History Characters / TheDresdenFilesTheVampires

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

* InSeriesNickname: By ''Peace Talks'' some in Paranet have started calling them "Whampire" as an amalgamation of "White Court Vampire." Harry finds this silly, despite him calling Black Court vampires "Blampires."

* OpenSecret: Within the Court's higher ranks, the fact Papa Raith is merely a figurehead with Lara holding the strings is this. Everyone knows it, but because that is the current game, it is what they must play until it is time for a coup of their own.

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Harry remarks that you could mistake the White King for Thomas, and that Thomas, despite being older sibling, looks ''younger'' than Harry by ''Cold Days''.

* EvilVirtues: Despite all of her flaws, she does make a point of making sure her girls are taken care of and she is furious when one is killed while on the job in "Storm Front".

* VampiresAreRich: The Velvet Room was the nicest brothel in the city of Chicago and made her lots of money. That also ignore the fact she's probably had close to a century of building interest.

* BlatantLies: His lie of Biancaq not being present didn't fool Harry.

* KillItWithWater: Uses it defensively to counter Harry's fire spells and serve as a scalding smokescreen; however, she has absolutely no tactical flexibility, and this backfires horribly when Harry [[KillitWithIce switches elements]].

* ExplosiveBreeder: They can "reproduce" faster than any of the other vampire courts by the simple fact their kills can become new vampires (unless their heads are preemptively ripped off or whatever) with no half-breed like those of the Red Court.

* MassOhCrap: Harry postulates that the Red King and his Lords of the Outer Night who are trying to kill Maggie when detained by a shining Holy Light that takes the arm of the King are seriously scared because with all the other events that night, the Three Swords of the Cross, one of whose bearers has a Holy Being speaking through her, and then a second spirit shielding her from mental attacks in the form of a halo, they thought that the gods they are impersonating have awoken and come back to punish them as well. It really is just an invisible Susan holding ''Amoracchius'' but they don't know that for those few minutes.

* 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 immediatly tried to murder him in blind rage due to his profound hatred towards the White Courts]].

* {{Expy}}: He whistles weird songs to himself during a fight, carries an ''enormous'' personal sidearm, is far more financially successful than the protagonist (for most of the series, anyway), has a really cool car, drives the protagonist around a lot, is a fashion plate, and his relationship with the protagonist is both close and heavily dependent upon constantly busting on each other. If Thomas was black, he'd basically ''be'' Hawk from the ''Spenser'' novels. Butcher himself has admitted that Parker was a heavy influence on Thomas' character.

** First, starting the vampire war that ended in a [[KillEmAll total annihilation]] of the Red Court, at the hands of the very man she wanted revenge on no less.

* AmoralAttorney: She knows Hamilton Luther was justified in killing Gregor Malvora, since Malvora was about to torture a child, but she's helping prosecuting him anyways because Malvora was White Court and she can't let someone get away with killing one of their own.

* EnsignNewbie: ''Extremely'' inexperienced, whether in combat or anything else.

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White Court vampire, older half-sister of Thomas Raith through their father the White King. Noted as the most powerful of her sisters, if not the most beautiful (no, really). As a succubus, she feeds on life force, and as a Raith, her preferred emotion is lust. After the events of ''Blood Rites'', she unofficially became acting head of the Raith family; her father the White King is now merely her puppet. Also a member of the Venatori and a participant in the Oblivion War.

* AnAxeToGrind: Her favoured weapon in all appearances.

* ThePornomancer: Deconstructed. As an {{incubus}}, women literally throw themselves at him, and while that works just fine as part of the high-society playboy persona he's got going as a member of House Raith, it means he can't hold a minimum-wage job because when he inevitably gets sexually assaulted, ''[[TheUnfairSex he]]'' gets blamed.

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 [[HornyDevils 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.

* HornyDevils: The Raith family feeds on Lust, and have the ability to generate it in their victims.

* HornyDevils: As a House Raith vampire, he definitely qualifies.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Harry mockingly calls her an "apex sexual predator" in ''Peace Talks'', all Lara does is give an amused smirk and point out that he's [[HornyDevil not wrong.]]

* MeaningfulName: "Lara" is a Latin name meaning "protection"; not only does Lara have her own twisted form of BigSisterInstinct for her younger siblings, but she is also basically the most powerful and dangerous [[HornyDevils succubus]] alive, resulting in her being someone who a lot of people need protection ''from''.

* KukrisAreKool: The most distinctive WeaponOfChoice Thomas has.

* SwordAndGun: As mentioned below in WeaponOfChoice, this is his preferred fighting style.

* WeaponOfChoice: Thomas commonly carries both an old US Cavalry saber and a kurki, and packs either a sawed-off shotgun or a Desert Eagle. In ''Changes'', he swaps the cavalry saber for a falcata.

* WeaponOfChoice: Is normally described as wielding what Harry calls a "wavy-bladed sword" (probably a kris or kalis), or occasionally a rapier accompanied with some type of pistol.

* WeaponOfChoice: Prefers to use a long spear.

A security guard Bianca's Velvet Room.

* BlatantLies: His lie that Bianca not being present didn't fool Harry.

* BlackEyesofEvil: Its whole body is black but shares its eye color with the Red Court.

* BilingualBonus: Inari (稲荷) is the Japanese fox god, whose favorite food is fried tofu. What sort of pizza topping does [[MeaningfulName Inari]] offer Harry? Furthermore, [[FantasticFoxes fox spirits in Oriental mythology]] do need to feed on ''yang'', and some aren't choosy about how to get it.

* {{Nerd}}: Was part of a LARP group.

* ExactWords: Oh yes. She apparently gave her word not to attack anyone during her peace treaty meeting at White Council headquarters. Nobody said anything about ''her servants after the meeting'', who gas the place the moment she leaves.

