History Characters / Blindsprings

* WomenAreWiser: She's the voice of reason in the Wayfarers and keeps Ember of doing anything rash.

* HeroesWantRedheads: To Harris in his younger days. His crush on Tammy was what motivated him to become badass enough to "save" her.

* VirginInAWhiteDress: in the forest Tamaura wore a white toga decorated with flowers, which added to her purity theme along with not wearing shoes (No matter how cold it gets.) It does not survive long in the city. [[note]][[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack School Uniforms are the New]] [[JustforPun White]]: [[http://www.blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-forty-five The most important part of Tammy's makeover]] [[ImportantHaircut (Well, second most important).]] [[/note]]

* BoobsOfSteel: Rajani is, by far, the bustiest woman in the story and she's implied to be powerful and strong even without her magic.

* VirginInAWhiteDress: in the forest Tamaura wore a white toga decorated with flowers, which added to her purity theme along with DoesNotLikeShoes (No matter how cold it gets.) It does not survive long in the city. [[note]][[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack School Uniforms are the New]] [[JustforPun White]]: [[http://www.blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-forty-five The most important part of Tammy's makeover]] [[ImportantHaircut (Well, second most important).]] [[/note]]

* TeensAreShort: It's noted his growth was stagnated growing up due to the magic of the Blindsprings, much like Tammy.

* TheLoad: Out of all of Asher's daughters, Imogen is the one more at risk of being a liability for the Wayfarers, despite her desire to join the ranks. Irelia is old enough to take care of herself, [[spoiler:Deidre is a Graver under house arrest]], and Lottie is constantly watched by her mother and security as the youngest and most "proper" daughter; Imogen on the other hand is [[JustAKid the youngest of the Orphic Thorne]], [[LeroyJenkins prone to seek trouble]], and [[PapaWolf Asher's favorite]]. So when [[spoiler:[[HostageMacguffin the Cistern Spirits spirit Imogen away into the Torstenn Blindspring,]] with nobody knowing about it]], in just one day both goverment and Wayfarers are worried ''sick'' about her.

* ParentalFavoritism: Irelia claims that she's her father's favorite, but she hates the man herself. So far nothing has shown that they're wrong. He comes off as treating her the best, if stern.

* LivingMacguffin: Out of all of Asher's daughters, Imogen is the one more at risk of being a liability for the Wayfarers, despite her desire to join the ranks. Irelia is old enough to take care of herself, [[spoiler:Deidre is a Graver under house arrest]], and Lottie is constantly watched by her mother and security as the youngest and most "proper" daughter; Imogen on the other hand is the youngest of the Orphic Thorne, prone to seek trouble, and Asher's favorite. So when [[spoiler:[[HostageMacguffin the Cistern Spirits spirit Imogen away into the Torstenn Blindspring,]] with nobody knowing about it]], in just one day both goverment and Wayfarers are worried ''sick'' about her.

* EvilerThanThou: While Asher peerpetuates the persecution of Orphics, had his own blood sealed and under watch and his first wife arrested, compared to Lumens he's a decent person. Lumens is in charge of the Gravers, who are basically brainwashed slaves who had gone through a traumatizing remaking of a core part of their being, he's willing to use them in public plces and risk civilians ''precisely'' because fear would give him more impunity, has Asher (the Prime Minister) under threat and [[spoiler:is plotting on a coup against him, already having attempted at Asher's life once.]]

* KickTheDog: Threatening to use [[spoiler:Deidre]] unless Asher complied with what he wanted. And he makes it perfectly clear that it's ''because'' Asher cares that he'll do it.

* BigBrotherInstinct: He exposed himself up as an Orphic, giving up a life free and a position in the main faimily line, just to be with his sister after seeing in what she was turned into.

* MoralityAdjustment: When he first tries to court Street's cooperation, he's a standard manipulative spirit. When he next meets Street, she basically tells him "Do what you want with me as long as you save Tammy." He seems to undergo an epiphany and insists on putting her well-being ahead of his goals. He appears to be growing a genuine conscience.

%%* ShortHairWithTail

* WomanInWhite:Like her daughters and the rest of the royal family, she wears several white dresses.

* CannotTellALie[=/=]WillNotTellALie: The spirits never lie; so even if they use ExactWords with no mercy, you can be sure those are true, despite they not meaning what you would expect.

* DistressedDamsel: In Chapter 6, she detonates a sort of magic bomb in the middle of Kirkhall and was chased and almost captured by the Academists.

* BareYourMidriff: When taking on a much more humanoid form while speaking with Rajani, Indra wears a vest and a scarf that cover up the top part of his chest, but his midriff is left uncovered.

* CoolPet: She has a pet tiger.

* ChocolateBaby: It's [[http://www.blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-seventy-eight pretty conspicuous]] that Tammy's the only member of her family to have red hair and she's a strong nexus of Orphic power in a line otherwise acknowledged to be dying out. No wonder there were mutters of "Bastards at Court" behind her back.
** It is even possible that the spirits took a direct hand in Tammy's birth, as her spirit guide says "this is what you were created for" instead of "this is what you were born to do" when Tammy expresses doubts about her role.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindows

* GreenThumb: Tammy's [[MagicMusic song]] brought Imogen's garden back to life. This is because she's a priestess and not fully sealed, while Imogen cannot use her magic and isn't a priestess.
** [[http://www.blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-two-hundred-and-thirty-four And then she made an entire tree appear out of nowhere.]]

* ModestRoyalty: Prefers to go by Tammy and reserves her mouthful of titles for confronting the spirits. The comic even uses different tags to separate the pages where she is "Tamaura" the priestess from the pages where she is just "Tammy" the little girl.
** Tammy tells Imogen that no one ever really called her "your highness" in the past.

