Line #257 Characters/YoungWizards


1	Characters from ''Young Wizards''. As usual, '''BEWARE OF SPOILERS!'''
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3	UNDER CONSTRUCTION. There are many characters missing from this list, and most need more tropes added.
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7	[[folder:Callahan Family]]
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9	!'''Nita Callahan'''
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11	The first of the series's main protagonists, she's a geeky bookworm harassed by bullies, which ends up driving her into the library one day and discovering her wizard's manual, changing her life forever after and shortly after bringing her into partnership with Kit. Her initial affinity tends toward plants and animals; she later gains talents as a hydromage and a visionary.
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13	* ActionGirl: She is a wizard and she used a vine whip in her first outing.
14	* BadassBookworm: She found her Manual in the library and quickly became a well-versed wizard.
15	%%%* BewareTheNiceOnes:
16	%%%* BrainyBrunette
17	* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Nita attempts to make a deal with the Lone Power in order to save her mother's life, but doesn't go through with it.]]
18	* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Louise. She hates it, but it's never stated why. Carmela takes great delight in needling her about it.
19	* LittleMissBadass: As a grade school student she foiled the Lone One's invasion of earth.
20	%%%%* LittleMissSnarker
21	* MagicFeather: In ''So You Want To Be a Wizard'', Nita believes that her special space pen helps her to pass tests at school.
22	* MakingASplash: Implied from the second book, but outright started as having a water affinity in ''A Wizard of Mars''.
23	* TheMedic: In the first few books, Nita has an affinity for living matter and a natural talent for healing that makes her start to focus on healing spells. Then her affinity starts to change.
24	* NaiveEverygirl: She fits the role at the very beginning of the series, but grows out of it pretty quickly after acquiring wizardry and [[TakeALevelInBadAss taking her first level in badass.]]
25	* NotSoWeak: In the first book it's much more obvious, but she keeps many of the same character traits. It's also apparently a useful set of characteristics for wizards in general, who aren't really ''supposed'' to do things for their own benefit.
26	* OfficialCouple: With Kit. The two have with The Manual refers to as a "permanent partnership".
27	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name is Juanita, but you can count the times she's referred to as such on one hand.
28	%%%% This context doesn't say what she does, and only obliques mentions personality. "Looks to be where her affinity will end up, though much like Arhu, Nita is very down to earth."
29	%%%* OracularUrchin:
30	* SheIsAllGrownUp: By the fourth and fifth books she's become an attractive young woman.
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32	!'''Dairine Callahan'''
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34	Nita's bratty younger sister with intelligence beyond her years and dreams of wizards fighting evil (largely evident through her love of ''Franchise/StarWars''). Not long after Nita and Kit come out as wizards to their families in ''Deep Wizardry'' she [[JumpedAtTheCall jumps at the call]], taking the Wizard's Oath from Nita's manual and kicking off the events of ''High Wizardry''.
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36	* ActionGirl: She becomes a mighty techno-wizard.
37	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Dairine starts as this to Nita, and is jokingly given the nickname "Botherer-Of-Her-Sister".
38	* AscendedFangirl: Dresses up as a Jedi Padawan for Halloween, right down to getting a lightsaber built ''despite'' the impracticalities of a weapon you can hear.
39	* BadassFamily: Thanks to her, the Callahans are the biggest badass family in the universe; it includes an entire ''species'' with an extraordinarily high ratio of wizards to non-wizards.
40	* BrattyHalfPint: Although she does get better, she is initially a pest to Nita.
41	* ChildProdigy: She is gifted in both in regular subjects and in wizardry. She gets her Ordeal at eleven, which isn't the youngest ''ever'' by any means but still quite a bit younger than what's typical.
42	* ConstantlyCurious: Dairine wants to know as much as she possibly can.
43	* CryForTheDevil: She develops sympathy [[spoiler: Lone Power]]. [[spoiler: It works.]] [[invoked]]
44	* FieryRedhead: She is much more gung-ho than her brown-haired sister.
45	* JumpedAtTheCall: She desperately wanted to be a wizard as soon as she found out about it, and she got her wish.
46	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: She was ''so'' eager to Jump At The Call that she didn't bother thinking through the implications before she took the Oath. (If she'd been able to read her sister's biography before that, she would have had a far better idea about what she was getting herself into) A big part of her character development in book 3 is acknowledging the flaws that let her take the Oath without really meaning it - she was all about the 'big power' without getting the 'big responsibility' part. Dairine's habit of action first, think about the consequences later pops up again in book 5. [[spoiler: When she's told about her mother's cancer, she immediately tries a more or less improvised spell to cure her. It backfires spectacularly - she's still wizard-grounded over it in book 7, and she has to sit back and only watch while Nita undergoes specialist training to try and help Betty.]]
