daughter thinks they're dead and he can't tell her otherwise because of said curse.
56	** One generation earlier, his Muslim sister-in-law was killed after the September 11 attacks. It's implied Ned still has trouble dealing with it, since he's avoided even ''thinking'' about her for years.
57	* WildHair: He notes in the Otherworld that his hair's shoulder-length and curly, due to lack of haircuts.
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59	!!! Lucy Song
60	Alima's Filipino-American dentist mother, who was trapped in the Otherworld for months before Hades helped her out.
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62	* DamselInDistress: Mainly due to bad timing, as the Morrigan showed up ''after'' the Hunter cut off some of Lucy's hair.
63	* GoodParents: She and Ned frequently banter about each other's methods of raising Alima. Plus, she assures Alima that it's okay to go to a concert and have fun even though Ned's still missing.
64	* HereditaryHairstyle: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] She and Ned have curly hair, and Alima has wavy hair.
65	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She's average-height, while Ned is over six feet tall.
66	* MamaBear: She doesn't trust the Hunter when he compliments Alima's hair and later calls it "a creepy pass at my daughter," and shoots down Nick's suggestion that Alima marry a god to bypass her citizenship wait. And fittingly, Lucy is the one who let Alima get [[ChekhovsGun a bear-tattoo that puts her under Artio's protection.]]
67	* ShameIfSomethingHappened: The Hunter snips a bit of Lucy's hair off, remarking that he likes Alima's better. [[MamaBear Lucy gets creeped out.]]
68	* TrappedInAnotherWorld / WeirdnessSearchAndRescue: She's stuck in the Otherworld for a long time because the Hunter took some of her hair.
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70	!!!Owen O'Luain
71	One of Malachy's friends, and the pagan grandson of Ogma O'Luain. Snarky, handsome, and possesses strong magical abilities. His long-distance boyfriend is Matthaeus "Teis" Summer.
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73	* AlliterativeName: As part of his AlliterativeFamily: There's a trend for O-names among male members of his family; Oscar is his father, and Ogma is his grandfather.
74	* BerserkButton: His head-scar from the Knights of Aaron's attack. He grows his hair long to cover it up, and having his hair chopped by attackers to unwittingly reveal it sends him into a rage.
75	* BrokenAce: He's a handsome, intelligent twenty-something and a powerful mage. He was also nearly killed by his own town for being gay, can't find work, and tends to call himself homophobic slurs.
76	* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: When he was five, he started playing with an invisible "brother" named Mark. His parents think it's just a normal imaginary friend until his mother ends up having a miscarriage.
77	* DeadpanSnarker: Following in his grandfather's footsteps. He ''almost got killed'' on his twentieth birthday, and all he says is that it was the "worst birthday ''ever.''"
78	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He first appears by jumping out of a tree to startle Alima and his sister May. [[CoolBigBro May then jumps on his back and deems him her "steed."]]
79	* HatesBeingTouched: Claims that he "doesn't do touchy-feely shit anymore" to Maidin, though his actions state otherwise.
80	* HeroicBSOD: Spends the night after his gay-bashing in this state. He had the gods swear to keep people out of his room, gets ''extremely'' distressed when Aengus Og finds a loophole and brings Matthaeus over, and tells [[Myth/NorseMythology Sif]] that she can take the rest of his hair after she tries to compliment it.
81	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He calls himself mad/crazy or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick various gay slurs]].
82	* InTheBlood: Snark and magic seem to run in his family.
83	* MagicalQueer: He doesn't fix everything, but Owen's literally a gay man with magical powers (see StraightGay below). In a darker turn, Owen was nearly killed ''because'' people claimed he was a magical changeling instead of human.
84	* NervesOfSteel: When he gets attacked by the Knights of Aaron, he boasts that he doesn't fear God's men ''or'' dying, then jumps into a huge snow-fed river. Then when three people gang up on him in Galway, he spends most of the fight snarking at them and making them ''more angry''. (Until they chop his hair and [[BerserkButton reveal his head-scar]].)
85	* NoodleIncident: He turned himself and his friends into birds during a drunk spell attempt at graduation. The others constantly insist that it [[ThatDidntHappen didn't happen.]]
86	* OppositesAttract / TrueLoveIsExceptional: He's snarky, bitter, and traumatized due to ''extreme'' homophobia. His long-distance boyfriend Matthaeus is a talkative and clumsy jeweler.
87	** Maidin is a friendly if [[MotorMouth ridiculously talkative]] river-spirit, who had a relationship with Owen in a past life and is now attempting to rekindle it.
88	* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: He’s in his twenties, and his sister May is eight.
