Characters / Raised by Jägers

Agatha

• Adaptational Badass: Thanks to the Jaegers, this Agatha has far more combat training that her canon-self did before meeting Zeetha and is more confident as a result.
• Adaptation Name Change: She goes by Agatha Heliotrope here, as she is supposed to be Van's cousin.
• Badass Bookworm: She is skilled in mechanics and medicine and possesses combat training thanks to the Jaegers.
• Big Damn Heroes: She herself notes that she has a habit of showing up at just the right time to save someone, whether she intended to or not.
• Child Prodigy: Even at age six, she was an expert with multiplication tables.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Agatha quickly gains a reputation at TPU for walking in right as something is about to explode (literally or metaphorically) and saving everyone. She gained this trait in Mechanicsburg, where everyone knew who she was and everything in town was by definition her business.
• Friend to All Living Things: Agatha grows up in Mama Gkika's Jager hospital and the Mechanicsburg sewers. As such she has contact with a lot of strange Spark-made constructs and critters, and her compassion towards them is a defining character trait.
• Funetik Aksent: While it's not obvious in the text, living in Mechanicsburg and spending all her time around Jaegers has given Agatha a rather noticeable accent. It's especially noticeable when she's mad, and yells "Hoy!" to get someone's attention. She also uses Mamma Gkika's "what the dumboozle" once.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Part and parcel of being a Spark. She's mostly focused on mechanical inventions.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon:
  • Agatha, often, usually with a Death Ray. In her first day at Gkika's, she grabs Pyrrhus Heterodyne's old sparker off the trophy wall and threatens the Jaegerfrau with it when they make fun of her. When it goes off accidentally, Agatha and Gkika have a serious conversation about what it means to point a weapon at someone.
  • In Keep it under your hat, Agatha and Ducky work together to construct a better harmonica, with... predictable results.
• Happily Adopted: By the Jagers.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: In contrast to canon, she is this to Tarsus Beetle, to the point he wants to keep her as an assistant after she graduates.
• Magnetic Hero: Agatha, as a Spark, is of course one. In the first chapter she has a conversation with a boy her age and he is confused when he instinctively calls her "mistress." At TPU, even while hiding her Spark, she still corrals all the students and most of the staff.
• Mundane Utility: She use fluid managing skills she learned in rocket science class... to make coffee.
• Science Hero: She's a Spark after all.
• Taught by Experience: Deconstructed. Agatha did her best to help with the Jaeger medical treatments growing up, but she didn't know what she was doing and had no teacher. Mamma Gkika couldn't teach her much, since she wasn't a doctor or a Spark. When she gets to TPU and has real medical classes, she discovers startling gaps in her knowledge, and realizes that the only reason she never killed anyone was because Jaegers have Nigh-Invulnerability.

Ducky

• Awesomeness by Analysis: She is able to remember a room she saw months ago, despite being heavily drugged at the time.
• Consummate Liar: She can foil Tarvek's lie detector without any effort whatsoever; lies pass undetected while she can make it go off on (technically) true statements. She mentions that she routinely mixes up lies with truth just to keep people on their toes.
• Cute Monster Girl: By Mechanicsburg standards, Ducky's torture scars and the resulting new cybernetics are considered cute.
  Footnote: Though in most parts of Europa, obvious signs of experimentation or of being a construct could mark a person as undesirable and put them at risk of being persecuted, in Mechanicsburg these same things tended to be taken as a sign of the Master's favor, and thus highly desirable. Aesthetics did tend to run contrary to most of Europa in Mechanicsburg.
• Escape Artist: Ducky casually escapes from her bonds after being tied up for weeks. Her captor is annoyed that she could have done that at any time.
  Ducky: My father's a locksmith, he thinks knowing this stuff is important.
• Known Only by Their Nickname: Ducky, to the point where referring to herself as Evdokia in front of a lie detector will make it go off.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She gave Petra a torn off ear as a gift and likes to hang around archeologists to see corpses.
• Underestimating Badassery: Ducky might be a minor Spark who is such a shameless minion that she is outranked by quite a few people who don't even have the Spark, but she is still a Spark. She proves to be an excellent Escape Artist, is able to compensate for her missing eye simply by practicing with a coin for a bit, kills one of the most dangerous Sparks alive, and turns a fake rescue into a real one because she memorized the layout of the castle while drugged and figured out the local politics.
• Undying Loyalty: Ducky is a born and bred citizen of Mechanicsburg, who has also been best friends with the new Lady Heterodyne for most of her life. That means she is completely, impossibly loyal. She survives being tortured for weeks without giving anything up, and then kills her captor on the way out, and makes it clear that dying in captivity would have been fine with her.
  Ducky: I killed him because he was a threat against the Heterodyne. And the only reason I didn't kill you when I had the chance is because you're not going to be any kind of threat to her.

Petra

• Number Two: To Agatha.
• Stealing from Thieves: She was once attacked by bandits, but robbed them instead and tripled her inventory.

Mara

• Love Makes You Dumb: Whenever someone flirts with her, she gets distracted and runs into a lamppost.