47	* InsufferableGenius: Accepting that she ''doesn't'' always know better than everyone else, and ''isn't'' automatically the best at anything has always been a struggle for Dairine. It plays a major part of her initial problems with Roshaun, too - they have a similar entitled attitude. For Roshaun, it's his royal heritage [[spoiler: with accompanying noblesse oblige]], for Dairine, it's because she's usually far and away the smartest person in the room.
48	* LateArrivalSpoiler: Dairine becomes a wizard in the third book.
49	%%%* LittleMissBadass
50	* LittleMissSnarker: She enjoys snarking before [[spoiler: Roshaun disappears.]] After that, she doesn't seem to take as much pleasure in it, and it has a far darker tone.
51	* MamaBear: Towards her "buddies," a race of sentient silicon lifeforms she helped "birth" — since they came into existence, all the Bad Guy has to do is suggest a threat toward them and said Bad Guy will immediately suffer The Wrath of Dairine
52	* PlayfulHacker: She has such an affinity for computers and cracking codes, and enjoyment in doing such, that her version of the Manual is a computer instead of a book.
53	* ShipTease: No one is quite sure what is going on between her and Roshaun.
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55	!'''Spot'''
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57	Dairine's manual, one of the first ones to arrive in computer form; the original resembles an Apple laptop with the bite missing from the apple in the logo. Over time, she has modified its form such that it's picked up legs, eyes and a personality. It's often found following her around like a pet when it can do so openly.
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59	* EmpathyPet: Despite being featureless, he's somehow able to reflect Dairine's mood.
60	* LoyalPhlebotinum: He doesn't have much to say to anyone other than Dairine.
61	* MagicalComputer: Literally, as he's a version of the [[SpellBook wizard's manual]].
62	* MagicFromTechnology: Has functions that can instantly generate spell circles and run them internally, which saves Dairine a lot of SpellConstruction.
63	* TechnologyMarchesOn: The most obvious example in the series. He has a habit of "[[MechanicalEvolution upgrading]]" between installments to mimic current Apple products.
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65	!'''Harry Callahan'''
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67	Nita and Dairine's father who owns a flower shop and spends a lot of his free time in the household gardens. A generally ReasonableAuthorityFigure who has to deal with the added stress of knowing his children are involved in jobs that involve saving the universe and can sometimes turn deadly. Since the aftermath of ''A Wizards Dilemma'', he's doing so as a single parent.
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69	* MuggleBornOfMages: Harry has other wizardly relatives he never realized until after Nita came out as a wizard and let him in on TheMasquerade; his grandmother supposedly was one and his sister, Annie, is actively one and appears as a major side character in ''A Wizard Abroad''. (He might have liked to know this before sending Nita to Ireland on a vacation to get her away from wizardry for a while...)
70	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: All considered, he takes wizardly hijinks and aliens in his basement very well.
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72	!'''Betty Callahan'''
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74	Nita and Dairine's mother, also a generally ReasonableAuthorityFigure dealing with the stress of being mother to two wizardly children. However, in ''A Wizard's Dilemma'' she is diagnosed with a fatal cancer for which wizardry could only buy her a little extra time (and nearly costing Nita's soul in the process). Her absence is greatly felt by her family members in the subsequent books.
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76	* BadassNormal: A normal human faces down [[spoiler: a incarnation of the Lone One.]] She did have home-turf advantage as the struggle was taking place in her own mind, but it is still a mighty feat considering what her enemy has done in the minds of others.
77	* DanceBattler: A variant. She was a professional dancer before marrying Harry, and her actions throughout the house are still graceful and fluid. [[spoiler: During her fight against the Lone One, she brutally assaults him with the concentrated agony of just how much her body suffered in those days: "Oh, we KNOW about pain! Dance is eight hours of childbirth, ''five days a week!'' MORE on weekends!"]]
78	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: During her [[spoiler: battle with the Lone One's incarnation, she calls him, among other things, "unusually dumb." That's right--Betty is insulting the ''personification of evil.'']]
79	* FaceDeathWithDignity: She ultimately chooses this, even when [[spoiler: she gains the upper hand against the Lone One and could easily destroy it, along with all of her terminal cancer. Betty correctly determines that this is a XanatosGambit on the part of the Power--if she ''did'' obliterate it, she'd become so addicted to life and determined to squeeze out every last possible second that her soul would be corrupted. By choosing to die, albeit it on her own terms, she outwits the Power and makes it to Timeheart.]]
80	* HandicappedBadass:[[spoiler: Dying of cancer when she told off the Lone One.]]
81	* MamaBear: Protects Nina even from the Powers.
82	* SilkHidingSteel: Graceful, demure, polite...and NOT to be messed with. She [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope when she remarks that she once danced the lead role in ''Swan Lake'', telling Nita that while swans look beautiful and dainty, they could snap a person's arm without even trying (this is TruthInTelevision--swans' wings are dangerously powerful).
