History Characters / TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil

* PetTheDog: Giving Harry a baseball glove and playing catch with him.
** Subverted for readers who remember how Harry got his shield training. Then it's just a depressing CallForward.

* GenreSavvy: Like Harry and Ebenezer McCoy before him, Carlos has connected one and one together, and cottoned and agrees on the existence of the possible “Black Council” due to several enemies and villain actions throughout the series that just seem far to connected too be mere coincidence

* VillainsOutShopping: More {{Jerkass}} than villain, but at one point Harry is a bit nonplussed by seeing The Merlin doing something as mundane as making a sandwich.

* BadassGrandpa

* CoolOldGuy
* FriendlyEnemy: In ''Turn Coat'', sort of.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting

An elderly wizard, homesteader from somewhere in Missouri, and the [[spoiler: newest member of the White Council's Senior Council.]] Harry's mentor and teacher after Justin [=DuMorne=]'s death. [[spoiler:Also the Council's Blackstaff - the one White Council Wizard in the world authorized to use Black Magic without consequence.]]

* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:When Harry brings up Mouse to identify him as the mole, he scoffs at the idea of Mouse identifying him at all. Then Ancient Mai identifies Mouse as a Foo Dog and beyond reproach with this testimony.

* [[spoiler:BiTheWay: Outright said to be this when she was younger by Lara,who wastes no time asking whether she'd like to revisit old times]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: Her choice of offensive spell is usually a needle-thin beam of pure intense heat that Harry eventually learns how to use in Changes. Luccio's is the superior version as Harry mentions right after using it that if it were used in the real world,he wasn't sure whether he could actually pull it off. Also when ever she uses it he always ends up gushing about much it conserves energy and how intense it is.

* WeakButSkilled: By necessity. Ever since [[spoiler: being transferred to her younger body,]] Luccio's talents have suffered as [[spoiler: her new body doesn't have the potential for magic that her older one possessed.]] That being said, she is still ''incredibly'' powerful and a masterfully-skilled fighter, and makes use of her reduced talents to impressive effect. Even with a modest magical talent now, Luccio can produce deadly beams of precise energy or wide area-effect illusions. Harry states in Changes even with the obvious decrease in power he still wouldn't want to fight her.

* MagicKnight

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Carlos [[spoiler:is the youngest regional Warden as of Dead Beat]], and easily one of the most understanding and truly LawfulGood of the lot, as seen in Proven Guilty and White Night. In [[spoiler: Ghost Story it’s revealed that Carlos is in charge in tracking Molly, but he’s slowing the search intentionally to buy Molly and The Chicago Alliance time and some peace]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Usually he's just "The Merlin."
* HeelFaceTurn: of a sort. In the earlier books Harry depicts him as HeadInTheSandManagement, trying to avoid war with the Red Court vampires. By ''Changes'', however, when Cristos' faction is pushing for peace, the Merlin is among those who recognizes that this really is going to be a war of annihilation, and he's determined to fight it through.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's willing to listen to Harry and Ebenezar, and if her brief scene in ''Summer Knight'' is anything to go by, anyone who comes before her while she's acting as a judge.

* [[spoiler: MindControl]]
* [[spoiler: MindRape]]
* [[spoiler: TheMole]]

The newest member of the Senior Council, who forced the Merlin to appoint him lest he take roughly a third of the Council and secede from the whole. Ambitious, aggressive, and dangerous, Cristos has both Harry and Ebenezar convinced that [[spoiler: he is an agent of the Black Council.]] Or just stupid.

* CoolOldLady

* SupportPartyMember: While she can probably kick a large amount of ass if required to,[[WordOfGod WordOfJim]] implies she is this to the Senior Council being less of a physical fighter.

* SmugSnake

* ZenSurvivor: Subverted. While he's gone through enough to qualify, he's generally a nice, gentle guy. He's always been friendly and patient with Harry, even in ''Turn Coat''.

* BigDamnHeroes: Three times. Twice in Dead Beat: Once when he stops Morgan from killing Harry after the other man believes he killed [[spoiler: Luccio (Harry actually killed Capiorcorpus in Luccio’s old body) and tells Morgan that Harry was right, Capiorcorpus had switched bodies with their captain, who was alive and well]] and the second one is when he kills Gravane Just In Time to save Harry. The third one is on White Nights: Carlos creates an incredible powerful disintegrating water shield JustInTime to protect The Calvary (Murphy, Thomas, Marcone and his men), Harry, Lara and himself from a group of ghouls

* TheCasanova: Well, he says so, anyway.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Being the senior Warden and commander in Los Angeles, he sees almost as much action as Harry, on top of being an active participant in the war. In ''White Night'', Harry notes that Ramirez's gear is as battered and battle-scarred as his own, despite the difference in age.

* [[spoiler:EverythingsWorseWithBears: Turns out the best way to take on an EldritchAbomination shapeshifter is by turning into a bear. '''The size of a minibus'''.]]

The leader of the White Council, and by extension the most powerful and skilled wizard alive. Unfortunately for Harry, he has taken a dislike to him as a rebellious upstart and possible warlock, and Harry in turn considers him a crotchety old man unable to come to terms with the changing world. Along with Morgan, he's one of the primary reasons for Harry's troubled relationship with the Council.

* ChivalrousPervert

* DeadpanSnarker

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In ''Changes''. [[spoiler:Made a very well-intentioned but really poorly timed rebellion against authority, sending the White Council into chaos and ensuring that Harry was facing a TheOnlyOne situation.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In ''Changes''. [[spoiler:Made a well-intentioned but ''really'' poorly timed rebellion against authority, sending the White Council into chaos and ensuring that Harry was facing a TheOnlyOne situation.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: of a sort. In the earlier books Harry depicts him as HeadInTheSandmanagement, trying to avoid war with the Red Court vampires. By ''Changes'', however, when Cristos' faction is pushing for peace, the Merlin is among those who recognizes that this really is going to be a war of annihilation, and he's determined to fight it through.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Carlos [[spoiler:is the youngest regional Warden as of Dead Beat]], and easily one of the most understanding truly Lawful Good of the lot, as seen in Proven Guilty and White Night. In [[spoiler: Ghost Story it’s revealed that Carlos is in charge in tracking Molly, but he’s slowing the search intentionally to buy Molly and The Chicago Alliance time and some peace]]

* FireForgedFriends

* AwesomeEgo: The RPG even states it. He has a habit of making jokes about his prowess in everything to the point that he exaggerates it to the point of ridiculousness and is often PlayedForLaughs and in complete good humor more than once. However, when push come to shove Carlos has proven to be extremely BadAss in not only in combat and more than a little worthy of the jokes his makes

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Hinted at. When not in his “flirting, AwesomeEgo mode” Carlos has proven himself to be not only very quick on the uptake and just as competent, But White Night shows him to be both quite savvy and to have pretty good instincts (Lara actually notices this). He has also put two and two together and has no doubt and fully belives, like Harry and Ebenezar the existence of the “Black Council” as a BiggerBad behind quite a lot in the series and pretty much correctly pinpoints that Harry thinks there is a spy on the White Council for the "Black Council"