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* LongHairIsFeminine: She has waist-length hair, longer than any of the named characters, and is very feminine, graceful and elegant, with a fondness for romance novels, poetry, art, music, dancing, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and finance]].

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* LongHairIsFeminine: She has waist-length hair, longer than any of the named characters, and is very feminine, graceful and elegant, with a fondness for romance novels, poetry, art, music, dancing, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and finance]].finance.

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* SupportYourParents: Amelia works from dawn till dusk to support her paralyzed impoverished mother, and later joins a pirate crew to get enough money from the plunder for her mother's medical treatment.



* SupportYourParents: Amelia works from dawn till dusk to support her paralyzed impoverished mother, and later joins a pirate crew to get enough money from the plunder for her mother's medical treatment.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Lidia is morally grey at best, being a FemmeFataleSpy and MasterPoisoner who is ready to manipulate people into assisting in her shady schemes. But even she calls Anthony out when [[spoiler:he starts seducing her mere hours after the death of his faithful lover Veronique]].


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[[folder:Dinah Limmerdale]]
A Walsian marchioness and Letty Spencer/Frankson's aunt.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Marchioness Dinah Limmerdale loves saying "unlike some" while praising herself or people she likes (and in general she often focuses on the abstract "some" when she wants to criticise a custom or point of view). She also has a fondness for using the phrase "lovely as a rose" while describing girls eligible for marriage.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She is formidable, conceited, and loves to criticise her niece Letty for the latter’s supposedly improper lifestyle (while really there is simply a CultureClash between Dinah’s native Walsia and Letty’s native Jarison Haven). However, even she is outraged at the DomesticAbuse and blatant hypocrisy of Izzy’s parents and helps arrange Izzy’s marriage to Gerald Ernscott (even though he is from Jarison Haven, like Letty) simply to give the poor girl a happier life.
* TheMatchmaker: Gerry asks her for help in finding him a suitable Walsian bride. After nine years of searching, she helps arrange his marriage with Izzy Ernscott.
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* SupportYourParents: Amelia works from dawn till dusk to support her paralyzed impoverished mother, and later joins a pirate crew to get enough money from the plunder for her mother's medical treatment.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonBadass: Discussed InUniverse. She feels ashamed of screaming with fear and clinging to Walter during the attack of the krakens (sentient octopuses, each the size of a ship). She is also afraid that after this, the corsairs saw through her disguise and Walter stopped loving her. Both times, she is wrong.
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* ContraltoOfDanger: She has a deep melodic voice and is one of the most badass main characters (and very dangerous to enemies).

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* ContraltoOfDanger: ContraltoOfStrength: She has a deep melodic voice and is one of the most badass main characters (and very dangerous to enemies).
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* BadassBaritone: He has a beautiful deep voice, one of the many things about him that women find attractive. And he is quite clever and an expert fighter.

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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Prince Peter is so popular in Walsia that Eugene mused that, should he die childless, people would start a war to put Peter on the throne. After Princess Vivian was born, the anxiety was somewhat alleviated with her betrothal to Peter's grandson Percival.


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* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Prince Peter is so popular in Walsia that Eugene mused that, should he die childless, people would start a war to put Peter on the throne. After Princess Vivian was born, the anxiety was somewhat alleviated with her betrothal to Peter's grandson Percival.
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* FeelingTheirAge: By the time he's past seventy, when he isn't in battle, he has attacks of acute rheumatism.

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* FantasyForbiddingFather: Gerald Ernscott's parents Peter and Cheryl were completely baffled by his dream of receiving education. Peter at least admired the boy's determination, but Cheryl thought it was simply ridiculous for Gerry to strive beyond what he was born into.


