Characters / First Kill

The Main Pair

Tropes Applying to Both

"You're safe with me."

• Battle Couple: They tag team against Zombie!Ashley.
• Crash-Into Hello: They first meet when Juliette bumps into Calliope, spilling her drink on her blouse and her blood pills on the ground.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Their parents are far from happy that they’re dating each other. The Burnses hate it because they view all vampires as ravenous and inhumane, while the Fairmonts hate it because the Burnses crashed Juliette’s debut and tried to kill them. When Calliope brings Juliette home, Talia and Jack immediately draw their weapons and try to forbid her from entering the house. When Juliette brings Cal to their home, Margot and Sebastian are quick to rudely reprimand her for it. Margot straight-up tries to kick Cal out and stress that a relationship between the two will never work.
• Foil: Cal is headstrong, closed-off, and bellicose. She's confident in herself and knows exactly what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it. Juliette is shy, friendlier, and pacifistic, only going for violence as a last resort. She's a timid girl who doesn't entirely know who she is as a person or what she wants to do when she grows up. Cal also has a more tomboyish fashion sense while Juliette's is more girly.
• Leitmotif: When the girls are having a moment of intimacy or honesty, you may hear a soft and haunting tune called “Blood Lust Wins”, named after the halfway point of 1x01 when Juliette loses control of her bloodlust and bites Calliope. It’s also used during the end credits.
• Love Across Battlelines: The hunters and the legacies are trying to kill each other. Cal and Juliette are just trying to enjoy each other.
• Love Hurts: After Juliette accidentally turns Theo, Calliope dumps her and swears to kill her along with the entire legacy community. The season ends with both girls devastated over what's just happened.
• Love Interest: Cal is obviously one for Jules, but we later learn that Jules is also one for Cal.
• Love Theme: Again, "Blood Lust Wins".
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Juliette is a Lipstick Lesbian and Cal is a downplayed Butch Lesbian.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: They get intimate in a pantry at Noah’s party.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Averted. Juliette is 16, the same age as Calliope.
• Meet Cute: Though Juliette had her eyes on Cal for a while, Cal seemingly never noticed Juliette. They only ever meet by bumping into each other and Juliette can barely speak right.
• Mindlink Mates: After Juliette bites Calliope, their minds develop a Psychic Link. They begin sharing vivid dreams with each other. Juliette hears Cal screaming for help even though Cal’s mouth is gagged (meaning she was screaming in her head). Cal manages to know that Juliette is approaching her bedroom window without even hearing her. After Cal dumps Juliette and threatens to kill her, they can feel each other’s pain in their heads as Juliette drives home. Cal screams her head off before running into the night, while Jules honks her horn and turns her music all the way up in the hopes of drowning her out.
• Monster/Slayer Romance: Vampire Juliette and hunter Calliope fall in love with each other.
• Official Couple: As of 1x04. At least up until 1x08.
• Opposites Attract: Juliette is vivacious, friendly, girly, and uncertain of herself. Calliope is closed-off, skeptical, tomboyish, and confident in who she is. On top of that, Cal is a hunter whose job naturally opposes the existence of a vampire like Juliette. Instead, despite some rocky initial impressions, they fall in love.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: During Ashley's vigil in 1x02, Cal confronts Juliette in the hallway. Cal is wearing orange while the hall behind her is fading into bluish darkness. In contrast, Juliette is wearing her typical blue as the orange walls behind her are illuminated.
• Queer Romance: Both are lesbians who become a couple.
• Rule of Symbolism: Bees symbolize shared destiny, mutual aid, and discovery of love. In the moment that Juliette gently scoops a bee from Cal's shoulder into her own palms and tells her to make a wish, she's become the protector of the love that would spring between them.
  • The burn mark Cal's silver bracelet leaves on Juliette's palm is shaped like a bite mark and it even leaves holes in her hand. Later that night, Juliette returns the favor by biting Cal on the neck. Whenever the girls are having an intimate moment, Cal tends to give Juliette love bites on her neck. The girls are not as different form each other as they might think, and their relationship involves a power play to a small degree (one that Cal tends to win more often than not).
  • Peaches represent good fortune, birth, and prosperity (and even fertility and eternity in various Asian traditions), hence the peach tree's appearance in their shared dream in 1x03 and then in real life in 1x04. That being said, fruit falling from a tree, especially in a dream, can be a warning for future disappointment, so the peaches falling during the girls' moment of intimacy was likely foreshadowing their breakup in 1x08.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After having dealt with an unwanted debutante, a home invasion, double kidnappings, and murder throughout 1x03, 1x04 ends with Cal and Juliette running away from all the drama, seeking refuge at the school for the rest of the night.
• Seven Minutes In Heaven: Ben rigs a game of Spin the Bottle so the girls can make out in the pantry. It starts out with Juliette randomly kissing Cal and confessing to a crush. The girls continue, but after a few minutes Juliette loses control of her bloodlust and bites Cal on the neck, prompting her to stake Juliette in the heart.
• Shared Dream: After Jules bites Cal, they start to see each other in their dreams. It happens even after Cal’s family performs a severing on her, indicating that the ritual didn’t work.
• Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Calliope has dealt with RomeoAndJuliet at every school she’s ever attended and she’s read it about a dozen times, and she even quotes the prologue out loud in episode 1x05. As for Juliette, her name is a variation of the titular character. Also, their relationship is frowned upon just like the characters in Shakespeare’s play, which is the crux of the series. Their school even recreates the play, as we see in 1x05. And, true to form, the impulsive decisions they make due to their feelings for each other wind up biting them in the ass.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: While they're not unintelligent, they have limited experience with romantic relationships, as Juliette lacks confidence in herself to go after her crushes and Calliope is lucky to have found even one girlfriend due to constantly moving around. On top of that, their parents are implied to have done a horrible job of teaching them how to navigate romance due to the demands of their respective societies, and they're certainly not about to start making up for that in this case. As a result, Jules and Cal's infatuation with each other is liable to cloud their judgement.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: On Juliette's side is a community of powerful vampires whose tradition incorporate arranged marriages and forbids romance and procreation with any outsiders. On Calliope's side is a community of monster hunters who view all supernatural creatures as inherent evil to be slain on sight. Their families and loyalties demand they be enemies, so naturally the two find it nearly impossible to have a relationship, even with the reprieve of being away from their parents at school. And that's without mentioning that the Burnses aren't intent on remaining in Savannah for long. As stated above, the parallels to Romeo & Juliet are far from lost on them.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Cal is tomboyish, and Juliette is girly.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: 1x08 sees them making decisions on the fly that don't go well for them. When Juliette is presented with a dying Theo, she elects to drink his blood so he'll die painlessly. It doesn't occur to her that this could instead turn him into a vampire, the very creature he was raised to hate and slaughter. Cal is understandably pissed off when she finds out about this, but then lets her emotions get the best of her, as she not only breaks up with Juliette on the spot, but also threatens her with a silver spear and swears to kill her and the whole legacy community. In the end, their relationship has fallen apart due to them both acting before thinking.
• Wall Bang Her: Juliette and Cal have sex up against a tree during a bonfire in a forest.
• Young Love Versus Old Hate: Their families and communities have a huge problem with each other… but these two teenagers manage to look past that.

Juliette Fairmont

Juliette Anastasia Fairmont

"Just because I'm not a killer doesn't mean I'm weak!"

"Even on good days, I still feel like I don't fit in. Like everyone else has it all figured out. [...] And I'm the only one who's stuck pretending."

Portrayed by: Sarah Catherine Hook

The third and youngest child of Margot Atwood and Sebastian Fairmont. She's of a community of powerful legacy vampires, though she has little interest in the things that entails. All she really wants is to live her life on her own terms, even though she's not sure what that means for herself yet. She lacks confidence in herself but feels she's ready to come into her own any day now.

Now that she's 16, her body demands that she commit her first kill or slowly lose herself to savagery until she kills whoever happens to be nearby. Just imagine how interesting things get when the biggest crush of her life happens to move to Savannah and join her in three of her classes around the same time...