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84	!'''Aunt Annie (Annie Callahan)'''
85	Harry's sister and, to his surprise in ''A Wizard Abroad'', a wizard. (The wizardry apparently comes from his side of the family). She's an American currently living in Ireland, running a horse farm in County Wicklow.
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87	* AuthorAvatar: Annie bears the most superficial resemblences to Diane Duane - an American with red hair who's immigrated to Ireland and lives in the country of County Wickalow near Dublin (though in meta-works like the 30-Day OTP challenge, Duane appears as herself). In ''Lifeboats'', she's seen briefly with a man that suspiciously resembles Duane's RealLife husband, Creator/PeterMorwood.
88	* WriteWhoYouKnow: Duane has admitted on her [[http://dduane.tumblr.com/post/103929520701/im-in-themmiddle-of-a-long-overdue-re-read-of Tumblr]] that Aunt Annie is a tribute to Creator/AnneMcCaffrey.
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91	[[folder:Rodriguez Family]]
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93	!'''Kit Rodriguez'''
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95	Co-protagonist and Nita's partner in wizardry. Like Nita, Kit was first attracted to wizardry because he had problems with bullies, being in the advanced class in school (in older editions, having skipped a grade) and being Hispanic. His initial affinity is with inorganic things, particularly machines and electronics; his partnership with his dog, Ponch, soon becomes incredibly important as Ponch grows in wisdom and gains unusual talents.
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97	%%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
98	%%%%* DashingHispanic
99	%%%* DeadpanSnarker:
100	* DistractedByTheSexy: Kit really needs to stop drawing in class.
101	%%%%* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation:
102	* GadgeteerGenius: In contrast to Nita, his initial specialty was technology. In one book, he can be seen mediating a spat between his TV and VCR.
103	* OfficialCouple: With Nita. The two have with The Manual refers to as a "permanent partnership".
104	* ShorterMeansSmarter: Until his growth spurt, anyway, he was shorter than his peers and doing wizardy calculations.
105	* {{Technopath}}: Although all wizards are capable of this to some extent, Kit's specialty (with mechanical non-organic inanimate objects) has remained the same throughout the series, unlike Nita's.
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107	!'''Ponch'''
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109	Kit's big, friendly Border Collie/German Shepherd mutt. While it's common for wizardly pets to pick up strange habits, Ponch starts demonstrating unusual ''talents'', such as being able to create and enter other universes. His character arc comes to a head in ''Wizards at War'' where all the wisdom he's gained will be used to change the tide of the battle and the fate of the canine species.
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111	* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Leaves the cast by returning to Timeheart.]]
112	* DogsAreDumb: Averted. he started out smart, and only got smarter as time went on after being around Kit for so long.
113	* {{God}}: [[spoiler:He is an incarnation of The One.]]
114	* GodIsGood: [[spoiler: An Incarnation of The One and a fantastic pet. He's been working on some Powers-level scheme all this time he's been pretending to be a normal dog.]]
115	* KingOfAllCosmos: [[spoiler: He's the local {{God}}, and his favorite pastime is to incarnate as a dog because he likes the 'spell it backwards joke'. According to the Transcendent Pig, He has fondness for bad old jokes.]]
116	* UpliftedAnimal: [[spoiler: At first, his increasing intelligence is thought to be because of his exposure to the wizardry of his owner. It is later revealed that his high intelligence is actually because He's The One.]]
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118	!'''Carmela Rodriguez'''
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120	Kit's older sister (his oldest sister, Helena, is rarely seen, having gone to college). Though too old to be offered wizardry (unless the Powers grew truly desperate) she has an astounding talent with languages and becomes fluent in the Speech after the Rodriguez family entertainment system starts picking up channels from other galaxies. Her talent, outgoing personality and surprising ability with energy weapons get her as firmly ingrained in Kit and Nita's wizardly circles as any other wizard and she's become a frequent visitor to The Crossings (which she helps save from hostile takeover in ''Wizards at War'').
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122	* ActionGirl: She helps fight nasties with energy weapons she ordered from other planets.
123	* BadassNormal: She starts participating in the fighting aspects plot around the eighth book despite not being a wizard. However, she is a natural in The Speech and so she can order alien tech from their version of the internet.
124	* CunningLinguist: A natural in the Speech and other languages, including long-dead Martian writings that had ''[[{{Omniglot}} Wizards]]'' stumped.
125	* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Inverted- her middle name is unique ("Emeda"), but she likes it.
126	%%%%* LetsGetDangerous: in Wizards at War especially.
127	* SpicyLatina: She is quite sassy, even to alien mercenaries.
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129	!'''Helena Rodriguez'''
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131	Kit's oldest sister, rarely seen. She doesn't initially take to Kit's wizardry well, believing he must have done some sort of DealWithTheDevil, though she eventually comes to terms with it in a round-about way.
