History Characters / GriffinRanger

* RatedMForManly: He's one of the biggest badass griffins around and has no problem finding partners during the mating festival, a fact that he is happy to boast about - but the one he really wants is the only one bigger then he is, his ex-mate Vaniss.

* BloodKnight: He's pretty much the biggest example of this in the books until he eventually meets [[DarkChick Winter]], the Newland griffin.

* DarkChick: She's literally and metaphorically so, being Whitehead's primary griffin minion.

* DarkChick / TheBrute: A rare protagonist example. It doesn't show well in the picture, but Winter is ''big'' - not as big as Harrell or Aera, but she towers over the smaller falcon and forest griffins.

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* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Kwap has his way of dealing with the threat of future invasion by humans - keep the "monsters" captured from human!Earth to study and learn from, even the human BigBad. Harrell thinks they should all be killed immediately. Kwap wins.

* TookALevelInBadass: Holy ''shit''. Goes from being TheDandy and TheLoad to enduring and surviving the full horrors of our Earth. He loses a lot of his pretty plumage and gains some permanent scars and a GlassEye, but he's nearly a MemeticBadass by the end and gains the respect of the highest ranking rangers in the world.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Before the gate buildings are destroyed, Harrel drags him through to griffin!Earth and traps him there - to be used as the ''griffin's'' experimental subject, one of the few "Monsters" they get to study.

* BerserkButton: Threaten Voll and there is nothing and nobody that can keep her from trying to help, not even Vaniss herself. It ultimately proves futile as he's taken away and killed anyway.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: She and the Tropica griffins are based off Verreaux's Eagles.

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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: She brings the horror of the greenie-Newland griffin war home, in her description of what [[CruelAndUnusualDeath she]] [[EatenAlive did]] to a bunch of innocent civilians that just happened to move sheep onto her territory.

* TheBerserker: Once he realizes that Harrell and Kwap are not going to simply leave, he launches an all-out attack on Kwap to try and kill him. When Harrell responds in kind, Rekken's hanz ''also'' turns into the TheBerserker, trying to kill Kwap. Harrell kills them both.

* NotSoDifferent: Ultimately finds this out about himself when he's asked an ArmorPiercingQuestion by a greenie correspondent rescued from human!Earth:

* CrazyAwesome: Once she [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]] and starts working with Kwap, her insanity actually works to their advantage.

* EvilAlbino: He's leucistic, not a true albino; nontheless this trope is in full effect.

A very big White-Shouldered Griffin and veteran Ranger.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: As a Ranger, Harrell is of the shred first, ask questions never type when dealing with bad guys.
* KnightInSourArmor: As typical for many Roz Gibson protagonists, he very much believes in the Rangers and their mission, but MightMakesRight mostly rules his life, and he's constantly grumbling about anything he sees as unnecessary or new fangled.

* MyGreatestFailure: As an apprentice Ranger, he joins a small battle flock with his mentor to take down an adolescent Thunderbird that had gone AxCrazy and started [[ImAHumanitarian eating people]]. His mentor tries to talk it down. Cue MentorOccupationalHazard when the Thunderbird responds to his entreaties by launching a surprise attack. Despite Harrell's best efforts, his mentor dies, and he almost flees the battle. Ultimately, he takes down the Thunderbird - but only after it had killed or wounded all the rest of the battle flock. That makes him ''extremely'' uneasy when another Thunderbird comes calling for him personally...

* SociopathicHero: Fully justified in that Harrell is a giant bird of prey, but he thinks of killing as the first, last, and only solution to dealing with bad guys...extreme even for a griffin. Ultimately Defied: After he returns from his horrible sojourn to human!Earth, he loses his taste for killing and death...but also loses with it the ability to be a Ranger. He gives up his territory to his apprentice without even token resistance and resigns his commission.

* WhatTheHellHero: He has a very nasty tendency to shred potentially useful contacts, but the biggest one comes when he is forced to defend Kwap from a Ranger whose only crime was having his mate and chicks held hostage, then kills his ''hanz'' when he goes berzerk and tries to kill Kwap. That's a '''''huge''''' no-no for a griffin, and leads right to a HeroicBSOD.

* TheAtoner: Wants very much to make up for his years as TheMole for the greenies, so he joins the Ranger's investigation into the disappearances.

* TookALevelInBadass: Holy ''shit''. Goes from being TheDandy and TheLoad to enduring and surviving the full horrors of our Earth. He loses a lot of his pretty plumage and gains some permanent scars and a GlassEye, but he's nearly a MemeticBadass by the end and gains the respect of the highest ranking Rangers in the world.

* InformedAbility: She's supposed to be Whitehead's best griffin fighter, but she honed her talons on Rangers that either were crushed into submission by Whitehead, were much smaller than her or were very young; when she meets a ''real'' fighter, she's quite promptly stomped. Other Tropica Griffin [[EliteMook Elite Mooks]] of Whitehead's are actually much better fighters - and a much more lethal threat.
* InNameOnly: Like the rest of Whitehead's Tropica griffins, she's there to see new lands, make a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors passel of credits]] and kill whoever Whitehead wants her to kill. The "Ranger" title is there only because she successfully defends the territory from the Crossline Plains griffins, and because the Chief Ranger of the area, Rekken, is completely in thrall to Whitehead.

-->Winter:She's gone, Ranger! Tore her own throat with her talons one night! Idiot '''skazska''' bitch! Now we all have our talons cut!

* AwkwardHandshake: When (with Coro-er's help) she negotiates an alliance with the Texas Rangers, the human chief Ranger concludes the deal with a handshake with the giant griffin.

* NonPromotion: A positive example. She's promoted to field general for the War Flock as a sort of final exam to joining the flag officer corps of the Rangers in Defiance.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Kwap's message gets to her telling her to raise a very large War Flock and wipe Kaerling off the face of griffin!Earth, she vouches for him with the head Ranger and doesn't hesitate to start recruiting that army.

* IHaveYourWife: Whitehead gains control of him (and the other Rangers of Crossline Plains) by kidnapping his lifemate Kreet and both their new chicks. Unbeknownst to him, they've been sent to the human lab and are already as good as dead by the time Harrell confronts him.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Is this to the other Crossline Plains Rangers, who have no idea that he is in thrall to Whitehead.

-->'''Coro-er''':Griffin? '''''GRIFFIN?!'''''

* EatingTheEnemy: She's not as dedicated to this as Winter White-Tail but she's not above it either. Implied to have happened to one of the two greenie assassins she caught. (The other, upon witnessing this, "sang like a spring Bobolink."

* RaisedByWolves: She was raised by a greenie and herder mixed family, so she inherited greenie social habits and herder physical affection - and knows absolutely zip about proper griffin etiquette.
* TheBrute: She's not especially bright, but she's ''huge'' for a Golden-Nape, pushing into male White-Shoulder territory.

A non-predatory Dancer-Griffin, based off the Birds of Paradise. Chief Investigator for the griffin capital of Defiance.

* MyGreatestFailure: As an apprentice Ranger, he joins a small battle flock with his mentor to take down an adolescent Thunderbird that had gone AxCrazy and started [[ImAHumanitarian eating people]]. His mentor tries to talk it down. Cue MentorOccupationalHazard when the Thunderbird responds to his entreaties by launching a surprise attack. Despite Harrell's best efforts, his mentor dies in front of him. That makes him ''extremely'' uneasy when another Thunderbird comes calling for him personally...