History Characters / AlexandraQuick

Abraham Thorn's eldest daughters by his third wife. They are highly talented artificers but their father's reputation prevents them from finding employment in America. So far they have the smallest role of Alexandra's half-siblings.

* BlackBestFriend: To Darla.

[[folder: Charmbridge Students]]

%%* HeartbrokenBadass: For the entirety of Book 3.

%%* LittleMissBadass

%% * FishOutOfWater
%% * NiceGuy
%% * TookALevelInBadass: By the end of book 4.

%% * ArrangedMarriage
%% * CorruptHick
%% * DirtyCoward
%% * HeManWomanHater

%% * FromNobodyToNightmare

%% * [[spoiler: NotSoHarmlessVillain]]

%% * RedemptionEqualsDeath: It's hard to hate her once you find out her motivations.

%% * PoisonousFriend: Darla was hers.

%% * AvengingTheVillain

%% * DefusingTheTykebomb: What Alex does to her.
%% * [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: Believes this of Alexandra.

%% * BadPowersBadPeople
%% * BigBad: Of Book 4 and the Charmbridge part of Book 2.

%% * KnifeNut

%% * SerialKiller

%% * SkinWalker
%% * SmugSnake: Although an extremely dangerous one.
%% * TheSociopath
%% * WalkingShirtlessScene

%% * AwesomeMcCoolName
%% * BadassFamily
%% * BrainyBrunette

%% * BadassTeacher

%% ** BadassBookworm

%% * BrainyBrunette
%% * CoolCar

%% * CynicalMentor
%% * DeadpanSnarker

%% * GoodIsNotNice
%% * {{Jerkass}}

%% * SadistTeacher

%% * ByronicHero

%% * {{Jerkass}}
%% ** JerkassHasAPoint

%% * MyCountryRightOrWrong
%% * NobleTopEnforcer

%% * {{Animorphism}}

%% * FateWorseThanDeath

%% * WalkingSpoiler

%% * AwesomeMcCoolName

%% * SilverFox

%% * ParentsAsPeople
%% * TraumaCongaLine
%% * WalkingSpoiler

%% * DefectorFromDecadence
%% * TheMedic

%% * TheAce
%% * AwesomeMcCoolName
%% * BigBrotherMentor
%% * ByronicHero

%% * GoodIsNotNice
%% ** Subverted. WordOfGod is that he's actually LawfulNeutral.
%% * HeroicSacrifice
%% * HotBlooded
%% * ManlyGay

%% * NobleBigot

%% * SouthernBelle: Downplayed

%% * BigBeautifulWoman

%% * ParentalSubstitute: For Alexandra.

%% * SouthernBelle

%% * BadassTeacher
%% * ColonelBadass

%% * DrillSergeantNasty

%% * ApologeticAttacker
%% * TheAtoner: As a ghost.
%% * BackFromTheDead
%% * BatmanGrabsAGun
%% * BewareTheNiceOnes
%% * BigBad: Of Book One.
%% * HeelFaceTurn

%% * WalkingSpoiler

* SpoiledSweet: Born wealthy and is a little too used to living in luxury, but she's a genuinely kind and friendly person.

* GrandpaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave

%% * AlphaBitch/ LovableAlphaBitch: Straddles the line in book 1.
%% * AnyoneCanDie
%% * BigBad: In Book 3.
%% * ByronicHero

%% * DarkActionGirl
%% * {{Determinator}}

%% * [[spoiler: ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney/ ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections]]

%% * [[spoiler: TookALevelInBadass]]
%% * [[spoiler: TookALevelInJerkass]]
%% * [[spoiler: WalkingSpoiler]]

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: He's pretty clearly nursing a crush on Alexandra for at least a year before he makes a move Alexandra is the last to realize it, it's implied that Sonja and Anna both pick up on it long before.

%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold

%% * NiceGirl
%% * NoRespectGuy

%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold

%% * SlapSlapKiss

A student from Blackmore Institute sent to Charmbridge on exchange in Alexandra's second year. Maximilian initially appears to be a bully, going out of his way to harass both Anna and Alexandra after they are drafted into the JROC. This only gets worse after Alex and Max both join the Mors Mortis Society, with him picking up his harassment in an attempt to force her out.

The more-or-less official head flunky to the Governor General. A bald man who seems to go out of his way to be creepy.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Each book generally has a villain who serves as the BigBad, none of whom are associated with the Governor General, but if the series as a whole can be said to have a BigBad then Hucksteen is it. [[NonActionBigBad Or at least we have seen no indication that he possesses any particular skill in combat]].

! Larry Albo

%% * NobleBigot

%% * StraightGay
%% * ThoseTwoGuys: With Torvald.

* BitchGirlfriend: Subverted with Torvald. While she can certainly be bitchy, she never really directed much hostility towards him while they were dating.

* NayTheist: An unusual example, most [[NayTheist Nay Theists]] live in a world where theism is the default position. Alexandra is a NayTheist in a world of [[FlatEarthAtheist Flat Earth Atheists]].

* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Hates dresses, dancing, makeup and almost all things she associates with being "girly". She starts to mellow on this a bit as she grows older but she still prefers to wear her dress uniform on formal occasions.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: To Alexandra, after failing to dissuade her from going to the Lands Beyond. It's platonic... [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship probably]]... [[LesYay maybe?]]

* NiceGirl: She is unquestionably one of the sweetest, friendliest characters in the story, at times bordering on ExtremeDoormat... though she will speak her mind when Alex goes too far and demonstrates that she [[BewareTheNiceOnes shouldn't be pushed too far.]]

* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: He joins ASPEW, seeing the House-Elves' slavery as similar to the enslavement of black people. Whether he's right or not is another thing entirely, but he's definitely [[CompletelyMissingThePoint missing the point.]]

* MsExposition: They take this role in ''The Stars Above.''

The only Ozarkers attending Charmbridge besides the Pritchards, these twins are two years ahead of Alexandra. They consider it their duty to "look after" the younger Pritchards, leading them to be domineering, controlling and abusive towards them, as well as generally racist and misogynistic. After Alexandra [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomps]] them both in a wizard duel, they are forced to rely on blackmail, threatening to have the Pritchards sent home if they do not obey them.

* JerkAss: They basically have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

%% * Determinator

* [[JerkassFacade Racist Façade]]: He uses racist slurs against Alex (that later turn out to be inaccurate), but he admits that he doesn't really have anything against Muggleborns, just her.

* ArrangedMarriage
* BerserkButton: When Mordecai thinks Alexandra hexed his brother, he goes nuts. (She didn't.)
* CorruptHick
* DirtyCoward
* HeManWomanHater

* AlphaBitch/ LovableAlphaBitch: Straddles the line in book 1.
* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie]]
* [[spoiler: BigBad: In Book 3.]]
* [[spoiler: ByronicHero]]

* [[spoiler: DarkActionGirl]]
* [[spoiler: Determinator]]

* [[spoiler: FromNobodyToNightmare]]

* HiddenAgendaVillain: Pretty much all of her evil actions are motivated by trying to save her sister. It's not until after her death that the reader learns that this was her motivation.

* [[spoiler: NotSoHarmlessVillain]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: It's hard to hate her once you find out her motivations.

* [[spoiler: ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney/ ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections]]

* [[spoiler: TookALevelInBadass]]
* [[spoiler: TookALevelInJerkass]]
* [[spoiler: WalkingSpoiler]]

* CoolBigSis: To Alexandra, of course. She adores Alexandra and looks out for her when she can.

* {{Expy}}: Has more than a few similarities to Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar. Each:

* {{Badass}}
** LittleMissBadass
** BadassInDistress: Usually at least once a book.
** HeartbrokenBadass: For the entirety of Book 3.
** BadassBookworm

* TookALevelInBadass: She takes her first in The Lands Below when she trains in dueling with Maximillian. Then in The Stars Above she decides that her goal in life is to LevelGrind as a {{Badass}} and she improves even more over the course of book 4.

* HiddenDepths: It is frequently hinted that they shouldn't be trifled with, though they have yet to demonstrate any particular [[{{Badass}} Badassery]].

* {{Badass}}

%% * {{Badass}}

* {{Badass}}: Lilith says that Hecate was smarter than her and twice as talented.

* BadassFamily: Downplayed. Maximillian and Alexandra are the only ones of Abraham Thorn's children to be [[{{Badass}} Badasses]] but all of his children are highly accomplished in whatever field they enter. Even Claudia would have been a doctor if she hadn't had to take care of Alex.

* {{Badass}}: Seems to be on at least the same tier as Snape and possibly even as powerful as Dumbledore and Voldemort from canon ''Literature/HarryPotter''. He has invented time stop spells that only a dozen wizards worldwide would even be able to cast and he handily defeated Diana Grimm despite being distracted shielding his daughters from the fallout. He's not even fazed by the idea of having to hold off and escape from dozens of Aurors.

%% * {{Badass}}

%% * {{Badass}}
%% ** BadassTeacher
%% ** ColonelBadass

* {{Expy}}: A pretty clear one of Snape: the JerkAss SadistTeacher potion master who is secretly a {{Badass}}, though Snape's counterpart in terms of narrative role is mostly Dean Grimm.

%% * {{Badass}}

* {{Expy}}: Has more than a few similarities to GaiusJuliusCaesar. Each:

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex

* MacGuffinGirl: Possibly in more ways than one.
** She's the secret keeper for the Thorn Circle, which means that they cannot be found without her.
** The Dark Convention apparently believe that her sacrifice could break the seal on the Lands Below.

* HiddenDepths: Many people are surprised by her BadassBookworm tendencies. The Pritchards are surprised to learn that she read all of the Ozarker folk legends about Troublesome and she eventually starts reading books of poetry to improve her doggerel verse which allows her to identify the types of poetic meter used by each of the Stars Above. She is also apparently GenreSavvy enough to figure out the Sibling ThemeNaming scheme of the Grimm sisters, so she can guess her mother's middle name without being told.

A figure from the Ozark mythos. Troublesome is a rebellious, spirited girl who constantly stirs up... well, [[CaptainObvious trouble]], both for herself and for everyone else. Ozark women used to name their daughters after her, but this practice has fallen out of use. According to the Grannies, a group of powerful matriarchs, this is a case of MortonsFork: the practice has fallen out of favour because people think it'd be bad luck for the community and the child in question to name a daughter Troublesome, but there's just as much bad luck involved in ''not'' naming a daughter Troublesome for so long. As of ''Stars Above'', a new Troublesome has been Named- Alexandra Quick.

* BiggerBad: Each book generally has a villain who serves as the BigBad, none of whom are associated with the Governor General, but if the series as a whole can be said to have a BigBad then Hucksteen is it.
** NonActionBigBad: Or at least we have seen no indication that he possesses any particular skill in combat.

** NonActionBigBad: Or at least we have seen no indication that he possesses any particular skill in combat.