History Characters / HonorHarringtonHaven

* HiddenHeartOfGold: How she hides her true loyalties and, later, romantic relationship with Giscard under the Committee of Public Safety's regime. She puts on a facade of being a cruel, committed, and utterly ruthless trusted agent of the Committee, when in fact she is working against them and doing her best to restore the Republic. Until the Theisman Coup, nobody but Javier Giscard ever knows who she truly is or where her real loyalties lie.

* LaymansTerms: Suffers from a complete inability to do this. In ''A Rising Thunder'', Eloise Pritchart reflects humorously on how, when required to testify before Congress, she needed an interpreter (Linda Trenis, who is in charge of Intelligence) for her geek talk so that the people she was testifying to could understand what she was testifying ''about''.

* AscendedExtra: She started out as the lowly lieutenant in charge of tactial on a single PN light cruiser who was part of a plotline in ''Honor Among Enemies'', but takes on much more prominent positions and roles as the series progresses, and as she gets promoted, ending up at Bolthole.
* BadassAdorable: Do ''not'' mistake her [[GenkiGirl cheerful]] and [[CloudCuckoolander absent-minded]] disposition for weakness. You won't even know who blew you out of space.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She may just be the single nicest character in the whole 'verse, but when [=StateSec=] made the mistake of badly mistreating Honor and her people, Shannon went into a [[TranquilFury cold fury]] that only ended when she sent out a few innocent lines of computer code that wiped out two squadrons of [=StateSec=] capital ships in an instant as their fusion bottles failed, vaporizing every single ship at the heart of a newborn star. Her reaction? "Oops."

* LaymansTerms: Suffers from a complete inability to do this. In ''A Rising Thunder'', Eloise Pritchart reflects humorously on how, when required to testify before Congress, she needed an interpreter for her geek talk so that the people she was testifying to could understand what she was testifying ''about''.

* OverrankedSoldier: She was a Commander during Theisman's coup. Five years later, during a period of truce (not a YouAreInCommandNow promotion), she was appointed a Vice Admiral. Pritchart and Theisman needed someone with her abilities to run Bolthole, so they likely chucked the seniority rules out the airlock in her case.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: As part of his affected MilitaryMaverick persona. He smokes cigars ''constantly''.

* CigarChomper: Invoked as a part of his MilitaryMaverick persona, despite an initial distaste. By mid-series he admits to himself that he really doesn't hate 'em anymore, as he has become addicted. His treecat bodyguard, Lurks in Branches, expresses his disapproval by sealing his skinsuit helmet whenever Tourville whips one out.

* MilitaryMaverick: He deliberately cultivated a flamboyant reputation early in his career (as much as such a thing was possible in the People's Republic). He came to regret it somewhat, when he got stuck having to keep up with some of his affected mannerisms (such as smoking cigars).[[note]]He admits to himself that the persona is only a {{Flanderization}} of his real, hard-charging personality. He really is gung-ho, though not an idiot about it.[[/note]] Honeker thinks he belongs "[[WoodenShipsAndIronMen on a holystoned wooden quarter-deck with a cutlass and a brace of flintlock pistols in his belt, bellowing orders over the roar of a cannon]]."
* ObfuscatingStupidity: For years he deliberately cultivated a reputation of being just competent enough to keep his rank of Captain, and later Rear Admiral, without being competent enough to be seen as a threat by his superiors, or being promoted to a rank where he wouldn't be able to avoid being shot by StateSec.

* HotScientist: Described as being rather attractive, and ends up running the Republic's main R&D facility.

* AscendedExtra: She started out as the lowly lieutenant in charge of tactial on a single PN light cruiser who was part of a plotline in Honor Among Enemies, but takes on much more prominent positions and roles as the series progresses, and as she gets promoted, ending up at Bolthole.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: She is stated to have dark skin, with platinum blonde hair and topaz eyes.

* Ascended Extra: She started out as the lowly lieutenant in charge of tactial on a single PN light cruiser who was part of a plotline in Honor Among Enemies, but takes on much more prominent positions and roles as the series progresses, and as she gets promoted.

* TheSmartGirl: Acknowledged by pretty much anybody around her as generally being the most intelligent person present.

!![[AC: Vice Admiral Jennifer Bellefeuille]]

Introduced in 'At All Costs', she managed to reduce the effectiveness of Honor's Cutworm raid on the system she was assigned to protect. She later is deployed with Admiral Tourville's fleet, after the Grand Alliance.

* ActionMom: During her first appearance, her family is visiting her to celebrate her youngest kid's birthday. Her family even survives the book!
* TheSmartGirl: Compared to [[TheStrategist Shannon Foraker]] herself by Alice Truman.
* TheStrategist: She developed an ops plan called Smoke and Mirrors. It had a bunch of units make the Manties see what they wanted to see, and she had more units in stealth. It was helped by Vice Admiral [[GadgeteerGenius Shannon Foraker's]] tech developments at Bolthole.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Ransom [[LoopholeAbuse uses an obscure clause]] of the [[FictionalGenevaConventions Deneb Accords]] to strip Harrington of her protections as military prisoner by virtue of the fact that she had been sentenced to death ''in absentia'' years ago for destroying ''Sirius'' at Basilisk. The thing is, Ransom never wanted to conform to the Deneb Accords because it was signed by the [[CorruptPolitician decadent Legislaturists]] of the old regime. She had to be convinced on the basis of [[PragmaticVillainy practicality]]. But Honor was also tried by the Legislaturists, in what was very clearly an [[ImplausibleDeniability ass-covering move]] to avoid admitting that they were caught committing an act of war, yet Ransom has no issues at all using ''that'' heretical document when it lets her contrive an excuse to execute Harrington.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Ransom [[LoopholeAbuse uses an obscure clause]] of the [[FictionalGenevaConventions Deneb Accords]] to strip Harrington of her protections as military prisoner by virtue of the fact that she had been sentenced to death ''in absentia'' years ago for destroying ''Sirius'' at Basilisk. The thing is, Ransom never wanted to conform to the Deneb Accords because it was signed by the [[CorruptPolitician decadent Legislaturists]] of the old regime. She had to be convinced on the basis of [[PragmaticVillainy practicality]]. But Honor was also tried by the Legislaturists, in what was very clearly an [[BlatantLies ass-covering move]] to avoid admitting that they were caught committing an act of war, yet Ransom has no issues at all using ''that'' heretical document when it lets her contrive an excuse to execute Harrington.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: And several characters are shocked and horrified to realize this about her.

* IcyBlueEyes: When she's not filed with fanatical fervor, her eyes are consistently this.