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[[folder:Peter and Cheryl Ernscott]]
Gerald Ernscott's parents, owners of a fish store.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: They were completely baffled by his dream of receiving education. Peter at least admired the boy's determination, but Cheryl thought it was simply ridiculous for Gerry to strive beyond what he was born into.
* GoodParents: Despite their faults, they are kind and (at first grudgingly) supportive towards Gerry, and he loves and respects them greatly.
* IWantGrandkids: Implied to have been one of Cheryl's main complaints about her son after he grew up. In one of the prequels, she laments that Letty, the only woman Gerry has ever dated, is now married and already has four sons. Though Gerry does eventually marry, his parents drown in a storm four years earlier and never meet his wife, let alone witness the birth of their granddaughter.
* TogetherInDeath: They went out fishing and perished in a storm when Gerald was forty-seven.
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[[folder:The Meadows family]]
The dynasty of Jarison Haven's finest doctors. Two members of it appear in the story – a Dr. Meadows who is TheMedic during Gerry Ernscott's childhood, and his son.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Dr. Meadows junior doesn’t realize that his detailed stories of his previous cases only irritate and disgust his patients.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Both are extremely loud and tactless, but excellent doctors.
* NoIndoorVoice: A booming voice is seemingly InTheBlood.
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* EducationMama: Her mother is a downplayed case. Although from what the readers [[TheGhost are told of her]], it seems she and Nelly have a good relationship, she still pushes Nelly to attend First Royal School – where Nelly rarely gets anything above a B due to the fact that helping her mother with her work takes most of her time. Gerry is baffled as to why Nelly's mother wants her to have a school degree at all, because at the same time she intends for her to take over the FamilyBusiness, for which the degree isn't needed.
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* DeliberateUnderPerformance: While in the third grade of school, he deliberately makes mistakes at the end-of-year exams. There is going to be a class trip to the neighboring island of Walbere, and among the students who can't pay for it, one per class can have the trip funded by the state. The lucky one is going to be picked based on the exam results, and while Gerry knows he is definitely the best among the poor students, he decides to let Susan Deanham win the trip, since she has recently suffered a serious illness and the doctor advised her to go to some warmer and less windy place, something that she can't do without the funding due to her family's perilous financial situation. Susan is usually one of the top students as well, but due to the same illness she has missed several weeks and had trouble catching up.

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* DeliberateUnderPerformance: While in the third grade of school, he deliberately makes mistakes at the end-of-year exams. There is going to be a class trip to the neighboring island of Walbere, and among the students who can't pay for it, one per class can have the trip funded by the state. The lucky one is going to be picked based on the exam results, and while Gerry knows he is definitely the best among the poor students, he decides to let exams, enabling DelicateAndSickly Susan Deanham win the trip, since she has recently suffered a serious illness and the doctor advised her to go to some warmer and less windy place, something that she can't do without the funding due to her family's perilous financial situation. Susan is usually one end up top of the top students as well, but due to the same illness she has missed several weeks class and had trouble catching up.win an all-paid trip to Walbere that would help restore her health.



* GoodCounterpart: Mr. Ernscott is basically Simon Canter with a conscience. They both are pragmatic, calculating, determined masters of BatmanGambit, both know the value of their public image, both love art, both marry younger BlueBlood Walsian ladies and both make no secret of wanting to make a lot of money. However, Mr. Ernscott, though he has his faults, genuinely works for the people's good, not just for his own gain, and is repulsed by Canter's atrocities.

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* GoodCounterpart: Mr. Ernscott is basically Simon Canter with a conscience. They both are pragmatic, calculating, determined masters of BatmanGambit, both know the value of their public image, both love art, both marry younger BlueBlood Walsian ladies ladies, and both make no secret of wanting to make a lot of money. However, Mr. Ernscott, though he has his faults, genuinely works for the people's good, not just for his own gain, and is repulsed by Canter's atrocities.
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Izzy has always been quite the rebel and is extremely happy to have ended up in the liberal-minded Jarison Haven.

