History Characters / DeathVigil

* TheHero: If any one character can be consider the main protagonist it's Sam, since he's the point of view character, and possesses most of the traditional heroic traits.

* ToyShip: Joked about InUniverse by some Vigil members (mainly Sam) between her and James.

* ToyShip: Joked about InUniverse by some Vigil members between him and Mia.

* CoolGuns: Vlado's veilripper is a Luger P08 that shoots through walls.

* TheFogOfAges: Bernie is ancient. She has forgotten much of her past, and who she was and where she came from before becoming the Reaper. However she does make a point of remembering every member of the Vigil who died while serving her.
* IncrediblyLamePun: The source of much of Bernie's humor.

* IncrediblyLamePun: As usual, James uses a lot of gamer lingo during their battle. Simon tries to one-up him with [[EpicFail not so spectacular results.]]

* SymbolSwearing: When Chiyoko sees [[spoiler:the Thorn]] for the first time, she swears in Kanji.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the Necromancers during the battle in New York goes into LargeHam mode. Vlado tells Chiyoko that he thinks he's a wanker with [[http://nebezial.deviantart.com/art/death-vigil-4-universal-language-478602666 a gesture]] to this effect.

* MirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: A variation is in play here. It isn't mirrors but whenever she is photographed, Clara's eyes have a red tinge to them [[spoiler:as she is currently the host to a True Primordial.]]

* PerkyGoth: She's the ''Grim Reaper'', pale skin, dark clothes, listens to Music/{{Nightwish}}, yet she's also a friendly and generally upbeat (when not having to deal with the rigors of the long war) woman with a goofy sense of humor.

* CoolOldLady: She doesn't look very old, but she is very nice to the members of the Vigil, and even rocks out to ''Music/{{Nightwish}}'' in her free time.

* TheRedBaron: Dubbed the "Kill Team" because of how effective their powers are when they work together.

* BadassBeard: One of the Pale Court, Lord Mechah invokes this.

* PurpleIsPowerful: Bernie's color palette is almost entirely white and purple, with both her eyes and robes being shades of violet. Even the Scythe has a purplish coloration. And while most of the Vigil's veilrippers have a whitish energy signature when used, the Scythe's is isntead brilliant purple.

* WingedHumanoid: Bernie occasionally sports a pair of bird-like wings, both when she travels through the Veil, or when she's flying in the normal world. ''Especially'' when she wants to invoke her appearance as an angel of death

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: We learn from Mia that the ritual her boyfriend was performing was used to bind primordials to a mortal body, as that's what Allistor did with her in the 13th Century. She also has a necromancy tattoo on her back which no one (even Clara) seems to know about. Lord Asrah senses something is different about her, and she twice unwittingly releases a SuperPoweredEvilSide when she's knocked out to save her life. Although the book itself never comes right out and confirms it, it's made blatantly clear that Jon succeeded in binding one of the True Primordials to her.]]

Mia's father, a former French peasant who joined the Necromancers in the 13th Century, only to turn against them when he learned the truth about them. More reluctant to help the Vigil than his daughter, he is willing to provide them information on what the Necromancers are up to.

* HeelFaceTurn: Allistor's backstory. [[spoiler:He and Mia lived in France during the 13th Century, and when he reported the sighting of a demon in the streets of Paris to the church, he was arrested and taken to the Seraphim (Necromancers), who recruited him with claims they were fighting a fallen angel. However, as he worked on translating the documents and tablets they requested of him, he learned the truth and sought out Bernie's help. They struck up a friendship, but this fell apart over her discovery of a veilripper Allistor kept as a trophy from a Death Knight he had fought and killed before learning the truth about the Seraphim. When his daughter, Mia, was dying of illness he turned to the Necromancers but they refused to act to save her, and Bernie also rebuffed him. Instead, out of desperation he took it upon himself to use the Dreamer's Sigil and sacrificed Mia to forcibly bind one of the Primordials to her to save her life. Mia showed an appetite for other Primordials, so he turned her loose on the Seraphim. Bernie later came to deal with them both, but Allistor essentially stalemated her by threatening to turn Mia loose against the Vigil and their families, so she backed down and departed warning him never to cross her path again. Since then, Allistor and Mia have been staunch allies of the Vigil, though not members themselves. Mia and James are close friends and she's very well-liked by the rest of the Knights, while Allistor is at least respected. His relationship with Bernie remains frosty, however]].

* WeUsedToBeFriends: He originally befriended Bernadette in the 13th Century, looking for information on translating the Dreamer's Code. Unfortunately, their friendship came to an end the day he invited her to his home; [[spoiler: Bernie saw a veilripper he'd kept as a trophy from a Vigil member he'd killed some time before learning the truth about the Necromancers and refused to have anything more to do with him (as well as holding a grudge over the matter for 800 years)]].

* OlderThanTheyLook: Even ''moreso'' than most of the cast. She looks no older than about 16 or so, but her human form is centuries old. The Beast, the Primordial to which she was bound, is even ''older''.

* Really700YearsOld: Her human self was born in the 13th Century, 800 years before the story takes place. It's unclear exactly how old her Primordial form is, but the Beast is even older still.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the Necromancers during the battle in New York goes into LargeHam mode. Vlado tells Chiyoko that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar he thinks he's a wanker]] with [[http://nebezial.deviantart.com/art/death-vigil-4-universal-language-478602666 a gesture]] to this effect.

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