89	* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: His long black hair covers up a scar from his twentieth birthday. When a man in Galway chops Owen's hair off because he's restrained from actually killing him and reveals it, [[BerserkButton Owen goes nuts.]] Later on Maidin sees another scar on Owen's chest despite him wearing a shirt, but there's nothing there.
90	* [[RealMenLoveJesus Real Men Love the Tuatha De Danaan]]
91	* RunningGag: His friends often hit him for trivial reasons. Harry hits him as a "preemptive strike" against Owen's potential prank, and both Harry ''and'' Aine smack Owen in the face when he tries to tell the story [[NoodleIncident of turning everyone into birds on graduation]].
92	* {{Seers}}: He has "the wyrth eyes." He experiences visions of the future, has [[DreamingOfThingsToCome prophetic "oak dreams,"]] and can see spirits.
93	** FaintingSeer: Not ''fainting'', but he loses awareness of his present surroundings when he has a vision and has gotten himself hurt because of it. [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Ogma uses a sleeping spell on Owen during a ''very'' unpleasant vision, since he's in hysterics and flailing around.
94	* ReincarnationRomance: Maidin knew him in a past life.
95	* StraightGay: PlayedWith. He isn't CampGay in the ''modern'' sense of liking theater or being effeminate, but tricksters have a long history of LGBT themes and many cultures ascribed powerful magic to LGBT people.
96	* TallDarkAndSnarky: Very much so.
97	* TragicKeepsake: DownplayedTrope. Matthaeus made a runestone necklace for Owen. He isn't dead, but he left for America on short notice and they obviously can't see each other very often. Owen hangs the necklace in his car instead of wearing it, because he doesn't want people asking questions.
98	* TraumaticHaircut: When he's ganged up on by three homophobes, one of them hacks his hair off with a knife and reveals his scar from the ''last'' time he got beaten up. [[BerserkButton Owen immediately starts cussing them out and screaming he's going to kill them.]]
99	* TwoferTokenMinority: Gay and pagan.
100	* UsedToBeASweetKid: Maidin says he was a "sweet and dreary little thing" when he was eight.
101	* WhenSheSmiles: Maidin is delighted when Owen smiles at something he said.
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103	!!!Ogma O'Luain
104	The proprietor of the Miller's Mount Inn and the town's cunning-man/folk-healer. He's Owen's grandfather, and lets Alima stay at his house until she gets her own place. His wife is Marian.
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106	* CombatMedic: He was a soldier in his youth, is still strong enough to lift his adult grandson, and is trained in first-aid magic.
107	* CoolOldGuy: He's strong even in old age and is rarely surprised. Is also a literal grandfather.
108	* DeadpanSnarker: Very much so.
109	* MisplacedAccent: Has an English accent despite being Irish. As mentioned in the main article's ShownTheirWork entry, Ogma went to school in London. Being old enough to have an adult grandson, he'd have either been forced to adopt an English accent, or did so himself to avoid bullying.
110	* PalsWithJesus: Aside from the story's FantasyKitchenSink nature, Ogma's close to several spirits. [[FormerTeenRebel Forty years back,]] he and Dionysus used to get drunk and tell pretty girls' fortunes, and he calls Dionysus "D." He's also friends with Maidin.
111	* SacredHospitality: As he happens to be the town's cunning-man, being Ogma's guest is even more important than it usually is.
112	* TongueTied: Whenever he tries to tell Alima that her new dog is actually her father Ned, he's forced to say something completely different due to Ned's curse.
113	* WarriorPoet: Shades of this; he used to be a soldier and is extremely well-spoken. Seeing as his namesake Ogma is a WarriorPoet deity, it's fitting.
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115	!!! Matthaeus "Teis" Summer
116	Owen's long-distance American boyfriend. Clumsy and talkative, but a skilled jeweler.
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118	* AffectionateNickname: Owen is the only one who calls him "Teis." He initially hated it, but came around enough to use it in a spell for Owen's necklace.
119	* TheBlackSmith: A jeweler, to be specific.
120	* BunnyEarsLawyer: For all his lack of coordination, making magical jewelry takes a lot of skill--Alima's impressed by the runestone he made for Owen, there's a heavy intuitive element to the process, and the Norse gods give him strange tasks like "make something out of your boyfriend's hair" and "make jewelry in the dark."
121	* ImprovisedClothes: [[Myth/NorseMythology Sif]] collects bits of Owen's cut hair and says Matthaeus needs to improvise some jewelry out of it, since Aengus just showed up and took him to Ireland as soon as possible. Owen's runestone was implied to have been improvised as well.
122	* TheKlutz: His first entrance is through a badly-done portal, which crashes him into Owen's bedpost instead of leaving him outside Owen's room.
123	* NiceGuy: Klutzy, but definitely nice.
124	* NorseByNorsewest: He follows the Norse pantheon and Brighid Brennan calls him a "Northman."
