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There are four Vampire Courts that we know of: The Black Court, of Stoker-esque walking corpses with magical powers, the Red Court, who hide their bat-like true forms behind flesh masks and dull their victims' reactions with narcotic saliva in order to feed on their blood; the White Court, beautiful albinos who incite and feed on primal human emotions, such as lust, and the Jade Court. The last of these [[HufflepuffHouse has only been mentioned once]], exists in Asia, and has yet to make an appearance in the series.

Humans who have been enthralled by Black Court vampires. Nothing remains of their original personalities; they are essentially puppets and act however their vampire master wishes.

There are four Vampire Courts that we know of: The Black Court, of Stoker-esque walking corpses with magical powers, the Red Court, who take the form of Indo-American demons and manipulate mortals with flesh-masks and narcotic saliva, the White Court, beautiful albinos who incite and feed on primal human emotions, such as lust, and the Jade Court. The last of these [[HufflepuffHouse has only been mentioned once]], exists in Asia, and has yet to make an appearance in the series.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Her plan to entrap her former group during their annual late night Christmas party was solid. What happened was that they had two wizards and a White Court vampire as [[SpannerInTheWorks guests]]. She also didn't expect Harry to have planned for being disarmed of his magical weapons.

** Also, she hates Harry because she blames him for the death of one of her girls in ''Literature/StormFront''. To recount: she baselessly blames Harry for the death of the girl he came to interrogate Bianca about; Bianca then attacks Harry and makes him bleed; Harry defends himself and hurts her back; and Bianca gets who is now caught herself in bloodlust carried away when feeding afterwards and blames Harry for the death that ''she'' caused. Oh, and to make matters worse? ''She doesn't even remember the girl's name.''

* InterspeciesRomance: She falls for a scion of a Bigfoot. Further complicated by the fact that Connie appears to have fully manifested as a vampire without killing Irwin.

[[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]], '''Vampire Courts''', [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]]]]]

[[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]],[[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]], '''Vampire Courts''', [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]], [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]]]]]

Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Vampire Courts.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]

* EyeScream: During his final battle with Harry he's beaten when Harry impales his eyes and then sets them on fire.

* MotivationalLie: As discussed in "Bigfoot on Campus" the entire methodology of keeping the children in the dark, so the first time they have sex will kill their lover (in the case of the Raiths), is described as this. The child becomes a murderer and transformed into a sex monster, but is told this is okay. It’s fine to kill humans and hurt them. It is what their parents' parents told them when they were young like the child now. And so on. They continue the lie because if they were to stop, it would mean ''everything'' the parents were taught and made to believe is false, and so on and so on. And so they became murderous monsters for no other reason than some ancient bastard's (or bitch's) beliefs.

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: They seem to have trouble thinking ahead, and are all to eager to unleash DisproportionateRetribution without regard to who it might piss off. Bianca's vengeance against Harry gets her and her court killed (and in a roundabout way contributes to the court's destruction), the court angered ''all'' of Faerie by trying to pursue fleeing wizards (which also contributed to the court's destruction, as the first rule of crossing Mab is to ''never cross Mab, ever''), and kidnapping Harry's daughter results in him going after them in full PapaWolf mode and ultimately exterminating them all.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Mystical full body tattoos in this case placed on members of the [[VampireRefugee Order of St. Giles]] to help their operatives control their thirst for blood, and warn other operatives (and anyone who understands them) when this is happening. Usually invisible they turn red (and hurt) when the wearer is in danger of giving in to their thirst for blood, darkening to black if they do so.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter[=/=]PublicDomainCharacter: Since the fictional character of Dracula is an interpretation of UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, this Dracula is of course both.

* KillItWithFire: In ''Grave Peril'', Dresden mentions that Tepesh established himself by inviting a bunch of rivals [[NastyParty to a feast]] and then burned them alive.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Is the subject of one in ''Battle Ground'' when it comes out that despite being good enough to tangle with [[PersonOfMassDestruction Harry]], she's [[spoiler: the ''least'' powerful of the higher Black Court members.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: She does love her children.

* GeniusBruiser: Highly intelligent, knowledgeable, and magically powerful and very strong physically, and TaughtByExperience.

* UhOhEyes: Mystical full body tattoos in this case placed on members of the [[VampireRefugee Order of St. Giles]] to help their operatives control their thirst for blood, and warn other operatives (and anyone who understands them) when this is happening. Usually invisible they turn red (and hurt) when the wearer is in danger of giving in to their thirst for blood, darkening to black if they do so.

* AGodAmI: Views himself as a god, having effectively replaced an Aztec one.

* TheHeavy: She’s not actually the BigBad of ''Changes'' - that's her father who manipulated her actions throughout the novel. That said, she’s still the driving force of the plot by kidnapping and threatening the life of Harry's daughter.

