History Characters / DoctorSleep

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!The Torrance Family

[[folder:Dan]]
!!Daniel Anthony 'Danny/Dan' Torrance

* TheAlcoholic
* AlmightyJanitor
* TheAtoner
* [[spoiler: CoolUncle: To Abra, when it is revealed Jack is her real grandfather.]]
* TheEmpath
* IAmNotMyFather
* ISeeDeadPeople
* OracularUrchin
* PsychicPowers
* StudentAndMasterTeam: With Abra.
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[[folder:Jack]]
!!John Daniel "Jack" Torrance

* AbusiveParent
* TheAlcoholic
** AlcoholicParent
* AntiVillain
* AxCrazy
* FaceHeelTurn
* MeaningfulName: His first and middle name is Jack Daniel and he's an alcoholic.
* MostWritersAreWriters
* ParentalFavoritism: Jack was his father's favorite, though he still beat him regularly. Jack still loved him as best he could, even when the rest of the family began to hate him.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain
* SanitySlippage
* SplitPersonalityTakeover
* TragicVillain
* WeaponOfChoice: A roque mallet.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He's portrayed sympathetically. His turn to {{Ax Craz|y}}iness is tragic AND terrifying.
* YourCheatingHeart: He's known to have cheated on his wife at least once. [[spoiler:Lucy is the result of this affair.]]
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[[folder:Wendy]]
!!Winnifred "Wendy" Torrance

* AbusiveParents: Her mother abused her emotionally.
* ActionSurvivor
* DaddysGirl
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!The Stone Family

[[folder:Abra]]
!!Abra Rafaella Stone

* [[spoiler: AstralProjection: Is capable of this near the end.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: For Doctor Sleep.
* LittleMissBadass
* MacguffinSuperPerson: The True Knot need her to keep from dying out.
* PsychicPowers: Has the most powerful shining ever seen.
* StudentAndMasterTeam: With Dan.
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[[folder:Lucy]]
!!Lucia "Lucy" Stone
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[[folder:David]]
!!David Stone

* PapaWolf: Will do anything to protect his daughter.
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[[folder:Concetta Reynolds]]
!!Concetta Reynolds

* CoolOldLady
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!The True Knot

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* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: They call themselves the True Knot because they're "knotted together" like a family, and indeed, they show a great deal of kindness and compassion towards each other (just not anyone else).
* EmotionEater: They devour feelings along with steam, with fear and pain particularly flavouring the steam.
* HumanoidAbomination: Their true forms having jaws with a single tusk inside. Walnut also hypothesizes about their condition, believing them to still have DNA but to have a changed nervous system, the latter of which causes the True to react badly to flying.
* LifeDrinker: But only of people with the shining. They hunt down children with it as adults lose power and flavour, but they also spectate disasters such as 9/11 to drink in the essence of any shiners that may have lost their lives (and the pain of others).
* MeaningfulRename: Often refer to significant parts of their appearance.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're living psychics who have inhaled "steam", the life force of those with the shining who have died in agony, becoming strange beings who regularly "cycle" between the afterlife and the mortal world in ways that give them their youth and extremely long lifespans. Abra even calls Rose a vampire at one point.
* SerialKiller
* SmugSnake: They treat everyone other than them with contempt, refusing to refer to normal people as anything other than "rubes". But as Abra points out, they're nothing more than arrogant vultures who hunt down children. As such they massively underestimate Abra's intelligence, resourcefulness and potential allies.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Most look like late middle-aged to elderly tourists.
* VampiricDraining
* WouldHurtAChild: Thousands over the centuries.
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[[folder:Rose the Hat]]
!!Rose the Hat (Rose [=O'Hara=])

* AffablyEvil
* BerserkButton: Don't damage her hat. Just don't.
* BigBad
* BiTheWay: She sleeps with both Crow and Snakebite Andi.
* CompellingVoice
* DarkActionGirl
* DepravedBisexual: Played with. She's evil and she's bisexual while engaging in a twin-gendered polyamorous romance, but her genuine care for her romantic partners is her largest redeeming quality.
* TheDeterminator: once she has her mind set on getting her hands on Abra, nobody can talk her out of it, and anything Abra and Dan do to stop her only makes her more determined.
* [[spoiler: DisneyVillainDeath: Dan and Abra combine their powers to push her off an observation tower, snapping her neck when she hits the ground.]]
* FightingIrish: It's mentioned she was an Irish immigrant around the time of the Wild West.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* MoreThanMindControl: She can do the straight version, but has an insidious way of sniffing out and targeting multiple characters' weaknesses and fears.
* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To The True Knot]]
* MsFanservice: Explicitly described as the most beautiful woman most people have ever met, and she knows it. Of course, BeautyIsBad; she likely got that way because of how much steam she's eaten.
* NiceHat: An old top hat, which is the basis of her name.
* VainSorceress: Her personality, especially as far as Abra is concerned, has shades of this.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has several over the course of the book, the biggest being when [[spoiler: Crow is killed.]]
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[[folder:Crow Daddy]]
!!Crow Daddy (Henry Rothman)