125	* OppositesAttract: He's a friendly, if klutzy, young man who's been in a relationship with a snarky BrokenAce [[HighSchoolSweethearts since high school.]]
126	* QuirkyCurls: His hair is messy, he's much less coordinated than Owen, and he gets hurt a lot.
127	* TwoferTokenMinority: Gay and pagan, but follows a different pantheon than his boyfriend.
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129	!!!Brighid Brennan
130	A tall, blonde nurse who's friends with the main group and named after Brighid the goddess. She works at both the Heartenwood Hospital (for humans) and the Standing Stone Vet Clinic (for animals).
131	* BreakTheCutie: In "Can I get there by candlelight," she gets hit with elf-shot, dragged out of the car by a mob of TheFairFolk, and [[spoiler: outed as a lesbian by said fairies as they chase her through the forest.]]
132	* CrazyPrepared: She carries several types of medication with her, plus a soundproofing spell that keeps everyone from going deaf from Jude and Duyen's gunshots. PlayedWith since the only unusual thing she has is the soundproofing orb--aspirin and nettle pills are common.
133	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde, friendly, and a healer.
134	* SelfSurgery: When Brighid gets hit by one of the Wild Hunt's magical arrows, it doesn't physically injure her, but it gives her a ''heart attack'' and she has to coach Alima through removing the arrowhead.
135	* SecretKeeper: Owen and Maidin [[spoiler: know that she's a lesbian.]]
136	* ShootTheMedicFirst: Not intentionally, but she gets hit with elf-shot in the RainOfArrows and suffers a heart attack.
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138	!!! Aine [=McCallum=]
139	Another of Mal's friends, named after the goddess Aine.
140	* BadassDriver: She drives them home from Doolin when Ned and Brighid sense TheFairFolk roaming around. She takes another route to Cloncarrig to split the Hunt up and wear out the horses, but when they join back together and clearly outnumber the humans, [[CarFu she drives into one of the Wild Hunt's groups and takes out almost thirty riders from their horses' panicking.]]
141	* MeaningfulName: [[InvokedTrope Culturally invoked.]] She was named after Aine and has stated that she's never had problems with swimming, since Aine is a sea-god's wife. Moreover, goddess-Aine is queen of the (Irish) fairies, and mortal-Aine ''very'' much holds her own against TheWildHunt.
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143	!!!Duyen Khuu
144	A Vietnamese-American FBI agent from the American embassy, sent to look for Ned. Her partner is Jude Cedarberg.
145	* ActionGirl: Very much so.
146	* AdventureDuo: Trackers work in pairs; Jude is the {{Seer\|s}} and Duyen is his BadassNormal partner.
147	* FreakyFashionMildMind: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] She has several piercings and a magenta-streaked bob, but otherwise she's very professional.
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149	!!!Jude Cedarberg
150	The second tracker from the embassy, a blonde man with second-sight.
151	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Due to his powers. He shoots the fairy dragging Brighid out of the car, which most people would NOT risk in real life. Doesn't work for long since [[ZergRush there's dozens of fairies swarming the car,]] but still a feat.
152	* MagicalGesture: Trackers use three fingers to point out someone's direction. Jude also uses it [[ImprobableAimingSkills to hit dangerous targets.]]
153	* {{Seers}}: He uses his second-sight both to find people and to [[MundaneUtility shoot them]]. He actually senses Ned's presence at Alima's house, but nobody except Lucy and Ogma know that [[DramaticIrony he's literally pointing at Ned, instead of just sensing which direction he's in.]] Later on, petting the canine-Ned gives him some kind of magical shock.
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159	!!!The Hunter
160	The story's antagonist, leader of TheWildHunt, and very powerful. Unlike most fairies, he can pass through Cloncarrig's town walls, although it takes him a few hours. According to Maidin and a children's rhyme, he's called the "King Under the Hills," and the twenty-eighth chapter officially calls him the Horned Hunter. [[PublicDomainCharacter This version]] is a full-on [[AnthropomorphicPersonification force of nature,]] and [[NatureIsNotNice that's VERY bad for the Songs.]]
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162	* AlliterativeTitle: The Horned Hunter.
163	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of ''hunting.'' This is a ''huge'' part of why the gods can barely help Alima.
164	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Normal fairies can't pass man-made walls and they can't tolerate iron, so metal-heavy things like cars ward them off. The Hunter is not only a powerful fairy, but a NatureSpirit and a king who can get into Cloncarrig (after a few hours) and steal Mal's car.
165	* BrightIsNotGood: He's constantly associated with white for his deer/elk skull-mask, and red for his tattered cloak. He also has no shadow.
166	* CastsNoShadow: In his first appearance, especially notable since he's a huge man in an elk-skull mask.