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* TheBGrade: In ''The School Years'', he strives to earn high grades rather than merely passing grades. The reason is that, as his Maths teacher explains to him, Gerry barely has enough money to pay the school fee and has to work even for that, so if he gets average marks, his diploma won’t be worth much anywhere and he will have wasted his childhood for nothing.



* GottaPassTheClass: In ''The School Years'', he strives to earn high grades rather than merely passing grades. The reason is that, as his Maths teacher explains to him, Gerry barely has enough money to pay the school fee and has to work even for that, so if he gets average marks, his diploma won’t be worth much anywhere and he will have wasted his childhood for nothing.
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* IllGirl: When Anthony finds her, she is feverish and has a cough. Afterwards, the fever and weakness gradually go away but the cough lingers (it’s implied it's at least partly due to allergy or asthma). However, she decides to defy the trope as she feels herself pretty well otherwise and is tired of everyone fussing over her.

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* IllGirl: DelicateAndSickly: When Anthony finds her, she is feverish and has a cough. Afterwards, the fever and weakness gradually go away but the cough lingers (it’s implied it's at least partly due to allergy or asthma). However, she decides to defy the trope as she feels herself pretty well otherwise and is tired of everyone fussing over her.
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* HonoraryUncle: Vivian has such a crowd of cousins of various degree that she has decided to address everyone from Prince Peter's family who is ten years or more her senior as "Aunt" or "Uncle" and be on FirstNameBasis with everyone younger than that.


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* CoolAunt: To be exact, "Cool HonoraryAunt who is actually a much older cousin". Princess Mary has a strained relationship with her husband, her children, and her parents and grandparents, but she has managed to bond quite well with her second cousin Vivian, teaching her to play tennis during one of her visits to Walsia.
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* EvilFormerFriend: By the time of the main timeline, he and Gerry are on firm LastNameBasis and quietly despise each other. ''The School Years'' reveals that he became Gerry's FirstFriend at school after defending him from Letty's bullying.

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Rick to friends and family, he is the founder and head of Jarison Haven's Fishery Control.

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Rick to friends and family, he is family. In the founder main story: Founder and head of Jarison Haven's Fishery Control.\\
In ''The School Years'': Reserved and initially rather conceited student who sits next to Gerry Ernscott.



Letty to friends and family, she is a well-known salon hostess.

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Letty to friends and family, she is a well-known family. In the main story: Well-known salon hostess. hostess.\\
In ''The School Years'': Highborn, wealthy and initially very proud and selfish girl, one of the class's top students.



The director of the port of Jarison Haven who isn't doing his job too well.

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The director In the main story: Director of the port of Jarison Haven who isn't doing his job too well. well.\\
In ''The School Years'': Gerry's first friend who isn't too good with studies but is easygoing and cheerful.



Captain of the ''Marianne'', a cargo ship that also half-legally carries passengers.

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In the main story: Captain of the ''Marianne'', a cargo ship that also half-legally carries passengers.\\
In ''The School Years'': Best friend of Edgar Cole with a fascination for sea and ships.



Nelly for friends and family, she is a successful tailor.

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Nelly for to friends and family, she is a successful family. In the main story: Successful tailor.\\
In ''The School Years'': Friendly, kind girl who helps in her mother's tailor workshop.

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* DamselInDistress: Her terrible sickness in her third year motivates the entire class to help her all they can.



* ShrinkingViolet: She is so reserved and shy that barely anyone recalls she is there at all. Gerry is only really aware of her existence because her name is right before his own in the class lists.