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133	!'''Juan Rodriguez'''
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135	Kit's father, an employee at the printing facility for a major Long Island newspaper. Tends toward being laid back and laconic; his eventual reaction to Kit revealing his wizardry to his family can be summed up as "Cool. My son's a ''brujo''."
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137	!'''Marina Rodriguez'''
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139	Kit's mother, a nurse. A very warm and nurturing personality who has come to handle her son's wizardry career with much the same acceptance as her husband.
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141	* ApronMatron: When not working, can often be found in the kitchen. Supposedly her skills at cooking are limited but the things she knows how to make well, she makes ''really'' well. It's mentioned in ''How Lovely Are They Branches'' that she's constantly trying to improve. Has a very no-nonsense mindset to back up the personality.
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144	[[folder:Supporting Humans]]
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146	!'''Carl Romero and Tom Swale'''
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148	The area Advisory (later promoted to Senior) wizards for the Long Island region, they serve as the young wizards' immediate superiors and advisers.
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150	* AmbiguouslyGay: Tom and Carl happen to live side by side in a single house and have dogs and koi fish but it's unclear on what the nature of their relationship with each other is. While Nita at one point says they're definitely just friends, they're shown sharing a bed in ''Owl Be Home For Christmas'', so she's probably just oblivious.
151	* GoodIsNotSoft: They're both pretty nice guys, and always happy to help Nita and Kit, but also can be very straightforward and blunt, even harsh at times. As Advisories, their job is to tell the truth and help younger wizards get their jobs done, but they're in a hard profession where, sometimes, hard choices have to be made.
152	* HeterosexualLifePartners: One valid interpretation of their relationship can be seen as this as they do not give off much warning signs on their sexuality and the FlipFlopOfGod from the author had left their relationship open to interpretation.
153	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: WordOfGod from the author has stated that Tom and Carl are inspirations of two friends of the author. Since their passing, she has [[http://dduane.tumblr.com/post/177767909111/having-read-that-tribute-to-tom-i-guess-i-know revealed that they were married]] and that she refused to confirm the fictional characters' relationship due to request of confidentiality during their lifetimes.
154	* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy: They warn Nita and Kit about this once in a while.
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156	!'''Ronan Nolan'''
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158	An older teenage wizard that Nita first meets in Ireland during ''A Wizard Abroad''. He can initially come off as brash and projects a facade of being hotheaded and sarcastic but his actions show genuine care for others and commitment to wizardry and he eventually becomes a close part of Kit and Nita's circle of wizardly friends.
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160	%%%%* DeadpanSnarker: Not so much before, but definitely in ''A Wizard Of Mars''.
161	* ForeignCussWord: Definitely in ''A Wizard of Mars'', to the point where the characters recognize that he's saying something offensive even if they're not sure just what it is.
162	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Tries to kill himself with the Spear of Light to allow the One's Champion to manifest fully. It doesn't stick.]]
163	* IAmWho: [[spoiler: He's shocked to find out he's an incarnation of The One's Champion.]]
164	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Does not take the news about his being an avatar to the [[spoiler: One's Champion]] at ''all'' well, and is terrified of losing his self if he lets [[spoiler: the Champion]] take control.
165	%%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
166	* MakingASplash: Implied from his Ordeal, stated as being his elemental affinity in ''A Wizard of Mars''.
167	%%%* TroubledButCute
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169	!'''Darryl [=McAllister=]'''
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171	A young autistic boy who is initially offered wizardry and is encountered by Kit and Nita in ''A Wizard Alone'' when he seemingly becomes lost in his own mind on his Ordeal. In the original version of the book he cures his own autism at the end but Duane rewrote it after feedback from other autistic people so that he remains autistic but is able to function in the outside world much better. Since then he's functioned as the occasional KidSidekick to the team and proven to have a humorous and even bubbly personality at times.
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173	* BarrierMaiden: A SpearCounterpart version. He is [[spoiler:a Font of The One's power, I.E. the means by which Nina, Kit, etc receive their power. If he realizes it, he'll die,]] so everyone is very careful about preserving the {{Masquerade}}.
174	%%%%% Saying he snarks in a certain book is not context.
175	%%%%* DeadpanSnarker:
176	* DisabilitySuperpower: Though his autism is bizarrely portrayed (his behaviour on the outside is accurate enough, but his experience from the inside not so much), Darryl makes his first appearance as a severely autistic boy who also turns out to be [[spoiler:a human conduit for a large amount of the wizardly power available to Earth]]. It is a JustifiedTrope: Darryl's autism is something the Lone Power has done to him; it's reasonable that it would only superficially resemble an organic condition. So in other words, it's not really autism.
177	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: If he ever learns that he's an [[spoiler:abdal,]] he'll immediately a) [[spoiler:stop being one]] and b) [[spoiler:die]].
178	* NeurodiversityIsSupernatural: In ''A Wizard Alone'', Darryl becomes autistic [[spoiler:in an attempt to withdraw from the sensations of being malignantly observed by the Lone Power.]]