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• Accidental Murder: She and Elinor feed from a random guy at a bar, and Juliette is devastated when he dies from it.
• Adapted Out: In the book, she agrees to make Cal her first kill despite preferring to be her girlfriend but doesn’t go through with it. In the series, she is definitely tempted, but remains steadfast in her desire to not harm her.
• Affectionate Nickname: Many call her Jules. Elinor calls her “Sweet Little”. Ben calls her “Letty”.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: During a terrible argument in 1x08, she desperately tells her the below line in the hopes of saving their relationship. Cal is currently too angry to acknowledge it.
  Juliette: I love you! And I know you love me! There is no way you can just turn your feels off for me like that!
• Awful Truth: In 1x07, she’s unsettled to hear Calliope so casually mention having drawn up murder plans against her debut. It dawns on her that the hunters will one day learn how to kill legacies and she has to live with the fact that, if they’re truly going to be together, her life will always be in danger on some level.
• Apologises a Lot: As Calliope points out, she says “sorry” rather often.
• Bad Liar: She’s not good at telling very convincing lies. She often has to be reinforced by others or the person she’s lying to will quickly find out. Calliope even makes a point about this in 1x02.
  Calliope: Y’know, you’re a really shitty liar. I mean, everybody has a tell, but I thought monsters like you were supposed to be good at deceiving humans.
• Badass Adorable: She’s as cute as a button, but a capable fighter when she has to be, which comes naturally to legacy vampires. She manages to fend off Cal, hold her own against Zombie!Ashley, and easily overpower Cook twice.
• Become a Real Girl: Oliver offers her the chance to become a human using a magic spell, which in theory would allow her to be with Calliope with much less risk. She considers the offer, but ultimately decides against it.
• Being Good Sucks: She finds it hard to live a normal life as a legacy vampire. In the first few episodes, she has to deal with her body acting up because she doesn’t want to have her first kill. She tries to ease the pain of a dying Theo, only to turn him into a vampire, which leads to his family turning on him (sans Talia) and Calliope becoming her enemy.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Don't let her kind nature and sweet demeanor give you the wrong idea; she’s still a vampire and can be hell to pay if you get on her bad side. When Cook attacks Cal and Ben, she beats him to the ground and drinks his blood, killing him. When Ben offends her over being a vampire, she rakes him across the coals in regard to his affair with Noah, even calling him a sidepiece. When Elinor gets Theo apparently killed, she disowns Elinor as a sister and has her arrested for the countless murders she’s committed over the years. Then there’s the bloodlust that comes with being a vampire.
• Berserk Button: A good way to set her off is to attack the ones she loves. Cook learned this the hard way.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Downplayed in that Jules had technically turned 16 weeks prior, but Calliope's family attacks the Fairmont estate during Juliette's debutante ceremony.
• Blatant Lies: When Ben sees her fawning over Calliope and suggests approaching her and striking up a conversation, she says she’s done that already. Even before the series of failed attempts to start a dialogue, it’s clear that she’s lying through her teeth.
• Bloodlust: In 1x05, she struggles to keep herself from drinking Cal’s blood after she’s slashed across the chest by Zombie!Ashley. She seems to be fine around anyone else’s.
• Blue Is Heroic: She's almost always seen wearing blue, potentially to further keep her mind off her need for blood.
• Body Motifs: She’s most associated with the heart. She’s first introduced by holding her hand over her heart, she wears heart-shaped earrings, she can read people's hearts to detect lies, she suffers heartbreak more times than anyone else over the course of the season, and she holds Calliope’s hand over her heart while asking her to protect her heart. She’s one of the most sensitive characters on the show (in other words, she wears her heart on her sleeve), she lives by what her heart tells her, and has the biggest heart out of all the legacy vampires.
• Bookends: Her first and last words to Cal are “I’m sorry. So sorry.”
• Break the Cutie: Calliope, her biggest crush yet, tries to kill her. Her friend, Ashley, is killed. Her family puts heavy pressure on her to become a part of a society she wants nothing to do with. She’s forced to kill Ashley again. She gets into a relationship with Calliope that expectedly turns out to be forbidden. Elinor tricks her into helping murder an innocent man. That alone is quite a bit for anyone to go through, but the worst part happens in the span of a single episode. She accidentally turns Cal’s brother into a vampire, which plunges their family into a civil war and sets Cal out for her head. Not only that, but Elinor attacks her and blames her for everything going wrong in their family. On top of that, her best friend Ben is leaving Savannah, leaving Juliette with almost nobody to turn to.
• Broken Pedestal: She looked up to her big sister, Elinor, but her attempts to get her to kill others, especially Cal, not to mention her deadly altercation with Apollo and Theo, pushed her to no longer view her with any positivity.
• Cannot Spit It Out: She has the worst time telling Calliope that she likes her; she can’t even strike up a conversation until they literally bump into each other.
• Cerebus Callback: In 1x08, she repeats the same first words she successfully said to Cal in 1x01. However, being that Cal just broke up with her and threatened to kill her, it's not so light-hearted this time.
• Costume-Test Montage:
  • Tries out a few outfits when getting ready for school in 1x01.
  • Tests out several gowns for her consecration in 1x03. It ends on the one her grandmother wore to her own ceremony, but she eventually goes with something else.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Cook really didn't stand a chance.
• Cute Little Fangs: Tends to flash these rather often.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She's a vampire who sustains herself with blood, but tries to remain a normal member of human society and will go out of her way to protect innocent people any way she can.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • She decides to bury Cook’s body after killing him. Phillipa’s dog discovers his body a few days later, getting her and Cal in hot water. Margot even tells her that it was an asinine way to dispose of a body.
  • She drained Theo of his blood with the intent of making his death quick and painless. It apparently never occurred to her that this could turn him into a vampire. Cal puts her through the wringer for this.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Calliope is clearly not taking it well that Juliette accidentally turned Theo into a vampire and she tells Juliette to leave, clearly trying to avoid saying something she can’t take back. Instead, Juliette presses further at the worst possible time in the hopes of salvaging their relationship, leading to a breakup and a threat on her life as well as every other legacy vampire.
• The Dog Bites Back: After Elinor pushes her one too many times, Juliette gets fed up with her and helps Oliver sell her out.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: In 1x01, she wakes up from a dream that involves making out with and biting Calliope, which happen later that night, as well as losing her blood pills, which happens that same day as well.
• Dude Magnet: When spinning the bottle at Noah's party, a few of the boys are hopeful to get the chance to make out with her.
• The Dulcinea Effect: In 1x04, she abandons her family to a massacre attempt in order to save Cal from Cook. Downplayed in that they'd met a few times prior, though not enough for them to truly know each other.
• Endearingly Dorky: She freely admits to social awkwardness, as if her general clumsiness and fashion sense didn’t make that clear. Her narration even admits that she’s cool by association with Ben.
• Enter Stage Window: She enters Cal's bedroom through the window. This is where we learn vampires can't enter another's dwelling without an invitation.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She accidentally turns Theo into a vampire and Cal understandably doesn’t take it well, but she’s clearly shocked and hurt when Cal calls Theo a monster, a clear indication that on some level she still doesn’t see vampires (which Juliette is) as people. She seems to overlook this in the moment as Cal is still raging, but it clearly hit a nerve. Not helping is that Cal threatens her with a silver spear, straight-up calls her a monster, and then vows to slaughter her and the entire legacy community, breaking her promises to never hunt her and to always keep her heart safe.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Her only impression of Cook is him attacking Cal and later Ben. That's enough to make her forgo her pacifistic nature and kill him on the spot without the slightest remorse.
• Evil Feels Good: She hates the thought of murder, but after she kills and feeds on Cook, she tells Cal that it felt right. This is because it was her first kill and now her body can stop malfunctioning.
• Expy: Like Juliet before her, she's an innocent and wide-eyed girl who is expected to partake in an arranged marriage at some point because of tradition but would rather find love on her own terms.
  • If you’re thinking you’ve already seen a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire girl named Juliet who was part of a forbidden romance, you’re not wrong.
• Extreme Doormat: Downplayed. She’ll voice her opinion (especially if it involves murder) and she can definitely whup your ass if you push her too far, but she’s typically passive and timid, especially when it comes to Calliope. A particularly harsh example comes in 1x08, wherein Cal angrily holds a silver spear at her chest and she simply tells her she can stab her if it’ll make her feel better.
• Failed a Spot Check: She tends to miss out on details that seem negligible but may be readily obvious. She misses one of the blood pills she dropped when bumping into Calliope, leading to Cal figuring out she’s a vampire.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Her disinterest with the legacy lifestyle, though justified for a number of reasons, manifests in ways that cause problems for herself and the people around her. Her discomfort with murder leads to her body and mind going haywire, which prompts her to bite Cal on the neck and kill Cook right in front of Ben.
  • She tends to miss small but ever-so-crucial details. When she bumps into Cal and drops her blood pills, she misses one, which Cal inspects and in doing so discovers that Juliette is a vampire. When she sneaks off from the police investigation at Noah’s party, she leaves her phone. When she finds a dying Theo, she drains his blood in the hopes of easing his pain, but he wakes up as a vampire instead.
  • As mentioned above, she has a tendency to act before thinking (much like Juliet before her), which can get her into trouble.
• Fear of Thunder: She used to be afraid of thunderstorms and would often hold her stuffed doll, Amanda Victoria, for comfort. Though, if you were to ask her, it was actually Amanda who was scared of the thunder.
• Four Is Death: She has her first kill in the fourth episode.
• Friend to All Living Things: Her valuing of life extends to creatures great and small. Her reaction to spotting a bee on Cal’s shoulder is to gently remove it and set it free. Cal uses this moment to keep Juliette’s bloodlust under control.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: What sets her apart from at least most other vampires, especially legacies, is that she views all life as precious. This is why she takes so long to make her first kill; it’s not so much scary as it is wrong.
• Hanlon's Razor: As to her biting Cal on the neck and turning Theo into a vampire.
• Hemo Erotic: Downplayed. While rutting with Cal at Noah’s party, she slowly enters a state of euphoria, eventually losing control of herself and biting Cal on the neck.
• Heroic Resolve: She’s constantly tempted to murder someone, be it by peer pressure from Elinor or by her body and mind going haywire, but she fights it tooth and nail. In the end, she does commit her first kill, but solely in defense of Ben and Cal.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: On occasion whenever her hair is down without being tied back. Most notable at Noah's party.
• I Have No Sister: Juliette is absolutely furious when Elinor gets into a fight with Theo and Apollo that leaves Theo dying from impalement, not only disowning Elinor as a sister, but also having her arrested for her many homicides.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Juliette wants nothing to do with the drama of being a legacy vampire and would prefer to live her life with her friends and girlfriend, to the point where she even considers taking on a spell that would turn her into a regular human.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Cal stabs her with a wooden stake in 1x01. We see in 1x02 that it didn't do any lasting damage.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is the youngest legacy, as well the most innocent and naïve.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While she is a bit mean in what she says to Ben in 1x05, she is correct that Ben is doing himself an injustice to be somebody's side partner and that it's unfair of him to try and drag Noah out of the closet. He's offended by this, but Noah validates her minutes later.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She manages to overpower Cook twice in her sparkly debutante dress in 1x04.
• Killer Rabbit: She's short and adorable while also being a Vampire who is dealing with an increasingly desparate need to drink human blood.
• Lesbian Vampire: She's a vampire girl who's only attracted to other girls.
• Light Is Good: She dresses in bright colors and is a sweet, well-intentioned person who wouldn’t hurt a fly unless someone she cares about were endangered.
• Lipstick Lesbian: As opposed to the tomboyish Cal.
• Living Lie Detector: She can tell when Calliope is lying by an increased heartrate. When Cal claims she would’ve stabbed Juliette whether bitten or not, Juliette almost immediately calls her out.
• Love at First Sight: She fell like a rock for Calliope the moment she saw her, as she admits in 1x02. A large part of the pilot episode involves her trying to get Cal’s attention.
• Love Makes You Dumb: She knew Cal had caught on to her vampiric nature by the silver bracelet at her locker and followed her into Noah’s pantry despite already figuring out that Cal was planning to kill her because she was just that smitten with the young hunter. Subverted in that Juliette also knew Cal wouldn’t know how to kill her and that a stake through the heart would be a minor inconvenience.
• Meaningful Name: Aside from being an obvious reference to the titular character of RomeoAndJuliet, the name means “youthful”, referring to how she’s the youngest legacy yet.
  • Anastasia means "resurrection", possibly alluding to how difficult it is to kill her.
• Mercy Kill: Downplayed in that Theo was already dying, but she tries to ease his pain by drinking his blood. This is ultimately subverted when he unintentionally turns into a vampire.
• Morton's Fork: When presented with a dying Theo, she drinks his blood in order to ease his pain, consequently turning him. As Calliope points out, even if it had worked out as intended, it wasn’t her choice to make. While that isn’t untrue, she didn’t have a lot of alternatives. Had she left him to die, the negligence of action would’ve weighed on her conscience and Cal likely would’ve gotten upset at her for not doing something. Had she called an ambulance, he likely would’ve died before even reaching the hospital. There was ultimately no winning in this situation.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In 1x06, she and Elinor drain a random guy of his blood to the point where he dies. She is absolutely distraught over this, musing that his loved ones won't take it well upon realizing that he's not coming back. As a result, she considers taking Oliver's offer to be turned into a human.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Due to her compassion for all life, she views most other legacies with some level of distaste, often coming to disagreements with her family as a result.
• Neutral No Longer: She tries to stay out of the rivalry between Oliver and Elinor. After getting fed up with Elinor's heinous shenanigans, she chooses to help Oliver in 1x08.
• Nice Girl: She’s compassionate and vivacious. Oliver even refers to her as his more harmless sister.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Big time in 1x08. While cleaning up the blood from Theo and Apollo’s fight with Elinor, a dying Theo awakens with just enough strength to beg for her help. Her only solution is to drink his blood to relieve him of his pain so he can die in peace. Unfortunately, all this does is turn him into a vampire, the very creature he and his whole family were trained to hate, the very creature that killed his mother. To make matters worse, Apollo and especially Jack are ready to kill him as a result, which Talia is vehemently against, plunging the Burnses into a civil war. As if all that drama weren’t enough, Calliope feels betrayed by this, so she breaks up with Juliette and swears to kill her and the entire legacy vampire community (which has the added downside of breaking her promises to never hunt her and to keep her heart safe).
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: The way she rises from her bed and looms over Elinor in 1x08 is implies gruesome intent, but in reality, she’s decided to steal the key to her murder locker and give it to Oliver.
• Oh, Crap!: When she realizes that she’s out of blood pills, Ben and Cal just watched her feed on Cook, and she accidentally turned Theo.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If she's showing you genuine malice, you've probably earned it. Just ask Cook or Elinor.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: As to be expected of a vampire who’s about 5’1.
• Playful Cat Smile: Flashes a particularly prideful one upon realizing Cal is lying about how she would've stabbed her even had she not bitten her.
• Poor Communication Kills: She never mentions the attempt on her life to her family, so Margot sees nothing wrong with telling Talia about a huge gathering at their estate. As a result, they’re completely blindsided when the hunters attack them. Granted, none of the legacies die, but still.
  • After she confesses to turning Theo into a vampire, she tries to explain why she drank his blood to begin with, but has a horrible time explaining her thought process, so naturally the Burnses assume she did it out of malice. On a related note, Oliver and Carmen tell her in 1x05 that there is a spell that can turn vampires into humans. It would’ve saved the Burns family a lot of emotional turmoil here if Juliette had brought it up.
• Psychotic Smirk: Flashes a particularly unsettling one as she watches Elinor’s arrest.
• Quest for Identity: She spends a good chunk of the series trying to discover herself and what she wants out of life in spite of what everyone around her tries to dictate. This is reflected in the book she's seen reading with Ben in their childhood, The Bell Jar.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She rips into Elinor over being a soulless murderer in 1x08, disowning her as a sister.
• Red Is Violent: Whenever her bloodlust flares up, a red hue appears.
• Regretful Traitor: She has second thoughts about turning Elinor in for her numerous kills, but goes through with it anyway.
• Reluctant Monster: Despite coming from a family of legacy vampires, Juliette cares nothing for their lifestyle, from the murder to the Queen Serpent.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: In 1x05, she tells Ben that Noah is never coming out of the closet. She probably didn't mean he'd be murdered by a zombie before he could find the right time.
• Rule of Symbolism: In 1x01, she accidentally knocks over a few cherry jars while she’s having an intimate moment with Calliope. It's her first time.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The reason she procrastinates her first kill and avoids the legacy lifestyle is simply that killing people is bad.
• Shrinking Violet: She has little confidence in herself and has very few friends. She considers herself “cool by association” to Ben as his best friend and she can hardly speak comfortably around Calliope at first. She also doesn't enjoy big gatherings, as Ben had to coax her into promising to accompany him to Noah's party.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Juliette is a shy and dorky teenage girl. She has few friends and is only "popular by association" with Ben.
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: A heroic example. When Cal gets angry at Juliette for turning Theo and tells her to leave, Juliette tries to get through to her, prompting Cal to grab a silver-tipped spear and hold it at her heart. Juliette simply tells her she can stab her if it should make her feel better, even though it wouldn’t kill her.
• Sucks at Dancing: In 1x06, Elinor takes her to a club and they go dancing. As venues like this aren’t her forte, Juliette is awkward about her moves and Elinor tells her to stop moving as if she has a “raging UTI”.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: After coming home from Noah’s party, her family assumes from the blood on her that she’s had her first kill. She allows them to believe it for the time being.
• Take That!: While trying on various gowns for her consecration, she pokes fun at popular vampire traits by trying on a fluffy black gown and remarking, "I look like I sleep in a coffin."
• Tears of Blood: She cries at Ashley’s vigil, but since she still hasn’t had her first kill by this point, her body is still acting up, so the tears aren’t water.
• Technical Pacifist: She’s perfectly willing to fight in spite of her distaste for violence but finds the idea of taking a life repulsive and only ever resorts to it if her predator instincts take over or when there's simply no other option. When threatening Cook to defend Cal, she even says that she'll have her family do the dirty work rather than kill him herself.
• Their First Time: Juliette has her first sexual encounter at Noah’s party with Calliope.
• This Is Unforgivable!: After she bites Elinor’s head off about killing so many innocent people and being the cause of Theo’s (apparent) murder, Elinor attacks Juliette, blames her for everything bad that’s happening to their family, and implies that she plans on killing the rest of the Burnses. Juliette declares she’ll never forgive her for this.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Even killing a small bug is beyond her. She’s committed homicide twice, one out of defense for someone else and another unintentionally. She flat-out hates the thought of murder.
  (to Elinor) We don’t have to kill to survive.
• Token Good Teammate: She seems to be the only member of her family (and the entire legacy community) who sees murder for the big deal it is on a moral level.
• Tragic Mistake: Drinking Theo’s blood was a bad idea.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Despite Cal stabs her in the heart and then follows her onto the school’s roof to pick a fight with her, Juliette still lies to the principal the following morning to keep her out of trouble.
• Undying Loyalty: To Calliope, to the point where she'd hurt herself just to make Cal feel better.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: When she sees Cook hobbling a subdued Cal into his truck, she slams him, holds him at knifepoint, and threatens to feed him to her family. When he attacks again later that night, she kills him and drinks his blood.
• Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: She intermittently suffers this in the beginning because she’s yet to feed for the first time, though it tends to vanish whenever Calliope enters the scene. It goes away entirely after she kills Cook.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When Ben rudely otherizes her after finding out she’s a vampire, she calls him out for deluding that he’ll ever be with Noah and trying to drag him out of the closet while he's currently dating Phillipa, something she's implicitly tried to tell him a number of times before.
• Wise Serpent: She's associated with snakes like all legacies, and she understands and respects the value of all life. She's also smart enough to immediately point out when a plan is poorly thought-out. Downplayed in that she's still a teenager prone to impulsive decision-making, especially when it involves Cal.
• You Know I'm Black, Right?: While she and Cal are getting to know each other better in 1x05, Cal asks her what her favorite food is. Juliette gives her a silent fading smile. Cal had forgotten she's talking to a vampire and apologizes.

Cal Burns

Calliope Antigone "Cal" Burns

"You're a monster and I'm a hunter, and there's only one way this story ends."

"My family treats me like they know I have all the potential in the world, but I have a lot to learn. Maybe both are true. All I know is I'm ready to prove to them what I'm capable of."

Portrayed by: Imani Lewis

The youngest child of Jack and Talia Burns. She's from a long lineage of monster hunters and seeks to be the greatest hunter there ever was. Though her family tends to treat her like she still has a lot to learn, which she candidly does, she is ambitious to prove to them that she's not to be babied. She's quite confident in herself and what she wants out of life, but she finds it hard to make friends due to constantly moving around.

When monsters start popping back up in Savannah, her family is moved there to deal with them. Now that she's 16, she's ready to give her first kill another go, though it's unlikely now that she's stuck going to high school like a normal child. It's here where she meets her biggest crush yet and gets a tough lesson in the true distinctions between monster and human...

