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* Determinator: Katsa simply doesn't know how to give up once she's set her mind upon a task. Maybe it's her stubbornness, maybe it's her supernatural amounts of stamina, but nothing will stop her once she's decided to do something.
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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: Katsa simply doesn't know how to give up once she's set her mind upon a task. Maybe it's her stubbornness, maybe it's her supernatural amounts of stamina, but nothing will stop her once she's decided to do something.
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* Tomboy: To the point the book opens with her in disguise as a man.
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* Tomboy: {{Tomboy}}: To the point the book opens with her in disguise as a man.
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* Tsundere: She initially dislikes Po, before coming around to him, and then hating him because she realizes she likes him, and so on.
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* Tsundere: {{Tsundere}}: She initially dislikes Po, before coming around to him, and then hating him because she realizes she likes him, and so on.
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* Telepathy: [[spoiler: His true grace is the ability to read other's thoughts in relation to him, as well as sense the location and position of objects and people in a physical sense around him.]]
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* Telepathy: {{Telepathy}}: [[spoiler: His true grace is the ability to read other's thoughts in relation to him, as well as sense the location and position of objects and people in a physical sense around him.]]
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: She first learned of her grace by accidentally killing her cousin, and has personally seen exactly what she can do while working as Randa's punisher. She is constantly worried about what would happen if she ever lost control again.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: She first learned of her grace by accidentally killing her cousin, and has personally seen exactly what she can do while working as Randa's punisher. enforcer. She is constantly worried about what would happen if she ever lost control again.again.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Towards Po, when she insists she leave him so that she and Bitterblue will survive.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Towards Po, when she insists she leave him so that she and Bitterblue will survive.
* BattleCouple: With Po.
* BoyishShortHair: Katsa eventually cuts her hair short once she doesn't have to attend court anymore.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her parents are dead, she was essentially neglected as a child due to her accidental cousin murder, and she then went on to work as a killer for her uncle.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's generally aloof and tends to keep her emotions to herself, and this combined with her reputation as a killer means she has a lot of things to unpack as she learns to move on.
* DentedIron: Her encounter with the mountain lion left her with some serious injuries that left heavy scarring.
* Determinator: Katsa simply doesn't know how to give up once she's set her mind upon a task. Maybe it's her stubbornness, maybe it's her supernatural amounts of stamina, but nothing will stop her once she's decided to do something.
* HairTriggerTemper: Katsa is well aware of her considerable temper. [[spoiler: It's also this temper that leads to Leck's eventual murder.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Despite being the founder of the Council, she refuses to take credit for any of her good deeds and still thinks of herself as an unruly monster.
* HiddenDepths: Bitterblue remarks she's much kinder than she lets on.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her parents are dead, she was essentially neglected as a child due to her accidental cousin murder, and she then went on to work as a killer for her uncle.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's generally aloof and tends to keep her emotions to herself, and this combined with her reputation as a killer means she has a lot of things to unpack as she learns to move on.
* DentedIron: Her encounter with the mountain lion left her with some serious injuries that left heavy scarring.
* Determinator: Katsa simply doesn't know how to give up once she's set her mind upon a task. Maybe it's her stubbornness, maybe it's her supernatural amounts of stamina, but nothing will stop her once she's decided to do something.
* HairTriggerTemper: Katsa is well aware of her considerable temper. [[spoiler: It's also this temper that leads to Leck's eventual murder.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Despite being the founder of the Council, she refuses to take credit for any of her good deeds and still thinks of herself as an unruly monster.
* HiddenDepths: Bitterblue remarks she's much kinder than she lets on.
* IAmNotPretty: She hates her eyes and believes herself to be unattractive, despite the fact several people compliment her for her looks and she has two men falling for her without even trying.
* LoveInterests: With Po.
* MadeOfIron: Her sense of pain seems to be dulled, and she has extraordinarily high endurance, allowing her to recover far more easily from injuries and fights.
* LoveInterests: With Po.
* MadeOfIron: Her sense of pain seems to be dulled, and she has extraordinarily high endurance, allowing her to recover far more easily from injuries and fights.