179	* WhatBeautifulEyes: Darryl has eyes so innocent that it hurts the first time you see them.
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181	!'''Mr. Millman'''
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183	The councilor at Nita's school with whom she is visiting after her mother's death. Nita finds him, to her surprise, to be a pretty decent person, even if her grief makes dealing with the meetings difficult.
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185	* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: [[spoiler: Subverted. While not a wizard himself, he's in on TheMasquerade and knows how to spot one. This comes in handy when the cast needs time off from school to save the universe.]]
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187	!'''Irina Mladen'''
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189	The Planetary Wizard for Earth (and by extension the person with local authority on Earth's unpopulated neighbor planets including Mars). Her unassuming appearance as a short, middle-aged woman contrasts with her immense power and authority.
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191	* ActionMom: The most powerful wizard native to Earth, usually to be found carrying her baby in a sling.
192	* MamaBear: Towards the whole planet, judging by her behavior.
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195	[[folder:Supporting Aliens]]
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197	!'''Fred (sentient white hole)'''
198	%%%%* BadassAdorable
199	* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Fred hasn't been mentioned more than once or twice since the first book.]]
200	* SomeCallMeTim: Kit gives him the name "Fred" because there was no way either he or Nita would be able to pronounce, let alone remember his true name.
201	* TheUnpronounceable: His full name is Khairelikoblephareglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni.
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203	!'''Pralaya'''
204	* DevilInDisguise: The wizard Pralaya in ''The Wizard's Dilemma'' is "overshadowed" by the Lone Power (meaning, possessed by the Devil, basically).
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206	!'''Roshaun ke Nelaid'''
207	%%%% Saying he's one of the few examples of a trope is not contet.
208	* HumanAliens: By all appearances and factors, he is totally human but he comes from another planet. In fact, he thinks that earthlings are the "humanoids", not him.
209	%%%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
210	* OverlyLongName: Roshaun ke Nelaid am Seriv am Teliuyve am Meseph am Veliz am Teriaunst am det Wellakhit, and that's the ''short'' version. It's explained at one point that the first two are his personal name and a patronymic, and the rest are a lengthy series of titles, therefore it also fits neatly under TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard.
211	* PrettyBoy: His descriptions in both books where he appears stress how pretty he is.
212	* RoyalBrat: Roshaun, a prince who arrives on the exchange program in ''Wizard's Holiday'', is difficult to get along with.
213	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: His family is in charge of monitoring the local star and keeping it under control.
214	* ShelteredAristocrat: The royal palace is located ''on the other side of the planet'' from the population centers (specifically, the part that the sun melted), so walking among people who aren't servants is a new experience for him. He's definitely arrogant.
215	%%%%* TroubledButCute:
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217	!'''Sker'ret'''
218	* DeadpanSnarker: Learns sarcasm while on exchange. He becomes very adept at using it.
219	* ExtremeOmnivore: He can and does eat pretty much anything, be it pasta, tin cans or used oxygen tanks.
220	* StarfishAliens: A Rirhait, described as resembling a giant metallic centipede.
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222	!'''Filif'''
223	* ExtraEyes: The little red "berries" all over his branches are basically eyes.
224	* FishOutOfWater: As a sentient plant visiting a world run by humans, the culture shock hits him pretty hard, especially when he learns about vegetarians.
225	* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: During his time on earth, he develops a fascination with human clothes. He can't wear them conventionally, for obvious reasons, but likes to hang them from his branches.
226	* OurNudityIsDifferent: Uses a "decency shield" spell to obscure his roots.
227	* OverlyLongName: Filifermanhathrhumneits'elhessaiffnth, in full.
228	* StarfishAliens: He's a walking pine tree with berries for eyes who speaks by rustling his branches.
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230	!'''Mamvish'''
231	* BadassBookworm: He is the Species Archivist to the Powers that Be and one of the most powerful wizards in the galaxy, possibly so much so that the Lone Power opted out of participating in her Ordeal.
232	* GenkiGirl: Energetic, emotive (her culture finds no advantage to suppressing their feelings) and constantly running around the galaxy on business such that she often only has minutes at a time to check in with the main characters.
233	* LizardFolk: Is a saurian
234	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Her race has a very long lifespan, so while she's a millennia or two old, she hasn't hit puberty yet. It is almost an inversion of the trope in that people keep forgetting how ''young'' she actually is.
235	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tomatoes.
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237	[[/folder]]
238
239	[[folder:The Powers That Be]]
240
241	!'''The Lone Power'''
242	* AloofBigBrother: To the other Powers; the Lone One is frequently known as "Eldest, Fairest and Fallen".
243	* AmbiguouslyEvil: In two ways. First in that It isn't always malevolent and actually means well sometimes. Second in that tying death and entropy into the universe does not actually have to be a bad thing. The problem is just that the Lone Power won't work with the others to see what can be done with it.