167	* TheChessmaster: He set up the ENTIRE story through his machinations, as XanatosGambit denotes.
168	* ColorCodedEyes: He has green eyes that are often called catlike or cat's eyes, alluding to his predatory nature. A subtle tell when he's disguised as Malachy is [[GlamourFailure having green eyes instead of brown.]]
169	* ControlFreak: Implied Trope due to his massive pride; Owen says he likes feeling big, and he's not surprised to hear that when Alima tried to stab him, he freaked out.
170	* EvilIsDeathlyCold: People who encounter the Hunter or escape the Wild Hunt's pursuit end up shivering for a while. When he's disguised as Mal, Alima notices that his hands are cold. Ned says that he smells like bone and ice.
171	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He doesn't understand why Hades and Persephone are helping Alima. While part of it was Hades' BerserkButton [[TheSacredDarkness regarding life and death]], it's also clear that Hades hates how the Hunter's about to murder an entire family for kicks.
172	* HornedHumanoid / CrownOfHorns: Wears a deer skull or Irish Elk skull for a mask, being the Horned Hunter. [[CombatPragmatism He uses the mask as a weapon]] to [[UseYourHead ram his opponents.]]
173	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He hunts humans with the aid of TheWildHunt. Every seven years on Samhain, he turns this into a full-on spree by hunting seven randomly-picked "marks."
174	* IronicNurseryTune: There's a children's game about him called "Moon's Cradle," which doubles as an ExpositionOfImmortality because the rhyme exclusively calls him "the King Under the Hills."
175	* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Fear. When the Morrigan attempts to get the Ballybegrosh villagers to help during the Fairy Raid, they point out that [[ObviousRulePatch he already told them not to help,]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution he will kill the WHOLE village if someone does it anyway.]]
176	** After [[CallBack he's lost a third of his riders]] to Aine's CarFu, he finds a pair of {{Old Soldier}}s Bill and Simon because Bill is (or used to be) a piper, and [[ForcedIntoEvil he flat-out orders them to join the Raid.]]
177	* LackOfEmpathy: He pisses off ''gods'' because of his cruelty to the Songs, and it's clearly not normal since the other fairy Maidin is ''very'' friendly.
178	* [[MalevolentMaskedMen Malevolent Masked Man]]: Doesn't get more malevolent than a guy in a skull-mask [[RedEyesTakeWarning with burning red sockets.]]
179	* NoNeedForNames: He used to have a name, but gave it up on becoming the Hunter.
180	* NatureIsNotNice: Not when you're dealing with the embodiment of predators.
181	* NatureSpirit: In the twenty-eighth chapter, he's called an outright force of nature. That force being "hunting."
182	* NothingIsScarier / TheQuietOne: Largely quiet and composed, to the point of lacking empathy.
183	* PhysicalGod: Pretty close to a god, according to Carrie Bray and Ogma O'Luain. The Fianna barely manage to get the upper hand on him, as they're minor gods. And as noted above, he's stated to be a [[AnthropomorphicPersonification force of nature]] in "Yes, and back again."
184	* {{Pride}}: The Lady of Scales calls him arrogant; while the Tuatha De Danaan can only give the Songs very limited help, the Hunter hasn't even considered that ''other countries'' might step in, like [[DarkIsNotEvil Hades and Persephone.]] Later on, Owen says he's got an ego "the size of Ireland" and implies that the Hunter is a Control Freak.
185	** He doesn't seem to expect his victims to ''fight back''--he tries to scare Alima by telling her that [[DamselInDistress Mal isn't there to protect her from him,]] and when she just [[GoodIsNotSoft pulls her knife and stabs him anyway,]] he gets hugely insulted and asks why she bothers fighting.
186	** His ridiculous pride is now his FatalFlaw--while he ordered his kingdom not to help the Fairy Raid's marks or ask ''European'' gods to help, on threat of death, he doesn't seem to care that there are countries OUTSIDE of Europe. The Morrigan mentions that Mayari (a Filipino goddess) could walk up and punch him in the face.
187	* TestosteronePoisoning: Maidin name-drops this trope regarding the Hunter's brutal and arrogant personality, since he spends hours shoving through Cloncarrig's walls when [[MundaneSolution Maidin just goes through the river-levees.]]
188	* StalkerWithoutACrush: He hounds the Song family to an obsessive extent, especially Alima, and the Fianna outright call him a "creepy stalker." He mostly wants to torment them before he kills them all.
189	* SuperPersistentPredator: JustifiedTrope since [[AnthropomorphicPersonification his literal JOB is to hunt things down.]]
190	* UnreliableNarrator: He mocks Lucy and other humans for being "attached to their family," but none of the other spirits act like this, and he forces the retired piper Bill to leave his own family behind for the Fairy Raid.