* YourHeadAsplode: After Harry finishes with her all that’s left is a smoking headless corpse, since his final blow causes her head to blow up.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Bianca and most of her coven are [[KarmicDeath killed by a ghost army comprised of her victims]] that Harry summons up, including the lover she killed in ''Storm Front.'' Note that Harry couldn't have done this without her coven having killed all of those people, and having stirred up all the ghosts in Chicago.

* AxeCrazy: They like their job.

* {{Revenge}}: Toward the end of ''Grave Peril'', it turns out her ghost has been haunting Bianca, but she didn't have enough power to really do anything until Harry poured a ton of magic into her and all the other victims haunting her house.

* [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]]: She is a priestess, not a fighter. Her killer was several decades older than her, armed with only a rock, while Alamaya had knives on her person.

[[folder: "Fido" the Guard]]

* HeroicHost: Villainous host, rather (Thomas excepted). A well fed host has access to SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and a powerful HealingFactor.

* AbusiveParent: Rapes his daughters, using his vampiric abilities to turn them into his slaves by doing so. All his sons before Thomas have met with [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident tragic accidents]], and the same happens to rebellious daughters.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Thomas literally throws Harry's girlfriend Susan to the Red Court vampires to save his girlfriend Justine. And then he's unable to be with Justine. Karma's a bitch.
** Perhaps even more than that. [[spoiler: Susan was a tough but an ordinary reporter. By causing her transformation into a vampire, he caused problems with Harry and Susan from being intimate or living together, Susan having to leave the country and job to fight the Red Court from the shadows, Susan and Harry's child being in danger which culminated in Harry having to kill Susan to protect their daughter. In return, Thomas nearly ends up killing Justine after feeding on her while injured, has physical and political problems in being with her, gets thrown out of the White Court, had problems holding down several jobs, gets his car permanently wrecked along with Harry's Blue Beetle by the Red Court, has to fight the even more secret and problematic Oblivion War, forced to attempt an assassination on the Svartalf king to save Justine and his unborn child, resulting in his assistant being killed thereby breaking his friendship with their relatives, and then it turns out Justine has been possessed by Nemesis for years. Heck he didn't even get Justine back from Bianca after betraying Susan, he had to go to Harry for it.]] Basically, everything Harry and Susan had to suffer, he had to go through with interest.
* MrFanservice: Harry snarks that Thomas looks like "the forgotten Greek god of body cologne". Like the gods of myth, he has a suitable curse, i.e. SoBeautifulItsACurse since his MrFanservice-ness is is a huge part of why he can't hold down a part time job. As Harry observes, it's probably much easier being an incubus in nightclubs while hanging out with celebrities than it is while working at a drive-in.

* ShipperOnDeck: For Harry and Murphy. Although he's fine helping Harry get together with Luccio if it means his brother finally gets laid.

* StarCrossedLovers: With Justine.

* TheUnfavorite: His father tries to kill him, like he did the rest of his sons (though given what Lord Raith [[ParentalIncest did to]] [[MindRape his daughters]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil against their will]], attempted murder might be better...) Also, his mother abandoned him when he was five to give birth to his brother Harry (though that was at least in in part to get away from Lord Raith. However, she did gave him her amulet for his 5th birthday and asked Harry to give him her love during their soul gaze). [[spoiler:Ebenezar didn't know until ''Peace Talks'' that Thomas was his other granson. Once he discovered his identity, he immediately tried to murder him in blind rage due to his profound hatred towards the White Courts]].

* BadBoss[=/=]BenevolentBoss: Zig-Zags between the two. On the one hand, she doesn't habitually feed on her security staff to control them, she pays them well, treats them with respect, and listens to their advice and trusts their expertise... but if they get critically injured and she or her family are in need, she won't hesitate to eat them.

* BigSisterInstinct: Is ''only'' protective of her siblings to the misfortune of her cousins... in her own twisted way. For example, she decides the only way to protect Thomas from their father's wrath and torture is by ''killing him'' first -- though she does immediately back down when another, more-likely-to-succeed course of action is presented.

* {{Foil}}: With her father, Lara's former king and and now mouthpiece. In his prime, Lord Raith was a feared expansionist king with great vision and an obsession with controlling a rogue wizard, not unlike his oldest surviving daughter. The difference being Daddy Raith cared for nothing but his own hedonism and saw his own family as little more than tools and toys, with him being one who would rather demand good seating to his children's deaths than prevent them. Lara's highest priority, by contrast, is the well-being of her siblings (though ''only'' her siblings, sorry cousins). Only the possibilities of a suicidal CivilWar[=/=]violent rebellion have stopped her from bringing all of the White Court under an iron heel just to save just one of her blood.

* ActionGirl: One able to hold their own in fights that aren't against a naagloshii - she also makes an appearance sparring with some of her sisters in "Wild Card".
* BewareTheQuietOnes: In her appearances at least, she doesn't say much at all - but she's still a White Court vampire.

* TomBoy: Notably described as more masculine in her attire than any of the rest of her sisters, wearing mens or butch clothing.