244	* BeingEvilSucks: Everyone knows that It wants to quit and go home, but they have to keep fighting It until it breaks down and admits that It's tired of all the nonsense.
245	* BigBad: All minor villains answer to It one way or another; more to the point, It is implied to be at least partly responsible for ''all the evil in the universe''.
246	* BodySurf: Appears in lots of bodies over the course of the series, sometimes possessing mortals, sometimes as an aspect of Itself.
247	* CainAndAbel: A variation with multiple Abels, since the Powers are more or less siblings and perpetually at war.
248	* DemonicPossession: Has the ability, but fully posessing mortals is very difficult to use effectively, especially on a wizard. It prefers to "shadow" them instead by convincing them to be something like a WillingChanneler.
249	* DontYouDarePityMe: Angered by Dairine's sympathy in Book 3 during her ordeal. [[spoiler: This pity leads to an aspect of itself accepting forgiveness and returning to Time Heart.]]
250	* EvilRedhead: Appears in different bodies and doesn't look the same to everyone, but Nita usually sees It as a man with red-gold hair.
251	* EvilPlan: It's always offering Its "Gift" and spreading it around the universe, though the reasons why vary based on the specific aspect the wizards are dealing with. In some cases the Power is a proud inventor, in others It's genuinely malicious, and in others It thinks It's being helpful.
252	* FieryRedhead: The Lone Power is pretty hot-tempered and he appears as a redheaded guy-- Nita sees him that way, at least, in SYWTBAW and High Wizardry.
253	* FightingAShadow: Everytime that Nina and Kit fight the Lone One, they're actually just fighting an aspect of it, not the real deal, because the full being is not something that can really be interacted with: It doesn't even exist inside the universe the way humans normally think of things.
254	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In ''High Wizardry", Dairine convinces an aspect of the Lone One to redeem itself and return home. This isn't the first time it's happened - Nina did the same thing in the first book by changing its name slightly - but it's considered an extremely significant event.]]
255	* IHaveManyNames: The Lone Power, the Starsnuffer, the Old Serpent, the Isolate, Esemeli and so on. Its true name is very long, quite beautiful and is functionally a description of the Lone Power itself. At the end of the first book, [[spoiler:Nina adds in a single character to its name to give it the chance of changing itself for the better, something that the Powers That Be find very difficult to do.]]
256	* LightIsNotGood: Back before it was cast out, it was the fairest and brightest of the PowersThatBe. Its contribution when the universe was created was entropy and death. It doesn't really understand why its gift is unappreciated and some wizards suggest that death doesn't actually ''have'' to be a bad, however, if the Lone Power would just work with everyone else on making it fit in properly.
257	* LonersAreFreaks: Technically speaking, inventing entropy and death is not actually why it got in trouble but rather that it do so all by itself without working with its siblings and then added into the universe without asking.
258	* ManBehindTheMan: Prefers this tactic, although when dealing with wizards it is often forced to come out into the open.
259	* NoSenseOfHumor: The one thing It hates the most is being made fun of.
260	* OmnicidalManiac: It ''invented'' death after all and spreads it around as much as It can.
261	* PhraseCatcher: Wizards always greet It with "Fairest and Fallen, greetings and defiance". It notes that this has become annoying after a few thousand years.
262	* {{Pride}}: The Lone Power is actually tired of being by Itself, unwelcome anywhere and always have to fight everyone, but refuses to admit it. The ultimate goal of wizards is to keep earning small victories until It gives up, stops being a brat and goes home.
263	* {{Satan}}: A divine being that was cast out of Its home for rebelling against the others and is called the source of evil. In-universe, It was the inspiration for the figure of Satan in human religions. However, treating It with contempt or hatred is both dangerous and counterproductive: It opens up the wizard to being manipulated and the ultimate goal is not to destroy or defeat the Lone Power but to make it give up and start helping out again. It's why wizards have a greeting that is genuinely polite: There's no point to making it even angrier when the real goal is to eventually start working with it again.
264	* SealedEvilInACan: As Esemeli, It's reduced to a ''tourist attraction'' because It is trapped and impotent in a shrine.
265
266	!'''Memeki'''
267
268	* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: She is a Power that was not on hand at the creation of the universe, and so in order to interact with it, she had to incarnate as a mortal first. After transcending, she regains her true form.]]
269	* BadassAdorable: In spite of being a giant bug, she manages; first by being cute in personality and second by [[spoiler: personally opposing the Lone One.]]
270	* GoodCounterpart: [[spoiler:Her purpose is explicitly to be a match to the Lone Power; someone that can meet it blow-for-blow and be the best capable at foiling its plans.]]
271	* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: For a species that is whole soul owned by The Lone Power [[spoiler: she joins the wizards to fight against it.]]
272	* ShrinkingViolet: She is her kind's equivalent of a wallflower.
273
274	!'''Macchu Picchu/Peach'''
275	* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently throws verbal jabs at her wizard owners.