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• Affectionate Nickname: Is constantly referred to as “Cal”.
• All a Part of the Job: When Juliette inquiries about Cal helping craft mass murder plans against her and her family in 1x07, Cal confirms that it's merely part of the job. She doesn't immediately understand why Jules would be so concerned.
• Animal Motifs: The black mamba. She has the text "MAMBA CHICK, a constant quest to be the best version of oneself." plastered on her wall, words by Kobe Bryant on what he calls the "mamba mentality", reflecting her desire to become the best hunter in the world. The black mamba is also known as the fastest snake in the world, and Cal is something of a Fragile Speedster. The Emerald Malkia seems to take a particular interest in her during her dream with Juliette in 1x03.
• Anti-Hero: She loves killing monsters and has no intentions of giving up being a hunter, even if it unnerves Juliette.
• Ask a Stupid Question...: While getting to know each other better in the school’s auditorium in 1x05, she asks Juliette what her favorite food is. Juliette merely stares at her and waits for her to get the rather obvious answer. Cal apologizes.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She tends to wear tops that show off her midriff to varying degrees.
• Badass Normal: She may not have any supernatural attributes, but she’s a trained assassin and is ready to throw down at a moment’s notice. She can match blows with a legacy vampire (though said legacy wasn't even trying to fight) and even beat a man down so severely (with her hands tied, no less) that he appears to be dead.
• Beautiful Dreamer: In 1x05, she and Juliette wake up after having spent the night at school. If you look closely, you’ll notice Cal has her eyes already on Jules before closing them and pretending to awaken with her.
• Beneath Notice: Though she has a yearbook from every school she's been to, she doesn't have a picture in the majority of them. This is part of a method to keep her under the radar, so nobody asks questions when she disappears in the middle of the term.
• Berserk Button: Cal cares deeply for her family, so hurting them is a great way to piss her off. Juliette would find this out the hard way by accident in 1x08.
• Bigot with a Crush: She finds it almost impossible to focus on fighting monsters because she's so attracted to Juliette. Even after figuring out Jules is a vampire, she gets too wrapped up in getting intimate with her to kill her. She even admits to this in 1x02.
• Blatant Lies: When Jules asks her if she still would’ve stabbed her even if she hadn’t bitten her, Calliope bluntly says yes… after taking a notable second to answer, almost as though she's trying to convince herself as well. Naturally, Juliette finds it hard to believe, especially upon hearing her racing heartbeat.
• Blood Knight: Cal is typically down to fight, often seeing it as a chance to prove herself. In 1x02, she instigates a fight with Juliette for no clear reason.
• Bound and Gagged: Twice in the same night. The first time is by Elinor to coax Juliette into feeding on her, but Juliette resists the temptation and sets her free. The second time is by Cook in the hopes of reporting her to the Guild as a traitor, necessitating rescue by Juliette.
• Break the Cutie: Things get pretty bad for her in the back half of the season. As if her forbidden relationship with Juliette and being wanted for a murder she didn’t commit didn't suck enough, Theo winds up dead and Apollo has no idea how it happened. Then Juliette accidentally turns him into a vampire, which vastly destroys her family's household. It's at this point where she completely falls apart and vows to murder Juliette.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: In 1x02, she picks a fight with Juliette and manages to land a punch in her face… before falling over. It turns out legacy blood temporarily disables you if you touch it.
• Brutal Honesty: If she’s not telling it like it is, odds are she’s not saying anything at all.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When revealing to Margot (and Juliette by extension) that she and her family crafted murder plans against the legacies at Juliette's consecration, she says it with alarming casualness. When Juliette inquiries about it, Cal merely says that "it's part of the job".
• Butch Lesbian: As opposed to the girlish Juliette. Downplayed in that she's more tomboyish than all-out butch.
• Cathartic Scream: After breaking up with Jules and swearing to kill her, she lets out a stressful shout. Because of the Psychic Link, Juliette can hear it in her head.
• Celeb Crush: Bruno Mars. Subverted in that it turns out she, as she says, likes girls who look like Bruno Mars. Juliette is the exception.
• Chekhov's Gun: She’s seen wearing a shiny bracelet throughout the first episode. After English class, Juliette finds it at her locker and picks it up, but it turns out to be silver and burns her hand. We learn later on that Cal planted it to confirm her suspicions of Juliette being a vampire.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • During her fight with Juliette, she takes a moment to analyze Juliette's movements before disorienting her with attacks on her arms and then landing a good punch in her face.
  • When Cook tries to apprehend her, she kicks him right in the nuts before running off.
• Conflicting Loyalty: She starts wondering if vampires are Always Chaotic Evil after a few conversations with Juliette. We see throughout 1x03 that she's having second thoughts about attacking the Fairmonts and she visibly balks at the task of murdering Juliette. She later confides in her ex, Tess, about these second thoughts.
• Crazy Enough to Work: When Cook's body is discovered and the autopsy reveals that a vampire has drained his blood, Cal comes up with the idea to bring Juliette home with her and getting her parents to help protect her. Most people wouldn't expect monster hunters to protect a vampire (and her parents are initially hostile as expected), but they ultimately agree to keep their knowledge of Juliette from the authorities (and the Guild) when they learn she killed Cook specifically to defend Cal.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: During a sparring session in 1x03, she easily overpowers Tess.
• Daddy's Girl: Has this relationship with her father. Her mother even hangs a lampshade on this in 1x07.
• Dance Battler: Occasionally uses attacks you'd see in the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira. Downplayed, as she mostly sticks to kickboxing.
• Death Glare: She gives Juliette a subtle one through her aloof face during Noah's party, but gives her a full-on one when they see each other at school the following day.
• Deus Ax Machina: She uses an axe she found hanging in the school hallway during a fight with Zombie!Ashley.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When Margot rudely chides her and Juliette for doing a poor job of getting rid of Cook’s body, Cal looks her dead in the eye and calls her awful. Bonus points for doing it right in front of Sebastian, too.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: More like Did You Just Outsmart Cthulhu. When Margot tries to kick Cal out of her house despite M.A.A.M. being right outside clamoring for her, she points out that if she gets apprehended, they’ll round up her family and search their house. This would lead to them finding silver weapons and battle plans that would bring them right back to the Fairmont family. Realizing it’s in her best interest to ensure Cal’s safety, Margot quickly tells her not to go anywhere.
• Didn't See That Coming: She manages to keep a straight face at Noah’s party… right up until Juliette suddenly kisses her and confesses to having a crush on her. She was taught that the worst kind of monster is the type that impersonates humanity and thought she was ready to counter it, but she clearly was not ready for how beguilingly awkward and (mostly) harmless Juliette is.
• Didn't Think This Through: Not dissimilar to Juliette, she has a habit of coming up with plans at the last minute and thinking about the details on the fly, to the point where even Juliette finds herself questioning her thoughts. In 1x07, after it comes out that Cook’s body has been found and is drained of all blood, Cal decides to bring Juliette to her parents despite knowing they want her dead and would be highly unlikely to help. This turns out to be the case until she mentions that Jules killed Cook to defend Cal and Ben. When the Guild comes looking for Juliette later that day, they sneak out via Apollo’s car with a limited number of options for shelter, forcing them to rely on either Oliver (whom Cal is understandably wary of) or Juliette's estate (even though her parents aren't too fond of Cal).
  • During Ashley's vigil, she hounds Juliette up to the Lancaster Academy roof to interrogate and attack her. In other words, she followed someone she doesn't know how to beat to a relatively secluded location and picked a fight with them. She gets momentarily paralyzed for her troubles.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Being angry that your vampire girlfriend accidentally turned your brother? Understandable. Invalidating her personhood, threatening her with a spear, and telling her you're going to kill her and every other vampire? Excessive.
• Distracted by the Sexy: She’s ready to murder Juliette at Noah’s party, but is so taken by her during their Seven Minutes in Heaven that she procrastinates. She only follows through with her mission after Juliette bites her.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She comes off as something of a hardass, cold and skeptical of everyone, partially due to having moved around an absurd number of times in her life. Upon meeting Juliette, she slowly becomes less closed off and her sweeter side becomes clearer. Downplayed in that she’s not above simple politeness.
• The Dulcinea Effect: She leaves the safety of her house in 1x03 to head to the Fairmont estate and save Juliette from the hunters planning to kill them (though she's kidnapped by Elinor before she can do this). Downplayed in that they'd met a handful of time prior, albeit not enough times to really know each other well.
• Enter Stage Window: During a Shared Dream, she sneaks into Juliette's bedroom by throwing a pebble at her window and them climbing up the side when Juliette answers.
• Et Tu, Brute?:
  • She tells Tess that about her suspicions that the monsters they hunt aren’t Always Chaotic Evil and that the hunters aren’t as good as they think. Safe to say she’s pretty appalled when Tess tells the other hunters of this.
  • She doesn’t take it well when Juliette reveals she accidentally turned Theo into a vampire. The ensuing argument ends with her putting a target on Juliette’s head.
• Expy: Like Romeo, she's a hot-blooded warrior who falls in love with a girl named Juliet and tends to let her impulsiveness get her in trouble.
• Fantastic Racism: As instilled in her by her family. She makes it clear in 1x08 that, even after falling in love with Juliette, she doesn't entirely recognize her personhood, straight-up calling her a monster.
• Fatal Flaw: She tends to rush into decisions without thinking through the implications first (much like Romeo before her). She jumps into a more active role during a hunt in a graveyard, attacking a vampire with a subpar weapon and quickly gets overpowered. She attends Noah's party specifically to kill Juliette, but has no backup plan in the event that Juliette would survive her onslaught. She jumps out of Sebastian's car to flee what she assumes to be another kidnapping, but has nowhere to go until Juliette joins her. She brings Juliette home in the hopes that her parents would protect Juliette from the authorities' search for Cook's killer (which technically works).
• Foreshadowing: In 1x05, she asks what Juliette's favorite food is, but then apologizes when she remembers Juliette is a vampire. In other words, she forgot that Juliette is a vampire and thus saw her as a person more easily. This flimsy recognition of Juliette's personhood would make a harsh comeback in 1x08.
• Fragile Speedster: In combat, Cal tends to focus on speed rather than brute force when striking. She avoids doing anything that could telegraph her next move and she typically goes for any attack that quickly ends the fight. This is crucial because, as Cook demonstrates in 1x04, she's still a teenager with a slender physique and is easy to pin down.
• Friendless Background: Due to constantly moving (multiple times a year), she’s found it almost impossible to make connections with anyone outside of her family.
• Genius Bruiser: She’s a capable fighter and a hunter of monsters. She also takes AP classes and is sharp enough to beat detectives in a game of wits. She also outsmarts Margot to the point where she can barely speak.
• Groin Attack: Kicks Cook square in the balls when he tries to get handsy with her.
• Has a Type: If her claim that she likes girls who look like Bruno Mars is to be taken so literally, though Juliette would clearly be the exception.
• Heel Realization: After a few encounters with Juliette, she starts to wonder if the hunters are any better than the monsters they kill.
• Hot-Blooded: She is extremely passionate about being a hunter and seeks to be the best hunter there ever was. She often jumps at the chance to prove her skills to her family, sometimes against their behest.
• Hunter of Monsters: As per her family lineage.
• Hypocritical Humor: In 1x02, she calls Juliette a shitty liar and tells her that everyone has a tell if you pay close enough attention. Shortly after, she tells Juliette she’d have staked her with or without the bite, to which Juliette calls her out on her own tell.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Cal enjoys being a hunter, but she would prefer to settle down in one place and enjoy life outside of her job, especially here in Savannah now that she's met Juliette. Along with Jules, she even asks her mother to let her stay at school for the day like a normal kid.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: When Juliette’s bloodlust starts to overcome her in 1x05, Calliope reminds her that she wouldn’t hurt anyone, bringing her back to her senses. It happens again a few minutes later, though with less success.
• Ignored Confession: While ostracizing Juliette for turning Theo, Jules desperately tries to salvage their relationship by saying she loves her. Cal is initially taken aback by this but brushes it off in anger.
• I'll Kill You!: In 1x08, she swears to figure out how to kill Juliette and every legacy out there. Given how she’s struggling with herself afterwards, it’s unlikely that she meant it.
• Inconvenient Attraction: She intends to kill Juliette upon finding out she's a vampire but finds it extremely difficult because she likes Juliette. To make things even harder, Juliette likes her too.
• Irony: Juliette is the vampire, but Calliope is always the first to go for the neck whenever they’re making out. She actually does this to establish dominance over Juliette.
• Just a Kid: She regularly gets this treatment from her family, whether it concerns her skills as a hunter or the validity of her feelings towards and relationship with Juliette. Needless to say, it really gets under her skin.
• Love at First Sight: Double subverted. She seems interested in Juliette when they first meet, but then goes to Noah’s party specifically to kill her. She does admit, though, that she liked Juliette even before then, hence why she was so easily caught off-guard when Juliette kissed her.
  Calliope: Like I said, everybody has a tell if you look hard enough. I couldn’t keep my eyes off you.
• Mature Younger Sibling: To Apollo.
• Meaningful Name: Calliope means "beautifully-voiced", maybe referring to how Juliette feels about her.
  • Antigone means "worthy of one's parents, in place of one's parents," befitting her desire to impress her parents as a hunter. It also means "one who is of the opposite opinion," likely reflecting her being the only hunter to ever truly question her upbringing.
• Mistaken Identity: In 1x07, M.A.A.M. gets the idea that she’s a vampire. The Guild manages to pull some strings to clear her name in 1x08.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • After she seemingly kills Cook, it sets in that she’s just betrayed the Hunter’s Guild and is probably going to be in a lot of trouble.
  • After breaking up with Juliette and threatening to kill her and her family, Cal is at war with herself and what she’s just done to the girl she loves.
• Not So Stoic: Her aloof façade tends to break a lot, usually when she’s being head over heels for Juliette, when her mother is asserting authority, or a situation has gotten particularly out of hand.
• One Head Taller: While it can be hard to tell at times, Imani Lewis is 5'7 to Sarah Catherine Hook’s 5'1.
• Pet the Dog: After being interrogated by their principal, Cal continues to act coldly towards Juliette, but lets up enough to tell her how she only started feeling welcome at the school because of Juliette. This is her way of thanking her for keeping her out of trouble, by telling her that she did like her even before they met and that she doesn’t enjoy being her enemy.
• Poor Communication Kills: 1x07 implies that she knows Oliver’s girlfriend has the means to turn vampires into humans, which she fails to bring up after Theo has been turned.
• Profiling: At the start of 1x02, she runs from Noah's house before running into police cars heading towards that same house. One cop notices her and, for no clear reason, immediately turns in her direction, chasing her until she manages to lose him on a trolley train.
• Punished for Sympathy: When she tells Tess that she's starting to second-guess the actions of monster hunters, Tess rats her out to her family, getting her benched from the massacre they'd been planning all day.
• Rash Promise: She promises Juliette in 1x05 that she’d never hunt her and in 1x07 that her heart will always be safe with her. She breaks both of these promises in 1x08, replacing them with a different one: find a way to kill her and every other legacy.
• Redundant Rescue: She warns Juliette (and Oliver and Elinor by extension) to flee their home in 1x03 when the other hunters attack their estate. While Juliette does manage to escape unharmed, we see later that the silver-tipped spears the hunters were using weren't enough to kill the legacies, so Juliette was never in any real danger.
• She Who Fights Monsters: She starts to worry that the hunters are no better than the monsters they kill, which the Guild takes as a huge red flag, sidelining her during the raid on the Fairmont estate. Juliette’s narration even speaks on Nietzsche’s words after Cal mentions her family had drawn up plans for the raid.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: When Cal starts to wonder if what she feels for Juliette is real or not, Juliette reminds her that she wouldn't have abandoned her own family to a massacre attempt to protect Cal if she didn't know she had real feelings for her. She then starts rambling her own doubts, prompting Cal to silence her with a kiss.
• Silver Bullet: She wears a bracelet of pure silver, which she plants at Juliette's locker to confirm if she's a vampire or not. She's never seen wearing it again after the first episode.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Compared to Juliette, Calliope is the more stoic and aloof type, given that she’s moved around so much that she finds it almost impossible to make friends or find love.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: When Juliette is at her locker the day after Noah's party, Calliope appears, walking towards her with an icy stare before vanishing into the crowd of other students.
• The Stoic: She tries to put up a stony face in the hopes of proving herself as a hunter.
• Stunned Silence: Her initial reaction to Juliette saying, "I love you."
• Tattoo as Character Type: Of the Cultural and Dominant type, but subverted. When hunters achieve their first kill, they're given specific arrow tattoos to induct them into the Hunter's Guild. Cal failed her first chance a year prior to the events of the story, so she didn't get one. She's seen drawing one herself, an emblem of her desire to prove herself and officially become part of the community. She does get her first kill on zombie!Ashley in 1x04, but she doesn't get her tattoo because it was unsanctioned.
• Taught to Hate: Like any hunter, she was raised to believe that all supernatural creatures are Always Chaotic Evil and the ones who "imitate humanity" are the worst of the bunch. Deconstructed when her infatuation with Juliette prompts her to start questioning this upbringing.
• Tomboyish Name: Cal's tomboyish, so this nickname fits her well.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Her favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Being rather nonchalant about mentioning having helped draw up massacre plans, especially in front of the girlfriend, isn't the most reassuring thing for a 16-year-old to do.
• Tsundere: Her general attitude towards Juliette after talking with the principal in 1x02.
• The Unapologetic: According to Juliette, she never says “sorry” for any of her shortcomings.
• Undying Loyalty: Her family always comes first.
• Vampire Hunter: She comes from a family of monster hunters. At the end of 1x08, she vows to hunt down and murder every legacy vampire, including Juliette.
• Warrior Poet: She has a moment of this in 1x05 where she immaculately recites the prologue of RomeoAndJuliet by heart, grand bodily gestures and all.
  Juliette: So, you’re enchanted with the bard, I see.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She seeks her parents' approval of her as a hunter, even despite her relationship with Juliette making that more difficult.
• Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: Due to being rather new as a hunter, her training is liable to fail her. She had a chance to kill a wraith the year prior to the events of the show, but she froze up after it took on Talia’s form. When she has Juliette alone in Noah’s pantry, she becomes too smitten with her to stake her before being bitten. When Cook tries to capture her for the Guild, she forgets her training until Jules rescues her.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The line between person and monster starts to blur after she meets Juliette, to the point where she starts viewing vampires in general as people. She muses that Juliette is very different from the monsters she was warned about, especially after Juliette saves her from Cook. It doesn't take much for her to swing back into the non-person camp, however, as her reaction to Juliette turning Theo (even unintentionally) is to call her a monster and swear to kill her and every legacy around. How sincere she is about this, though, remains to be seen.
• What the Hell, Hero?: After Juliette turns Theo, she rips into her for “playing innocent” and making dumb decisions, leading to their breakup.
• With My Hands Tied: During the battle of the Fairmont estate, Cook captures her and tapes her hands together to report her to the Guild. After Juliette intervenes, Cal knocks Cook down with three kicks before Jules can remove the tape.
• Wooden Stake: Hides one under her shirt when attending Noah's party and uses it to stab Juliette. She's also seen with it in promotional material.
• Working with the Ex: Tess comes by to help her family exterminate the legacies at Juliette's debut. Subverted when Tess gets Cal sidelined for the mission.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: When Cook's body is found and his autopsy shows evidence of a vampire attack, Cal tries to keep Juliette under the radar, which involves getting her parents to hide her from the police. This barely works, but when the Hunter's Guild comes to her door, she has to sneak Juliette out of the house and get her somewhere else. They run into a police checkpoint and have to use quick thinking to keep Juliette from being exposed as a vampire, which ends in them getting escorted to Juliette's house. Juliette is now out of danger, but now Cal gets mistaken for the vampire.
• You Monster!: She uses the term with Juliette fairly regularly, far less so after they start dating in 1x05, but 1x08 is when it returns to derogatory levels.