191	* WeakButSkilled: [[OurGodsAreDifferent Compared to prominent gods,]] at least. His XanatosGambit below more than makes up for having less brute strength. Plus, his status as a force of nature means that the Irish gods can't interfere with him too much.
192	* XanatosGambit: He kidnapped a random girl's parents, waited for her to ''move out of her country'' from grief, and her new home happens to be ''his'' current home. Where she is now at his mercy if she goes outside of the town walls alone, and even staying in town isn't completely safe. Later, it's revealed he cursed the Song family to be in the Fairy Raid several months ahead of time.
193	* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: He gained the Kingdom Under the Hills through [[KlingonPromotion killing the previous king,]] and it's heavily implied that he had to kill the previous Horned Hunter to claim the deer-skull mask.
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195	!!!Maidin
196	The Folk guardian of the nearby Maidin River, and one of Ogma O'Luain's friends. He saved Owen from drowning after the Knights of Aaron tried to kill him.
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198	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Hinted at. Ned asks the mortal-Ogma whether Maidin ''lives in'' the river, or if he ''is'' the river. Ogma tells him that in Ireland, it's the same thing. Moreover, river-fairies are affected by the course of their river, so meandering ones like Maidin's [[CloudCuckooLander end up with pretty spaced-out fairies.]]
199	* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: He gets confused that Ogma's old because their last meeting was in the Otherworld, and "he's stayed the same in the soul," so Ogma reminds him that human souls are different from their bodies. Later, he sees a scar on Owen's chest despite him wearing a shirt, but there's no physical scar there. And last of all, he can talk to the river-rock he gave Owen, since he says that "it likes you."
200	* CloudCuckooLander: He mistakes Ogma's aged appearance for a curse, and he doesn't pay much attention to the ''actual'' cursed guy (Ned). According to Ogma, "he has a few wires loose" due to his meandering river, and numerous people call him daft.
201	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's a scatterbrained motormouth who can pass the town walls. This means he's close to the Hunter in strength, who is a literal force of nature.
202	-->'''Ned:''' The hell can a ditz like you get inside the walls? Ogma said it’s supposed to be ''hard'' for fairies!
203	-->'''Maidin:''' I come in through the levees. [[ExactWords Why am I gonna waste time shoving through giant walls?]]
204	* TheDitz: A side-effect of his CloudCuckooLander and MotorMouth tendencies. He nearly forgets he was supposed to help with a baptism, and he needs a lot of reminders when Ogma and Alima ask him for advice. An annoyed Ned also calls him him a ditz later on.
205	* ElementalEyecolors: He has blue eyes since he's a river-spirit. The exact shade varies with his emotions and the season.
206	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He guards the River Maidin, so people call him "Maidin."
207	* ExpositionOfImmortality: Artio babysat him "when bears were still in Ireland" (the Iron Age), and he mentions that [[TheNameless he didn't always have a name.]]
208	* FriendToAllChildren: He watches over the Cloncarrig children and helps out with baptisms.
209	* IHaveManyNames: PlayedWith in that he didn't always have a ''name,'' but more like "titles."
210	-->''I like being Maidin, but I’ve also just been the River, or He Lives in the River, or the Man Who’s Always Wet. '''An Abhainn. Tá sé ina chónaí san abhainn. An fear a gcónaí fliuch.'''''
211	** He also remarks that ''humans'' have many names--Ned, for example, is called "Ned," "Bulan," "Dad," and "Uncle." And that's just in English.
212	* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: His river's name isn't a weird spelling of "maiden"--it's Irish for "morning" and pronounced closer to "maj-in."
213	* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: PlayedWith. Maidin's floored that Ogma's eight-year-old grandson is the same person as the grown man he rescued, because [[TimeDissonance twenty years isn't that long]] for TheFairFolk.
214	* MisplacedAccent: He has a "strange and guttural" British accent, despite being an Irish spirit. He grew up in similar circumstances to Ogma, since he says others made fun of him for being Irish.
215	* MotorMouth: Extremely gabby. Not helped by his CloudCuckooLander status.
216	* NatureSpirit: River-spirit, natch.
217	** MakingASplash: He floods Ogma's living room when he leaves, though it dries up thanks to magic. He's [[PowerIncontinence always trailing water]] when he leaves his river.
218	* NiceGuy: Always friendly, helps out with baptisms despite not being Christian himself, and his latest appearance is to drop by Alima's house after saving a cat who fell into his river.
219	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He appears as a young man, but he's known Ogma for decades, and he was babysat by the goddess Artio [[ExpositionOfImmortality who's been gone for thousands of years.]]