* ModestRoyalty: She's doesn't care for expensive outfits, and prefers practical wear.
* NoSocialSkills: Katsa's patience for difficult conversations is generally measured by how long it takes for her to leave, refuse to speak, or throw a punch.
* OfficialCouple: With Po.
* OfficialCouple: With Po.
* RebelliousPrincess: While not a cut and dry princess by definition, she is of royal blood and is a ward of the king for most of her life, and eventually rebels against him.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Katsa is the founder of the Council, and she and Po eventually bring about the liberation of a whole kingdom.
* SelfSurgery: She had to administer to her own wounds after the mountain lion attack.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: While Po can hold his own in a fight, Katsa generally takes the role of muscle while he whips up the plan or sleuths out the answer.
* SelfSurgery: She had to administer to her own wounds after the mountain lion attack.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: While Po can hold his own in a fight, Katsa generally takes the role of muscle while he whips up the plan or sleuths out the answer.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Zigzagged. In Randa's service, she has killed people and feels guilty about it. However, on her own missions for the Council, she is vehemently against taking any lifes, going out of her way to only knock people out, even if her companions advice her to just kill her enemies to be safe.
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* SweetPollyOliver: She begins the book disguised as a man, and disguises herself and Bitterblue as boys again later.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Zigzagged. In Randa's service, she has killed people and feels guilty about it. However, on her own missions for the Council, she is vehemently against taking anylifes, lives, going out of her way to only knock people out, even if her companions advice her to just kill her enemies to be safe.safe.
* Tomboy: To the point the book opens with her in disguise as a man.
* TrainingMontage: With Po.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Zigzagged. In Randa's service, she has killed people and feels guilty about it. However, on her own missions for the Council, she is vehemently against taking any
* Tomboy: To the point the book opens with her in disguise as a man.
* TrainingMontage: With Po.
* Tsundere: She initially dislikes Po, before coming around to him, and then hating him because she realizes she likes him, and so on.
* UnkemptBeauty: She doesn't brush her hair or bathe frequently, but is nevertheless complimented on several times for her looks.
* UnknowinglyInLove: Katsa isn't the best at analyzing her own emotions, and Po seems to know she likes him before she does.
* UnkemptBeauty: She doesn't brush her hair or bathe frequently, but is nevertheless complimented on several times for her looks.
* UnknowinglyInLove: Katsa isn't the best at analyzing her own emotions, and Po seems to know she likes him before she does.
* ActionGirlfriend: Katsa definitely qualifies.
* AmazonChaser: He seems to admire Katsa's ability to absolutely thrash him.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Lienid are said to have darker skin than those people on the mainland.
* BattleCouple: With Katsa.
* AmazonChaser: He seems to admire Katsa's ability to absolutely thrash him.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Lienid are said to have darker skin than those people on the mainland.
* BattleCouple: With Katsa.
* TheCharmer: He's charismatic, always knows exactly what you want to hear, and has several scenes simply dedicated to describing his physique, good looks, and rakish smile.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler: After he is injured, Katsa has to leave him alone in the woods to possibly be captured or killed in order to save Bitterblue's life.]]
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewerly: A male example. He has many, many rings on his fingers, as is traditional for the Lienid.
* TheFace: Between him and Katsa, he does the talking and social interaction with others most of the time.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewerly: A male example. He has many, many rings on his fingers, as is traditional for the Lienid.
* TheFace: Between him and Katsa, he does the talking and social interaction with others most of the time.
* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: Po loses his sight, but after a brief training arc under Katsa's tutelage, he's as good of a fighter as he was before.]]
* IntimateOpenShirt: How he prefers to wear his shirt.
* LoveInterests: With Katsa.
* LoveInterests: With Katsa.
* MrFanservice: He's definitely attractive according to Katsa, and several scenes are dedicated to describing his appearance in great detail.
* OfficialCouple: With Katsa.
* OfficialCouple: With Katsa.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: His intuition and search for his grandfather leads him and Katsa on the path to bring about the liberation of a whole kingdom.