The Fairmont Family

General

A family of legacy vampires in Savannah, GA. Their lives are slowly turned upside-down when a family of monster hunters are sent to Savannah, GA to clear it of supernatural forces at the same time that Juliette is set to have her first kill.

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• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Nowhere near the extent of Juliette, but they fit quite well into normal society and even form attachments with humans better than most other legacies. The only Fairmont who doesn’t fall under this category is Elinor.
• Interspecies Romance: Margot and Sebastian, which made it possible for Oliver and Carmen, Elinor and Apollo, and, of course, Juliette and Calliope.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Juliette is a compassionate sweetheart. Elinor is a murderous sociopath. Oliver shows concern for his family and agrees to take Theo in after he’s turned into a vampire, but he also kills Ashley and clearly has some unpleasant ideas for Savannah.
• Sibling Rivalry: Elinor and Oliver do not like each other. Juliette isn’t aware of the whole reason why, but ends up on Oliver’s side by 1x08.
• Vampires Are Rich: We don’t know for certain if all legacies are raking in the dough, but this family certainly is.

Margot Fairmont

Margot Fairmont (née Atwood)

"I made choices for my life. I want you to do the same."

Portrayed by: Elizabeth Mitchell

The matriarch of the Fairmont estate in Savannah, GA and the current keeper-in-waiting of the Emerald Malkia.

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• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: It's easy to feel as though she doesn't love Oliver, but in 1x04, she becomes unnerved when he hears Talia tormenting him over the phone and accepts her hostage negotiation without much thought. Elinor tries to talk her out of it, but Margot goes through with it anyway because he's her son.
• Black Sheep: She fell for a human, which is heavily frowned upon in the legacy community. She became estranged from her family after she fled an arranged marriage. She has nieces and nephews she’s never met as a result.
• Death Glare: Her default expression when speaking to Talia in 1x05.
• Dissonant Serenity: Despite Oliver still being exiled and Elinor being behind bars, the latter of which further complicating their standing in both human society and the legacy community, she is, to quote Sebastian, “ridiculously calm”. She voices that Oliver will hopefully “come around” and Elinor is too obsessed with being the keeper of the Emerald Malkia to try anything stupid while locked up. She’s also rather certain that Juliette will start to want in on the legacy lifestyle once her relationship with Cal fails (which it sadly does).
• Dull Surprise: Her face and voice are totally deadpan upon learning that Sebastian eating her mother. The poor woman has no idea how to even react.
• Et Tu, Brute?: When Talia spears her at Juliette’s debut. She apparently meant it when she said she liked Talia and expected a great friendship.
• Hates Their Parent: She barely keeps contact with her mother after she ran off with Sebastian. She manages to play nice with her, but she completely drops this after the latter displays no compassion for a dying Sebastian. She also seems to get over him eating her rather quickly.
• Heal It with Blood: When Sebastian is dying from a silver spear stab, she feeds him her blood in order preserve his life for as long as she can. It only works temporarily.
• Hypocrite: She insists that Juliette’s romance with Calliope will never work, but it’s hard to take her at her word when she herself fell for a human and things worked out just fine (familial desertion aside, which was entirely on their heads). Sebastian even rebuffs her claim that puppy love never lasts by saying that theirs did. To be fair, Sebastian was never a hunter.
• Icy Blue Eyes: As cold as the shoulder she’s bound to give you at any moment.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Talia runs her through with a silver spear in 1x04. It doesn't take, though.
• Informed Flaw: She’s reported viewing kindness as a weakness multiple times, but we regularly see her showing more humanity than a lot of human characters. The worst we ever see her do is chide Cal and Juliette for their lack of experience (in disposing of a dead body) and threaten to kill Talia (after Talia tried to kill her and her family the previous night).
• It's Personal: With Talia as of 1x04, as she really just wanted to be friends.
  Talia: Keep your fangs in your mouth, we’ll have no problem.
  Margot: Talia, we will always have a problem.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She rarely shows her softer side, but she definitely means well.
  (to Sebastian): I realize that we show affection differently, but I love our children, Sebastian, with my whole heart.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Margot has something of a stick up her ass and can come off as really callous, but she’s been around the block enough times to know what she’s talking about.
  • When Talia complains about Tess’s parents not surviving the raid on the Fairmont estate the previous night, Margot simply asks whose fault that is. Talia has no rebuttal.
  • She chastises Juliette and Calliope for burying Cook’s body, which was a candidly unwise way to dispose of him. She initially assumes it to be Cal’s doing and is no less rude when she finds out it was Juliette's.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Like Juliette, she also fell in love with a human and went to extremes to be with said human in spite of her family’s objections. She seems to forget this when concerning Calliope, however it’s likely that she’s afraid Juliette will run away from home and lose her family the same way she did.
  • Alternatively, Davina all but cut Margot out of the family because she did something that violated the legacy community's expectations. As a result, Margot wanted to be better as a parent and tried to go about it unlike her mother... only to do the exact same thing to Oliver ^note Granted, there's a bit of a gap between eloping and killing, and it's implied that she'll do it to Elinor as well. She also invalidates Juliette's feelings for a human... just like Davina did to her.
• Mama Bear: Despite her stuck-up demeanor, she cares deeply for her children. When Oliver is captured and tortured by the Burnses, she accepts their ransom without a second thought. She’s naturally unhappy with Juliette’s relationship with Calliope because the latter is a hunter.
• Maligned Mixed Marriage: Her family was not happy when she fell for Sebastion.
• Ms. Fanservice: In 1x08, we see her in lingerie while discussing what the new family plan is with Sebastian before making love with him.
• My Beloved Smother: She often dips into this with how controlling she can be of her children.
• No Sympathy: When Talia complains about Tess’s parents having been slaughtered at Juliette’s consecration ceremony, leaving Tess with nobody to take care of her, Margot simply reminds her that it wouldn’t have happened if the hunters hadn’t started the fight in the first place.
• "Not So Different" Remark: When Juliette admits she wants nothing to do with the legacy lifestyle, Margot confesses that she herself rejected the legacy lifestyle herself when she eloped with Sebastian.
• Not So Stoic: Her stone-cold demeanor falters every now and again, the majority of 1x04 being the most notable example.
• Odd Name Out: It’s traditional among legacy families for the husbands to take the wife’s last name. Margot instead took Sebastian’s last name specifically to spite the legacy traditions.
• Oh, Crap!: In 1x08, she points out to Sebastian that they’re set to meet with the Legacy Council in Budapest in 6 months, but then receives a letter detailing the Council is questioning Davina’s ability as the keeper of the Emerald Malkia and thus will meet in 2 days. With Oliver still under exile, Juliette wanting no part in the legacy lifestyle, Elinor behind bars, and Davina dead, it’s not looking good.
• Parental Neglect: The legacy matriarchy demands the keeper of the Emerald Malkia maintain their reputation regardless of what has to be sacrificed. As a result, Margot exiled Oliver and refuses to get involved in Elinor's legal issues.
• Parents as People: She herself deals with the consequences of breaking legacy code by marrying and having kids with a human/made vampire.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: After Sebastian is speared by the hunters, she desperately tries to keep him alive for as long as she can.
• Really 700 Years Old: She looks to be in her 60's at the oldest, but she's been around for 500 years.
• Runaway Bride: She left her fiancé, Henry Davenport, at the altar to be with Sebastian. Henry meets with her again in 1x05 and they bury the hatchet.
• Say My Name: Wheezes out Talia’s name after the latter spears her through the heart.
• Stepford Smiler: She reveals in 1x03, her family doesn't care for her being in love with a human. Her mother belittles her (and Sebastian) every chance she gets, and her siblings straight-up hate her. She puts on a stoic face for her husband and children, as well as the outside world, but it becomes clear during her conversation with Juliette that she's hiding a ton of pain.
• Tranquil Fury: Becomes her general demeanor with Jack and especially Talia after the Burnses’ failed massacre attempt at Juliette’s debut. When she meets with Talia the day after, her face and body language are calm, but she immediately tells the hunter that she’s less than inclined to spare her life should she try anything else. She knows how to keep a cool head, but she clearly took Talia’s actions rather personally, not helped by her family torturing Oliver and nearly killing Sebastian.
• The Unfavorite: Her mother is less than chummy with her and clearly favors her siblings.
• Virtue Is Weakness: She views compassion as a hindrance to a degree. She likens Juliette to Sebastian negatively.
  Sebastian (to Juliette): You had compassion. You still do.
  Juliette: Mom says it’s a weakness.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Despite the animosity between her and her mother, she still desires her respect on some level.
• What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?: Anyone who names their child Juliette should expect the child to get wrapped up in a taboo romance.

Sebastian Fairmont

"Compassion’s not a weakness. It is a gift to be embraced."

Portrayed by: Will Swenson

Margot’s husband and the father of Juliette, Elinor, and Oliver. He’s a district attorney and he was originally human before meeting Margot, who turned him into a vampire after he fell gravely sick.

