History Characters / Spellsinger

* BladeOnAStick: His weapon of choice, disguised as a simple staff.

* EverythingsWetterWithOtters

* BladeOnAStick: His weapon of choice, disguised as a SimpleStaff.

* NiceHat: His Robin Hood style hat.

* AnimalStereotypes: He is an otter, which means he is [[PlayfulOtter playful]] and CrazyAwesome.

* BizarreInstrument: his duar, an exotic type of lute with two sets of strings that intersect in the fourth dimension.
* BladeOnAStick: his weapon of choice, disguised as a SimpleStaff.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: by the standards of Clothahump's world, Jon-Tom is an [[FunnyForeigner amusing foreigner]] who knows nothing about the world that surrounds him, and possesses magic powers he can barely control. However, while his magic music results in humorous misadventures mid-plot, it never fails to vanquish evil in the final showdowns.
* DreadfulMusician: apparently, when fate made him a spellsinger, it forgot that he was a guitarist, not a singer. His playing is skillful enough to passably imitate Van Halen. His voice, however...
* ExactWords: well, Jon-Tom technically ''was'' an engineer. A sanitation engineer, i.e. a janitor (his part-time job at campus).

* IneptMage: he is a powerful magic-user, but he has problems actually getting what he wants without side effects.
* MagicMusic: his greatest power, and sometimes greatest embarassment.
* MundaneSolution: he thinks quickly and often finds non-magical solutions to his problems, utilizing his knowledge from Earth. Sometimes it's pop psychology, sometimes it's political philosophy, sometimes it's aerobics.
* OverlyLongName: his real name, Jonathan Thomas Merriweather, is too long by the standards of Clothahump's world (only one local, Caz the Rabbit, has a full name longer than his). So he was quickly dubbed "Jon-Tom" by Mudge.
* ThePowerOfRock: his repertoire mostly consists of classic rock, hard rock and some heavy metal.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: though he eventually chooses it over Earth when given the choice.
* VitriolicBestBuds: with Mudge.
* WanderingMinstrel: this is what he claims he is when he doesn't want to advertise his magic powers.

* TheAlcoholic: a high-functioning one, but prone to days-long binges.
* AnimalStereotypes: he is an otter, which means he is [[PlayfulOtter playful]] and CrazyAwesome.
* ButtMonkey: if someone ends up in a comedic misadventure, it's him. And he does not even want the adventures!
* ChangedMyMindKid: from time to time, opportunity arises for him to escape Jon-Tom and/or Clothahump and return to his normal roguish life. He always comes back.
* DramaQueen: when Mudge feels even a little bit uncomfortable, he never shuts up about how he hates adventures, doesn't care for Jon-Tom and his magic and wants home. It's mostly just whining to vent negative emotions, he is never serious.

* FreudianTrio: he's the id to Jon-Tom's ego and Clothahump's super-ego.
* GotVolunteered: every time except the final adventure in Chorus Skating when he joins Jon-Tom actually voluntarily.
* LadykillerInLove: his eventual transition from pervert to monogamous after he met his future wife Weegee.
* LoveableRogue: for a certain definition of "loveable". Yes, he's as cute as any otter, but he's also a gambling, hard-drinking, harder-wenching bastard who's hello to Jon-Tom is to stab him with a rapier.
* MaliciousMisnaming: he is prone to do this to anything he doesn't care about.
* NiceHat: his Robin Hood style hat.

* VitriolicBestBuds: with Jon-Tom

* AnimalStereotypes: he is a WiseOldTurtle
* ArborealAbode: he lives in a hollowed-out oak that is BiggerOnTheInside.
* DeadpanSnarker: he also never forgets to remind that sarcasm is bad for your liver if you are younger than him.
* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: he is one of the nicest and wisest characters in all Warmlands and was instrumental in saving everyone from the Plated Folk invasion. Everyone still thinks he is a senile old fraud.
* ExactWords: no, he does not have any gold. Gems, that he has. But no gold.
* FindTheCure: in the third book, he tests Jon-Tom's character by pretending to be dying of a severe illness and sending him in a quest to find the cure.
* FreudianTrio: he's the super-ego to Jon-Tom's ego and Mudge's id.
* FunctionalMagic: by reciting verses with scientific terms, he can throw lightning, create gold and chocolate of thin air, levitate boats and see things that are far away.
* InconvenientSummons: if he wants to see you, pronto, you won't like it.
* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: one of his favourite lessons to his apprentices. He subjected Jon-Tom to pointless quests twice, knowing that he will become smarter, wiser and more skilled in these quests.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: sometimes he may seem as a manipulative jerk-ass rather than a grandfatherly mentor. Of course, he knows better, and his manipulations turn out to be for the greater good.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: his usual manner of speech.
* SophisticatedAsHell: if Clothahump stops using long and smart words and says "shit", it means that shit has really hit the fan.
* TechnoBabble: his LanguageOfMagic.

* WizardClassic: subverted in that he turns out not to be into robes and pointy hats and cannot even grow a beard; however, he fits the rest of the trope perfectly.

* GotVolunteered: every time except the final adventure in ChorusSkating when he joins Jon-Tom actually voluntarily.