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Main/Centeral Characters
Windfire Deverille
The faery heir
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Windfire's hair was singed during the fire. So she cuts and maintains a much shorter hairstyle after her exile.
- Fiery Redhead: This is heavily Subverted. She can be snarky and wry, but she is never really fiery. Except Literally.
- Indifferent Beauty: Despite her appearance being remarked upon, she does not seem to care for her appearance.
- Light Girl, Dark Boy: She is the light girl to Nightshade's dark boy. She is when compared to any and all of her suitors except for Darkflame.
- Must Have Caffeine: She picked up a love for caffeine and many things about the mortal world that do not exist on the witching plane. She also begins introducing her suitors to this mythic nectar.
- Overcome with Desire: She and Nightshade talk about their past and then they end up talking themselves into sex
Nightshade Gerard
The matagot heir
- Childhood Friend Romance: He has very obvious romantic feelings for Windfire. And flashbacks reveal that the two of them spent considerable unsupervised time together.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: After coming to terms with his feelings for Windfire, his hair grows to signify him being dedicated to marrying her. It also serves as a reference and embodiment of the title because he thinks that having incredibly long hair is inconvenient and a tradition of witches that needs to be a custom of the past.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Averted. Despite everything that happens throughout the story, he never once shows a drop of jealousy with Windfire and Riverrose's relationship.
- Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: The Deverille and Gerard estates are on neighboring lands.
- Puppy Love: As a child he and Windfire shared a large amount of this.
Silverwolf Deverille
A sweet, little old lady
- Almighty Mom: Including overruling her daughter with parenting decisions.
- Older and Wiser: She does impart wisdom and magical rituals on her grandchildren and their cohorts.
- Stronger with Age: She is a very powerful witch.
Nightfire Gerard
The mantle-wearer of the designated librarians
- The Reveal: Nightfire has two of these.
- The first moment is off-screen and it is discussed afterward. Windfire and Riverrose devise a way to have their privacy protected. They charm a necklace he wears. The charm creates an illusion that his hair is still long as it appeared to be before he let Nightshade cut his hair for his marriage to Windfire. Nightshade was still asleep when they devised this idea and since illusions don't work on him anyhow, he had no idea that there was an illusion done to something Riverrose wore. Nor was he awake to tell them about his family's inability to fall for illusion magic. So things get awkward.
- Nightfire also speaks to the seers. And they explain that something in the timeline is going awry and that time will repeat itself in order to correct the deviation from the normal path if something is not done.
Riverrose Whitley
The crazy hobo
- Beware the Honest Ones: This is part of the reason Windfire is distrustful of him. She knows that she can count on various witches to be dishonest and to behave in their own self interest or politically via their family's wants. But, he seems not to have an agenda.
- Bounty Hunter: He catches escaped magical beings and wanted magical criminals. He turns them over for a profit.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He is weird and a bit out there at times. But, is mostly sane. And harmless.
- Courtly Love: He feels this for Windfire and shows it with affection. He also respects her marriage and is friends with her husband.
- Crapsack World: He immediately comes to this conclusion shortly after the Deverille coven exile.
- Crash-Into Hello He literally crashed into Windfire when they first met. She caught the creature he was hunting and he inadvertently tackled her. It starts him Literally Falling in Love with Windfire.
- Genki Boy: He can be one. Much more than the other witches. Except Ravenwater.
- Functional Magic: Riverrose is a user of this for things like teleporting instead of elemental conjuring.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He is far better with swords and general magic than elemental magic.
- Honor Before Reason: He believes in this wholeheartedly. And he embodies it. He promises to split his bounty payment with Windfire because she helped him catch the escaped creature he had been chasing before their meeting. And he shows up on the mortal plane to give her half of what he earned. He could have easily given her less money. Or simply not given her any of the profits at all. But, he did promise that he would.