276	* GodWasMyCopilot: [[spoiler: She was a Power in disguise that was assisting Carl Romero and Tom Swale while waiting for her moment to strike a bigger plan.]]
277
278	!'''Biddy O Dalaigh'''
279	* TheBlacksmith: Her job as a mortal is forging and repairing metal stuff.
280	* GodWasMyCopilot: Her neighbors and even fellow wizards didn't know that she was a Power pretending to be human for personal reasons.
281	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Helps reforge the spear, even though she knows that using her powers again (against her promise) will effectively kill her.]]
282	* UltimateBlacksmith: [[spoiler: She forged the original Spear of Light, and she's needed to make the replacement form for it.]]
283	[[/folder]]
284
285	[[folder:The Song of Twelve]]
286
287	!'''S'reee'''
288	%%%%* WiseBeyondTheirYears
289
290	!'''ed'Rashtekaresket/"Ed" the Master-Shark'''
291
292	A great white shark almost a hundred feet long, Ed is the Master of all the world's sharks and the only non-wizard participant in the Song of the Twelve.
293	----
294	* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: It's never entirely clear ''why'' he does this, but [[spoiler:when the Song of the Twelve is teetering on the brink of failure, Ed abandons his neutrality and takes Nita's place in the Song, thus saving her life and binding the Lone Power more strongly than ever before]].
295	* BadassNormal: Zig-zagged. He's "normal" in the sense that he isn't a wizard. On the other hand, he's an intelligent shark that belongs to no living species; he may be immortal; he commands ''all'' sharks and can summon them to a massive feeding frenzy; and he seems to have empathic powers.
296	* BlackComedy: Ed has a sense of humor, but it's decidedly on the dark side, fitting his nature as the ultimate shark. He definitely enjoys a bit of grim banter with Nita:
297	-->'''Ed:''' My lady wizard, you're also scared out of your wits.\
298	'''Nita:''' Master-Shark, if I was, it would be stupid to say so; I'd be inviting you to eat me. And saying I wasn't scared would be stupid too -- and a lie.\
299	'''Ed:''' That's well said, Nita. You're wise not to lie to a shark, nor to tell him that particular truth. After all, fear is distress. And I end distress; that's my job.
300	* BloodMagic: Ed's only 'power,' apart from his possible immortality and empathic abilities deals with blood. If he bleeds, his blood will call all sharks from miles and miles around to come and join in the ultimate feeding frenzy. It's part of the reason why nothing tries to attack him.
301	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Light, dark, good, evil -- his moral code is best described as "none of the above". He is what he is and doesn't seek to be anything else. He understands the ideas of good and evil; he just doesn't care that much about them. He knows how others see him and accepts it, because it goes with being the Master-Shark. There's no hatred or malice in him; he kills and eats, even the Silent One, because it's what he's supposed to do.
302	* DarkIsNotEvil: He's an extremely sinister killing machine, but he's not ''evil'', or mindless. He ends distress (by eating the distressed). He's portrayed a lot like TheGrimReaper.
303	* TheEmpath: An unusual case, Ed can sense distress from hundreds of miles away, and can sense the emotions of those around him. He can even read thoughts if they're emotionally charged enough.
304	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: His title is "Master Shark", and that's exactly what he is: the Master of ''all'' sharks, everywhere throughout the world's oceans.
305	* FluffyTheTerrible: His [[TheUnpronounceable real name]] is much more impressive. But Nita can't pronounce it, so she just calls him "Ed." He seems to like it, as much as he can be said to "like" anything.
306	* HeroicSacrifice: He's the facilitator of a literal sacrifice that wizards perform regularly to keep an incarnation of the Lone Power trapped. [[spoiler:He takes over the Silent Lord's song so that his blood, amped up by the power of Nita's wizardry, will call all the sharks on the planet as reinforcements against the Lone One.]]
307	* {{Immortality}}: Nita speculates at one point that there may have only been one Master Shark ''ever''. In fact, there is a theory that sharks don't die of old age, only when they succumb to injury or disease.
308	* LegacyCharacter: Nita suspects that his name is more of a title because in the Song of Twelve's Cast-list, so to speak, it just says "Master Shark", like how human executioners wore hoods to hide their identities. [[spoiler:He is definitely going to need a replacement after the end of book 2.]]
309	* LivingForeverIsAwesome: He enjoys his role in the reoccurring reenactment of the whale's Choice and tells Nita that he's looking forward to eating her since her role is "The Silent One."
310	* MercyKill: His role in the ocean's society is to "end distress" by killing the distressed.
311	%%* TheUnfettered
312	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Some things Ed says make him seem terribly lonely, especially considering it's implied he is rather fond of the Silent Ones every time he meets them, yet always ends up having to eat them and continue living by himself.
