History Characters / SharpObjects

%%* TellMeAboutMyFather: Which Adora hates.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Deconstructed. While Camille is noted to have been the nicest member of her bitchy clique in high school and her evil family, she notes over and over that she did nothing to actually ''stop'' any of the bullying, and therefore feels as responsible as if she had been an AlphaBitch.

* HenpeckedHusband: Adora is clearly in charge in their relationship although Alan doesn't seem to be bothered by this. After she is incarcerated for Marian's death he continues to visit her in prison and moves into an apartment to be closer to her showing that despite the power imbalance and Alan's inexpresivness he does genuinely care for her.
* HouseHusband: In the novel Camille mentions that he is one.

* PetTheDog: In the miniseries, on Camille's birthday, the anniversary of Marian's death, Adora locks herself in Marian's room and won't acknowledge Camille. Alan, however, calls her into the kitchen, and it's revealed he had the housekeeper, Gayla, prepare a birthday cake, and the two start to sing "Happy Birthday" to her. Camille's too upset to appreciate it, but still, he did try.

** Marion called her "Mille." Later, Amma also picks it up, and it's unclear if she did it independently or if she knew Marion used it.

* LikeASonToMe: The childless Curry treats Camille more akin to a daughter than a subordinate. [[spoiler:At the end of the novel, he and his wife essentially adopt her.]]

* NiceGirl: An actually kind popular girl that Amma befriends who Camille takes a strong liking to, and vice versa. [[spoiler: It's why Amma murders her.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Camille struggles with severe [[SelfHarm self harm]] and is clearly suffering from some mental illness but we never get an exact diagnosis. She mentions that there are a "gift basket" of medical terms for what she has implying that the lack of an obvious diagnosis might be because she has multiple mental illness; a real life phenomenon known as "cluttering".

* AmbiguousDisorder: While no one ever mentions Ann being diagnosed with a behavioral disorder, she was known for biting people out of anger, and once killed a neighbor's bird with a stick, neither of which are typical behaviours for a nine year old.

* AbusiveParents: Not only Adora is emotionally distant and cold, she also poisons Camille and her little sisters through all their childhood.

* IllGirl: Most of which was brought on by herself.

* IllGirl:In the book Camille comments that Marian was always a sickly child and that it seemed like she was born fated to die at a young age. This turns out to be untrue though as Marian was only sick because Adora was deliberately making her that way.

* PassedInTheirSleep: Like may people with server chronic illnesses she dies in her bed one night without any obvious warning signs. Because she was ill for so long leading up to her death it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.

* EvilIsPetty: She forces Camille, who is covered in self-harm scars to "try on" a revealing dress while shopping in Woodberry, knowing that it will humiliate her and force her to confront an issue she's struggled with for most of her life. The reason? She was angry at Camille for asking her to keep some roses she though were bad and asking a question about her father. When Camille unsurprisingly doesn't respond well to this she says she's had a horrible day then goes to sulk in her room.

* IntrepidReporter: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. She was sent to Wind Gap to report on the killings of Natalie and Ann. However, her scope of investigation is rather limited due to the police force not wanting to collaborate with her and even hiding stuff from her and her personal history with the town clouding her judgment. Also, people find find her tasteless and invasive for writing about the murders of two young girls, especially the victims' parents.

* TellMeAboutMyFather: Which Adora hates.

* WhiteSheep: To her family.

* NiceGirl: An actually kind popular girl that Amma befriends who Camille takes a strong liking to, and vice versa. [[Spoiler: It's why Amma murders her.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite complaining about the catty and shallow behavior of the other women around her ranging from her mother's generation and her peers to even the teenage girls, Camille's narration is full of insults toward any female she doesn't like including saying that a girl who isn't even a teenager yet can only hope for snack cakes and pity sex as well as catty remarks about how John is too good for his girlfriend.

* HeroicBSOD: Has one when she puts together that Adora has been poisoning her and her sisters and is resposible for Marian's death. She also has a second one after Amma is sent to juvie for killing Ann and Natalie, resulting in her relapsing and nearly killing herself, only to be stopped by Curry and his wife.

* CityMouse: Despite being born and raised in Wind Gap, people see her as this due moving to Chicago after High School and only coming back to report on the killings.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Is a recovering cutter and alcoholic full of self-loathing and who is haunted by her traumatic childhood, which is aggravated when her boss sends her to investigated a series of murders in her hometown and has to live in the same roof as her abusive mother. Nevertheless, she's still a kind person who after learning that her mother has been poisoning her and her sisters and might be behind Ann and Natalie's deaths does everything she can to bring her to justice and to help and protect Amma.

