History Characters / TheFolkOfTheAir

* PrinceCharming: [[spoiler: Deconstructed.]] As a golden-haired, handsome knight with a reputation for being honorable, Dain appears to be the traditional image of a charming prince. Additionally, he recognizes potential in Jude and offers her a job when no one else does. [[spoiler: In reality, he is just as cruel and self-centered as his siblings. Acting as a kind, honorable knight was in reality personal branding in order to gain his father’s and the court’s favor. The attention of others and favoritism of his father has made him self-important and arrogant. Additionally, he intentionally sabotaged the reputation of others in order to make himself look better, such as framing his little brother for murder.]]

* [[spoiler: IDidWhatIHadToDo: His justification for his unmoral actions.]]

-->'''Jude''': [[spoiler: After Cardan tries to coerce her into kneeling and apologizing to him.]] I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.

%% * DarkChick: Only female member in Cardan's gang

* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: Cardan does not approve of his actions and grows to despise the guy when he breaks Nicasia's heart.]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She was particularly bad at this in the first book. She assumes Prince Dain and Locke are both decent people by the folk standards. However, [[spoiler:Dain went as far as to poison his lover to kill his unborn child and he's revealed self-centered and manipulative]]. Meanwhile, Locke pitted Jude and Taryn against each other for no deeper reason than [[ItAmusedMe entertainment]]]]. She gets better as the story continues.

* BalefulPolymorph: Heather, while fascinated by the cat-boy faerie, did not want him to turn her into a cat-girl.

%% * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Suffers some humiliation due to this.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Madoc is an evil warmonger, but sincerely loves his adopted children. He's fiercely protective of them and flies into a rage when Jude gets hurt in the first book.

* EducationMama: Trains Jude and Taryn in combat and sends them to lessons

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In her quest to earn a place in Elfhame, she ends up becoming every bit the type of manipulative person, who barely thinks twice on betraying and murdering people who put her plans in danger, she is not a complete monster, but she's definitely become as ruthless as the fae by the second book.

* TakeThatKiss: While initially in disbelief, about [[{{Jerkass}} Cardan]] confessing feeling attraction to her, she realizes he's being honest when she noticed his reaction when she closes distance between them and kisses him because she realizes he also hates it; unfortunately for her, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she gets a little too swept into the kiss.]]

--> ''The prince paused his retreat to watch her go with an expression Kaye recognized-- The look of someone who wondered if the other person might be made of glamour and smoke, if they might fade away with a touch.''

--> '''Cardan''': ''Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.''

--> '''Cardan''': '' You're awful. And the worse part is that you believe otherwise.''

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* HornedHairdo: Jude's most prominent style is her hair styled into upturned horns, done by Tatterfell, her house servant.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Fitting as the princess of the Undersea.

* Jerkass: Absolutely despises humans and is very callous in nature.

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* WhatTheHellHero?: [[spoiler: Is shocked when Jude is helping him escape, after the massacre, to be rewarded with a knife at this throat. Also, with the Court of Shadows constantly falling back on murder when dealing with problems.]]

* BigSisterMentor: Jude and Taryn often seek her advice.
* Half-HumanHybrid: Half-human, half-faerie

* InterspeciesRomance: She is a human and her first husband Madic is a faerie.

* WickedStepmother: Downplayed; Jude thinks most of the time Oriana looks down on them and must think of her and Taryn as mere inconveniences and often reprimands them of behaving themselves in court as to not ashame Madoc, but she never does anything actively malicious towards them, [[spoiler: Subverted when she thinks that Jude is having a fling with Prince Dain and makes her promise that she will tell her first if Jude ever bores him a child, as the reveal of Oak's parentage comes to light, it's becomes evident that Oriana was truly trying to protect Jude from a simmilar fate to the one of Liriope.]]

* CreepyChild: Since he is a fae, he has his moments; Jude mentions a time when he unknowinly glamoured Jude to slap herself, and kept doing it for a long while, because he thought it was funny, obviously she did not share the sentiment.

%% * YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Literally

* BitchInSheepClothing: [[spoiler: Acts like he is a morally sound guy within Cardan's group until he proves himself a bastard wanting to incite conflict between Jude and Taryn by playing with their affections. Then, he tries to murder Jude in the second novel...guy's an asshole.]]

The High King of Faeire, grandson of Queen Mab, who has a whish to abdicate the throne in order due to growing weary.

* ParentalFavoritism: He plans to crown his third-born son Prince Dain as the new High King, skipping his two eldest children Baleking and Elowyn, [[spoiler: It ends up dooming him and almost his entire family when Balekin interrupts the coronation demanding to be crowned instead. When Eldred refused, Balekin killed him and most of his siblings.]]

Classmate and friend of Cardan's

Classmate and friend of Cardan's

Classmate and friend of Cardan's

%% * Half-HumanHybrid

* ParentalFavoritism: He plans to crown his third-born son Prince Dain as the new High King, skipping his two eldest children Baleking and Elowyn, [[spoiler: It ends up dooming him almost his entire family when Balekin interrupts the coronation demanding to be crowned instead, when Eldred refused he was killed by him.]]

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* OffscreenBreakup: [[spoiler: Heather did not appreciate Vivi glamouring her.]]

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* BitchInSheep'sClothing: [[spoiler:Fools Jude into thinking of him as an honorable character until she learns of his ordering the slaughter of his father's concubine impregnated with Dain's child.]]

* DriventoSuicide: [[spoiler: Heartbreakingly kills herself to stop Balekin.]]

* Self-fulfilling Prophecy: [[spoiler: Failing to kill his son, Oak, fulfills the prophecy of him never being crowned king.]]

* SatelliteCharacter: [[spoiler: Only converses with her siblings and little is known of her personality.

* DriventoSuicide: [[spoiler: Heartbreakingly to stop Balekin.]]

* SelfSacrificingHero: [[spoiler: Instead of idly sitting by while Balekin takes the throne she chooses to die disproving of his methods of taking the throne and refuses to allow him be crowned king.]]

* BiTheWay: Heather mentions that she is bi when wondering why Vivi hasn't introduced her to her parents, Jude thinks that this would be the thing that Madoc wouldn't object.