History Characters / DragonridersOfPernNinthPassCharacters

* ChillyReception: When she first joins the Harpers, the girls she stays with (except one) and their matron treat her coldly.

Elderly obese cotholder at Fort Hold, who provides living to female students attached to Harper Hall.

* InsufferableImbecile: Makes a fool of herself on several occasions.

* TheResenter: Hates Menolly from day one because of her fire lizards and overall "otherness".

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Menolly's fire lizards, who are reluctant to befriend anyone except Menolly, flock to Camo without hesitation.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Menolly is the Hall's only female apprentice. Unwilling to put her in the apprentice dorm, the Harpers instead have her room with the snobby female students, who are there for general music education, not to become musicians. The other apprentices reject Menolly because she's a girl and the other girls reject her because she's not one of them. (Eventually she makes inroads with the apprentices, but the girls never really warm to her.)

* EnsignNewbie: Graduates from being an apprentice to being a journeyman in a single week. Somewhat justified, as Menolly was unwittingly doing apprentice work under her old master Petiron for several years, so that by the time she reaches Harper Hall, the Masters quickly realize that there's nothing left for them to teach her. (Plus at around fifteen, Menolly's much older than the typical new apprentice, who started at age ten.)
* ExperiencedProtagonist: In most areas except social. By the beginning of ''Dragonsong'' Menolly already possesses the joyrneyman level harpering skills, is a competent sea holder, can handle massive culinary projects, has well-developed holdless survival skills, and can handle in a fight surprisingly well, all of which is justified by fifteen years of rather harsh and demanding sea-holder life combined with strict Petiron's mentorship. Her only problem is a complete lack of any faith in herself.

* ChoreCharacterExploration: We learn a lot about Menolly in ''Dragonsong'' by observing her day-to-day life in different circumastances.

* CoolLoser: Menolly's incredible musical talent causes her to be ostracized by her home Hold. She runs away to live outside the safety of the hold (something most people equate with death) and not only survives, but manages to Impress nine fire-lizards in the bargain. She ''outruns'' a Thread storm and arrives at Benden Weyr with said fire-lizards just in time to solve a fire-lizard-related crisis that has baffled the most powerful players on the planet. Once accepted into Harper Hall, she rises from apprentice to journeyman in only a week, all while students and teachers alike try to hold her back.

* EmptyShell: Becomes this after [[spoiler: the death of her dragon Prideth.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Seems to have no other ambition than beating Lessa for the role of AlphaBitch.

* YouAreNotAlone: After the death of her dragon and the near-loss of her lover, Brekke is drawn back from the verge of despair by her fire-lizard, whose mental bond reminds her of this.

Elderly obese cotholder at Fort Hold, who provides living to female students attached to Harper Hall

* InsufferableImbecile: Makes herself a fool on several occasions.

* TheResenter: Hates Menolly from day one because of her fire lizards and overall "otherness"

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: While he's at Benden Weyr in response to the theft of a queen egg, he sees something in the shadows of the Hatching Cavern- [[spoiler:a future version of himself, returning the rescued queen egg after traveling ''between'' times]]. He starts to run that way, then practically passes out from a sudden, unexplained wave of weakness. This is typical of dragonriders who get too close to time-traveling versions of themselves.

* JerkAss: Especially in later books, where he'll go out of his way to belittle and/or inconvenience the protagonists out of spite.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: in most areas except social. By the beginning of ''Dragonsong'' Menolly already possesses the joyrneyman level harpering skills, is a competent sea holder, can handle massive culinary projects, has well-developed holdless survival skills, and can handle in a fight surprisingly well, all of which is justified by fifteen years of rather harsh and demanding sea-holder life combined with strict Petiron's mentorship. Her only problem is a complete lack of any faith in herself.

* InsistsOnPaying: we don't know whether she changed this attitude since her apprentice times or not.
* LikeADuckTakesToWater: adapts to Harper Hall life in a sevenday. Would probably do equally well in Benden Weyr.

* NotLikeOtherGirls: as the only female Harper apprentice, often gets compared to non-apprentice female students.
* OneoftheBoys: after arriving to the Harper Hall, gets respected and accepted by boy apprentices almost instantly (in less than three days).

* SheCleansUpNicely: after getting new set of clothing and haircut in Benden, becomes barely recogniseable and rather good-looking.

* IGotBigger: is surprised to see Menolly is no longer towering over him in ''Dragondrums.'' Gets at least partially retconned later.

* ComplexityAddiction: his compositions are the musical equivalents of Rube Goldberg machines.
* DeadpanSnarker: always snarking, all the time.
* TheCynic

* FascinatingEyebrow: useful when experimenting with fire lizards!
* LargeHam: extremely expressive and loud.
* HeavySleeper: when tired, instantly falls asleep. Can be roused only by food or flat singing.
* TrrrillingRrrs: incorrrporrates those.

* BerserkButton: try disagreeing with Marshal while being an apprentice. A new apprentice. A new apprentice who's also a girl.

* InsufferableImbecile: makes herself a fool on several occasions.
* {{Hypocrite}}: preaches her cot to be a place of friendliness and a place where ranks do not matter. Meanwhile intentionally tries to damage a child's reputation and creates a snake nest of rank-obsessed girls.
* TheResenter: hates Menolly from day one because of her fire lizards and overall "otherness"

* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Caught up in the mating of their dragons, F'lar has extremely rough sex with Lessa, causing her to freeze up whenever he touches her afterwards. Worse, F'lar notes that while he's much gentler afterwards, their sex "might as well be rape" unless their dragons are involved...bringing up the [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implication]] that he's ''still'' having sex with her outside of their dragons even when he's aware that she's unwilling. This is later smoothed over and it appears they become consensual lovers.

* IllGirl: After her dragon is killed, all of Pern knows of Brekke's illness and is desperately rooting for her to come out of it.

* TookALevelInJerkass

!! T'bor

* JerkAss

* WildCard

* RapunzelHair: Known for her long black hair and [[RavenHairIvorySkin very fair skin]].

* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: While he's at Benden Weyr in response to the theft of a queen egg, he sees something in the shadows of the Hatching Cavern [[spoiler:- which is a future version of himself, returning the rescued queen egg after traveling ''between'' times]]. He starts to run that way, then practically passes out from a sudden, unexplained wave of weakness. This is typical of dragonriders who get too close to time-traveling versions of themselves.

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet

* Hypocrite: preaches her cot to be a place of friendliness and a place where ranks do not matter. Meanwhile intentionally tries to damage a child's reputation and creates a snake nest of rank-obsessed girls.

* IllBoy: Jaxom was born prematurely by Caesarean section and is initially known for being small and sickly.

* HeManWomanHater: Feels it's a waste of time to teach girls because it wouldn't do him any good. Robinton mentions that his dislike of females is a running joke in the Harper Hall and tells Menolly not to take it personally.