* SenseLossSadness: [[spoiler: He mourns that he's lost the beauty in things after he loses his vision. Also, he can't read.]]
* ShirtlessScene: When he first shows his tattoos to Katsa.
* TheSocialExpert: He's excellent at reading people and manipulating situations to his favor socially no matter where he goes, a trait he picked up from spending lots of time around his father's court.
* SenseLossSadness: [[spoiler: He mourns that he's lost the beauty in things after he loses his vision. Also, he can't read.]]
* ShirtlessScene: When he first shows his tattoos to Katsa.
* TheSocialExpert: He's excellent at reading people and manipulating situations to his favor socially no matter where he goes, a trait he picked up from spending lots of time around his father's court.
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* StrongGirlSmartGuy: While Po can hold his own in a fight, Katsa generally takes the role of muscle while he whips up the plan or sleuths out the answer.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Almost word for word how he is described.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Almost word for word how he is described.
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* TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest: [[spoiler: Po loses his sense of sight, and grappling with this causes a rocky patch in he and Katsa's relationship.]]
* TrainingMontage: With Katsa and his brother.
* TranquilFury: He stays calm under literal arrow fire, even when he's as angry as we ever see him, is being chased down by soldiers, and can't even trust Katsa to help.
* WarriorPrince: He may be one of the youngest sons, but he's still no slouch in hand to hand combat by any means.
* TrainingMontage: With Katsa and his brother.
* TranquilFury: He stays calm under literal arrow fire, even when he's as angry as we ever see him, is being chased down by soldiers, and can't even trust Katsa to help.
* WarriorPrince: He may be one of the youngest sons, but he's still no slouch in hand to hand combat by any means.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her mother was Lienid.
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* Won'tDoYourDirtyWork: Katsa's reasons for leaving Randa.
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* Won'tDoYourDirtyWork: WontDoYourDirtyWork: Katsa's reasons for leaving Randa.
* ManipulativeBastard: Not as much as Leck, but still notably an antagonist who bullies and manipulates Katsa and the members of his court into following his orders.
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* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: She first learned of her grace by accidentally killing her cousin, and has personally seen exactly what she can do while working as Randa's punisher. She is constantly worried about what would happen if she ever lost control again.
* BadassAndChildDuo: With Bitterblue.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Despite her profession as a hired killer, she despises what she does and tries her best to make up for her actions with the Council.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: [[spoiler: When Katsa realizes Po's true grace, she tests its limits to see if she can speak to him in her head and accidentally ends up jumpscaring the poor man.]]
* PowerIncontinence: She first learned of her grace by accidentally killing her cousin by hitting him too hard. She has to keep herself in check constantly to avoid injuring people more than necessary.
* PsychicStatic: [[spoiler: Her eventual method for keeping things private from Po after she realizes his true grace.]]
* TheExecutioner: What she essentially was under Randa.
* PowerIncontinence: She first learned of her grace by accidentally killing her cousin by hitting him too hard. She has to keep herself in check constantly to avoid injuring people more than necessary.
* PsychicStatic: [[spoiler: Her eventual method for keeping things private from Po after she realizes his true grace.]]
* TheExecutioner: What she essentially was under Randa.
* ResignInProtest: Eventually, she realizes she has had enough of Randa.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Though Katsa's grace affords her many natural advantages, she still spent years of hard training and effort in order to achieve her current level of combat prowess.
* Won'tDoYourDirtyWork: Katsa's reasons for leaving Randa.
* Won'tDoYourDirtyWork: Katsa's reasons for leaving Randa.
* BewareTheMindReader: [[spoiler: Graces to do with mind reading are distrusted and outcast by people all over the seven kingdoms. When Po's mother discovered his true grace, she forbid him to tell anyone it's true nature else he suffer the same discrimination.]]
* DirtyMindReading: [[spoiler: Katsa does her best to cloak her thoughts, but its clear early on that Po always knows when she's in a certain mood, sometimes even before she does.]]
* ForgotAboutTheMindReader: [[spoiler: He can hear the thoughts of other's only when they're directed at him specifically. This includes when they dislike him or insult him inside their heads, as with Gideon, and this eventually ends up being the method by which Katsa figures out Po's true grace.]]