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• Amoral Attorney: He comes off as this to the public after he fails to make them feel safe in the wake of the murders of Ashley Stanton, Noah Harrington, and Clayton Cook. To be fair, Juliette is rather close to these.
• Easily Forgiven: Margot seems to get past him eating her mother hilariously quickly.
• Emergency Transformation: As part of a deal with Elinor, Davina uses the Emerald Malkia to save Sebastian from a silver stab wound by turning him into a legacy vampire.
  • Happened prior to the story’s events as well. He fell severely sick and Margot chose to turn him into a vampire to save him.
• Foil: Margot is colder and more levelheaded, but Sebastian is warmer and, after being saved by the Queen Serpent, more aggressive.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: As a result of absorbing the Queen Serpent, his eyes start glowing green whenever he gets particularly irritated or when he needs to scare someone into submission.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: After being turned into a legacy, he become snippier and more violent.
• Henpecked Husband: Probably not unusual, given legacy families are structured as matriarchies.
• Horror Hunger: Typical, given his vampirism, but his devouring of his mother-in-law takes the cake. Later on, he really wants to eat Bunny Wheeler, though this is Played for Laughs.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He gets speared by Jack in 1x04. Because he's a made vampire, he doesn't die right away, but he is slowly succumbing to the wound, necessitating the Emerald Malkia to turn him into a legacy to save him.
• Missing Reflection: Due to being a made vampire. Stops being the case after the Emerald Malkia turns him into a legacy.
• Obviously Not Fine: After being stabbed by the Jack, he tries to reassure Margot that he's fine, even though his wound isn't healing and he's clearly becoming woozier and more off-balance by the minute.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After he absorbs the Emerald Malkia, he becomes more unhinged and snippy with others.
• Papa Wolf: Aside from being generally protective of his kids, he loathes the idea of letting Elinor enter an Arranged Marriage and he stands his ground against Davina when she tries to force her into it.
• Poor Communication Kills: He doesn't bother telling Cal upon picking her and Juliette up from the forest that her parents have captured Oliver and are trying to have a hostage trade. Therefore, when he passes the proper turn towards her neighborhood, it's only natural that Cal starts to feel she's being kidnapped, hence why she jumps out of the car and runs away the first chance she gets.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Was originally the blue to Margot’s red, but after absorbing the Queen Serpent, the roles tend to switch from time to time.
• Sore Loser: Inverted. While his family is arranging for Elinor’s marriage into the Davenport family, he opts out of the meal with them specifically because Margot’s ex-fiancé will be there. Margot even calls him a sore winner.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Even after cooling off from the effects of absorbing the Emerald Malkia, he remains noticeably less patient and more prone to violence with others.

Elinor Fairmont

"This is who we are, Jules. I go out and feed, our parents go out and feed. At some point, you're gonna have to stop feeling guilty for doing what you need to do to survive."

Portrayed by: Gracie Dzienny

Juliette's older sister and Oliver's twin. She also works for their father.

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• Ambition Is Evil: She wants power, which is why she wants so badly to become the keeper of the Emerald Malkia.
  Coroner: What do you want?
  Elinor: Money, power, the perfect little black dress.
• Arranged Marriage: She agrees to marry into the Davenport family if Davina uses the Emerald Malkia to save Sebastian. She goes back on this when she finds out she’s expected to give birth to potentially several children.
• Ax-Crazy: Seducing innocent people, dragging them off to seclusion, killing them, and then taking something unique to them for a keepsake? That sounds like something a slasher villain would do.
• Big Sister Instinct: Zig-zagged. She has moments where she shows concern for Juliette, but they’re overshadowed by the times where she actively does something that Juliette finds unsettling and unnecessary.
• Big Sister Bully: Towards Oliver. She was the one who manipulated him into senseless murders that started to jeopardize their family. She then manipulated their family into seeing him as the problem.
  • She’s also this to an extent with Juliette due to their clashing views on the value of human life and what it means to be a legacy. It really boils over in 1x08.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Don’t follow her anywhere alone. The pretty face may be tempting, but whether or not you'll be coming back is a dice roll.
• Blaming the Victim: As show by her dialogue with Oliver in 1x08, she has a tendency to blame everyone for their own misfortunes even if they’re not the cause of it and especially if she’s the cause of it.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Killing "Mark" and feeding his body to river gators is traumatizing for Juliette but is mundane and even humorous for Elinor.
• But Not Too Bi: While we see that she’s taken the ID cards of female victims, we only ever see her physically with men.
• The Cassandra: She is telling the truth when she says that she was defending herself against Apollo and Theo, but when you consider her actions up to this point, it makes perfect sense that Juliette wouldn't see her as innocent.
• Casual Kink: She finds Lilith being bitten by the Queen Serpent something of a turn-on.
• Chekhov's Gun: She uses a Heartstopper brand lipstick on Juliette in 1x01. It comes back in 1x08 when Juliette finds it outside the Wooden Stake Bar following the supposed death of Theo, indicating that Elinor had something to do with it.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Practically her default expression. Fitting, as she's regularly up to no good.
• Compelling Voice: She can hypnotize people with her voice. According to her father, she’s the first of any type of vampire to have this power.
• Cool Big Sis: Deconstructed. Juliette initially looks up to Elinor (her tendencies as The Vamp aside), seeking her level of confidence and often taking her advice with little reluctance. After Elinor starts pushing Juliette to do things that completely violate her morals, Juliette begins to see her in a darker light. After 1x07, they disown each other as sisters.
• The Corrupter: She tries to be this for Juliette, but it thankfully fails.
• Creepy Souvenir: She likes to keep the ID cards of her not-so-lucky victims. There are dozens upon dozens of them that she keeps in a storage locker. Juliette uses this to incriminate her.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a dry comment for pretty much every conversation.
• Depraved Bisexual: Some of her victims are female.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She gives this look to Juliette after she sells her out.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She seems to love her parents to some degree. She agrees to an Arranged Marriage specifically to get her grandmother to save her dying father.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She insists that humans are of little consequence, and she can’t wrap her head around Juliette’s view that all life is sacred. Her attempts to get Juliette to embrace her predatory nature all fail. After her first kill, Elinor has to trick Juliette into helping murder an innocent bar patron and then she chides her for being upset after the fact.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: When she coaxes Juliette into helping her drain a man named Mark to death, she throws him to the gators in the Savannah River, joking that “And just like that, Mark becomes watermark.” Juliette is not amused at all.
• Explosive Breeder: Defied. The arrangement between her family and the Davenports involves her spawning multiple children. Elinor’s only word for that is “no”.
  (to Davina) I’m not moving to Toronto to pimp out my uterus.
• Failed a Spot Check: After her skirmish with Theo and Apollo, she wipes their memories so they won’t remember her before leaving, apparently covering her track. However, Juliette finds her lipstick at the pub and immediately realizes that Elinor was involved.
• Fantastic Racism: She views legacy vampires as a master race above all other life on earth, including humans.
• Fatal Flaw: Her bloated sense of self makes her underestimate everyone, as Oliver says verbatim in 1x08.
  • Her inability to accept that Juliette is just not like her certainly bites her in the ass. She tries several times to get Juliette to commit murders and be okay with it, but Juliette’s morality simply doesn’t allow it. She eventually goes too far and Juliette has her dragged into police custody.
• Flash Step: Played with. 1x03 reveals she has Super-Speed, but Juliette doesn't react to it. It's rarely ever seen; it's only ever used again in 1x08. Even Gracie was surprised to see it added in post-production.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Would you believe Juliette is the more responsible one? Jules may be naïve, but she knows how to take accountability for her actions and cares none for senseless violence. Elinor became the Emerald Malkia’s keeper-in-waiting and still made reckless decisions that put her in hot legal water.
• For the Evulz: Her reason for screwing Oliver over so heavily? “I just felt like it.”
• Gaslighting: She likes to twist people’s words around to make them look like she’s in the right. Juliette even calls her the Gaslight Queen. When Oliver interrogates her about the murders she tricked him into committing, she tries to turn them around on him or make them seem like she did him a favor and that he’s relying on toxic masculinity to blame her for the murders even though he never would’ve committed them if it hadn’t been for her.
• Hypocrite: She blames Juliette’s romance with Calliope for everything bad that’s happened to their family. Who’s going to bring up that she herself fell for Apollo and got herself involved in a fight that put them in the current situation?
• Iam What I Am: She loves being a legacy vampire and makes no apologies. She tries to use this as an excuse for her heinous actions.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Compared to Juliette’s Innocent Blue Eyes.
• Insane Troll Logic: She would put her dolls in the microwave because she thought they were cold. In her defense, she was a little girl when she did this.
• It Gets Easier: She tries to convince Juliette that she’ll start to overcome her respect for human life the more bodies she piles up. This is likely the reason why she keeps trying to get her to kill Cal, so she won’t feel as bad about the next one or the ones that come after that. Juliette rebukes this with every fiber of her being. She apparently managed to instill this mindset in Oliver, though, given how he felt no remorse about killing Ashley.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: She manipulated Oliver into killing their family psychologist and their camp counselor (as well as his pet turtle) and then pinned it on him, getting him excommunicated from the legacy community and shipped off to Prague by their parents to keep herself out of trouble. She spends a not-small part of the series trying to get Juliette to murder people, knowing Juliette hates the thought of hurting anyone. She’s also committed dozens upon dozens of murders over the years and never once got caught. In 1x08, she pushes Juliette past her limit and she has her arrested by the SWAT Team for all of the murders. To make things even more karmic, Oliver comes in to “represent” her, forcing her to face the brother she betrayed five years prior. On top of that, their parents choose to not pay her bail because it would look bad for the keepers of the Emerald Malkia to be connected to such a legal mess (meaning their parents are pretty much leaving her out to dry just like they did to him)… except the Legacy Council is now investigating whether or not the Atwood/Fairmont family is still worthy to remain the keepers, so even if they do bail her out, her chances of achieving any real power as a legacy have dropped close to zero AND she's liable to be excommunicated from the legacy community just as she had happen to Oliver.
• Kick the Dog: When Juliette decides she’s had enough of Elinor’s bullshit, Elinor physically assaults her and tells her that her “cowardice” and her romance with Cal is the cause of all their problems, bringing Juliette to tears. She also implies that she plans to kill the rest of the Burns family.
• Lack of Empathy: As Juliette finally realizes in 1x08, Elinor is incapable of feeling bad for the lives she ruins with her self-indulgent homicides. As we see over the course of the season, she certainly doesn’t feel bad for screwing over Oliver.
• Light Is Not Good: She dresses in brighter colors and has blonde hair. She’s also a serial murderer with no remorse.
• Pink Is Erotic: She wears a ton of pink and is arguably the most outwardly sexual character on the show.
• Pink Means Feminine: She wears a ton of pink to highlight her femininity.
• Psycho Pink: Her association with pink also puts up a front of innocence to hide her serial killer hobbies.
• Psychopathic Woman Child: She treats others’ lives like a game and never accepts responsibility for her actions unless she can get away with it.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She bends protocol with the coroner because her father is the district attorney.
• Serial Killer: She’s murdered dozens, possibly even hundreds of people over the years, taking their ID tags as mementos.
• Shadow Archetype: Juliette lives with the embodiment of who she could become if she were to ever lose her regard for others’ lives.
• The Sociopath: She mass murders innocent people and manipulates everyone she knows for the funsies and feels no remorse for any of it. As far as she cares, the world is merely a stress ball for her to squeeze.
• Stupid Evil: She keeps her victims’ ID cards locked up in a garage. Juliette knows about this and knows where its key is. Probably not a good idea to piss her off to the point of disownment or show it to her after she voices said disownment.
  Oliver: Wounded animals are dangerous, especially when they know where you keep the key to your Murder Locker.
• The Vamp: Pun aside, she has a thing for seducing humans to get them alone before feeding on them, dumping their bodies to the river gators, and keeping their ID cards as souvenirs.
• Villain Has a Point: While she can’t be defended when it comes to any of the other murders she’s been involved with, she is technically right that she was merely defending herself against Theo and Apollo (though it doesn’t help that she threw the first punch). She’s also right that Juliette’s dismissal of legacy lifestyle has caused the issues they’re dealing with, though in truth it hasn’t caused quite as many of them as Elinor says.
• Would Hurt a Child: She kidnaps Calliope in 1x03 to give Juliette a last-minute kill before her consecration begins. In 1x08, she assaults Juliette after the latter disowns her.

Oliver Fairmont

"We both know you’re not like them, Jules. Y’know, all this legacy nonsense is, well… it’s nonsense."

Portrayed by: Dylan McNamara

Juliette's older brother and Elinor's twin. He grew up with his family but was exiled for violent reasons five years prior to the events of the show. He makes his return on the night of Juliette's consecration ceremony.

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• 0% Approval Rating: None of the other legacies speak highly of him at all. His parents never want him around despite they claim to care about him, refusing to think even for a moment that he might not be a bad guy and telling him to accept full blame for the murders he committed if he ever wants to be accepted back. They even speak of him with caution as if they think of his place in the family as a curse. Even Juliette, who doesn't know the whole story, is wary of him.
• Alarm SOS: The ring he wears is linked to a red string within his body, which, upon removal, acts as a distress signal for his girlfriend, Carmen.
• Ax-Crazy: His idea to help Juliette get through her first kill? Kill Ashley and leave the body for Juliette to discover and drink. He also turns Ashley into a Zombie because why not. Cal is rightly wary of him.
• Berserk Button: Feel free to point out that he’s in any way similar to Elinor at your own peril. The only reason he doesn't lash out at Juliette for doing this is because he doesn't want to hurt his favorite sister.
• Big Brother Instinct: Shady as he is, he cares a lot for Juliette and goes out of his way to ensure her wellbeing.
• Brother–Sister Team: While he may hate Elinor, he is willing to fight alongside her to protect Juliette from the hunters.
• The Bus Came Back: He was shipped off to Prague five years prior. He makes his big return for Juliette's debutante in 1x03.
• Cain and Abel: We learn that he’s royally pissed at Elinor for what she did to him and wants her dead. He even tries to enlist Juliette for help, which he eventually gets.
• The Cassandra: He tried to tell his family that he was tricked and manipulated into committing the murders he was kicked out for. Juliette preferring to remain neutral due to not knowing all the details is the closest any of them come to believing him.
• Cold Ham: Dylan loves to play up Oliver's sly persona while never raising his voice.
• Deadpan Snarker: Easily has the driest wit on the show.
  Apollo: Why don’t we just stake him to the bottom of the river and let time and erosion work its magic?
  Oliver (currently restrained in silver): Oh, the Savannah River’s not far. If you guys can avoid the gators and the sewage runoff, we have a real shot. But I can hold my breath for a really, really long time, so make sure your calendar’s clear. (winks at Theo)
• Disappointed by the Motive: After learning that Elinor screwed him over just for fun, indicating that she never cared about him, he gives her a look that screams "Wow, really?"
• Et Tu, Brute?: It turns out that his whole excommunication from legacy society stemmed from Elinor’s manipulation. He’s wondered how his twin sister could do something so horrible to him and he finally confronts her about it in 1x08. According to Elinor herself, she just felt like doing it.
• The Exile: He was disowned by his parents and the legacy community at large for jeopardizing their safety with savage murders, shipped off to Prague 5 years prior to the events of the show.
• Foil: To Elinor. They’re both opportunistic and totally off their rockers, but Oliver is better at keeping his predatory side under control while Elinor is simply better at hiding the results of her own. They both care about Juliette, but Elinor constantly tries to change Juliette into being more like her while claiming she’s turning her into a “proper legacy”, while Oliver accepts Juliette for who she is in spite of a few disagreements.
• Evil All Along: He reveals to Theo at the end of 1x08 that he came back to Savannah to raise hell. He and Carmen have gathered a bunch of monsters with intent on turning them loose on the town.
• Frame-Up: Downplayed. He did kill his pet turtle, the family therapist, and a camp counselor, but he never would've done so if Elinor hadn't goaded him into doing it. However, she framed him as being solely responsible and painted him as unstable and dangerous to keep herself out of trouble.
• The Gadfly: He’ll push your buttons even when you have him subdued.
  (while restrained in silver at the Burns house): Haven’t you guys ever heard of consent?
• History Repeats: He did something that violated legacy protocol and his family cut him off to maintain their image, which is the same thing Margot went through. Candidly, there's a difference between leaving an arranged marriage to marry a human and gruesomely murdering people (though he's not entirely to blame for that), but the fact remains.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Suffers this several times in 1x04 after helping Elinor kill Tess's parents. Because legacy vampires have no immediately known methods of being killed, it's done as a torture method.
• Knight of Cerebus: Brevity tends to take a nosedive whenever he enters the room. His sly demeanor makes him off-putting to others, but it's shown in a more ominous light than the more two-faced light Elinor's is shown in. He even makes his series debut in heavy shadow.
• Laughing Mad: When telling Theo and Apollo about his Carmen and when he leaves Elinor in jail.
• Pet the Dog: He agrees to leave Cal alone upon seeing that Juliette is in love with her.
  • He graciously agrees to take care of Theo after he’s been turned into a vampire, telling Talia that she’s the best mom he’s ever known.
• Revenge: He tells Juliette in 1x05 that he wants to get even with Elinor for coaxing their family into giving him the boot. He gets what he wants when Juliette has her fill of Elinor's shenanigans and helps him turn Elinor in. However, he learns that Elinor never cared about him and she did what she did for the fun of it, inserting a small element of Vengeance Feels Empty.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: In spite of some notable similarities, he and Elinor are very different from each other.
• Undying Loyalty: To Juliette, seemingly.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He leaves Savannah a betrayed brother and a disowned child. He returns a witch’s boyfriend and with a plan to overrun Savannah with monsters.
• Would Hurt a Child: Had no issue murdering Ashley.