220	* ReincarnationRomance: Turns out this is why he wanted to meet up with Owen, which would double as an InterspeciesRomance. He runs into problems when he finds out that Owen is different from what he remembers, and he also has a boyfriend. Although he's emphatically ''not'' trying to break them up, since [[ExpositionOfImmortality he was alive when polygamy was still common in Europe.]]
221
222	!!! Hades and Persephone
223	The rulers of the dead in Myth/GreekMythology, and Persephone doubles as the goddess of winter/spring. [[DarkIsNotEvil They're otherwise pleasant]] and very HappilyMarried. They arrive in the nineteenth chapter "Blind Man's Bluff," when Hades is wondering why a girl's presumably-loving parents would completely ignore her offerings to them after their alleged deaths.
224
225	* BadBadActing: When Hades helps the Fianna subdue the Hunter and finds Lucy's hair, he recites an excruciatingly detailed "I have no idea who this belongs to, but I'll return it as soon as possible" speech so [[LoopholeAbuse the Hunter's curse won't affect him.]]
226	* BadPowersGoodPeople / DarkIsNotEvil: Hades rules the dead, but he's also concerned with how Alima's spent months grieving for her parents without closure. See TheSacredDarkness below.
227	* BerserkButton: Do not fuck with life and death around Hades.
228	* Website/DarwinAwards: Going by Persephone, hilarious/stupid deaths have always been around, but they didn't have a name until now.
229	* ExtremeOmnivore: When Ogma gives Persephone some toast as an offering, she puts butter, relish, raspberry jam, ''peanut'' butter, and gravy on it.
230	* GreenThumb: Persephone, natch. She contacts Hilal through Alima's moonflower sprig, and it grows a couple inches after she finishes the message.
231	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Persephone's blonde, cheerful, and very sociable.
232	* HappilyMarried: As in mythology.
233	* HotBlooded: Hades, mostly because his BerserkButton got pushed hard in his entrance.
234	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Yet another example.
235	* NoSocialSkills: Persephone has to remind Hades that coming into someone's house without permission is technically home invasion, even if he has good intentions. He's also bad at acting.
236	* PerkyGoth: Being the queen of the Underworld doesn't mean Persephone can't be bubbly and social.
237	* RulingCouple: Both gods actively help the Songs. Hades gets surprised when Persephone first shows up because [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething he thought she'd be running the Underworld while he was gone]].
238	* TallDarkAndHandsome: Persephone calls Hades sexy.
239	* TheSacredDarkness: Hades is concerned that Alima's been leaving offerings to Ned and Lucy without any closure for months, since Ned and Lucy are VERY GoodParents and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness shouldn't be ignoring their daughter like this.]] He gets incensed when he finds out that the Hunter's making Alima think her parents are dead for kicks, and gets angrier when he finds out that the Hunter wants to kill ''all three of them'' for kicks. Persephone also kept Hades from starting a "Natural Order" speech to Ned.
240
241	!!! The Lady of Scales
242	The spirit patron of Ned's father's town in China. Appears as a pale young woman with knee-length black hair in a blue dress with a veil, and is covered in painted scales and red markings. She makes a bargain with Ned when Persephone asks around for help.
243
244	* BatmanGambit: She takes as little from Ned as possible for their contract--it doesn't matter what he gives up, but whether TheFairFolk would ''respect'' the deal.
245	* BodyPaint: She's covered in painted/tattooed yellow scales, with red facial markings and red claws on her feet.
246	* BloodOath: She makes a MagicallyBindingContract to lift Ned's curse and help him kill the Hunter, in exchange for [[InsubstantialIngredients the color of Ned's eyes]]. She scratches Ned hard enough to bleed to seal the contract.
247	* TheXOfY: "The Lady of Scales."
248	* RavenHairIvorySkin
249	* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The only thing Ned can see clearly through her veil.
250
251	!!! Alima Khemu Song
252	Ned and Lucy's Indian-Muslim sister-in-law, who married Ned's brother Jordan and coincidentally shares a name with her niece. Since they aren't actually junior/senior to each other, they're instead referred to as "older/younger Alima." She and Jordan had twin boys, but Alima was killed shortly after the September 11 attacks. She first appears in the twentieth chapter [[PosthumousCharacter as a spirit.]]
253
254	* AffectionateNickname: She calls the younger Alima "Mini-Me," and her son Hilal is "water-lily."
255	* GenkiGirl
256	* PosthumousCharacter: Literally, due to her DeathByRacism.
257	* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Her sons are nearly her age now, since she died when they were young.
258
259	!!! Artio
260	A bear-goddess enlisted to help Alima with the Hunter, who gives Alima a bear claw for protection. Currently DePowered in Ireland, but still formidable.
