Line #86 Characters/TheForsakenChildren


1	This is the characters page for "Literature/TheForsakenChildren".
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5	[[folder: The Forsaken Children]]
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7	!!Leon Kender's
8	Originally a college student in Los Angeles, Leon becomes a knight when he meets the Forsaken Children.
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10	* TheAce: Subverted in the sense that while he does have his badass moments, he's still a pretty average guy.
11	* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: Gains a costume reminiscent of a futuristic knigt's armor
12	* HeroesPreferSwords: Gains a sword as his personal weapon.
13	* KnightInShiningArmor: What he becomes by the end of the first story.
14	** By the third story, he gains a costume that evokes this trope.
15	* ShoutOut: The scene where he [[spoiler: tears the arm off of a plate giant]] is based on the climax of the fight between [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} Beowulf]] and Grendel.
16
17	!!Pete
18	A gnome changeling who founded the Forsaken Children, Pete is a natural born leader.
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20	* BerserkButton: For the love of all that is holy, do not hurt Mary in anyway. [[spoiler: Earnest learned that the hard way]].
21	* DishingOutDirt: Being a gnome changeling, earth magic comes naturally.
22	* MeaningfulName: "Pete" comes from the word peat, a type of soil formed from decomposing plants in swamps.
23	* OfficialCouple: With Mary.
24
25	!!Ash
26	A salamander changeling and Pete's oldest friend, he is the group's strategist.
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28	* ExpositionFairy: Whenever one of the human characters has a question, Ash is usually the one to explain it.
29	* KillItWithFire: Fire magic comes naturally to Ash as a salamander changeling.
30	* LizardFolk: His appearance evokes this, with his elongated torso and long tail.
31	* MeaningfulName
32	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: In his true form, he has six arms ending in clawed hands.
33	* OnlySaneMan: Of all the changeling's in the group, he's the most normal.
34	* PowerFist: His weapon of choice is a set of gauntlets covered in flames.
35	* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Ray's red.
36
37	!!Ray
38	A thundhare changeling, Ray is the heavy hitter of the group. He was also the one that helped Pete create the Forsaken Children.
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40	* AxCrazy: Ray is always the first to go charging into a fight.
41	* BerserkButton: He really hates it when mundane people bring up the moral ambiguity of the changeling process.
42	* BrokenBird: While the changeling's all have pretty tragic back stories, it's implied that Ray was almost raped by a pedophile priest before he was taken to the magus world.
43	* ChivalrousPervert: Well he certainly likes to watch, especially Pete and Mary as shown in the second story.
44	* HairRaisingHare: Has floppy rabbit ears and is a complete lunatic.
45	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's crude, rude, violent, and pervy; but he certainly knows right from wrong, and he certainly won't let anything hurt his friends.
46	* MeaningfulName: Comes from Ray-o-vac, a brand of batteries.
47	* ManChild: The least mature of the changelings.
48	* RedOniBlueOni: The volatile red to Ash's calculating blue.
49	* ShockAndAwe: Knows a fair amount of electric magic, given that he's a thundhare changeling.
50	* SlapSlapKiss: Said to be in an on again, of again relationship with a leucrota changeling named Vicky.
51	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ash, Leon, and Herman.
52
53	!!Mary
54	An undine changeling, she is Pete's girlfriend.
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56	* {{Acrofatic}}: She maybe curvy, but she is incredibly agile.
57	* BigBeautifulWoman: She has often been described as being curvy and voluptuous.
58	* CuteMonsterGirl: Other than her webbed hands, fins, and beak like teeth, she's pretty attractive.
59	* KatanasAreBetter: Her weapon of choice.
60	* OfficialCouple: With Pete.
61	* MakingASplash: As an undine changeling, she is gifted with water magic.
62	* MeaningfulName: Comes from the French word for sea, mar.
63	* PetTheDog: Towards the end of the first story [[spoiler: when Leon had pissed off all the male changelings, Mary (who wasn't offended by his comments about the changeling process), quickly followed after him and apologized for them.]]
64	* WickedStepMother: Mary has said that when she was still human, she was adopted by a woman just to be given to her matron elemental as an alternative to the woman's daughter.
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66	!!Herman Schwartz
67	Leon's roommate and a huge fan of the fantastic. Introduced in the second story.
68
69	* ButtMonkey: Where do we even begin?
70	** At the start of the second story, he accidentally walks in on Pete and Mary having sex in his closet.
71	** Later, while the group is trying to figure out [[spoiler: whether or not he's actually a wizard or not]], Ray accomplishes this by literally throwing a book at him.
72	* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: Gains a costume reminiscent of the Phantom of the opera, a plague doctor, and a modernized wizard.
73	* PureEnergy: This seems to be the type of magic he can use, [[spoiler: using it to trap an oncoming book inside an energy bubble]].
74	* SquishyWizard: What he becomes.
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78	[[folder: Allies]]
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80	!!Slate
81	Pete's patron elemental, he serves as the overseer of the Forsaken Children.
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83	* DishingOutDirt: Pretty obvious, seeing as he's an earth elemental.
84	* MeaningfulName: from slate rock.
85	* ParentalSubstitute: With his human parents dead, Pete sees Slate as the closest thing he has to a father.
86	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He seems very understanding of the changelings' various issues.
87	* SadClown: While he does seem to be an upbeat person, word of God says that Slate is dealing with some emotional turmoil and guilt, what with being a fetcher (an elemental whose job it is to kidnap human children to create new changeling's).