* ImmuneToMindControl: [[spoiler: Leck's grace does not affect him, as he can simply read Leck's mind.]]
* ImmuneToMindControl: [[spoiler: Leck's grace does not affect him, as he can simply read Leck's mind.]]
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: [[spoiler: Po seems to have seen things in Leck, Ashen, and Bitterblue's minds that made him very, very angry.]]
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: He cannot turn his grace on or off; it is always active, whether or not he wishes it to be. This becomes a problem after he loses his vision and suffers from a proverbial sensory overload as a result of his grace's development.]]
* PsychicGlimpseOfDeath: [[spoiler: When Ashen died, Po knew she thought of him and Bitterblue as he felt her final moments.]]
* PsychicRadar: [[spoiler: His grace allows him to sense the presence of people, animals, and later the general physical environment in relation to him.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: He has one gold eye.
* TechnicolorEyes: His eyes are silver and gold, both unnatural eye colors.
* Telepathy: [[spoiler: His true grace is the ability to read other's thoughts in relation to him, as well as sense the location and position of objects and people in a physical sense around him.]]
* PsychicGlimpseOfDeath: [[spoiler: When Ashen died, Po knew she thought of him and Bitterblue as he felt her final moments.]]
* PsychicRadar: [[spoiler: His grace allows him to sense the presence of people, animals, and later the general physical environment in relation to him.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: He has one gold eye.
* TechnicolorEyes: His eyes are silver and gold, both unnatural eye colors.
* Telepathy: [[spoiler: His true grace is the ability to read other's thoughts in relation to him, as well as sense the location and position of objects and people in a physical sense around him.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard: A classic variant. Leck is supernaturally persuasive, arrogant, cruel, and surrounded himself with layer upon layer of plots and plans.
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* MindControl: The true nature of his grace.
* MindVirus: The insidious nature of how his grace spreads and embeds itself.
* MindVirus: The insidious nature of how his grace spreads and embeds itself.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has one red eye.
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* RealWomenDontWearDresses: She hates most feminine and ladylike things. It's {{Justified}} as Randa used these to control her.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: The one and only line of depravity he is shown not to cross is that of incest, even though Fire's monster abilities effect him just the same as any man. His reaction to having a stirring for her is to quickly warn her not to touch any man thoughtlessly, including him, and spends the rest of that night standing outside Fire's window promising her that he'd never succumb to her powers.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Apart from his avid medical studies, prince Raffin is also a main supporter of the Council.
* {{Telepathy}}: One of her powers is reading thoughts and speaking in other people's heads.
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[[folder: Brigan]]
The main male lead of ''Fire'', Brigan is the younger brother of king Nash and the leader of the Dell's military.
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* AFatherToHisMen: He treats and pays his soldiers very well and they are fiercely loyal to him.
* HeroicBastard: His parents are queen Roen and military commander Brocker, not king Nax, and he tries his best to keep the country together and is AFatherToHisMen.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: he is a prince (making his offical name Brigandell) and the country's main military commander.
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The main male lead of ''Fire'', Brigan is the younger brother of king Nash and the leader of the Dell's military.
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* AFatherToHisMen: He treats and pays his soldiers very well and they are fiercely loyal to him.
* HeroicBastard: His parents are queen Roen and military commander Brocker, not king Nax, and he tries his best to keep the country together and is AFatherToHisMen.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: he is a prince (making his offical name Brigandell) and the country's main military commander.
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* ProtagonistTitle: ''Fire'' is named after her.
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* CleanDubName: in the german version of the books, he is called Bo, as Po as a common word for butt.
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* IncestIsRelative: Had Ashen locked in her room because Ashen refused to let him rape his daughter Bitterblue.
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* PosthumousCharacter: In ''Bitterblue''.
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* ParentalIncest: Had Ashen locked in her room because Ashen refused to let him rape his daughter Bitterblue.
%%* PosthumousCharacter: In ''Bitterblue''.
