History Characters / HonorHarringtonManticoranAllies

* TokenEnemyMinority: Clinkscales is a card-carrying Grayson conservative. The reason he has no problem working for a reformist-aligned foreigner because, unlike many on his side of the political equation, he does not see Mayhew's policies as heretical, subversive, or even necessarily wrong; his opposition is based more on concerns that such a rapid upheaval of Grayson's traditional values, unmoderated by time and temperance, may be more consequential than people realize. And, of course, it helps that Clinkscales holds Harrington in high esteem for the service she has done for their planet.

** A lighter example for when [[Spoiler:the Republic of Haven offers an alliance with Manticore and its allies against the Solarian League]], instead of leaving it to the ambassadors he chooses to exert his authority as head of state and throw protocol out the window and personally head to Manticore without any forewarning.

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: At one point, it is suggested that it will take time to convince the Keys to send reinforcements to Manticore. He angrily replies that he is the Protector and the fleet will go wherever he tells them to. He's right.

* BodyguardingABadass: In addition to her tactical prowess Honor is a master-level martial artist and a mean shot, but that doesn't mean that she didn't need a dedicated and professional protection ''at all times''.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: The short story ''Traitor'' shows that a lot of his Frederick the Great antics are just that and even in his eighties he was a very dangerous and crafty man.

* CrazyPrepared: Put a bathtub in his sons suite that turns out to be porcelain covered ''battle steel'' with integrated flood lights to blind intruders.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Believed himself to be the reincarnation of Frederick the Great. Many of his descendants were just as eccentric. Still a ''very'' successful individual, and dynasty.

* RapunzelHair: Has waist-length brown hair, which she refuses to cut despite its inconvenience.

![[AC: Protector Benjamin IX Mayhew.]]

![[AC: Colonel Andrew [=LaFollet=].]]

![[AC: Armsman Jamie Candless]]

![[AC: General Howard Samson Jonathan Clinkscales, retired.]]

![[AC: Adam Gerrick, Chief engineer, Grayson Sky Domes Ltd]]

![[AC: Lieutenant (SG) Abigail Hearns, Miss Owens]]

![[AC:Queen Berry Zilwicki]]

![[AC: Jeremy X]]

![[AC: Major Thandi Palane, ret (Solarian Marines), General (Torch Armed Forces)]]

![[AC:Emperor Gustav I Anderman]]

![[AC:Großadmiral Chien-Lu Anderman, Herzog von Rabenstrange]]

* BadassNormal: He's nothing special, in fact, and really is [[BodyguardingABadass much weaker in a hand-to-hand fight]] than his patron. But it doesn't make him any less effective as a ''bodyguard'', and he has ''floored'' Honor for her own protection more than once. Also note that "weaker in a ''hand-to-hand'' fight" disclaimer: in a gunfight, [=LaFollet=] is so fast and accurate that Honor Harrington, the woman who contemptuously destroyed a feared Manticoran gunman-for-hire in a duel, has ''twice'' been struck dumb by just how horrifically lethal [=LaFollet=] is when the pulser darts start flying.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with Hugh Arai notwithstanding, Berry practically tore Thandi Palane's clothes off with her eyes when she first laid them on her.

Well, the one simple fact that she's [[MemeticBadass Victor Cachat's]] girlfriend should say volumes about the girl. A [[SpaceMarine Marine]] officer in Rozsak's squadron, ''she'' was the one who usually was the business end of Barregos and Rozsak's schemes. That is, until she finally got too disgusted by their latest gambit, and decided to retire. Fortunately, in the process of that gambit, she got hooked with Cachat and joined the bandwagon as Torch's most senior uniformed officer.

* BadassPrincess: The Grayson equivalent of a princess (her father, Steadholder Owens, is a head of state in his own right), who pulls off increasingly badass feats as the series goes on. Including wiping the floor with an entire platoon of Solarian Gendarmes.

* BadassPrincess: The Grayson equivalent of a princess, who pulls off increasingly badass feats as the series goes on.

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Non-romantic version, but there in its essentials. A time comes when he's the only one of Honor's five original armsmen still drawing breath. To keep him out of the line of fire, she reassigns him to guard someone whose life she cares about even more than her own: her son Raoul. It doesn't work.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: [[ImperialJapan Meiji-era Japan]], right down to KatanasAreJustBetter, despite being outwardly a bunch of fundamentalist Utah Americans, with hints of TheDeepSouth.

* TheMario: Early in ''Crown of Slaves'', Anton notes that Berry is good at a lot of things, but not great at anything. This leads to an amusing bit of {{Foreshadowing}}
-->'''Berry:''' It's obvious, Daddy. There are only two things I'd be good at. First, being a housewife -- talk about an obsolete profession-- or, second, being a queen. A constitutional monarch would be best, I think. I'm sure I'd be a flop as a despot. Too easy-going."

* CoolOldGuy: Frigging ''92'' (which is impressive ''per se'' for a pre-prolong Grayson) in ''At All Costs'', when he finally passed away -- and all those years were full of one awesome feat after another.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: {{Averted}}. Torch was specifically founded to provide a place for ex-slaves to build a civilized star nation of their own. As such, it insists that anyone who joins it agree to follow the rules of civilized warfare.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: A non-romantic example. By law, as a steadholder's daughter, she must be accompanied by her armsman at all times. Abigail, like most Graysons, is on the short side. Her armsman, the [[HeavyWorlder San Martin-born]] Mateo Gutierrez, is two meters tall and weighs in at 200 kilograms.

![[AC:Emperor Gustav Anderman I]]