* LoveObstructingParents: He wants to get rid of Irwin and Connie's chance for a happy, healthy relationship because it won't turn his daughter into the cold, manipulative vampire he genuinely believes she should be. He does this by manipulating events to put Connie in a position to kill Irwin with sex.

An unknowing White Court Virgin who fell in love with Irwin Pounder. Irwin was strong enough to survive their first sexual encounter, resulting in Connie awakening as a full vampire but not killing her man.

* BrokenMasquerade: After her father's orgy-inducing attack ends, she learns of the magical world really existing and that she is a vampire.
* TheCutie: She's absolutely adorable. Her father tries to CorruptTheCutie, but Harry and River Shoulders' interventions prevent this.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Falls in love with Irwin, which is a problem (for her father), since he's strong enough to survive having sex with her and as a White Court Virgin she's supposed to absorb his life force and kill him.
* {{Foil}}: To Inari Raith. Like Inari, she's an adorably sweet young female White Court vampire, who's completely ignorant of what she is, and dating/genuinely in love with a big, bulky, and unexpected young man. However, Inari avoids ever manifesting as a full vampire, while Connie manifests her vampire side, but avoids killing Irwin because of him being a scion of a bigfoot and is able to withstand the feeding.
* InterspeciesRomance: She falls for a scion of a Bigfoot. Further complicated by the fact that Connie appears to have fully manifested into a vampire without killing Irwin.
* {{Protectorate}}: After she leaves with Irwin and his father River Shoulders, she has become this to River Shoulders' tribe. They will keep the White Court from abducting her against her will while she sorts out this whole affair and learning what exactly she is. A few years later in the short story "Job Placement" she [[spoiler:is now in a neutral spot with Irwin where both his father's people and her father's people agree to not bother them]].
* RelationshipUpgrade: In the short story "Job Placement" [[spoiler:she accepts Irwin's marriage proposal]].

The father of Connie Barrowill, a White Court vampire who was willing to go to extreme lengths to make sure his daughter awakened as a full vampire.

* AbusiveParents: While nowhere near Lord Raith levels, he mentally compels his daughter to try and kill her boyfriend and her friend, and tries to kidnap her into keeping her within their monstrous tradition, and attempts to murder her friend for interfering, so he definitely qualifies.
* AppealToTradition: Discussed by River Shoulders, who points out that the reason he's trying to force his daughter to follow the tradition of screwing the boy she likes to death is probably because of the trauma ''he'' suffered when made to do the same thing as a young man. The only way he lives with himself is by clinging to the excuse that it was necessary to turn him into a "strong predator", and thus he has to force his daughter to do the same.

* LoveObstructingParents: He wants to get rid of Irwin and Connie's chance for a happy stable relationship because it won't turn his daughter into the cold, manipulative vampire he wants her to be, and genuinely thinks she should be. He does this by having Connie try to kill Irwin by sex.

** He has this again when River Shoulders steps in... by pitching Barrowill's car up, into, and ''through'' the college dorm.
* PapaWolf: When his daughter doesn't become a "proper vampire" (i.e. killing the first person she feeds upon) after her first feeding, he personally intervenes to ensure that she gets it right the next time. He even blasts Irwin's dormitory with a lust spell powerful enough to instigate a massive orgy just to force Irwin and Connie to have sex again and again until Irwin finally dies and his daughter becomes a "true" vampire.

* YouKilledMyFather: Mother, actually. Raith uses his entropy curse to make it appear Harry's mother had died in childbirth.

* ThickerThanWater: He deliberately instils this attitude in his family... because it makes them easier to handle. Ironic in that it makes his children loyal to ''each other'' as well as him, which eventually leads to his downfall when Lara has the choice between saving Thomas and destroying her now weakened father who admits he would sacrifice Lara if it means his survival, or helping her wounded father and damning Thomas to die and Inari to be raped like she was.

* UnholyMatrimony: The Eebs seem to be quite affectionate and happy to be around each other. Martin disparages it as "complimentary insanities".

* SecretKeeper: She knows Ebenezer was Harry's grandfather before Harry did. Sometime in the past, she invited Margaret and Ebenezer to dinner to discuss a collaboration with her and Lord Raith. Though the deal fell through, she notices Ebenezer and Margaret arguing in a way only relatives can. Lord Raith, never having had a functional familial relationship his whole life, misses the detail completely.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The entire plot of ''Changes'' happens because Ebeneezer killed Paolo. She'll kill Harry's daughter, her parents, their siblings, their parents and siblings, etc. All over killing a guy she personally hated and spent centuries messing with.
* EvilIsPetty: Showcases the Red Court's pettiness rather well. First example, she buys Harry's office building and then charges him more in rent. She also married Ortega just to torment him, all because his involvement with Spanish invaders of the lands of the Mayan people.

* VillainousBreakdown: After Harry beats the crap out of him he goes from confident and intelligent SmugSnake to a thrashing screaming lunatic who summons his soldiers (despite knowing that they will kill him for being defeated by a mortal) without caring about the consequences. And he cuts one of his own deputies in half.

* VillainousBreakdown: After Harry defeats her, she just stammers incoherently saying: "Cattle. You are C-Cattle." To which Harry has only one thing to say before he kills her: [[BondOneLiner "Moo."]]

* LesbianVampire: Introduced with a nearly naked prostituteon her lap.

* AnIcePerson: [[WordOfGod Word of Jim]] revealed that one of the 'ice sculptures' Harry comes across in Arctis Tor is actually Tepesh. Apparently he wanted to be together forever with his lover, and Mab granted his wish... by encasing him and his lover in ice forever.