History Characters / TheMagiciansTheRealWorld

* HurtingHero: [[spoiler: Her big brother ran away after several months of being molested by a trusted family friend, her family fell apart, ''she'' was recruited for the task of stopping the monster said big brother became, and spent almost her entire adult life travelling back and forth across time - with the end goal being the brutal murder of the man who used to a supportive ParentalSubstitute to her. Yeah, Jane has not had a fun life.]]

* OutDamnedSpot: In ''The Magician King,'' Eliot mentions that Julia was in the habit of obsessively taking steam-baths at the spa where they first met, often cranking up the heat so high that nobody could bear to be in the same room as her. [[spoiler: This ultimately turns out to be a consequences of her traumatic encounter with Renard, which resulted in Julia being raped and all but one of her friends murdered; for good measure, Julia left this encounter covered in blood.]]

* AdultFear: As an adult, Rupert was deathly afraid of what would happen to his wife and child if the Allies were to lose the war, to the point that he actually called upon the power of Ember and Umber to bring the fight to Hitler - though it didn't work. [[spoiler: Thankfully, his family survived the war, eventually resulting in the birth of Plum Polson Purchas, Rupert's great-granddaughter.]]

!! The Heist Team

!The Magical Underground
[[folder: Warren]]

[[folder: Poppy]]
!! Poppy
* AwesomeAussie: An Australian magician with a thing for dragons, a go-getter attitude and an impressive ability to adapt. After witnessing Poppy flourishing in her first battle, Quentin assumes she grew up fighting dingoes.
* BrutalHonesty: One of her main traits is that she always speaks the truth about a situation, but she never does it in a cruel manner or mean spirit.
* LeeroyJenkins: Tends to just charge in when others are moving cautiously. For example, when Josh and Julia are still discussing what they should be doing in the swamp, she just jumps right in, not knowing this is what they were supposed to do to reach Castle Blackspire.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Despite her BrutalHonesty, she will engage in whimsical activities such as jumping into the river with Quentin to contact the dragon, for the simple reason of it doubling their chances, even though the river is disgusting. She also becomes Quentin's second major love interest, but ends up with Josh after Quentin is forced to leave Fillory by Ember at the end of the second book.
* NervesOfSteel: Proves astonishingly calm under fire, especially in her first battle; by contrast, Quentin and the other Physical Kids spent their first battle struggling to be of any use.
* OnlySaneMan: Regards Quentin’s obsession with Fillory as bizarre and slightly unhealthy, pointing out that he’s ignoring the better parts of reality by accentuating the disappointing elements. For his part, Quentin has trouble believing that someone so practical could ever become a magician.
* PregnantBadass: By the third books, she's pregnant [[spoiler: with Josh's baby]], but she hasn't slowed down in the slightest - joining the journey to Castle Blackspire and enthusiastically participating in the final battle.

!The Free Trader Beowulf group

[[folder: Asmodeus]]
!! Asmodeus, AKA [[spoiler: Betty]]

* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: Adopts this as her persona while working in the magical underworld after her run in with Reynard.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler: After acquiring the knife with Quentin’s help, she leaves the story with the goal of hunting down Renard.]]
* ImprobableAge: She is the youngest member of Free Trader Beowulf, at around seventeen. Julia wonders a few times how she managed to become a hedge witch so young, and where her parents are.
* KillTheGod: [[spoiler:Asmodeus eventually uses the knife from the heist to gut Reynard like a fish, as told by Julia near the end of the trilogy]].
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler: After the encounter with Reynard, Asmodeus begins looking for a way to get revenge on him.]]

[[folder: Pouncy Silverkitten]]
!! Pouncy Silverkitten

* BrokenAce: A handsome, intelligent and successful young man who’s also a powerful magician but [[spoiler:he has suffered from terrible clinical depression all his life, to the point where he has given up on finding happiness on earth and only hopes that the deity the group is trying to summon will take him with her into heaven.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Known for his “acid sarcasm.” It turns out to be of the [[StepfordSnarker Stepford]] variety.
* HeavenSeeker: [[spoiler: Wants to summon a goddess for the sole purpose of escaping his depression-plagued life and being taken to Heaven.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Tragically subverted, Reynard the Fox wounds him, and then he offers to give his life to save Asmo and Julia. Reynard dismisses it, saying he’s dying anyway.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: His desire to summon a deity ends up getting him and most of his enclave killed, getting Julia raped and deprived of her soul, and leaving Asmodeus horribly traumatised. Worse still, his experiments end up getting the attention of the Gods and prompting them to “fix” reality - an act that would have wiped out magic everywhere and destroyed Fillory.]]
* NonIdleRich: Is the one who funds the Murs enclave, and one of the driving forces behind finding out how to harness the magic of the Gods.
* TheTeamBenefactor

[[folder: Failstaff]]
!! Failstaff
* BigFun: Failstaff's main character traits are that he is large, and he is one of the nicest members of Free Trader Beowulf