261
262	* AmazonianBeauty: Significantly [[StatuesqueStunner tall]] and sinewy, and casually rips oak roots out of the ground. In "Can I get there by candlelight," she can NeckLift a grown man and carry a wolf. Appropriate for a bear-goddess.
263	* MamaBear: Literal example as she's a bear-goddess. She also doesn't like how the Hunter is picking on a woman whose parents are missing.
264	* NatureSpirit: She has to meet Alima in the oak stand because there are no wild bears in Ireland. In the Otherworld, she talks with Alima [[WildWilderness in a gigantic forest]]. Maidin calls her the (former) Queen of the Forest before the bears died off.
265	* ThePollyanna / GenkiGirl: Extremely cheerful and affectionate.
266	* ScaryTeeth: When she smiles, Alima spots bear-fangs in her mouth.
267	* WildHair: She has shaggy, hip-length brown hair with sun-lightened ends. [[PowerMakesYourHairGrow As she rebuilds her power in Ireland, it grows to at least thigh-length.]]
268
269	!!! Mayari
270	A Filipino moon-goddess who comes to help, thanks to Lucy and Alima being Filipino. Like Artio, she's severely DePowered outside of her home country and America--to the point where she's barely able to contact the Songs at all. She is dark-skinned and curly-haired with traditional tribal tattoos and clothes.
271
272	* CarryABigStick: A bamboo club, specifically.
273	* EleventhHourRanger: She arrives just days before Samhain, thanks to Catholicism's hold in the Philippines.
274	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The story's [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall heavy moon/night imagery]] is implied to have been her doing.
275	* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: PlayedWith. While she IS DePowered outside of America and the Philippines, Lucy's family didn't ask her for help because they don't even know her ''name.''
276	* HandicappedBadass / DisabledDeity: She lost her left eye and wears an eye-patch.
277	* MeaningfulAppearance: Wears white, fitting for a moon-goddess.
278	* PimpedOutDress: A tribal outfit with pearl trimming, yards of white and indigo pineapple-silk, and a crescent-moon headdress.
279	* PowerGlows: Especially if you're a moon-goddess.
280	* TattooAsCharacterType: She has indigenous Filipino tattoos on her arms.
281
282	[[/folder]]
283
284	[[folder:The Tuatha De Danaan]]
285	The Tuatha De Danaan are the main body of Irish deities. There are general tropes that all of them share, and character-specific tropes are under their names.
286
287	* HealingHands: Aengus and Ogma are the most frequent users.
288	* PhysicalGod: They switch between the Otherworld and the mortal world at will.
289	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
290
291	!!!Ogma
292	The aged WarriorPoet of the gods, whom Ogma O'Luain is named after.
293
294	* CoolOldGuy: His entrance involves saving Mal and Alima from the entire Wild Hunt by outwitting the Hunter in a conversation.
295	* DeadpanSnarker: Doesn't get more deadpan and snarky than besting the Hunter at wordplay.
296	* ShutUpHannibal: Does this to the Hunter when he tries to use a BreakingSpeech on Mal.
297	* TheStoic: Rarely raises his voice, and has never been less than calm or amused.
298	* WarriorPoet: Yep.
299
300	!!!The Morrigan
301	The goddess of war. She attempts to get Lucy back to Alima, but only succeeds partly by getting her out of the Hunter's grasp.
302
303	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She states that she's much more powerful than the Hunter, but that "even I have to follow ''some'' rules." Later on, it's revealed that while the Morrigan is a war-goddess, [[AnthropomorphicPersonification the Hunter is the embodiment of predators.]] [[GodsHandsAreTied Even the gods can't interfere too much with nature itself.]]
304	* BigDamnHeroes: Her entrance involves her busting Lucy out of the fairy-hill by turning into a horse, smashing the room to pieces, and turning the glass shards into crows, with very little effort.
305	* DarkActionGirl: Laughing in the Hunter's face and angering him enough to chase her down isn't a classic hero move.
306	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Described with "chalky" skin and matted black hair.
307	* GoodIsNotNice: She's good, but very reckless. Brighid mentions that the Morrigan could have avoided overloading Lucy and letting the Hunter chase them down.
308	* StatuesqueStunner: Nearly as tall as Ned, a war-goddess, and introduced wearing a red minidress.
309	* WildHair: Messy black hair down to her hips.
310
311	!!!Brighid
312	The goddess of healing and the home/hearth, whom Brighid Brennan is named after.
313
314	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: She's the goddess of the home/hearth and finds Alima a cheap and serviceable place in two days. That's ''without'' being able to talk to her.
315	* OnlySaneMan: When she finds out the Fianna are trying to get information from Lucy after she's just woken up, she's not happy. She also points out that since she can't talk to Alima, she can only manage to find her a cheap house with basic necessities.