The Burns Family

General

A family of hunters who travel around the world to kill monsters. Pending reports that monsters have started appearing around Savannah, GA again, the Burnses find themselves stationed here to deal with them, and their lives change forever.

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• Badass Family: They're all trained killers and they work together as a unit.
• Beneath Notice: They keep their hunting business away from public light using cover jobs. When they're moved to Savannah, Talia is made a stay-at-home mother, Theo is an analyst, Apollo is a physical trainer, and Cal is sent to high school.
• Blood Knight: As trained assassins, violence is often their go-to method.
• Didn't Think This Through: Ignoring Cal's missteps listed above, the Burnses attack the Fairmont home with silver-tipped spears and no backup plan in case the spears would fail, and in a later episode Theo and Apollo attack Elinor at the Wooden Stake with no recourse for if she decides to hunt them down for revenge. Evidently, poor planning skills runs in the family.
• Fantastic Racism: They don't see monsters as people and aren't afraid to show it. They've been taught that the worst monsters are the ones that "imitate humanity". Even Calliope counts on some level despite learning that not all vampires are ravenous maneaters, though she is the first to question if the actions of monster hunters are justified.
• A House Divided: After Juliette accidentally turns Theo into a vampire, Jack is quick to disown him as a son and try to kill him. Apollo, though distraught over it, is onboard with it. Talia opposes this with every fiber of her being and even sneaks Theo out to safety. Calliope is conflicted over this entire situation, seeing her brother as a monster but not wanting to lose him.
• Hunter of Monsters: Their entire family comes from a long lineage of monster slayers and they take great pride in it.
• Hypocrite: They'll call all supernatural creatures Always Chaotic Evil and then in the same breath treat them in ways that most well-adjusted humans would never even consider. They also blame the Fairmont family for all the trouble they find themselves in, not seeming to understand that it's them who starts almost every situation. Margot even mentions that they were the ones who started the fight that got them (rather, Tess's parents) killed.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Theseus, Apollo, and Calliope are named after figures of Greco-Roman mythology.
• Sadist: They really like causing pain to the monsters they hunt, most particularly the ones they don’t know how to kill. Cal seems to be the only one who doesn’t fall under this category.
• Taught to Hate: Like the rest of the Guild, they were raised with genocidal prejudice against supernatural entities.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: As to be expected, the Burnses show no regard for the morality of a supernatural individual. Even after Juliette makes it rather obvious that she's not a threat and genuinely cares for Cal, they continue to treat her like an abomination.

Talia Burns

"We can get through anything… anything… as long as we don’t lie to each other."

Portrayed by: Aubin Wise

A Blade-class hunter and Calliope's mother. Her cover job in Savannah is a housewife.

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• Action Mom: As a mother with 3 children. Special mention to her beheading a shambler.
• Apron Matron: She takes no shit from anyone, especially her own kids.
  Talia (to Apollo) Baby, I know that's the adrenaline rush from that kill talking, but you better watch your language in my house. Hear me?
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In 1x07, after Calliope brings Juliette home and reveals that she’s been there before, Talia (with Jack) bursts into her room to chide her for… having the door closed while in her room with another girl.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: She does this to Oliver while he’s captured at her house. Even worse is that she does it while on the phone to make sure Margot can hear it.
• Death Glare: She has more than her share of these when speaking with Margot, but turns them on Jack in 1x08 after he opts to kill Theo.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She has a way of insulting Margot with extreme audacity, knowing she won’t retaliate for appearances’ sake.
• Et Tu, Brute?: When Apollo agrees with Jack to kill vampire!Theo.
• Fantastic Slur: This exchange in 1x05 concerning Juliette.
  Calliope: She has a name.
  Talia: Nightcrawler, that’s her name.
• Foil: To Margot. While they’re both assertive maternal figures determined to keep their houses in line and want nothing more than to ensure the safety of their kids, Talia is more bellicose and ruder in her interactions with the Fairmonts, while Margot is more polite and easier to reason with. Also, Talia has no legitimate reason to hate the Fairmonts while Margot is given very personal reasons to hate the Burnses.
• Former Teen Rebel: She tells Margot that she used to get into trouble when she was a teenager.
• Foreshadowing:
  • She tells Cal that the most dangerous monsters are the ones that imitate humanity. In the following episode, we're introduced to Cook, an opportunist who tries to score a promotion for himself at Cal's expense after he's left in charge of her.
  • She tells Oliver in 1x04 that no parent ever wants to lose their child. Come 1x08, Theo has been turned into a vampire and she's doing everything she can to keep her husband from killing him.
• Go Through Me: She stands her ground against Jack when he wants to kill the newly turned Theo, saying he’ll kill him over her dead body.
• Good Stepmother: She’s not Theo’s biological mother, but loves him all the same. After he’s turned into a vampire, she refuses to let Jack kill him, smuggling him off to Oliver’s for safety, telling Theo multiple times that he’ll always be her son.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Considers Juliette a monster, but trusts Cook enough to leave him in charge of Cal. Guess what happens?
• I Lied: She pretends to acquiesce to Jack's desire to kill Vampire!Theo, asking for a last moment of privacy with him to say goodbye. A few minutes later, Jack returns to find both her and Theo gone.
• Irony: She was wary of letting Calliope move forward with killing Juliette because it might endanger her. Little did she know that leaving her with Cook would be the real danger.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Just like Cal, she meets a Fairmont legacy and plays nice with her before stabbing her in the heart later. They also both insult Margot to her face.
• Mama Bear: She will protect her kids at any cost, even against Jack if she has to. When Theo becomes a vampire, she vehemently stands against Jack’s desire to kill him, refusing to view him as any less of her son just because his physiology has changed.
• My Beloved Smother: She has a habit of being too controlling of her children, especially Cal.
• Parents as People: She is tasked with helping rid Savannah of monsters but finds herself having to choose between her lineage and her humanity and eventually face her own family after her son is incidentally turned by a vampire.
• Pet the Dog: She’s prepared to deny Juliette any shelter from the authorities concerning Cook’s murder, but after learning she was defending Calliope after the guy put his hands on her, Talia agrees to keep Juliette beneath notice. She still wants Juliette and Calliope apart, but gives them 10 minutes to say goodbye. She even tries to warn them that the Guild has arrived.
• Precision F-Strike: In 1x08.
  (to Jack): You stay away from my fucking son.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: In comparison to her husband, at least, as she seems the most willing to work with vampires to protect her kids. After they learn Juliette saved Calliope’s life from Cook, Jack is quick to dismiss the idea of helping the hapless vampire while Talia agrees to hide her from the police and the Guild.
• Second Love: She’s Jack’s second wife, having come in after his first was killed by a legacy.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Hunters are not supposed to help monsters even in acts of gratitude. Talia? She keeps Juliette's involvement with Cook's murder a secret for going out of her way to protect Cal and she smuggles vampire!Theo off to Oliver's for safety simply because he's her son.
• Supporting the Monster Loved One: She’s the only one in the house who refuses to see Theo die just because he’s a vampire now (though, in Calliope’s case, she at least seems uncertain of what to do). Jack considers her weak for this.
• To Be Lawful or Good: She finds herself choosing her humanity and her family (good) over her work as a hunter (lawful) when Juliette saves Calliope and when Theo is turned into a vampire.
• Traitor Shot: After learning Juliette and Margot are vampires, she plays nice in Margot’s face, but when Margot takes off, Talia’s face falls, indicating she intends to kill them.
• Troll: She knows what words to use to get under Margot’s skin.
• You Do Not Want To Know: She has a thing for asking questions the answers to which would give her a headache, notably when concerning whatever Cal is doing with Juliette. In 1x02, she asks what they were doing in a pantry. In 1x07, she wonders why Cal would invite Juliette into their home.

Jack Burns

"Your turn is coming, baby."

Portrayed by: Jason R. Moore

A Blade-class hunter and Calliope's father.

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• Archnemesis Dad: After Theo is turned into a vampire, Jack immediately decides he’s no longer his son and tries to kill him. After Talia sneaks Theo off to protect him, Jack starts packing weapons in order to hunt him down.
• Foreshadowing: We see early on that he has a habit of putting his job as a hunter ahead of his family and his own humanity, which causes him to butt heads with Talia. Come 1x08, he sees that Theo has been turned into a vampire and takes it about as well as you'd imagine.
• Honor Before Reason: He refuses to play nice with vampires, even if to show gratitude or to maintain his own family, because in his eyes they’re all horrible monsters no matter who they are as people or what they provide for him. It’s usually Talia who has to reign him in. When Juliette comes to the Burns home seeking shelter from the authorities, he refuses to help her even after learning she saved Calliope, only agreeing to after Talia speaks up (and even then, he’s clearly not happy with it). When Juliette accidentally turns Theo into a vampire, Jack is insistent on killing him, no longer seeing him as his son.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Considers Juliette a monster, but trusts Cook enough to leave him in charge of Cal. Guess what happens?
• I Have No Son!: He immediately stops seeing Theo as his son after he’s turned into a vampire. What makes this even worse is that Theo is his biological son, so the poor guy has now lost both of his birth parents.
• Lawful Stupid: He’s willing to uphold the values of the hunters even at the expense of basic reason and humanity. As a result, he initially refuses to help Juliette even after learning she saved Calliope’s life, and he tries to kill Theo after he’s turned into a vampire.
• Married to the Job: He tends to put his work as a hunter above his humanity. This tends to put him at odds with Talia.
• Offing the Offspring: He is disturbingly insistent on killing Theo after the boy is turned into a vampire, even in spite of Talia’s refusal. When she runs off with him, Jack is intent of hunting him down even at her expense.
• Papa Wolf: When he finds out Cook got violent with Calliope the night they stormed the Fairmonst estate, he says he’d kill him if he weren’t already dead. Though, if you were to ask Theo as of 1x08, this only goes to a certain degree.
• Principles Zealot: He views all supernaturals as evil and will stand by that all the way, even if it hurts his own family.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He tends to be the red to Talia’s blue. The roles would sometimes switch at various intervals, but he solidifies himself as the red and Talia as the blue in 1x08.
• Staking the Loved One: He tries to kill Theo after he's turned by Juiette.

Theo Burns

Theseus "Theo" Burns

"As long as they're still standing, we need to move smart, not fast."

Portrayed by: Phillip Mullings, Jr.

A hunter-in-training and Calliope's older half-brother. His cover job in Savannah is a data analyst.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: While dying from a stab wound, he has enough strength to ask Juliette for help.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Juliette accidentally turns him into a vampire in 1x08.
• Bloodlust: As he's being dropped off at Oliver's, he takes a moment to glance at Talia's neck and hear her heartbeat, obviously considering drinking her blood. He thankfully snaps out of it before she can notice.
• Deadpan Snarker: Apollo tends to bring out this side of him. He even manages to give him a sarcastic look while he’s convulsing from an incomplete vampire transformation.
  Apollo: This dipshit is so full of himself.
  Theo (glancing at him): Glad we don’t have anyone like that in our family.
• Et Tu, Brute?: When Jack opts to kill him after he's been turned. Apollo as well, though to a lesser degree since they had a Mercey Kill Arrangement.
• Gut Punch: More like a Gut Stab. It’s when he gets accidentally staked by Apollo that the situation gets more serious and everything starts to truly fall apart.
• Hypocrite: He tells Apollo that the best way to navigate the legacy vampire issue is smartly, not quickly. In 1x07, he does the exact same thing he warned against during an encounter with Elinor, which gets him staked.
• Irony: He hates vampires and seeks to kill them. Not only does he get staked like one, but he finds himself begging a vampire to save his life. And then he becomes a vampire. This irony is a large part of why Cal breaks up with said vampire.
• I Will Find You: After Calliope’s severing awakens old memories of his birth mother’s murder, he takes on a personal mission to track down the legacy that did it.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: After Apollo accidentally stakes him, Elinor wipes their memory of the encounter.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He plans to stake Elinor if she fails to provide the name of the legacy that killed his birth mother just to enjoy her pain. He winds up getting staked himself.
• Manipulative Editing: While we don’t see it, he manages to edit the security footage of Juliette and Cal to make them seem like they did nothing wrong.
• Mercy Kill Arrangement: He and Apollo agree to this in the event that one of them is turned into a monster.
• Missing Mom: His mother was killed by a legacy vampire. After performing a severing on Calliope, he sets out to find the person who did it.
• Missing Reflection: Averted. Unlike other made vampires, his reflection is perfectly visible after his transformation.
• Not Quite Dead: He appeared to be dead and gone by the time Juliette and Cal made it to the Wooden Stake Bar, but after Cal and Apollo leave, Jules cleans up the crime scene and then hears his heartbeat from outside the bar. She raced back inside to find him barely clinging to consciousness and begging for help.
• Revenge: He wants to find the legacy that killed his mother when he was a child and give her a piece of his mind.
• Rule of Symbolism: When Apollo wraps a silver chain around his arms, the one on his left arm cuts through his hunter tattoo.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears glasses and is definitely the more mature and responsible brother.
• Tears of Blood: After he's turned into a vampire, he starts crying blood as his body struggles to stabilize.
• Too Dumb to Live: He and Apollo try to manipulate Elinor into giving them information about the legacy who killed Theo’s birth mother, which led to him getting staked and the situation between the two families getting even worse. A wiser alternative would’ve been to consult Juliette, because she has no incentive to hurt him, especially as she's dating his sister. Asking Elinor wasn't his idea, but attacking her certainly was.
• You Are What You Hate: He’s accidentally turned by Juliette in 1x08. As Calliope points out, she’s turned him into the one thing he was trained to hate and kill.