88	* TeamDad: Seems to see the changeling's as children, and is quick to make sure they're safe.
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90	!!Rhombus
91	One of the leaders of the Fetcher's Union and a close friend of Slate's.
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93	* BlueBlood: He certainly is polite and courteous.
94	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even though the group [[spoiler: failed their mission to steal the Necronomicon,]] he's more than pleased with the results, stating that what they've recorded will help the Union plan for a future counterattack.
95	* SiliconBasedLife: Being a prismatic, he has a crystalline appearance to him.
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99	[[folder: Antagonists]]
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101	!!Earnest Blackdale
102	The son of the dean of Blackdale Academy, the descendent of the school's founder, and [[spoiler: the heir to the Necronomicon]].
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104	* AffablyEvil: When he's not angry or trying to kill anyone, Earnest is rather polite, even playful, with his enemies.
105	* BerserkButton: Never imply that [[spoiler: he doesn't know what he's doing with the Necronomicon]]. If he doesn't give you a reason you suck speech, you're already screwed.
106	* CigaretteOfAnxiety: He usually smokes to deal with stress.
107	* CreepyCrows: His [[spoiler: true, wiccan form]] has features of a crow.
108	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: A large majority of what he does is motivated by wanting to avenge [[spoiler: his mom's death at his dad's hands. Granted his mom is actually a witch]].
109	* EvilIsBigger: He stands at 6"8', weighs in at 280 lbs., and is a completely heartless bastard.
110	* EvilSoundsDeep: He's described as being husky voiced.
111	* FatBastard: He's huge, prideful, hateful, and completely untrusting of others; [[spoiler: and that's before we find out about the Necronomicon.]]
112	* HumanoidAbomination: He and his dad are [[spoiler: revealed to be wiccans (half human, half witch hybrids that are just as monstrous they look]].
113	* {{Jerkass}}: And how.
114	* LecherousLicking: Subverted in that while he doesn't actually lick anyone, he does lick his lips a lot when he has perverted thoughts, or is about to rape someone [[spoiler: like Mary or Arlene]].
115	* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Sees his mom as the most perfect being in the world, while everyone else [[spoiler: sees her as the murderous, cannibalistic witch that she really was.]]
116	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He certainly dresses smartly and has the money to back it up.
117	* {{Pride}}: One of his major flaws.
118	* ProperlyParanoid: Yes, accusing a group of strangers that he's never met before of being thieves is pretty dickish, but then again it's hard to blame him, considering his house was broken into last night. That and the fact that the strangers in question were the changelings trying to steal the [[spoiler: Necronomicon]] from him.
119	* SoftspokenSadist: While not seen in story, it is implied that he enjoys giving pain to others, [[spoiler: as seen when he was excited about using a spell that inflicts both mental and physical pain.]]
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123	[[folder: Other Characters]]
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125	!!Arlene Lune
126	A French foreign exchange student that Leon is in love with.
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128	* ActOfTrueLove: When given the choice between [[spoiler: exposing Earnest as the monster he truly is, or deleting the evidence to protect Leon, she gladly chose the latter.]]
129	* ActionGirl
130	* AutomaticCrossbow: Her weapon of choice.
131	* BigDamnHero: Fired an arrow into [[spoiler:Earnest's leg before he was able to kill Leon]].
132	* CannotSpitItOut: Well, Leon couldn't anyway. Arlene, however, was only glad to oblige.
133	* ClassyCatBurglar: [[spoiler: Revealed to be one by the end of the third story]].
134	* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Well, that seems to be what Leon thinks.
135	* GratuitousFrench: She does this some time.
136	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde, and is a kind person.
137	* TheWitchHunter: Revealed to be a member of [[spoiler: an entire guild of witch hunters.]]
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139	!!Eustace Blackdale
140	Earnest's father and the dean of Blackdale Academy
141
142	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Revealed to have [[spoiler: killed his wife to just to regain a normal life.]]
143	** However, considering that his wife was [[spoiler: a witch, it's up for debate as to whether or not he did it for his own safety.]]
144	* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: His transformation into a monster was apparently so painful, that he ripped off his own scalp midway.]]
145	* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It's implied at the end of the second story that Earnest is [[spoiler: planning to cast a spell on him that will warp him into a hideous guard beast]].
146	* {{Hypocrite}}: Earnset is quick to point out his faults when [[spoiler: he decided to surrender the Necronomicon to the Forsaken Children]], even though he is more than happy to uphold the less savory aspects of their family heritage.
147	* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: He's gentle, lean, average sized, and [[spoiler: willing to sacrifice the Necronomicon for the sake of the school]], as opposed to Earnest, who's pretty much a fat, giant, power hungry jerkass.
148	* NoodleIncident: During Earnest's rant, he points out that Eustace did something to his wife. While it's never specified what he did, remembering it is enough to solidify Eustace's choice to [[spoiler: give the Necronomicon to the Forsaken Children]].
149	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When he finds out about the Forsaken Children's plans,he decides [[spoiler: to give the Necronomicon to them, believing that the people they were working for would know how to deal with the magic within better than his family]].
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151	!!Hezekiah Blackdale
152	The founder of Blackdale Academy.
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154	* PosthumousCharacter: Died a few years after founding the college, when he accidentally blew up his head by delving too deep in the Necronomicon.
155	* ReligionOfEvil: Ran one based around the Necronomicon.
156	* YourHeadASplode: What happened to him, while his followers were driven insane.
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