* VirginInAWhiteDress: in the forest Tamaura wore a white toga decorated with flowers, which added to her purity theme along with DoesNotLikeShoes (No matter how cold it gets.) It does not survive long in the city.
** [[SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack School Uniforms are the New]] [[JustforPun White]]: [[http://www.blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-forty-five The most important part of Tammy's makeover]] [[ImportantHaircut (Well, second most important).]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Gets at least two within the span of one page [[spoiler: while in the midst of realizing and accepting his Orphic heritage]], meant as a way to show him 'maturing' by accepting the truth [[spoiler: while being confronting by Indra in his own mind.]] Every time he 'ages up' more, it shows what his hairstyle was like at that age in his life.
** Changes it again later on, after accepting his heritage.

* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: Harris spent a handful of summers with Tamaura, [[RescueRomance promised to "save" her,]] [[SacredFirstKiss shared a kiss,]] [[WizardingSchool went to school to study]] FunctionalMagic, [[HesBack came back ten years later,]] [[BigDamnHeroes and whisked her away.]] [[spoiler: [[DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel It didn't work out for him.]]]] [[FridgeLogic Rationally thinking, it probably]] [[spoiler: [[MayflyDecemberRomance never will.]]]]

* TrueSight: [[spoiler:Harris is able to see Indra when the other Spiritualist couldn't. The Alt text hints that he falls into the 5% percent of Kirkhall able to see the magic released during the Earthquake as well, meaning he has this... [[FridgeBrilliance which might explain why he was able to find and enter the Forest Blindsprings, when you think about it]].]]

* WhatTheHellHero: The spiritualists call him out on what happened with Tammy, rushing into trying to save her without understanding the situation. In his defense, for all he knew he was saving her from being a HumanSacrifice.

* ShortHairWithTail

* AmbiguouslyBrown: WordOfGod is that she'd be Egyptian by our equivalent.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[WordOfGod Kadi]] has confirmed that only her aunt calls her "Elodie". She's called "Street" because she moves around the streets without papers and takes care of street urchins.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The first time he appears is six years in the past, and he definitely was not a nice guy, but in the present time there have been a few instances that show he does care about his daughters. He refuses to allow his meeting with Imogen to be derailed by some important delegates, telling them that his daughter is more important than anything they might have to say. Lottie mentions that while it doesn't happen often Asher does play with her. Irelia is at least on good enough terms for Asher to speak with her. According to some sources one possibility for Deidre being rather blasé about getting caught as a Wayfarer was because Asher was her father, and while she was [[spoiler:turned into a Graver when]] captured, the wayfarer who was caught with her was ''executed''.

* AntiVillain: He did start the events that led to Orphics being persecuted, but it's mentioned that he did it so that everyone else could improve their lives rather than [[TheMagocracy only Orphics]], and he didn't order the execution of Tamaura's family, the guards did that.
** Book 2's prologue increases the ambiguity by showing he was the only one in the royal castle who was nice to Tammy. And when the rebellion did begin, he bargained for her safety.

* DramaticIrony: He wanted to create a world where Tammy was free but his actions of sealing the Orphic, putting the academics in power and almost extinguishing the spirits only managed to create a hostile world full of people who want to exploit Tammy for their own purposes.

* BerserkButton: Messing with Tristan. Her reaction to Tammy "attacking" him (really trying to free him from his control seal) is to get ''pissed''.
--> '''Rhiannon:''' How dare you touch him! Tristan is mine.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: She'd be Indian if she were in our world, according to WordOfGod.

* LastStand: She used BloodMagic and some magic crystal as a last attempt to defend herself from arrest. Sadly, Asher's Destruction spell was too much for her in such a close range.
** Though her expression implies that she could just as easily killed Asher with her crystal attack, she just couldn't bring herself to do it.
* MealTicket: WordOfGod declared that the main reason why Asher married her was because she was the sole heiress of the vast Torstenn fortune.

* WickedStepMother: She is not a nice person, upon entering the scene she starts berating Asher for not sending Imogen to a reform school. And when she noticed Imogen was carrying Lottie, she takes her child out of her sister's arms.
** When Imogen is missing for a day, she openly states that she hopes she stays missing.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Aliana's vague, lost and regretful expression after her vicious prank succeeds in keeping Tammy from her duties implies that she may not be entirely in control of her own actions.

* {{Yandere}}: They appeared out of the woodwork after Harris kissed Tamaura [[http://www.blindsprings.com/comic/blindsprings-page-sixteen and basically clung to her]] with no intention of letting go. Afterwards they were talking about adding to her contract for even ''thinking'' of leaving them.

** OurElvesAreDifferent: The innermost layer of its blindspring, its Loci, reveals it to look like a golden elf.

* RegalRinglets: [[UpToEleven Her 'do is entirely composed of these,]] [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished despite living in the wilderness for 96% of her life without a curling iron in sight.]] [[spoiler: They start to get messed up once she leaves the woods.]]

* [[YoureNotMyFather She's Not My Mother]]: She makes it very clear to her father that her step-mother is not her mother when he refers to her as such. [[WickedStepMother With good reason.]]

* [[HighPriest High Priestess]]: Formerly, of Khala.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: She has purple eyes, and she's an Orphic witch.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: She used to have two purple eyes, now only conserving her left eye in its natural color. She got them from her mother and she's a (sealed) Orphic witch.

* ColorMotif: Purple. She not only has purple eyes but also is seen dressed in purple clothes more often than not. It's either to show off [[PurpleIsPowerful she's a member of royalty]], that [[SupernaturalIsPurple she's a powerful Orphic witch]] or both.