- Intimate Haircut: Subverted. [[spoiler: Nightshade gives him the haircut. This is done as part of the ceremony of marriage between Riverrose and Windfire. Also nothing sexual or romantic happens between Nightshade and Riverrose. They are both in love with Windfire and they both have a sexual relationship with her. So effectively, he is preparing to give his wife to the other man.]
- Manic Pixie Dream Boy: Riverrose is odd and sweet. He has strange behaviors and is positive almost relentlessly. And the weirdness and strange interactions Windfire has with him tends to cheer her up and make her let go of her cynical thoughts for at least a little while.
- Smells Sexy: He had never changed his thoughts on Windfire's scent between books.
- Slipknot Ponytail: His hairstyle becomes this.
- The Dulcinea Effect: He has light shades of this. This is especially true when his family is at the ruins of the Deverille land. And he hadn't even met Windfire yet.
- The Fettered: He has a code of honor and behavior. To him it is the highest law.
- The Idealist: He is this as a child and a teen. He immediately decided he wanted to leave the witching plane when he became disillusioned by his family's stance of self-preservation over honor.
- Took a Level in Cynic: He had this moment after he found out about the cowardice of his family.
- Walking the Earth: He started this because of not wanting to be around his family any longer. Walking the multiverse seemed to be a way to distance himself from them and the hypocrisy he had come to realize existed.
Darkflame Birch
- Cannot Talk to Women: When he first meets Windfire, he is incredibly tongue-tied. It is a Gibberish of Love moment. That spoiler is also tied into his mother forbidding him for speaking their family's affairs and concerns with others in an attempt to maintain some secrecy and privacy. And he is terrified of accidentally revealing too much to outsiders and thus disappointing his mother.
Earthwind Simon
Covens
Deverille Witches
The Deverille witches are the descendants of the ancient faery. They all have pointy ears, white markings beneath their eyes and pale white eyes. The mostly have dark hair or red hair. All of them have healing abilities from their faery ancestor.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: All of the Deverille witches are born with incredibly pale blue eyes.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: All of the Deverille coven has shorter hair than they normally would. Their hair was cut after the fire.
- Healing Hands: All Deverille witches are born with this ability.
- Mark of the Supernatural: The Deverille witches have white markings beneath their eyes, pointed ears and pale blue eyes.
- Super Breeding Program: This is what they did to make desirable gene pools among their heirs. Redheads which are incredibly rare are quite preferred.
Gerard Witches
The Gerard Witches are the descendants of the ancient matagot. They all have eye markings and black eyes with white slit pupils. They have mostly black hair with occasional blonds and brunettes. All of them have eyes that have see the truth.
- Magical Eye: This entire family possess eyes that see the truth.
- This means that illusion magic does not work on them.
- They can also use their eyes to read languages they do not understand so long as it is written
- Mark of the Supernatural: Their eye color and design and the black markings around and beneath their eyes are their family's distinct marks. Many also have elongated teeth that are not quite large enough to be fangs.
Whitley Witches
The Whitley coven are the descendants of the ancient dragon. They are mostly blond with medium to light brunette. They each have fangs, dragon fin ears and oddly colored eyes. They have a magical tracking ability via scents.
- Mark of the Supernatural: They have dragon fin ears, fangs and odd-colored eyes.
- Tracking Spell: The entire family is a walking tracking spell. Their genetic ability is tracking through scents and the ability to differentiate scents on basically a molecular level.
Birch Witches
The Birch cover are the descendants of the ancient quetzalcoatl. The mostly have pale skin and shades of orange and brown hair. They have pointed ears and some are born with wings and claws. They have purifying powers.
- Banishing Ritual: The family's innate touch is a flavor of this.
- Mark of the Supernatural: They have pointed ears and claws. Some of their family members also have wings.
Simon Witches
The Simon family is descended from the ancient ogre. They have medium to tan skin and are almost entirely brunette. Their family members are taller than the other witch families, have horns and fangs. Their eyes have hypnotic powers.
- Mark of the Supernatural: They have fangs and horns. Their eyes are not as distinguished as the other families' eyes, but that is the source of their family's innate ability.