* AffablyEvil
* AmoralAttorney: He was a lawyer prior to becoming a member of the True Knot.
* [[spoiler:AteHisGun: But not by choice.]]
* TheDragon: For Rose.
* HypercompetentSidekick: To Rose, who trusts him completely and relies on him.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: He's a Harvard-educated lawyer, class of '38.
* NumberTwo: Explicitly described as this.
* MouthOfSauron: One of his most important jobs is negotiating for the True Knot, representing them in deals with 'rubes'.
* [[spoiler: PsychicAssistedSuicide]]
* SharpDressedMan: When negotiating for the True Knot.
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[[folder:Snakebite Andi]]
!!Snakebite Andi (Andrea Steiner)

* AbusiveParents: Andi's father was a repulsive pedophile who began raping her when she was only eight. The abuse continued until she put a knitting needle through his eye-socket, after using it on his [[GroinAttack testicles]].
* AxCrazy
* CompellingVoice: Her main power, which is recognized by the rest of the True Knot as formidable.
* DoesNotLikeMen: She's generally distrustful of all men, assuming them to be rapist monsters due to how horribly she was abused by her own father.
* EyeScream: How she killed her father.
* ForcedSleep: Her special power.
* FreudianExcuse: After being raped by her father multiple times from the age of eight, she has a hatred for men.
* GroinAttack: She used a knitting needle on her rapist father's balls, before putting the same needle through his left eye.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Was raped and abused by her father as a child. Something that traumatized her to the point where [[spoiler: during her death]] she called Dan "Daddy". Yet as soon as she joined the True Knot, she has no qualms against torturing and eating children.
** She claims that the True Knot have no choice over what they do, and are only following their nature. This ignores that all members of the True Knot do actually have to choose to join.
* PsychoLesbian: Subverted. She is a vicious, paranoid misandrist who likes the ladies, but before she was a True Knot, she wasn't actually a killer, just a thief who had a tendency to humiliate the men she conned. Actually discovering her sexuality with ''Rose'', of all people, actually caused her to become a little less ruthless and untrusting (though of course, she's now a willing accomplice to child murder for the sake of her eternal life-so take with a grain of salt).
** Similarly to Rose, her [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuine love]] for Silent Sarey is arguably her most redeeming quality.
* RapeAsBackstory: By her father, as a child.
* StraightGay
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
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[[folder:Jimmy Numbers]]
!!Jimmy Numbers

* TheSmartGuy: He's the True Knot's accountant.
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[[folder:Barry the Chink]]
!!Barry the Chink (Barry Smith)
* NonIndicativeName: He's not actually Chinese, as the (rather offensive) title implies; he's a Caucasian with slightly slanted eyes.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Gives every indication he thought of his nickname himself.
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[[folder:Walnut]]
!!Walnut (Peter Wallis)

* TheMedic: He serves as the True Knot's resident doctor.
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[[folder:Grandpa Flick]]
!!Grandpa Flick
* ElderlyImmortal: Looks very old physically. Even after taking steam, his hair is iron grey.
* TheOlderImmortal: Oldest of the True Knot. It's mentioned that he remembers when Europeans worshiped trees.
* OldSoldier: His cover when among rubes is an old veteran, and he keeps updating which war he fought in as time goes by. He's a military history buff, so he can play the part fairly convincingly.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: The first of the True Knot to die.]]
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior
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!Other Characters

[[folder:Dick Hallorann]]
!!Richard 'Dick' Hallorann

* BigDamnHeroes
* CoolOldGuy
* MagicalNegro
* TheMentor
* PosthumousCharacter: Manages to help out even after his death.
* PsychicPowers: Same as Danny. They can communicate even without talking simply by thoughts.
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[[folder:John Dalton]]
!!Dr John Dalton

* DeadpanSnarker
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[[folder:Billy Freeman]]
!!Billy Freeman

* BadassGrandpa
* ButtMonkey
* CoolOldGuy
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[[folder: Horace Derwent]]
!!Horace Derwent

* AlwaysABiggerFish: The True Knot might be powerful psychics, but they are still of this world. Derwent... is not.
* BigDamnVillains: Kills Silent Sarey while she is waiting to ambush Dan and Abra.
* EnemyMine: Just as evil and cruel as he's always been, but Danny has nothing against using him against a much worse foe.
* SealedEvilInACan: "Survived" the destruction of the Overlook, only to be imprisoned in the mind of a now 12 year old Danny. He remains there for decades, only to be released by Danny during the final battle against the True Knot.
* ShoutOut: His PreMortemOneLiner to Sarey:
--> '''Derwent''': Great party, isnt it?

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