* NewEraSpeech: Tying in with a RousingSpeech, she gives one of these to the rest of the Court in the Deeps. Cue Harry and Ramirez making a BigEntrance.

* WouldHurtAChild: Yes he would. Didn't work out for him, as it lead to his death

** Harry notes that Charles, when he finally recognizes Harry when Connie says his name, looks around as if looking for something to duck behind, or an hostage to take.

* DistressedDamsel: In ''Grave Peril'', although it's mostly because she's too crazy to think straight. She is quite resourceful otherwise.

* CharacterDeath: Slain by the Scarecrow fetch in order to cover up the real culprits of the ''Proven Guilty'' case.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why he was killed.

* CharacterDeath: By Madeleine, to cover her trail.

[[folder: Freydis Gard]]

* GreenEyedRedhead: Freydis has red hair and green eyes.

* TheGhost: Never met in person, but Dresden sees a picture Lord Raith painted of her.

* NobleDemon: Subverted quite nicely. He acts the part of the honorable, cultured WorthyOpponent when things are going his way, but by the end of ''Death Masks'' it's made plain that the only thing he ''really'' cares about is winning, and he'll stoop to just about anything to do it. He pretended to be honorable because he knew that would make Harry fight honorably, which gave him the advantage.
* PapaWolf: Possibly. While he is supposedly trying to achieve victory for the Red Court, he ''is'' taking every measure possible to kill the man responsible for Bianca's death.
* PetTheDog: One of his few genuine redeeming qualities is that he does seem to care for his "child" Bianca.

** He abuses and rapes his daughter into a servant who he can dispose of should she become useless. When Harry and Murphy weakens him thoroughly, and Lara finds out he’s weak and can’t defend himself, she turns the tables and now he’s her puppet after she rapes him right back.

* TheChick: With a twist, namely the insanity mentioned below.

* DeathBySex: All three of them were killed when White Court Vampires use their lust magic to enthrall them and then drained their energy during sex.

** Fear-feeders like the Malvoras suffer from trying to consume a person who is courageous. It is presumed symbols of that courage will be similarly bad for them.
** Despair-feeders like the Skavis will "choke on hope." It is presumed symbols of that hope will be similarly bad for them.
* MotivationalLie: As discussed in "Bigfoot on Campus" the entire methodology of keeping the children in the dark, so the first time they have sex will kill their lover (in the case of the Raiths), is described as this. The child becomes a murderer and transformed into a sex monster, but is told this is okay. It is fine to kill humans and hurt them. It is what their parents' parents told them when they were young like the child now. And so on. They continue the lie because if they were to stop, it would mean ''everything'' the parents were taught and made to believe is false, and so on and so on. And so they became murderous monsters for no other reason than some ancient bastard's (or bitch's) beliefs.

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Unsurprisingly with Harry Dresden. As hilariously explained by Thomas Raith, Lara has been ignored twice in a single centur, WITH Harry being the first. Strangely enough, Lara does not have this with the second, Johnny Marcone. While both are frenemies to some extent, the former has helped Lara in a much more personal level than Marcone. This is likely in part because Harry is more of a WildCard who can be manipulated into serving as an UnwittingPawn, while Marcone is Lara's direct competitor for control over Chicago.

* DarkActionGirl: She makes no bones about the fact she is not a good person. She also doesn't shy away from a direct confrontation if there is no other alternative.

* HiddenDepths: Turns out he is a very good painter.

* BeneathTheMask: Lara's default reaction to anything is being playfully polite. From casual conversation, to meetings of state, to life-or-death battle. Its noted by everyone, even brainless fools like Trixie Vixen, that there is something terrible behind that smile. They are right. The few times where that mask slips shows a vicious calculating predator bent on domination and control with an iron will to back it up.

* CoolCar: In ''Turn Coat'', she loaned Harry a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith. It is so unspeakably awesome that most of the cast spends at least a couple of minutes worshipping at its shrine.

* MateOrDie: Thomas deliberately starves himself, since he doesn't want to hurt people. After Justine finds a third option by bringing in another woman to be with, removing her protection and then being with Thomas, he is a lot better fed.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is the king of White Court, and in his prime the most powerful of them.

** He abuses and rapes his daughter into a servant who he can dispose of should she become useless. When Harry and Murphy weakens him thoroughly, and Lara finds out he is weak and cannot defend himself, she turns the tables and now he is her puppet after she rapes him right back.
* MadArtist: Lara described his gallery as his psychotic little egomaniac when she helped him hang Margaret's portrait into his collection after she died.

* TheHeavy: She is not actually the BigBad of ''Changes'' - that's her father who manipulated her actions throughout the novel. That said, she is still the driving force of the plot by kidnapping and threatening the life of Harry's daughter.

* LightIsNotGood: The White Court favors a color scheme of white, silver, or some colors similar to them. From their clothing to the color of their cars all fall under that selection of colors. Their eyes have silver flecks when they start feeding and become fully silver when they are in a deeply famished state. It is also a sign they will likely kill the next person they sleep with.