316	* ProperLady: Appearance-wise, she's a delicate redhead in a long skirt. Personality-wise, she's very proper and cheerful, though not without spine (see OnlySaneMan).
317	* NeatFreak: The benign version--she comes to the shieling to check on house-cleaning, and later complains at having to walk in Artio's muddy forest.
318
319	!!!The Fianna
320	A group of enthusiastic young men in fawn-brown suits, led by the white-haired Finn [=MacCool=].
321
322	* {{Bambification}}: The older version. They have a deer motif, as their suits are brown and they give Alima a deer-antler whistle. They are also {{Foil}}s to the Hunter.
323	* BewareTheSillyOnes: Nick is comic-relief and a CloudCuckooLander. He's also [[TheBerserker a berserker]]--he scales the walls after the fleeing Hunter ''with three people weighing him down,'' doesn't react when the Hunter's blood burns him, and pursues him until Hades knocks him out.
324	* BringMyRedJacket: In the twenty-second chapter, their suits [[LetsGetDangerous have turned from brown to red]] in preparation for fighting the Hunter.
325	* BoisterousBruiser: They frequently high-five each other when doing a job well.
326	* BunnyEarsLawyer: A group of young, HotBlooded, [[SharpDressedMan and sharply-dressed]] men who are mainly comic-relief. But two of them can lift a car, and they get serious quickly.
327	* CloudCuckooLander: Nick says that "first aid is a tricksome phrase," and he suggests that Alima [[MarriageToAGod marry one of the gods]] so that they can bypass the five-year citizenship wait that's keeping the gods from helping her.
328	* ComboPlatterPowers: They're gods of [[OddJobGods deer and policemen]].
329	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When they smell the signal fire's smoke, they immediately go silent and breathe it in like animals. Later in Westermark Howe, Nick's refusal to acknowledge Finn's whistled signal to retreat is a sign that he's going berserk.
330	* HeroSecretService: Alima's whistle summons them. It's implied Owen needed their help before.
331	%% * HotBlooded: Very much.
332	* JustWhistle: They give Alima a whistle in case she needs their help. Finn has a whistle to command the group.
333	* MysticalWhiteHair: Finn [=MacCool=] has white hair that's long enough to braid.
334	* SharpDressedMan: An entire group of young men in suits.
335	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Their reaction on seeing a bleeding Owen pinned to the ground by a stranger is "Owen, what now?!" On the other hand, Owen's probably been victim to a LOT of homophobia.
336
337	!!!Aengus Og
338	The god of love, a man with a Hollywood smile. He has an accent that's frequently stated as sounding Scottish.
339
340	* ExactWords: When Owen tells him he swore not to come into his room, he mentions that he didn't technically swear an oath.
341	-->''"I said 'I'd keep an eye on you,' to be exact."''
342	* MisplacedAccent: Lucy mistakes his accent for Scottish, and even the Irish-born Owen mentions that it sounds very close. Aengus points out to Lucy [[ExpositionOfImmortality that he's older than Scotland.]]
343	[[/folder]]
344
345	[[folder: Other]]
346	!!! King Brian the Cat
347	May O'Luain's adolescent gray tabby. He's attached to her, but extremely contrary to everyone else. Along with the spirits, he can tell that "Bulan" is actually a human.
348
349	* CatsAreMagic: He can see through Ned's curse once he's done freaking out, cats are mentioned to know teleportation, and Owen takes him to Ogma's house so he can learn magic.
350	* CatsAreSnarkers: Only in his case, though--Alima mentions that her childhood cat Ruby was nice. It might also be because [[TeensAreMonsters Brian's the equivalent of a teenager.]]
351	* CommanderContrarian: He hates doing what Owen wants. He also drops by Mal and Logan's place whenever he likes.
352	* [[DramaQueen Drama King]]: His first scent of canine-Ned makes him start shrieking and hissing. Thirty seconds later, [[DeadpanSnarker he wonders if Ned's brainwashed after Ned calls himself a dog.]]
353	* FormallyNamedPet: KING Brian. Owen calls him "Your Majesty."
354	* MoralityPet: Inverted. May is a cheerful and energetic girl with an aloof and snarky cat, so she's his Morality Owner.
355
356	!!! Dandelion the Cat
357	A stray whose juvenile son fell in Maidin's river, and was taken to Alima's house. She used to be a housecat until her owner died, and she's been living in the forest since then. She's a marbled tabby with a limp, and her son is spotted. They're currently being fostered by Alima, who has called him Pepper.
358
359	* CatsAreMagic: Like Brian, she knows magic and taught her son some. Both she and her son immediately know that Ned is a cursed human, not a wolf.
360	* CatsAreMean: She's nice, but her son is wary of humans and ''very much'' dislikes the vet.

Context Characters / Moonflowers