Apollo Burns

Portrayed by: Dominic Goodman

A hunter-in-training and Calliope's older brother and Theo's half-brother. His cover job in Savannah is a personal trainer.

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• Bigot with a Crush: He's vehemently against the existence of supernatural creatures but is perfectly fine with Elinor... at first.
• Birds of a Feather: He has an inflated ego, he constantly underestimates others, he misses out on small-but-crucial details, and he's implied to have a high body count... just like Elinor.
• The Casanova: Just look at him training the M.A.A.M. women in 1x06.
• Childish Older Sibling: He’s older than Cal and less mature.
• Dating Catwoman: He has a fling with Elinor, though that comes to an abrupt end in 1x07.
• Didn't Think This Through: He has a habit of taking trinkets from his hunting sites, which bites him in the ass in 1x02. He took a summoner from a graveyard in the episode prior, which teleported a shambler into their home, leading to the place getting trashed, the only picture of Theo's birth mother getting broken, and the family nearly getting killed.
• Distracted by the Sexy: He attempts get Elinor to tell him about a legacy crest in reference to the murder of Theo’s mother, but he winds up making out with her in the bathroom. To make things worse, Theo is waiting just outside and gets concerned, prompting him to walk in on them just before having sex. It all goes downhill from there.
• Everyone Has Standards: In 1x07, he’s rather put off when Theo seemingly dismisses Talia as his mother just because she didn’t give birth to him.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: In comparison to Calliope and especially Theo, he's often the least likely to think before he acts.
• Heroic BSoD: After he accidentally stabs Theo and Elinor wipes his memory.
• It's All About Me: He’s quite arrogant and self-absorbed, as his family points out a couple of times. He simply considers himself confident in his own skills.
  Theo: Not everything is about you, bro.
  Apollo: Agree to disagree.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: After staking Theo, Elinor erases their memory of their encounter, leaving him horribly confused on what’s just happened as his brother is dying.
• Mercy Kill Arrangement: He and Theo agree to this in the event that one of them is turned into a monster.
• Monster/Slayer Romance: Much like his sister. With Elinor, of all people.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he accidentally stakes Theo in the stomach.
• Plot Parallel: Like Cal, he is a monster hunter who develops a mutual crush on a vampire only to have the relationship fall apart due to a misunderstanding.
• Poor Communication Kills: He takes so long to ask Elinor about the crest of the legacy that killed Theo’s mother that he hasn’t even done it by the time Theo comes in, resulting in Elinor mistaking the situation as an ambush and a fight breaking out. A fight that ends pretty badly for both of the boys.
• Small Name, Big Ego: For someone who's not really well-known even among other hunters, he's rather high on himself.
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: A non-villainous example. When vampire!Theo grabs him by the throat, and appears ready to kill him, Apollo simply tells him to do it because he feels he deserves it for putting him in this situation.

Lancaster Academy

Ben Wheeler

Benjamin "Ben" Wheeler

Portrayed by: Jason Dylan Allen

Juliette's childhood best friend.

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• Amicable Exes: Remains best friends with Juliette after they dated for a month at age 12.
• Bad Liar: When Sebastian finds him and the rest of the students at the impromptu bonfire for Ashley, Ben tells him, rather feebly, that Juliette is on a scavenger hunt. To make it worse, he could’ve just said she was on a walk, as that’s why they momentarily left the bonfire in the first place.
• Big Man on Campus: Ben is a star athlete and is friends with seemingly everyone.
• The Confidant: Becomes this after Juliette reveals herself as a vampire.
• Conflicting Loyalties: His best friend is a vampire, but his mother is leading a charge against people like her.
• Didn't Think This Through: His idea for disposing of Cook’s body is to bury him. Not only is that pointed out to be a dumb idea later on, but he even helps Juliette and Cal bury him around the same part of the forest that their late friend Ashley loved to visit while drinking. It didn’t take long for someone to discover the burial.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Inverted; he and Juliette are both gay. They even spoon in bed together.
• Hypocrite: He tells Juliette that she’s not living in reality to think she can be with a human as a vampire. As she points out, this also ignores that he himself is living outside of reality to think Noah would ever come out of the closet for him.
• Incoming Ham: His manner of getting Juliette's attention from outside her house? Honking his horn repeatedly. The Fairmonts tend to find this obnoxious.
• Incompatible Orientation: He and Juliette dated for a short time when they were 12, only lasting a month before they realized they were gay.
• It's All About Me: To a degree. He doesn’t seem to care that he’s betraying Phillipa, a good friend of his, by sleeping with her boyfriend.
• Last Het Romance: Well, in his and Juliette’s case, their only het romance.
• Living Emotional Crutch: With all the bloody drama of being a legacy, Ben is the only factor in Juliette's life that makes her feel normal.
• Lovable Jock
• Put on a Bus: Now at odds with his mother over M.A.A.M.s, he decides to call his father and go stay with him, much to Juliette’s dismay.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He finally gets fed up with Noah and calls him out for treating him like a trashy sidepiece instead of being honest with Phillipa about what he wants.
• The Reliable One: Becomes this after Juliette reveals that she’s a vampire.
• Self-Serving Memory: After learning that Juliette is a vampire, he interrogates her, even asking if her kissing him 4 years prior was merely a taste test. Annoyed, Juliette corrects him by saying it was him that kissed her.
• Shipper on Deck: He encourages Juliette to ask Calliope out and even rigs a game of Spin the Bottle specifically so they can make out.
• Skewed Priorities: After burying Cook, while Calliope and Juliette remark on how mad their parents are going to be, Ben’s thoughts are on how his mother is watching Below Deck without him.
• Undying Loyalty: He remains loyal to Juliette even after a discomforting reveal that she’s a vampire.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He has a moment of this in 1x05 during this exchange, which Juliette naturally finds disrespectful.
  (to Juliette): Playing with humans doesn't make you a human any more than playing with Barbie dolls makes you a Barbie doll.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He does not take it well (at first) when Juliette reveals her vampiric nature to him (to be fair, he did just watch her kill a guy and drink his blood). He interrogates her to ensure he’s talking to her because he finds it hard to believe she would lie to him about something so important. He eventually gets over it.

Phillipa Calhoun

Portrayed by: Gail Soltys

Noah's girlfriend.

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• The Beard: Unknowingly. She dates Noah in public, but seems unaware that he’s sleeping with Ben behind her back.
• Break the Cutie: Safe to say she’s not feeling too well after losing both Ashley and Noah, especially in such a short span of time. On top of that, her rightly concerned father pulls her out of Lancaster Academy, away from her friends.
• Due to the Dead: She attends Ashley’s vigil in 1x02 and even throws an impromptu bonfire for her in 1x04. In 1x06, she has a small gathering in the forest for Noah.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair and seems to get along with everyone.
• Locked Out of the Loop: In 1x04, between herself, Noah, Ben, Juliette, and Calliope, she seems to be the only one who doesn’t know Noah is cheating on her with Ben. Even Cal knows about it, having just found out that Noah is Ben’s “secret boyfriend” earlier that night.
• Nice Girl: Absolutely adores Ben and Juliette and generally a kind and loving girl.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Says this to a reporter regarding Noah.
• Precision F-Strike: She lets out an “Oh shit” when her dog, Tiffany, finds and digs up Cook’s body.
• Put on a Bus: Her father pulls her from Lancaster Academy due to safety concerns, much to her dismay.

Noah Harrington

Portrayed by: Roberto Méndez

Another athlete at Lancaster. He's Ben's secret fling, as he's dating Phillipa.

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• Closet Gay: Noah is publicly with Phillipa, but he cheats on her in secret with Ben. He seems to be more focused on Phillipa than Ben, so it’s likely that he’s at least bi.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Zombie!Ashley knocks him to the floor and rips out his spine. Even Cal and Juliette are unnerved after they see his corpse.
• A Deadly Affair: He gets killed by Zombie!Ashley right after he breaks up with Ben.
• Dying Alone: Because he decided not to stay put during the monster lockdown, he’s completely alone when he’s killed.
• Foreshadowing: In 1x05. Juliette tells Ben that Noah isn't coming out of the closet. He never gets the chance to because he gets offed by a zombie later on.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He was right to be upset at Ben for taking an unsolicited picture of him, as that is selfish and a form of harassment. The fact that it was a sexual picture as well pushes it into the realm of sexual harassment.
• Rule of Symbolism: He lacks the backbone to be honest with himself and Phillipa. He gets his spine ripped out.
• Too Dumb to Live: He’d rather break the monster alarm protocol and risk an encounter with a zombie than get caught with Ben in the locker room. Guess what happens to him.

Ashley Stanton

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Portrayed by: Sarah Stipe

Juliette and Calliope's classmate in Language Arts class.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Her peers call her Smashley.
• The Alcoholic: She has a reputation for being quite a drinker, hence the nickname. She was apparently a Beer Pong champion.
• Book Dumb: According to her parents, academics were never her strong suit, but she loved coming to school because of her friends.
• Came Back Wrong: Carmen reanimates her as a zombie. She can draw from her memories, but they’re a jumbled mess. She doesn’t even seem to realize what’s happened to her. Not helped by her bloodthirsty rage.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Her autopsy showed that she suffered a fatal hit to her head and her liver was stolen.
• Due to the Dead: She’s thrown a vigil at school the night following her murder.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She enjoys partying and is seen drinking liquor at Noah’s party.
• Innocently Insensitive: A Noah's party, she boops Ben on the nose, a nod to the microaggression of non-black people putting their hands on black people without consent. Though Ben is visibly offended, she's clearly drunk and playful, so he takes it in stride.
• Kill the Cutie: She could make friends with seemingly anyone, so it makes sense that so many people would be devastated at her premature demise.
• Lights Off, Somebody Dies: Oliver cut the lights at Noah’s party and then killed her under the blanket of darkness.
• Nice Girl: Alcoholic that she is, she’s as sweet as can be. Makes it all the more tragic when Oliver kills her and rips out her liver. The last words she speaks prior to being zombified are “I love you guys!”
• Off with Her Head!: As a zombie, she’s put down once and for all when Calliope cuts her head off.
• Rule of Symbolism: The girl who’s known for getting drunk gets her liver removed.
• Super-Speed: As a zombie, she moves faster than the naked eye can track.

Mr. Porter

Portrayed by: Bill Winkler

Juliette and Calliope's Language Arts teacher.

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• Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much every line he speaks is dripping in sass.
  (to Calliope): I know you just transferred in, but surely clocks work the same way at your old school.
• Stern Teacher: Certainly comes off as this. When Cal comes in late, he has her read a passage from Wise Blood to the class. He also assigns his students group projects much to their chagrin.

Hunters Guild

General

• Child Soldiers: Hunters are trained from a young age, making them this. This is shown when Cal mentions that Theo and Apollo were 12 and 14 respectively when they killed their first monsters.
• Creature-Hunter Organization: As indicated by the “hunters” part.
• Didn't Think This Through: The send the Burnses and Franklins to attack the Fairmont estate with silver-tipped spears. The problem is they're operating on intel of legacy weaknesses that hasn't been updated in at least a century and with no backup plan in the event that the silver spears didn’t work, which they didn’t. As a result, Tess’s parents are killed and they’re forced to retreat.
• Fantastic Racism: They have no concern with getting to know you; if you’re a monster, they’ll do whatever it takes to kill you. And they will not play nice with you if they don’t have to.
• He Who Fights Monsters: The morality of the hunters is challenged regularly throughout, most notably in relation to Juliette. Most hunters refuse to think their actions aren’t justified, with Cal and, to an extent, Talia being the only exceptions. When Cal voices her second thoughts, the rest of the hunters immediately take this as her being compromised due to her close encounter with a vampire.
• Hunter of Monsters: Oh, really?
• Never My Fault: They refuse to consider that they might be no better than the creatures they murder. When Tess is upset that Oliver killed her parents, nobody considers that he had every right to defend himself until Margot spells it out to Talia the following day.
• Oh, Crap!: When they realize the legacies aren’t dying from being impaled by silver spears.
• Sonic Stunner: They use sound blasters to incapacitate the legacies at Juliette’s party.
• Taught to Hate: Hunters, are typically raised from a young age to view all supernatural creatures as inherent evil with no right to exist.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: They prefer to stab first and ask questions never. Good or evil, if you’re a monster, they want you dead.
• Weird Trade Union: They send divisions of hunters to various stations while providing for them, but with specific regulations to follow. They're also typically sent to an academy for hunters when they reach age 24.

Tess Franklin

Portrayed by: Mk Xyz

Calliope's ex-girlfriend.

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• Action Girl: Though not as skilled as Cal.
• Amicable Exes: She and Cal agreed to remain friends after they broke up. After Tess outs her as a monster sympathizer, it’s safe to say it didn’t work out.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  Cal: Just been busy. You know how moving can be.
  Tess: Code for "I found another girl and spent my time making out with her behind the gym"?
• Put on a Bus: After her parents are killed by Oliver, the Guild takes her away and we never hear from her again.
• The Stool Pigeon: The Concerned Claire type. When Cal confides in her about compunctions in exterminating supernatural creatures, Tess snitches about it to her family. This gets Cal benched from the raid on the Fairmont estate.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite being a rather important part of Cal's life, she completely disappears from the story after the Guild took her away in 1x04. We never learn what's happened to her dynamic with Cal after putting her on blast or if Cal even knows about her parents’ murder.

Jojo

Portrayed by: Mikala Gibson

A hunter from the Guardian Guild and a friend of the Burns family.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's never made clear how she knew Juliette was the one who killed Cook.
  • Talia implies Jack and Jojo had a thing going on in the past when she calls her his ex, though Jack denies that they ever dated.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: The attack on the Fairmont estate ends with all the vampires surviving, Tess being orphaned, and Cal and Cook being MIA, but according to Jojo, what happened is considered a win.
• Druid: She is more of the mage, staying on the sidelines and performing rituals to protect homes from evil spirits.
• Jerkass: She’s not exactly known for pleasantries, to put it lightly.

Clayton Cook

Portrayed by: Joseph D. Reitman

A hunter from the Guardian Guild.