* FemaleMisogynist: To a degree. The only people Camille ever even makes an effort to get along with are men and decides she trusts John is innocent after getting to really talk to him only once, even knowing her boss would scold her for being naive. She looks upon other women and even teenage girls with general suspicion and dislike if they perform femininity in the traditional ways that Camille herself resented being forced to do. She insists all young girls are awful to each other, and calls the only real mother figure she ever had, Jackie, "catty and shallow". She barely has a negative thing to say about any men, despite the fact that she had been abused by boys at least as badly as by her mother. Worst of all, while she grieves the murdered girls, she chews out Richard for saying the girl "passed around" at a party definitely got raped, because she thinks some women just make "bad choices". (Though that is clearly Camille unable to cope with the fact that ''she'' was the victim.)

* LonelyRichKid: Her family is the owner of the town's pig slaughtering business and was very lonely due her cold mother and losing her beloved little sister Marian.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Adora got pregnant when she was just a teenager, and refuses to ever name the father. It's heavily implied that rather than him specifically doing anything to her, Adora just got pregnant and cut herself off from him so she could have Camille all to herself.

* AlphaBitch: An extremely sadistic version.

* EvilIsPetty: She forces Camille, who is covered in self-hatm scars to "try on" a revealing dress while shopping in Woodberry, knowing that it will humiliate her and force her to confront an issue she's struggled with for most of her life. The reason? She was angry at Camille for asking her to keep some roses she though were bad and asking a question about her father. When Camille unsurprisingly doesn't respond well to this she says she's had a horrible day then goes to sulk in her room.
** She eventually admits to never loving Camille while drunk. She seems to try and justify this by claiming that Camille was always "cold and distant" but the only concrete reasons that she gives are instances of Camille being disobedient. For example, cutting her own hair as a child when Adora wanted to put it up in curlers for a school photograph.

* DeathOfAChild: She dies years prior to the novel begining. It isn't specified what age exactly she was when she died but she was clearly young given Camille was only thirteen at the time.

* MenDontCry: Unfortunately this preconception leads people to become even more suspicions of John after he is seen openly crying at his sisters funeral.

* FilleFatale: Especially disturbing in the book, where she is ''thirteen''.

* KicktheDog: She went to visit Camille, who was in a psychiatric hospital, suffering with a severe self-harm problem, then spent the entire stay comparing her to her dead younger sister.

* EvilIsPetty: She forces Camille, who is covered in self-hatm scars to "try on" a revealing dress while shopping in Woodberry, knowing that it will humiliate her and force her to confront an issue she's struggled with for most of her life. The reason? She was angry at Camille for asking her to keep some roses she though were bad and asking a question about her father. When Camille unsurprisingly doesn't respond well to this she says she's had a horrible day the goes to sulk in her room.

* EvilIsPetty: She forces Camille, who is covered in self-hatm scars
to "try on" a revealing dress while shopping in Woodberry, knowing that it will humiliate her and force her to confront an issue she's struggled with for most of her life. The reason? She was angry at Camille for asking her to keep some roses she though were bad and asking a question about her father. When Camille unsurprisingly doesn't respond well to this she says she's had a horrible day the goes to sulk in her room.

** She forces Camille to "try on" a revealing dress while shopping in Woodberry, knowing that it will humiliate her and force her to confront an issue she's struggled with for most of her life.

* FemaleMisogynist: To a degree. The only people Camille ever even makes an effort to get along with are men and decides she trusts John is innocent after getting to really talk to him only once, even knowing her boss would scold her for being naive. She looks upon other women and even teenage girls with general suspicion and dislike if they perform femininity in the traditional ways that Camille herself resented being forced to do. She insists all young girls are awful to each other, and calls the only real mother figure she ever had, Jackie, "catty and shallow". She barely has a negative thing to say about any men, despite the fact that she had been abused by boys at least ss badly as by her mother. Worst of all, while she grieves the murdered girls, she chews out Richard for saying the girl "passed around" at a party definitely got raped, because she thinks some women just make "bsd choices". [[Spoiler:Though that is clearly Camille unable to cope with the fact that ''she'' was the victim.]]

* FemaleMisogynist: To a degree. The only people Camille ever even makes an effort to get along with are men and decides she trusts John is innocent after getting to really talk to him only once, even knowing her boss would scold her for being naive. She looks upon other women and even teenage girls with general suspicion and dislike if they perform femininity in the traditional ways that Camille herself resented being forced to do. She insists all young girls are awful to each other, and calls the only real mother figure she ever had, Jackie, "catty and shallow". She barely has a negative thing to say about any men, despite the fact that she had been abused by boys at least ss badly as by her mother. Worst of all, while she grieves the murdered girls, she chews out Richard for saying the girl "passed around" at a party definitely got raped, because she thinks some women just make "bsd choices". [[Spoiler: Though that is clearly Camille unable to cope with the fact that '''she''' was the victim.]]