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* LockedIntoStrangeness: Because a headache remedy he experimented with turns fair hair blue.
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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Fire's name comes form her hair color. Having odd hair colors is a trait of monsters in general.
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[[folder: Katsa]]
The protagonist of ''Graceling''. She is a relative of King Randa of the Midluns who is Graced with killing. Because of this, the king uses her as his most elite enforcer. Katsa herself hates this and how Randa makes her do it, and in her free time has organized a resistance against the tyranny of kings and performs missions for them.
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* ActionGirl: Due to her Grace, she alone is the equal of a squad of fully-grown men.
* BadassBoast: When leaving Randa, she details how she could kill every one of his guards and then him.
* BlessedWithSuck: Her grace is powerful and dangerous, and it also meant that Randa used her as his personal thug for most of her life.
* MismatchedEyes: Having these is the sign of a Graceling. Katsa's are green and blue.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She doesn't believe this usually, but she does [[spoiler: kill Leck because he was about to reveal Po's real Grace. She shut him up via a dagger to the mouth]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed. [[spoiler: She isn't unhappy that she killed Leck, but she is freaked out that she killed him ''just to stop him from talking''.]]
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: She hates most feminine and ladylike things. It's {{Justified}} as Randa used these to control her.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's a winner. [[spoiler: Her real grace, Survival, means that she can go days without rest, food, or water, can survive extreme temperatures, and is an incredible hunter and fighter]].
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[[folder: Po]]
The male lead of ''Graceling''. He's the youngest prince of the island nation of Lienid, and Graced with fighting skills. He quickly befriends Katsa and accompanies her on her journey. His real name is Prince Greening Grandemalion, but he prefers 'Po' for obvious reasons.
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* CombatClairvoyance: [[spoiler: The ''real'' reason he's so good at fighting- his Mind-reading Grace allows him to sense moves before they come.]]
* DisabilitySuperpower: [[spoiler: His Grace turns into this by the end of ''Graceling''. He's blind, but can sense everything around him with perfect clarity.]]
* MismatchedEyes: His are silver and gold.
* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one immune to [[spoiler: Leck's Grace]], leading to him noticing some very obvious logic loopholes that slip by every other character.
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[[folder: Raffin]]
Prince of the Midluns and Katsa's ChildhoodFriend.
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* NiceGuy: Very much a contrast to Randa.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Tests some of his medicines on himself, which is why he gets blue hair.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Because a headache remedy he experimented with turns fair hair blue.
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[[folder: Randa]]
King of the Midluns. Randa's lands are in a very precarious position between three often-warring kingdoms, and balancing that situation has given Randa both shrewd political sense and a very ruthless pragmatism and opportunism.
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* AbusiveParents: He's not Katsa's real parent, but he raised her to be his thug. He's very good at manipulating her into thinking that she deserves to be this.
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[[folder: Leck (WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS!)]]
The king of Monsea. He is a major character in ''Graceling'', a minor character in ''Fire'', and while he does not personally appear in ''Bitterblue'', his actions before and during ''Graceling'' cast a very large shadow.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: As seen in Fire, as a small child, he tortured animals to death. Later he moves on to humans...
* BigBad: Of ''Graceling''.
* ConsummateLiar: His Grace, to the point of being a CompellingVoice. Everyone who hears his lies will automatically believe them over all logic and evidence.
** The real kicker is it's ''contagious;'' his words are almost as convincing in someone else's mouth as they are in his own, though the effect lessens the further it spreads from the source.
* DeathByIrony: The narration points out that in the end, what got Leck killed was almost telling a truth.
* EyepatchOfPower: He wears one during ''Graceling''; ''Fire'' shows how he got it. It does a great job of covering up that he's a Graceling.
* EyeScream: How he came by his EyepatchOfPower.
* TheGoodKing: A fair ruler who's kind to women and animals. Well, at least that's what he makes everyone think.
* IncestIsRelative: Had Ashen locked in her room because Ashen refused to let him rape his daughter Bitterblue.
* KickTheDog: A ''lot'' during his reign.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: The screaming of women as he forced his advisors to rape them was something he enjoyed a lot.
* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: Very fond of this.
* MismatchedEyes: They're red and gray.
* PosthumousCharacter: In ''Bitterblue''.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Used to its fullest and most horrifying extent.
* {{Sadist}}: Absolutely loves harming others.
* SuperpowerLottery: He's absolutely the ''wrong'' person to win it as much as he did.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's nigh-impossible to list any tropes at all for him without giving away a major twist in ''Graceling'', and basically all of ''Bitterblue'' is about dealing with the fallout of TheReveal.
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[[folder: Ashen]]
Leck's wife, a member of Lienid's royal family. She doesn't appear much in the book, but has quite a role offscreen.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler: She resists Leck's control for Bitterblue, and is eventually killed while she and Bitterblue are escaping from Leck.]]
* MamaBear: Towards Bitterblue.
* ThePowerOfLove: She [[spoiler: resisted Leck]] because she knew that if she didn't, he'd hurt Bitterblue.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She appears very little, but it's her actions that put the plot in motion.
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[[folder: Bitterblue]]
The princess of Monsea, who has become queen by the time of ''Bitterblue''.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: Becomes Queen at the age of ten.
* {{Determinator}}: Is she ever. A ten-year-old girl with no survival skills, thrown into a living nightmare, who keeps herself together and refuses to falter until her kingdom is safe again.
* HeroicWillpower: Not even Leck can command her.
* ProtagonistTitle: ''Bitterblue'' is named after her.
* [[KingIncognito Queen Incognito]]: Several times during ''Bitterblue''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's trying to be this during ''Bitterblue''.
* WiseBeyondHerYears: Very mature, even as a child.
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[[folder: Fire]]
The last human monster in the Dells. The second-to-last was her father Cansrel, who screwed up the Dells quite a lot before his death. Fire's still dealing with the mess he left behind.
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* AttemptedRape: Her monster beauty means she's at constant risk of this.
* BlessedWithSuck: Being a monster gives her magical powers and extreme beauty, but it also attracts hatred and monster animals want to eat her.
* CharmPerson: As a monster, Fire has power over the minds of others, even beyond her physical attractiveness.
* LastOfTheirKind: Fire is the last known human monster to exist. [[spoiler:At the start of ''Fire'', she's able to have children, but partway through the book, she intentionally sterilizes herself so there'll never be any more Cansrels.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: One of her mind powers.
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Averted. Fire (unlike Katsa) is feminine, likes dresses, and wants children. Unfortunately, she can't have them because human monsters shouldn't exist.
* SelfMadeOrphan: She killed Cansrel because of what he was doing to the Dells.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her monster beauty means she's the constant target of rape attempts (by those who don't hate her), she has to be guarded 24/7 (especially since monster animals hunger for her blood), and she's never going to get as much sympathy as she needs because even when she's at her lowest, she still ''looks'' fine.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Fire's name comes form her hair color. Having odd hair colors is a trait of monsters in general.
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[[folder: Cansrel]]
Fire's father, and a monster in both senses of the word. He was a royal advisor, and his influence is the reason the Dells are so screwed up. He is dead as of the book's present, killed by one of the monster animals he kept at his castle.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: He kept large predator monsters caged in his castle just so he could taunt them with his blood. This backfired on him when Fire opened one of the cages, resulting in the monster leopard inside killing him.
* CharmPerson: Much like Leck, he's the ''worst'' person to have such a power. While Fire is restrained with her use of the power, Cansrel ''wasn't'', and he used it liberally to bend everyone he met to his will and to indulge his vices.
* PoisonousFriend: He was the best friend and advisor of the Dells' former king, and used his monster CharmPerson powers to get the king to indulge in horrible depravity with him and neglect the Dells.
* PosthumousCharacter: He died prior to the book's beginning, and most of the plot is about fixing the mess he turned the Dells into.
* PowerPerversionPotential: He used his position and mind-altering powers to get access to women [[WouldHurtAChild and children]] to rape.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He had no qualms about using his power to get sex.
* WouldHurtAChild: He would occasionally rape children when adult women got too monotonous for him.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Silver-blue, in his case.