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• Asshole Victim: No tears are shed when Juliette murders him. The kill isn't shown in that terrifying of a light, and even Cal's parents don't show any emotion upon learning he's dead, caring even less for him upon learning why she killed him. Even Juliette herself, who hates violence and views all life as sacred, feels no shame.
• Evil Is Not Well-Lit: He's constantly shown in heavy shadows and is definitely one of the least well-intentioned hunters.
• Fantastic Slur: Calls Juliette a “goddamn nightcrawler”.
• Hate Sink: It's clear from his arrogant attitude to his creeper interactions with Cal that he's not meant to be liked.
• Last-Name Basis: Everyone refers to him by his last name.
• Red Shirt: He basically exists to become Juliette’s first kill.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: After he's knocked out by Cal, he's placed in the back of a vehicle and driven to Ben's house, but when they open the trunk, Cook is gone.
• Too Dumb to Live: He managed to sneak off while Cal and Jules weren't looking. He really should've gone back to the Burns house and spoken to Cal's parents. Instead, he comes back and tries to fight the girls (one being a trained assassin, the other being a vampire) again, apparently thinking that brandishing a shovel would make a difference. He doesn't even try to use the element of surprise. Naturally, it doesn't turn out well for him.
• Would Hurt a Child: He tries to kidnap Calliope at knifepoint in the hopes of earning a promotion by reporting her as a traitor. He later hits Ben in the stomach with a shovel for no real reason. He also attacks Juliette, but given that she’s a vampire, it’s technically his job.

Legacies

General

• Animal Motifs: Downplayed. As opposed to the typical bats or even corvids, legacies are more associated with snakes. They have fangs and are capable of regrowing lost appendages. As they get their power from a particular snake, this is justified.
• Attack on the Heart: Juliette seems to imply that legacies can be killed by the heart, though it’s never confirmed what the right method is.
• Council of Vampires: 1x08 reveals the existence of the Legacy Council, which not only governs the entire legacy society, but even has the power to revoke the status of the Emerald Malkia’s keeper.
• Cute Little Fangs / Fangs Are Evil: They can bare and retract fangs.
• Daywalking Vampire: They can all walk in the sunlight as easily as the night.
• Explosive Breeder: It’s apparently common for newlywed legacies to be expected to give birth to multiple children.
• Fantastic Racism: The average legacy seems to view humans and even made vampires with apathy at best.
  Henry Davenport: It’s quaint how you still bond with humans. […] They’re so… frail. Had I been a different kind of monster, I might have ripped out Sebastian’s throat.
• Feral Vampires: Once a legacy reaches age 16, they have to murder someone and drink their blood or their body and mind will malfunction until they eventually enter a state of savagery where they’ll kill the closest thing in arm’s reach, friend or foe, to feed and restore sanity.
• Fictional Age of Majority: While they age at the same rate as humans, legacies don’t truly come of age until they have their first kill, which they have to do upon reaching age 16, and being christened by the Emerald Malkia.
• Glass Cannon: Nigh-Invulnerability aside, they're really strong and are born with incredible combat skills, but they don't have enhanced durability and thus can still be hurt as easily as any human, as seen when Cal punches Juliette in the face and when Theo and Apollo slam Elinor's head into a bathroom sink.
• Healing Factor: If it’s not a killing blow, their body will heal. When Juliette is staked by Cal, she gets right back up and the wound is gone by the time she gets to bed. It’s so insane that they can be hacked to bits and they’d grow right back to normal in due time like a snake losing its tail.
• Initiation Ceremony: Once a legacy has had their first kill, they’re to be inducted into legacy society, a tradition that’s lasted for well over 2,000 years. There’s a whole cotillion ceremony (called a “consecration” or “debut”) on the first full moon after the first kill, wherein the keeper of the Serpent introduces them. The Serpent bites them and releases the ceremonial Eve, a human who is captured so the legacies can have fun hunting her down and killing her. As you can imagine, Juliette wants nothing to do with this.
• Kryptonite Factor: Theo mentions in 1x04 that some rare radioactive material called curium weakens legacies, but we never see it happen.
• Life Drinker: They feed on the blood of others for sustenance. They only need some of it to survive; they don’t have to kill the person.
• Logical Weakness: Because they have such good ears, they can be incapacitated with certain sound-based attacks. The hunters use this on them in 1x03.
• Long-Lived: They can live for an absurdly long time as long as they feed on blood. Henry Davenport mentions having been feeding on humans for about 300 years. It's implied that they can exist for thousands of years, though Word of God mentions that 500 years is middle-aged for them.
• The Masquerade: While the existence of monsters is common knowledge, most people don’t seem aware of legacy vampires. Their ability to consume human food, walk under UV rays, and produce reflections separate them from made vampires, making it easier to hide in plain sight.
• Matriarchy: Families within the legacy society are typically female led, to the point where it’s highly uncommon for the man’s last name to take over (Margot merely took Sebastian’s surame to spite these traditions). The keeper is the eldest woman in the family. The Legacy Council is made entirely of matriarchs.
• Must Be Invited: Like all vampires, legacies can’t enter another’s dwelling without an invitation, as implied when Elinor has to wait outside the Burns house to ambush Cal and then confirmed when Juliette visits Cal through her bedroom window. It’s currently unknown if invitations can be revoked; Jack tried to forbid entrance to Juliette a few days after Cal invited her and it failed.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Played with. They’re not immune to typical methods of offense, but they’re extremely hard to put down for good. Even the typical method of a wooden stake doesn't work, nor does something as drastic as a silver blade.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Legacy vampires survive on blood, can turn other creatures into vampires, need to be invited into households, and have a weakness to silver, but they can easily take sunlight, have reflections, can't be killed by a wooden stake, have paralyzing blood, can establish psychic links with whomever they bite, and are associated with serpents as opposed to bats. Their community is also strictly female-led.
• The Paralyzer: Touching their blood paralyzes you for a brief time.
• Persona Non Grata: Legacies who break certain taboos are liable to be kicked out of the community and treated as undesirables. These can include committing murders recklessly and drawing attention from the public (Oliver and likely Elinor), being rejected by the Queen Serpent at consecration, marrying outside the community (Margot), or even simply wanting nothing to do with the community (Juliette)
• Psychic Link: If a legacy bites someone without drinking their blood, their minds become linked. They start sharing emotions and dreams, among other things.
• Reduced to Dust: When they die, they turn to ashes. It’s this lack thereof that alerts the hunters that they’re legacies and that silver spears are useless.
• Rite of Passage: Once a legacy has their first kill, they’ve basically completed the vampire part of their puberty.
• Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum!: As shown in 1x02, legacies are born with innate (but not infallible) combat skills.
• Seldom-Seen Species: According to Tess, there's not a lot of legacies around.
• Silver Bullet: Just a small, momentary touch of pure silver is enough to burn holes into their skin, but not kill them. It did work once, but it’s never explained why it doesn’t anymore. It’s likely that legacies simply evolved beyond that.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: When Apollo considers staking Oliver to the bottom of the river, Oliver points out that legacies can hold their breath for such a long time that it’d be pointless to try.
• Super-Senses: They have really good senses. Elinor is able to see microscopic specks of blood on a coroner’s tie and Juliette is able to tell Calliope is lying by hearing an increase in her heartrate.
• Technically-Living Vampire: Because they’re born vampires instead of made vampires, they’re actually living beings.
• Vampire Bites Suck: As we see from Cal and Cook, legacy bites can hurt quite a bit.
• Vampire Hickey: Unlike made vampires, though, theirs disappear shortly after.
• Vampire Monarch: The keeper of the Emerald Malkia runs the whole legacy community, though the Legacy Council can revoke that status.
• Vampires Are Sex Gods: Legacies tend to be quite the lookers.
• Vampiric Draining: They need blood to live.
• Viral Transformation: They can turn others into vampires. Margot did this to Sebastian and Juliette does it to Theo.
• Wooden Stake: Though it won’t kill them, a vampire can be knocked out by a stake through the heart for a while, as we see in 1x02.

Lilith

"And so, Eve fled the serpent while Lilith embraced its bite."

The first woman and the big sister of Eve. She was bitten by the serpent in the Garden of Eden and became the first legacy vampire.

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• Big Sister Instinct: While little of her relationship with Eve is shown, given that they spent their days frolicking throughout Eden, it's likely that Lilith did care about Eve.
• The Ghost: While the legacies talk about her often, the picture above is all we ever see of her.
• Irony: She was born a human, not a vampire. This means that she's technically a made vampire.
• Lilith: Yes, Lilith from the beginning.
• Monster Progenitor: She was the first legacy vampire and would go on to give birth to many children.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Unlike Eve, Lilith embraced the bite of the Queen Serpent.
• Oh, My Gods!: Legacies invoke her name as if she's a goddess.
  Margot: What in Lilith's name?...
• Posthumous Character: If legacies aren't immortal, it's unlikely that Lilith is still around.

Davina Atwood

Portrayed by: Polly Draper

Juliette's grandmother on Margot's side and the current keeper of the Emerald Malkia.

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• Asshole Victim: Given how bigotted, haughty, and generally unpleasant she is, it's hard to feel bad for her when Sebastian eats her alive. None of the characters in-universe even seem upset by it.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: She shows little concern for her family or the dying Sebastian following the hunters’ raid on the Fairmont estate, caring more for how this unforeseen attack makes the family look to the rest of the legacy community.
• Eaten Alive: By Sebastian.
• Evil Matriarch:Beyond being a rather callous queen of the legacies, she’s generally a haughty mother and grandmother.
• Fantastic Racism: She views humans with little regard and Margot even calls her a bigot in 1x08. When she first hears of Ben, she immediately assumes Juliette feeds from him because the idea of them being friends is alien to her.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: As the keeper of the Queen Serpent, she is the ruler of the legacy community. She could stand to be a whole lot nicer.
• Grande Dame: She's been around for quite a while and has an "I'm better than you" sort of demeanor.
• Jerkass: Special mention goes to when she insults Juliette as “anemic”.
• It's All About Me: She considers Margot going off with Sebastian an ill against her, in case you weren't sure how selfish she is.
• Jerkass to One: Inverted with Elinor, as she sees a lot of herself in her. This goes out the window after Elinor refuses to marry into the Davenports, however.
• Lack of Empathy: She has no feelings for her daughter’s husband dying, only bothering to save him after Elinor strikes a deal with her.
• Mama Bear: It’s implied that she always cared for Margot even after Margot broke legacy taboo. As the keeper of the Emerald Malkia, she has authority over who gets to become the next keeper. She kept Margot as the Emerald Malkia’s keeper-in-waiting all these years, thus preventing Margot from being booted out of the legacy community. On top of that, she is clearly familiar with her grandchildren, indicating that she has been keeping in touch.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: She really doesn’t care for Sebastian, as he’s not a legacy vampire. Oddly, though, she never bothered to pick someone else to be the Emerald Malkia’s keeper-in-waiting, so Margot running off with him didn’t get her kicked out of the legacy community.
• Oh, Crap!: When Sebastian unhinges his jaw to eat her alive.
• Swallowed Whole: By Sebastian after offending him and his family one too many times.

The Emerald Malkia

The Queen Serpent from the Garden of Eden. She descended upon Lilith and Eve, biting Lilith and making her the first vampire. Ever since, the vampires (specifically the legacies) have held onto the serpent, deeming her current wielder as the queen of legacies. Every legacy draws power directly from this serpent.

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• And You Were There: Appears in one of Cal and Juliette’s shared dreams, specifically the one that took place in the Garden of Eden at the start of 1x03.
• Animalistic Abomination: She's the same serpent from the Garden of Eden, so she's obviously been around for much longer than the average snake. She also has the ability to turn humans and vampires into legacy vampires.
• Emerald Power: Whoever keeps this green-eyed snake is the overseer of all legacies.
• Living MacGuffin: Downplayed. She is important to the story, as she fuels the legacy community’s way of life, but nobody seems to actively be after her except Elinor.
• Meaningful Name: The world malkia is Hebrew for “queen”.
• Monster Progenitor: The first beast. She bit Lilith on the arm and turned her into the first ever vampire. All vampires are descended from her thanks to the Malkia.
• Non-Indicative Name: The only thing green about her is her eyes (though her whole body is green in Cal and Juliette's dream).
• Orifice Invasion: She enters Sebastian’s stab wound when she turns him into a legacy.
• Power-Up: She can turns made vampires into legacy vampires, as we see her do with Sebastian. This is apparently something that almost never happens.
• Female Monster Surprise: Davina refers to the Malkia with female pronouns, indicating it to be a female snake.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Doesn't she look so cuddly?
• Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying: While it's never verified what species the snake in the Garden of Eden was, it's highly unlikely that the Emerald Malkia properly represents it. She appears with green eyes and a brown body near the end of 1x03... except she comes back the following episode with a body of dark green^note It also has a green body with red eyes in Cal and Juliette's dream.. While many serpents can change color to reflect their environmental conditions, the time of year is unspecified and it's more likely that the Malkia has changed color to reflect her surroundings, which no snake can actually do. It's also unknown what species of snake she is; though she's implied to be a black mamba, her bodily patterns seem to shift from cut to cut, which (again) is impossible for a snake to do. And for mythological points, she doesn't speak.

Others

Bunny Wheeler

Bernice "Bunny" Wheeler

Portrayed by: Annunziata Gianzero

Ben’s mother and the leader of Mothers Against All Monsters.

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• Deadpan Snarker
• Gossipy Hens: As she reveals upon meeting Calliope, Ben told her about Juliette “swapping spit with some hot new thing” at Noah’s house party.
• Mama Bear: She’s a good mother who seeks to ensure her son isn’t the next victim of a monster attack.
• Parents as People: She is so invested in ensuring Ben's safety that she falls into mob mentality, becoming convinced that no supernatural creatures could be anything like a human being. This dogmatic mindset alienates Ben and eventually pushes her into a small custody conflict with his father.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Brings out this mentality after Cook's body is discovered.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: “Anyone named Calliope would have to be a vampire.”

Carmen

Portrayed by: Walnette Marie Santiago

Oliver’s girlfriend and a powerful witch from the Daedra Coven.

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• Ax-Crazy: Given how she literally laughs about turning a poor defenseless child into a zombie, it’s fairly obvious that she’s not all there.
• Big Damn Heroes: Her appearance is what saves Oliver from the Burns family.
• Catch a Falling Star: Near the end of 1x04, Oliver dives off a rooftop, only for Carmen to rescue him (though we don't see her do it).
• Lack of Empathy: She shows no remorse for what she and Oliver did to Ashley and even laughs about it.
• Maker of Monsters: She turned Ashley into a zombie. She’s also implied to be responsible for the influx of monsters in Savannah.
• Slasher Smile: After overseeing Ashley’s murder, she appears within the crowd of partygoers with a dastardly grin before walking off.
• Would Hurt a Child: She needed a liver for an elixir and accepted it from anyone, even if it was a defenseless Ashley.