History Characters / Widdershins

'''Major Characters From "Sleight of Hand" and "Vanishing Act":'''

* FearlessFool: When Harry mistakes him for the "King of Thieves" and holds him at gunpoint, his reaction is: "Is that a gun? A real gun? I've never seen one before, at least not in person!" The ensuing scene, where he and Harry get accosted by the ''real'' King of Thieves and make a daring escape, has him still absolutely failing to be other than ''excited'' at this new experience.

** [[spoiler: Later we learn that he spent at least part of his childhood he was raised by an Irish Traveller cleaning lady named O'Malley, but before he met her he wasn't having a good time...]]

* NeverLearnedToRead: So in "No Rest For the Wicked" he signs the contract to work for Councilwoman Fairbairn with an X [[spoiler: without noticing that it pledged all of his and Wolfe's ''sleep'' as an offering to Sloth]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a casual sexist. Calls Harry "girlie", and also talks to Sid about his "charming assistant" when one minute's observation would have told him that was not Sid and Harry's dynamic ''at all''. (Though then again, he thought Sid was the Thiefking and badass enough to [[ImpossibleTheft steal the Mark of Thieves without even killing]], so he may well have thought Harry was a bodyguard.)

* AuraVision: Can see people's essence in bright colors. [[spoiler: It's what makes him a witch.]]

A gruff bounty hunter with a dog and a pipe, eventually partners with Sidney Malik. She's the granddaughter of the Widdershins equivalent of Franchise/IndianaJones, and has four sisters and one brother all at varying levels of badass.

--> '''Harry''': Hrm. Your wrist and this priceless relic just happened to bump into each other?
--> '''Sid''': Well . . . yes, actually!
--> '''Harry''': After it flew, ''bird-like'', from another man's wrist.
--> '''Sid''': [[BluntYes Yes!]]

** [[spoiler: we learn that for at least part of his childhood he was raised by a cleaning woman with the last name O'Malley, but before he met her he wasn't having a good time...]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: Also with Ben

* NiceGuy: During the origin story portion of "Green-Eyed Monster", we learn that Wolfe basically sacrificed his highly-successful career as a soldier to defend a foreign vagabond who'd been caught stealing (O'Malley). The present-day storyline of the same arc concludes with Wolfe forgiving and similarly covering for [[spoiler: Dominik Voss, his squad-mate from the army, who under Envy's influence had been robbing people left and right of livelihoods and was on the verge of mass murder]]. Oh, and his kindness and calm were used to [[spoiler: bind and subdue the Deadly malform Wrath]] without Wolfe even noticing-- he had ''that'' much extra to give.

--> [[spoiler:'''O'Malley''': Ben's th' bravest bloke I ever met.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''O'Malley''': [-...And I hope 'e can't hear me sayin' that.-]]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: With O'Malley.

* TheyFightCrime: Harry's a short, no-nonsense, gun-toting, perpetually frowning [[BountyHunter artifact hunter]]; Sid's an ungodly tall, flamboyant, NonActionGuy, perpetually smiling failed wizard and street magician. Together, they take down the King of Thieves.

* {{Asexuality}}: The author has said he's asexual, and this line of from a Character Q&A his fits:
--> "I never ''got'' this! Ye can take down a flippin' demon and everyone goes, "Yeah, but who d'you want to ''kiss''?"

* OddCouple / TheyFightCrime: Harry's a short, no-nonsense, gun-toting, perpetually frowning [[BountyHunter artifact hunter]]; Sid's an ungodly tall, flamboyant, NonActionGuy, perpetually smiling failed wizard and street magician. Together, they take down the King of Thieves.

* {{I Have Many Names}}: Spirits, from buggerups to Deadlies, seem to like nicknaming him: "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The O'Malley]]", "The One Who Sees", "The One Who Stands Between" (that last one may turn out to be a NameToRunAwayFromReallyFast).

* FearlessFool: When Harry mistakes him for the "King of Thieves" and holds him at gunpoint, his reaction is: "Is that a gun? A real gun? I've never met one before, at least not in person!" The ensuing scene, where he and Harry get accosted by the ''real'' King of Thieves and make a daring escape, has him still absolutely failing to be other than ''excited'' at this new experience.

* {{Determinator}}: Ben will do his duty and desummon malforms, no matter the circumstances. He has [[spoiler: ''run deeper into a burning building'' to try to desummon ''Sloth'', one of the seven deadly sins,]] and [[spoiler: desummoned another one of the seven deadly sins, Wrath, despite O'Malley's protestations and the danger he, Wolfe and O'Malley were in at the time.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Ben will do his duty and desummon malforms, no matter the circumstances. He has [[spoiler: ''ran deeper into a burning building'' to try to desummon ''Sloth'', one of the seven deadly sins,]] and [[spoiler: desummoned another one of the seven deadly sins, Wrath, despite O'Malley's protestations and the danger he, Wolfe and O'Malley were in at the time.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Ben will do his duty and desummon malforms, no matter the circumstances. He has [[spoiler: ''ran deeper into a burning building'' to try to desummon ''Sloth'', one of the seven deadly sins,]] and [[spoiler: desummoned another one of the seven deadly sins, Wrath, despite O'Malley's protestations and the danger he, Wolfe and O'Malley were in at the time.
--> '''O'Malley''': Ben's th' bravest bloke I ever met.
--> '''O'Malley''': [-text-]...And I hope 'e can't hear me sayin' that. [-text-] ]]

* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: She's abbrupt, abrasive and about as prickly as a particularly stoic bramble patch. But, her heart is actually several sizes bigger than her pipe. Not that she would outwardly thank you for telling her that.

* OddCouple / TheyFightCrime: Harry's a short, no-nonsense, gun-toting, perpetually frowning [[BountyHunter artifact hunter]]; Sid's an ungodly tall, flamboyant, NonActionGuy, perpetually smiling failed wizard and failing street magician. Together, they take down the King of Thieves.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: ''Strongly'' hinted. He can't read and doesn't know his exact age, which [[WildMassGuessing implies]] his parents either died early on or were too indifferent to even keep track of his age, let alone teach them reading. When Wolfe first meets him, he's in Germany for unknown reasons, knowing fewer than ten words of German and failing to steal bread to survive.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ben

Ben is a short, fussy wizard with a Third Class Degree working for the city to desummon malforms.

* Determinator: Ben will do his duty and desummon malforms, no matter the circumstances. He has [[spoiler: ran deeper into a burning building to try to desummon one of the seven deadly sins, Sloth]] and [[spoiler: desummoned another one of the seven deadly sins, Wrath, despite O'Malley's protestations and the danger he, Wolfe and O'Malley were in at the time.]]
* NeatFreak: He has to tidy up any messy space. In his introductory scene, he is consistently tiding up after his new colleagues.
* TheSmartGuy: Not only does he fit the description of this trope with his short stature and glasses, Ben is book smart. One thing that being a wizard requires a lot of memorization of summoning circles and spells, which Ben is very good at. For example, he knew [[spoiler: the binding circles for the seven Deadly sins off the top of his head while [[GeniusDitz Sidney]] didn't.]]