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[[folder: Katsa]]
The protagonist of ''Graceling''. She is a relative of King Randa of the Midluns who is Graced with killing. Because of this, the king uses her as his most elite enforcer. Katsa herself hates this and how Randa makes her do it, and in her free time has organized a resistance against the tyranny of kings and performs missions for them.
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* ActionGirl: Due to her Grace, she alone is the equal of a squad of fully-grown men.
* BadassBoast: When leaving Randa, she details how she could kill every one of his guards and then him.
* BlessedWithSuck: Her grace is powerful and dangerous, and it also meant that Randa used her as his personal thug for most of her life.
* MismatchedEyes: Having these is the sign of a Graceling. Katsa's are green and blue.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She doesn't believe this usually, but she does [[spoiler: kill Leck because he was about to reveal Po's real Grace. She shut him up via a dagger to the mouth]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed. [[spoiler: She isn't unhappy that she killed Leck, but she is freaked out that she killed him ''just to stop him from talking''.]]
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: She hates most feminine and ladylike things. It's {{Justified}} as Randa used these to control her.
* SuperpowerLottery: She's a winner. [[spoiler: Her real grace, Survival, means that she can go days without rest, food, or water, can survive extreme temperatures, and is an incredible hunter and fighter]].
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[[folder: Po]]
The male lead of ''Graceling''. He's the youngest prince of the island nation of Lienid, and Graced with fighting skills. He quickly befriends Katsa and accompanies her on her journey. His real name is Prince Greening Grandemalion, but he prefers 'Po' for obvious reasons.
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* CombatClairvoyance: [[spoiler: The ''real'' reason he's so good at fighting- his Mind-reading Grace allows him to sense moves before they come.]]
* DisabilitySuperpower: [[spoiler: His Grace turns into this by the end of ''Graceling''. He's blind, but can sense everything around him with perfect clarity.]]
* MismatchedEyes: His are silver and gold.
* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one immune to [[spoiler: Leck's Grace]], leading to him noticing some very obvious logic loopholes that slip by every other character.
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[[folder: Raffin]]
Prince of the Midluns and Katsa's ChildhoodFriend.
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* NiceGuy: Very much a contrast to Randa.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Tests some of his medicines on himself, which is why he gets blue hair.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Because a headache remedy he experimented with turns fair hair blue.
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[[folder: Randa]]
King of the Midluns. Randa's lands are in a very precarious position between three often-warring kingdoms, and balancing that situation has given Randa both shrewd political sense and a very ruthless pragmatism and opportunism.
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* AbusiveParents: He's not Katsa's real parent, but he raised her to be his thug. He's very good at manipulating her into thinking that she deserves to be this.
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[[folder: Leck (WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS!)]]
The king of Monsea. He is a major character in ''Graceling'', a minor character in ''Fire'', and while he does not personally appear in ''Bitterblue'', his actions before and during ''Graceling'' cast a very large shadow.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: As seen in Fire, as a small child, he tortured animals to death. Later he moves on to humans...
* BigBad: Of ''Graceling''.
* ConsummateLiar: His Grace, to the point of being a CompellingVoice. Everyone who hears his lies will automatically believe them over all logic and evidence.
** The real kicker is it's ''contagious;'' his words are almost as convincing in someone else's mouth as they are in his own, though the effect lessens the further it spreads from the source.
* DeathByIrony: The narration points out that in the end, what got Leck killed was almost telling a truth.
* EyepatchOfPower: He wears one during ''Graceling''; ''Fire'' shows how he got it. It does a great job of covering up that he's a Graceling.
* EyeScream: How he came by his EyepatchOfPower.
* TheGoodKing: A fair ruler who's kind to women and animals. Well, at least that's what he makes everyone think.
* IncestIsRelative: Had Ashen locked in her room because Ashen refused to let him rape his daughter Bitterblue.
* KickTheDog: A ''lot'' during his reign.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: The screaming of women as he forced his advisors to rape them was something he enjoyed a lot.
* MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: Very fond of this.
