History Characters / HereticalEdgeTheAtherbyClan

* FaceOfTheBand: At some point, Gabriel Prosser became the "face" of the Atherby clan. He ended up leading what's left of it after Joshua's death.

* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Always Save the Children]]: Joselyn always prioritizes her children above her cause and her own safety. She did it when Ruthers kidnapped Zedekiah/Wyatt and Koren/Abigail in 1964, and she did it again when Fossor was about to kidnap Felicity in 2007.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: She was the last living Atherby for most of her life until her twins were born.

* [[GiveHimANormalLife Give Her A Normal Life]]: [[spoiler: Gabriel found Joselyn while she was pregnant with Felicity. He could have restored her memories then and there, but instead left her to enjoy a happy life with her new family before dragging her back into the thick of things.]]

It was originally a family of "wild" Natural Heretics founded and descended from the remnants of the [[Myth/KingArthur Knights of the Round Table]]. The family itself was eventually reduced to near-extinction with a single (infant) blood relative at the beginning of the 20th century: Joselyn Atherby, Flick's absent mother.

* {{Diary}}: He started a journal on May 3rd, 1362. The last entry was dated October 10th, 1891.

She disappeared in 2007 when [[TheNecromancer Fossor]] tracked her down and abducted her, and has been his prisoner ever since. She gave birth to Ammon in this time.

A HistoricalDomainCharacter who planned a SlaveRevolt in Virginia, but was stopped and arrested before it could begin in 1800. In RealLife, he was hanged soon after. In ''Heretical Edge'', his execution was interrupted when a Hangman Demon attacked. In the ensuing struggle, it bled on one of Gabriel's wounds and made him into a Heretic. Because he got the upgrade directly from a Hangman rather than from the Heretical Edge, he is naturally more powerful than Heretics from Crossroads or Eden's Garden. [[spoiler: He is part of the mysterious group that supported Joselyn Atherby's revolution against both organizations, and is the current leader of the remnants of the Atherby Clan. Flick's maternal grandfather Joshua Atherby was a close friend of his.]]

[[folder: Scott Utell]]
A Pooka member of the Clan who was sent by Gabriel Prosser to watch over Joselyn and her family after he found when she was banished. He remained in Wyoming to keep an eye on Flick and Lincoln after Joselyn was abducted by Fossor.

* BoomHeadshot: Fossor has Ammon control Scott to shoot himself in the head in front of Flick.
* TheGadfly: A low-key example. He liked to mess with Flick by making up imaginary words when playing scrabble in her childhood. He also went through an entire conversation dancing around the subject of Crossroads and her new status as a Heretic while letting her think he's a Bystander.
* TheMole: He was inserted into life at Laramie Falls to watch over Joselyn's new family.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Flick learns he's a Pooka when she sees his new body after his death.
* TheReveal: He was planning to come clean to Flick about who and what he is on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, Fossor and Ammon took the matter out of his hands.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: One of his forms is a racoon. He actually directed Joselyn to the stuffed racoon that would become Flick's childhood toy Taddy when she learned she was pregnant.

[[folder: Busy]]

A Kitsune that serves as a mechanic and inventor of the. His name is actually Biseon.

* GadgeteerGenius: Very good with tech, he's even built himself new fingers after trapped Heretic technology made him lose a few.
* MotorMouth: He's hard to stop once he gets started.

[[folder: Oscar]]

An Ogre that's been nicknamed after [[Series/SesameStreet The Grouch]].

* TheUnpronounceable: His real name, apparently. It's why he let all the kids nickname him Oscar.

[[folder: Calice]]

A Relukun.

* PlantPerson: As a Relukun, she's made of wood.

The Atherby family was an independent group of "wild" Heretics that predated the Heretical Edge by several centuries, and remained unaffiliated with Crossroads or Eden's Garden until the twentieth century when their then last living member, Joselyn Atherby, was accepted into Crossroads Academy.

They are the descendants of the remnants of the Knights of the Round Table after King Arthur's death. They were originally the "By-Arthur" clan, but the name gradually changed to Atherby over the centuries.

!!!The Atherby Clan

The mother of Wyatt Rendell, Abigail Fellows, Felicity Chambers, Ammon, and the grandmother of Koren Fellows. Joselyn Atherby was a Heretic who graduated from Crossroads Academy in 1922. Disgusted by the way Crossroads Heretics refuse to recognize that Strangers are ''not'' AlwaysChaoticEvil, she began rebelling against them almost immediately after graduating (Officially. It technically it started before that). Over the next few decades the rebellion grew into a full blown revolution as Joselyn brought Heretics from both major factions as well as Alters like Asenath and Twister to her cause.

In 1964, Counselor Ruthers had Joselyn and Deveron Adams' infant twins (then named Zedekiah and Koren Atherby) kidnapped in order to force her surrender. It worked, but at that point the revolution had picked up enough momentum that it didn't need her anymore. She remained imprisoned until the late 1990s when the Crossroads Heretics (with help from Eden's Garden) cast a worldwide spell that erased her from the memories and general knowledge of everyone not protected or exempted from the magic, effectively ending the revolution. Then they wiped ''her'' memories and [[DePower De-Powered]] her before setting her up with a fake life in Wyoming. There she eventually met an investigative journalist from Los Angeles named Lincoln Chambers. They were married with a daughter, Felicity, a year later.

Unfortunately, [[TheNecromancer Fossor]] had somehow protected himself from the spell and managed to track Joselyn down in 2007. He was planning to kidnap little Felicity and raise her to be his {{Tykebomb}} servant, but first he thought it would be fun to restore Joselyn's memories so she would recognize him and realize what he was about to do. While confused and disoriented, Joselyn managed to convince him to [[TakeMeInstead Take Her Instead]] by promising to swear to serve him in exchange for the safety of her [[ExactWords child]]. He turned her back into a Heretic by giving her an apple from Eden's Garden soon after.

She gave birth to [[ChildByRape Ammon]] a year later.

* BeingGoodSucks: Joselyn is the most heroic Heretic in the story. All she wanted was to stop Crossroads from killing Strangers indiscriminately, to leave the innocent and peaceful Alters alone so they could focus on the Nocen that are actually evil. As a result, her life since the sixties (with the blissful exception of the time she spent with Lincoln and Felicity) has ''[[TraumaCongaLine sucked]]''.

** Joselyn being unable to imagine an experience worse than a parent being separated from their child without knowing what might be happening to them in 1950.

* CosmicPlaything: Has spent over 50 years being held prisoner, virtually helpless, shuffled around, and unable to raise her children.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The BatmanGambit she ran on Ammon to reveal her method of breaking into Crossroads worked as she hoped it would. But it also exposed Koren's immunity to Ammon's powers, and thus her blood relation to him for anyone who understands how the immunity works. In working to protect her younger daughter, Joselyn may have accidentally exposed her older daughter and granddaughter to Fossor's attention. Ammon also caused serious emotional trauma to Shiori and Avalon during his attack.

* HeroicSacrifice: One that required her to cut herself out of her newborn daughter's life.

* OffingTheOffspring: Although it clearly causes her great pain to do it, she kills her insane grandson Ammon.

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