313
314	!'''Areinnye'''
315
316	!'''Iniihwit'''
317
318	!'''Arooon'''
319
320	!'''Fang'''
321
322	!'''T!h!ki'''
323
324	!'''Roots'''
325	* BigEater
326	[[/folder]]
327
328
329	!'''The Transcendent Pig'''
330	A supernatural creature that is everywhere at once but not always seen. No one knows where it came from, not even the Powers.
331	* BeyondTheImpossible: The Powers That Be, which created the Universe and everything in it, can't remember creating him. It causes them embarrassment.
332	* ImpossibleTask: "Tell me three things I don't know and I'll tell you one thing you don't know." He is TheOmniscient; just ''one'' is too much for most wizards, though he has been known to quietly bend the rules if he feels it's for a genuinely good cause.
333	* TheOmniscient: The Pig is everywhere at once and so he knows everything.
334	* PhraseCatcher: Whenever a wizard finds him they ask, "What is the meaning of life?" If they ask long enough, the idea goes, the pig will slip and tell one of them.
335	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's been around so long, not even the Powers know where he came from.
336	* RuleOfThree: Claims to have the 'three things' rule because wizards can get into a lot of trouble with just one response.
337
338
339
340
341
342	!'''Bobo/the peridexic effect'''
343
344	!'''Mamvish'''
345	* BadassAdorable: Despite the fact that she's nearly as tall and far longer than an elephant. ('You are my FRIEND!!')
346	%%%%* BigEater
347	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tomatoes.
348
349	!'''The Stationmaster'''
350
351
352	!'''The oracular koi'''
353	%%%* DeadpanSnarker
354
355
356
357	!'''Ehef'''
358
359
360
361	!'''Nelaid ke Seriv'''
362
363	!'''Miril am Miril'''
364
365
366
367	!'''Amadaun'''
368	* TheFairFolk
369
370
371
372	!'''Dazel'''
373
374	!'''Evryss'''
375
376	!'''Liused'''
377
378	!'''Pont'''
379
380	!'''Rhiow'''
381
382	* HeartbrokenBadass: The day before the climax of the book, [[spoiler:she loses her human, Susan. It shakes her badly during the fight, but she ultimately uses it to fuel her resolve.]]
383	* {{Revenge}}: In a roundabout way. [[spoiler:As the Lone Power's Choice is what led to humans having only one life, she blames it for the death of her human Susan and becomes even more determined to thwart its plans for the saurian Choice.]]
384	* TeamMom: The leader of the gateway team and the one that keeps them all running. [[spoiler:It's what makes her such a good fit for hosting Iau, the mother of all cats.]]
385
386	!'''Urruah'''
387
388	* LovableRogue: By cat standards. He picks fights for the heck of it, steals and teases and flirts, and messes with things just because, but at the end of the day he's as loyal and brave a wizard as any.
389	* LovableSexManiac: He's a tom, it's always in the back of his mind.
390
391	!'''Joanne Virella'''
392	%%%* AlphaBitch: Until Nita dethroned her, anyway.
393	%%%* RichBitch: Well, rich''er''.
394	%%%* SpoiledBrat
395
396	!'''Arhu'''
397
398	* MerlinSickness: His prophetic abilities mean he's seeing things all out of order, although he's learning how to control it.
399	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Of his litter.]]
400	* TheWatson: As the newest member of the gateway team and new to being in a pride, the others teach him and the audience about cat wizardry.
401	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Heights. He's constantly seeing alternate realities where he falls off, after all.
402
403
404
405	!'''Kkirl'''
406
407	!'''Mmemyn'''
408
409	!'''Neme'''
410
411
412
413	!'''Rraah-yarh'''
414
415	!'''Saash'''
416
417	* SecretlyDying: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:She's on her ninth life, and due to the price paid for the journey Downside, she will die when it's done, a fact she withholds from the others. However, she earns her tenth life doing so, so she's still around, even if she isn't corporeal anymore.]]
418	* TheSmartGuy: The team's computer nerd, she is very good at the technicalities of gates.
419
420
421
422	!'''Tualha'''
423
424	* CuteKitten: Don't let that fool you. She is very knowledgeable, very wise, and can carry her weight in a fight. With words.
425	%%%* LetsMockTheMonsters
426	%%%* LittleMissSnarker: In animal form.
427	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[spoiler: Queen]] WarriorPoet [[CuteKitten Kitten]]
428	%%%* TheStoryteller
429	%%%* WarriorPoet
430
431	!'''Khretef'''
432	%%%* HenpeckedHusband
433
434	!'''Aurilelde'''
435	%%%* BitchInSheepsClothing
436	%%%* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Grey skinned, actually, in ''A Wizard of Mars''.
437	%%%* {{Yandere}}
438
439	!'''The Shamask-Eilitt'''
440	* HumanAliens: After they move planet and adapt themselves to suit the new surroundings. Justified by their having seen early humans and decided that shape looked suitable.

Context Characters / YoungWizards