!The Chatwin Children
[[folder: Overall Tropes]]
The protagonists of the highly-popular ''Fillory And Further'' novels; starting out as a small group of young siblings sent to their home of their aunt during the chaos of World War I, they were the first to stumble upon Fillory and have adventures there - later to be documented and published by Christopher Plover.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Chatwin family was a dysfunctional mess when they first stumbled upon Fillory, and only got worse as time went on; the father was a casualty of WWI, the mother suffered a mental breakdown, the aunt never took responsibility for the children in her care, Martin was prone to mood-swings and ran away from home, Helen got so devoted to Ember and Umber that she became a religious fanatic, and Jane ran away as well.
* {{Expy}}: For the Pevensies; in particular, Martin becomes the recognized stand-in for Peter as both are the eldest siblings and both become the High Kings of their respective fantasy realms. Meanwhile, Fiona Chatwin remains the only member of the family to forget about Fillory and move on with her life, making her a stand-in for Susan.
* FreeRangeChildren: Saddled with a guardian who could barely spare a glance in their direction and living in a time before social services would have intervened, the Chatwin children took to roaming around the neighbourhood at will in search of new portals to Fillory. In fact, they met Christopher Plover by happening to barge into his house one day; [[spoiler: deconstructed - this lack of supervision resulted in Martin getting molested by Plover while alone at his house.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Chatwins were all heroes in their own adventures in Fillory, the full extent of which remain unknown thanks to Plover's artistic license. [[spoiler: Jane took it to the next level by waging a secret war against the Beast over the course of her entire adult life.]]
* KidHero: All of them had their adventures when they were very young - and weren't allowed to return to Fillory once they grew up.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: After returning from their adventures, they had to pretend to be less adept at what they'd learned in Fillory in order to avoid attracting attention. Not all of the children could keep up the façade, though.
* ParentalNeglect: The Chatwins' aunt had zero interest in actually paying attention any of them, and was usually more preoccupied in entertaining her huge entourage of potential suiters at various parties. As a result, the kids had to learn to look after themselves.
* RealAfterAll:
** Though widely known as the protagonists of a popular children's fantasy series, the Chatwins were actually real people living in the early 20th century, much to Quentin's surprise.
** Even among people who know that the Chatwins were real ''and'' are aware that magic exists, Fillory is believed to be just a tall tale made up by Christopher Plover. Even Plum - [[spoiler: Rupert Chatwin's great-grandaughter]] - initially believed that the whole thing was due to mental illness.

[[folder: Martin]]
!! Martin Chatwin
The oldest of the siblings and the first High King of Fillory.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Even in his lowest moods, he still did his best to keep Rupert safe by [[spoiler: warning him not to end up alone in Plover's house.]]
* BrokenAce: The High King of Fillory, a brave warrior and an intrepid adventurer, not to mention a natural athlete back in the real world... and yet, none of it meant anything to him by the end, overshadowed as it was by his own depression.
* ChildMage: Went out of his way to learn magic in the hopes of finding a way back into Fillory.
* ChekhovMIA: Mysteriously vanishes after fleeing into the depths of Fillory; among those who aren't aware that Fillory is real, it's widely believed that he simply ran away from home. [[spoiler: He's actually none other than the Beast.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Eventually revealed to have made a deal with Umber, exchanging his humanity for a permanent stay in Fillory. Unfortunately, without his humanity, he gradually trandformed into the Beast - and ended up becoming so dangerous that he forced both Ember and Umber into hiding.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Took revenge for Plover's repeated molestation by murdering him not long after becoming the Beast.]]
* EmoTeen: Known for being moody, bitter and prone to mood swings towards the end of his time in Fillory. His younger siblings took this as a sign that he was just going through a dodgy adolescence, and little sympathy is afforded him in Plover's books. [[spoiler: He was actually being molested by Plover.]]
* {{Escapism}}: As he spent more time in Fillory, he grew more and more contemptuous of the real world, fixating on Fillory's positive elements to the exclusion of all else - never realizing that the place was a CrapsaccharineWorld - to the point that he fled into the wilderness of Fillory and never came back.
* {{Foil}}: To Quentin, both being known for obsessing over a fantasy world where happiness is always within reach and ruining what they had in their attempts to achieve contentment.
* TheHighKing: As the eldest of the kids, serves as the High King of Fillory.
* MoodSwinger: Known for swinging wildly between periods of excitability and crippling depression as the series continued. [[spoiler: Retains this trait as the Beast.]]
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: [[spoiler: With Fillory insisting on total innocence among those who visit, Martin was the first to be excluded from the land - not just because he was growing up, but because of Christopher Plover molesting him.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: With both parents absent and the aunt having no interest in caring for the children in her care, Martin had to look after his younger siblings himself.
* TragicDream: All he wanted was to escape the horrors of the real world and stay in Fillory forever... [[spoiler: but the very reason why he wanted to stay was the same reason why Fillory wouldn't let him return.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Used to be the sweet-natured responsible member of the family, doing his best to keep his brothers and sisters happy; then he got addicted to Fillory [[spoiler: and Plover started raping him behind closed doors.]] By the end of his time on Earth, Martin was so bitter he could scarcely pretend to give a damn about his family or the real world. [[spoiler: And then he became the Beast.]]