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* SheCleansUpNicely: In a variation of the trope, it has less to do with her clothes and looks in general and more with her attitude. At a school party in the end of her third year, she is so happy about winning a trip to Walbere that she forgets her usual shyness and awkwardness, and everyone sees her for the pretty, sweet and intelligent girl she actually is.
* ShrinkingViolet: She is so reserved and shy that barely anyone recalls she is there at all. Gerry is only really aware of her existence because her name is right before his own in the class lists. It gets better after she befriends Tilda Quinsley.
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* MoralityPet: She becomes this to Tilda Quinsley, formerly one of the bullies in Letty's posse, when Susan is recovering after a long illness and Tilda offers to help her with schoolwork.
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* DeliberateUnderPerformance: While in the third grade of school, he deliberately makes mistakes at the end-of-year exams. There is going to be a class trip to the neighboring island of Walbere, and among the students who can't pay for it, one per class can have the trip funded by the state. The lucky one is going to be picked based on the exam results, and while Gerry knows he is definitely the best among the poor students, he decides to let Susan Deanham win the trip, since she has recently suffered a serious illness and the doctor advised her to go to some warmer and less windy place, something that she can't do without the funding due to her family's perilous financial situation. Susan is usually one of the top students as well, but due to the same illness she has missed several weeks and had trouble catching up.
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* DontCallMeSir: Gerald Ernscott would love it if his wife stopped calling him Mr. Ernscott. As her parents took BritishStuffiness and played it UpToEleven when educating their daughters, she can't bring herself to do it. She finally does call him Gerry during a heated argument, but tells him there will be some time before she gets fully used to it.

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* DontCallMeSir: Gerald Ernscott would love it if his wife stopped calling him Mr. Ernscott. As her parents took BritishStuffiness and played it UpToEleven up when educating their daughters, she can't bring herself to do it. She finally does call him Gerry during a heated argument, but tells him there will be some time before she gets fully used to it.



* GottaPassTheClass: Played UpToEleven in ''The School Years'', where he strives to earn high grades rather than merely passing grades. The reason is that, as his Maths teacher explains to him, Gerry barely has enough money to pay the school fee and has to work even for that, so if he gets average marks, his diploma won’t be worth much anywhere and he will have wasted his childhood for nothing.

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* GottaPassTheClass: Played UpToEleven in In ''The School Years'', where he strives to earn high grades rather than merely passing grades. The reason is that, as his Maths teacher explains to him, Gerry barely has enough money to pay the school fee and has to work even for that, so if he gets average marks, his diploma won’t be worth much anywhere and he will have wasted his childhood for nothing.
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* StarvingStudent: In ''The School Years'', he can't even afford anything at the school canteen except for the free-of-charge glass of tea.


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* StarvingStudent: In ''The School Years'', she and Gerry are the poorest students in their class, unable to have anything but the tea at the canteen.

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Founder and director of the Colonial Bank.

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In the main story: Founder and director of the Colonial Bank.\\
In ''The School Years'': Brilliant but financially struggling student at Jarison Haven’s First Royal School.



* BerserkButton: Insult/threaten him, and he'll just smile and shrug it off. Insult/threaten his family, and he'll unleash his rage.

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Insult/threaten him, and he'll just smile and shrug it off. Insult/threaten his family, and he'll unleash his rage.rage.
** Never, ever compare him to Simon Canter. Not even if you are Isabel Ernscott. Gerald is determined to keep his own moral grayness within bounds and is utterly repulsed by the levels Canter sinks to.


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* GottaPassTheClass: Played UpToEleven in ''The School Years'', where he strives to earn high grades rather than merely passing grades. The reason is that, as his Maths teacher explains to him, Gerry barely has enough money to pay the school fee and has to work even for that, so if he gets average marks, his diploma won’t be worth much anywhere and he will have wasted his childhood for nothing.
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* RichLanguagePoorLanguage: His pronunciation was a major problem for him at school. He had taught himself to ''write'' properly all right, but he couldn’t help speaking the dialect he is used to (his parents have no school education and own a small fish store). Same goes for his speaking exercises at the lessons of foreign languages, as he had previously only practiced these languages by talking with sailors. Gerald’s teachers had a hard time figuring out what to do (as he was a brilliant student otherwise, they didn’t want to give him lower marks based purely on the accent).
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* OddNameNormalNickname: Her name is Alethea, but everybody on FirstNameBasis with her calls her Letty.

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