* MismatchedEyes: They're red and gray.
* PosthumousCharacter: In ''Bitterblue''.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Used to its fullest and most horrifying extent.
* {{Sadist}}: Absolutely loves harming others.
* SuperpowerLottery: He's absolutely the ''wrong'' person to win it as much as he did.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's nigh-impossible to list any tropes at all for him without giving away a major twist in ''Graceling'', and basically all of ''Bitterblue'' is about dealing with the fallout of TheReveal.
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[[folder: Ashen]]
Leck's wife, a member of Lienid's royal family. She doesn't appear much in the book, but has quite a role offscreen.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler: She resists Leck's control for Bitterblue, and is eventually killed while she and Bitterblue are escaping from Leck.]]
* MamaBear: Towards Bitterblue.
* ThePowerOfLove: She [[spoiler: resisted Leck]] because she knew that if she didn't, he'd hurt Bitterblue.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She appears very little, but it's her actions that put the plot in motion.
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[[folder: Bitterblue]]
The princess of Monsea, who has become queen by the time of ''Bitterblue''.
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* AChildShallLeadThem: Becomes Queen at the age of ten.
* {{Determinator}}: Is she ever. A ten-year-old girl with no survival skills, thrown into a living nightmare, who keeps herself together and refuses to falter until her kingdom is safe again.
* HeroicWillpower: Not even Leck can command her.
* ProtagonistTitle: ''Bitterblue'' is named after her.
* [[KingIncognito Queen Incognito]]: Several times during ''Bitterblue''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's trying to be this during ''Bitterblue''.
* WiseBeyondHerYears: Very mature, even as a child.
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[[folder: Fire]]
The last human monster in the Dells. The second-to-last was her father Cansrel, who screwed up the Dells quite a lot before his death. Fire's still dealing with the mess he left behind.
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* AttemptedRape: Her monster beauty means she's at constant risk of this.
* BlessedWithSuck: Being a monster gives her magical powers and extreme beauty, but it also attracts hatred and monster animals want to eat her.
* CharmPerson: As a monster, Fire has power over the minds of others, even beyond her physical attractiveness.
* LastOfTheirKind: Fire is the last known human monster to exist. [[spoiler:At the start of ''Fire'', she's able to have children, but partway through the book, she intentionally sterilizes herself so there'll never be any more Cansrels.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: One of her mind powers.
* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Averted. Fire (unlike Katsa) is feminine, likes dresses, and wants children. Unfortunately, she can't have them because human monsters shouldn't exist.
* SelfMadeOrphan: She killed Cansrel because of what he was doing to the Dells.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her monster beauty means she's the constant target of rape attempts (by those who don't hate her), she has to be guarded 24/7 (especially since monster animals hunger for her blood), and she's never going to get as much sympathy as she needs because even when she's at her lowest, she still ''looks'' fine.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Fire's name comes form her hair color. Having odd hair colors is a trait of monsters in general.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Cansrel]]
Fire's father, and a monster in both senses of the word. He was a royal advisor, and his influence is the reason the Dells are so screwed up. He is dead as of the book's present, killed by one of the monster animals he kept at his castle.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: He kept large predator monsters caged in his castle just so he could taunt them with his blood. This backfired on him when Fire opened one of the cages, resulting in the monster leopard inside killing him.
* CharmPerson: Much like Leck, he's the ''worst'' person to have such a power. While Fire is restrained with her use of the power, Cansrel ''wasn't'', and he used it liberally to bend everyone he met to his will and to indulge his vices.
* PoisonousFriend: He was the best friend and advisor of the Dells' former king, and used his monster CharmPerson powers to get the king to indulge in horrible depravity with him and neglect the Dells.
* PosthumousCharacter: He died prior to the book's beginning, and most of the plot is about fixing the mess he turned the Dells into.
* PowerPerversionPotential: He used his position and mind-altering powers to get access to women [[WouldHurtAChild and children]] to rape.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He had no qualms about using his power to get sex.
* WouldHurtAChild: He would occasionally rape children when adult women got too monotonous for him.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Silver-blue, in his case.
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