[[folder: Fiona]]
The second-eldest member of the siblings; joined Martin on his journey to Fillory.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: After what happened to Martin, Fiona gradually drifted away from Fillory and did her best to pretend that it never existed.
* MasterArcher: Became a brilliant archer in Fillory, though she was forced to play dumb when she took archery classes back in the real world for a time - until, like the rest of her siblings, she gave up on seeming ordinary altogether.

[[folder: Rupert]]
Martin's younger brother. The middle child of the family.

* AdultFear: As an adult, Rupert was deathly afraid of what would happen to his wife and child if the Allies were to lose the war, to the point that he actually called upon the power of Ember and Umber to bring the fight to Hitler - though it didn't work. [[spoiler: Thankfully, his family survived the war, eventually resulting in the birth of Plum Polson Purchas, Rupert's great-granddaughter.]]
* ApocalypticLog: Writes his own instalment of the ''Fillory and Further'' series while waiting to die in World War II, adding a barbed ending in the dim hope that Ember and Umber might save him.
* {{Blackmail}}: Threatened to reveal the existence of Fillory - and by extension, magic - to the entire world if Ember and Umber didn't end World War II. Tragically, it didn't work.
* InnocentInaccurate: [[spoiler: As a child, he completely misinterpreted Martin's warning not to be alone around Christopher Plover, believing that Martin enjoyed being the man's protégé and was just jealous of anyone who might take his place. As an adult, Rupert realizes his mistake, now understanding that Martin had been sexually assaulted by Plover and was trying to prevent the same thing from happening to Rupert.]]
* JadeColoredGlasses: All the Chatwin kids had their innocence crushed over time, but Rupert arguably plunged deeper into cynicism than any of the others; as an adult, he cast aside any nostalgia for Fillory, gave up all hope of the Allies winning World War II, and even became convinced that his family would be doomed if he didn't go so far as to blackmail the gods of Fillory.
* PosthumousCharacter: Killed in World War II, only being known as a character due to the autobiography he leaves in his wake.
* RichReclusesRealm: Having gotten rich from the royalties granted to him by Christopher Plover, Rupert bought a spectacular manor in the countryside and almost never left until World War II, having been consumed with guilt over the events of Martin's disappearance.
* ShellShockedVeteran: His experiences in World War II destroyed what little hope and idealism Rupert had left, to the point that he was fully convinced that the Allies would lose.
* TheShutIn: Apparently spent most of his adult life as a guilt-ridden recluse before joining the army.

[[folder: Helen]]
* TheFundamentalist: Known for being a devout worshipper of Ember and Umber, to the point that she actually hid the magical buttons that would have allowed the children to return to Fillory of their own accord, believing that they were against the laws of the Rams. After Fillory, she moved to Texas and spent the rest of her days as a Christian Evangelist.

[[folder: Jane]]
The youngest of the siblings.

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest of the siblings, the last of them to visit Fillory, and known for getting overruled by her older brothers and sisters - especially Helen.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: The shyest member of the family, but no less heroic for it. [[spoiler: As an adult, she's the one to orchestrate Martin's death.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: When Martin descended into corruption and became the Beast, Jane was entrusted with the only power that could eventually ensure his death; though she tried to prevent him from ever selling his humanity to Umber, she found that history simply couldn't be rearranged that way, leaving her no choice but to pit the Physical Kids against him.]]
* ChekhovMIA: Much like Martin, she eventually fell out of contact with the rest of her family and went AWOL. [[spoiler: She's actually the taxi driver that got Alice to Brakebills and the paramedic that gave Quentin ''The Magicians'' in the first place... and most shockingly of all, she turns out to have been the Watcherwoman all along, trying to save Fillory from the Beast that Martin ultimately became.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: In-universe example. Out of all the Chatwin children, Jane is a fan-favourite, mainly because her thoughtful attitude sets her apart from the others.
* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler: Having already discovered that she was actually the past version of the Watcherwoman decades ago, Jane ultimately appears before Quentin to reveal that she was once the most famous characters of the ''Fillory And Further'' series.]]
* HurtingHero: [[spoiler: Her big brother ran away after several months of being molested by a trusted family friend, her family fell apart, ''she'' was recruited for the task of stopping the monster said big brother became, and spent almost her entire adult life travelling back and forth across time - with the end goal being the brutal murder of the man who used to a supportive ParentalSubstitute to her. Yeah, Jane has not had a fun life.]]
* TheQuietOne: Known for being quite withdrawn as a five-year-old; her one-sentence response to Martin's first visit to Fillory was considered quite wordy by her standards.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: By the end of the first book, she's the last surviving member of the Chatwin siblings, having outlived most of them and arranged for the violent death of Martin.]]