History Characters / ThePowerOfFive

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In ''Pentagram'', Richard was more comedically bumbling, and a bit of a ButtMonkey. This one is more serious and mature.

* SuperpowerLottery: Their power sets might be pretty standards in supernatural fiction, but the full extent of how they can use them makes it crystal clear that they won it big time.

* BigDamnHero: [[spoiler: His past self and Scott, right in the FinalBattle against [[GodOfEvil Chaos]].]]

* TheLancer: Shares this role with Pedro, being the deuteragonist and the ones who goes with Matt to Hong Kong.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Is Native American, and has magic powers, but doesn't really fulfill the trope otherwise. It's implied he and his twin are the reincarnations of some Native American mythological figures, though.
* MindControl: He can make people do what he wants. Such power don't come in handy in battle (until he starts ordering foes to stand still and/or off themlseves), but help him escape danger a number of times. It's also part of why Nightrise wants the twins, since [[MundaneUtility telepathy leaves no paper trail.]]

The king of the Old Ones. A being so violent that he is faceless, and only takes the vaguest shape of a man. Chaos is just a name he's been given.

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** Jamie and Scott are Sapling and Flint, also named Ioskeha and Tawiscara. They are the twin sons of the Sky Woman Ataentsic of Iroquois Mythology, and creators of humanity. The first is the god of day and summer, protector of the people, and the other is the god of night and winter, sometimes a TricksterGod, sometimes malevolent. [[spoiler:hinting Scott's betrayal.]] This duality being the reason of humanity's propensity for good and bad.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Was consistently the older brother to Jamie. Their plot starts because [[TearJerker Scott lets himself get captured so Jamie can escape.]]

* SatisfiedStreetRat: Understandably downplay. He is far from happy surviving through theft in squalor, but that's all he has and he does not want it wrecked. Sadly for you Pedro, TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive.

* EmptyShell: Jamie bemoans at the start of ''Nightrise'' that he is becoming this, closing himself from the world little by litte. He is reduced to this after his stay in [[TortureTechnician Susan Mortlake]]'s clutches. Pedro's HealingHands restore him, but cannot erase the trauma.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Breaks the seal on the gates enabling the Five to teleport across the globe, knowing full well that he won't make it.]]

* AChildShallLeadThem: Unfortunately. An unusual example, in that all the adults automatically accept this and are more worried about getting them in the right place at the right time rather than their safety.

* BadassInCharge: Past and present, once they accept their role and play along, adults and leaders defer to them. Double with AsskickingLeadsToLeadership, for their powers make them the mightiest in the armies they lead.

* TheChick: By virtue of being the only girl. Though she is not the least badass by any stretch of imagination.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He leads the Gatekeepers and is the most powerful among them.

* {{Seers}}: Has this ability too, with visions of things to come.
** Eventually he [[spoiler: just reads the story of his life in the dreamworld to know what move to make.]]

* BadassInCharge: Past and present, once they accept their role and play along, adults and leaders defer to them. Double with AsskickingEqualsAuthority, for their powers make them the mightiest in the armies they lead.

* NamesTheSame: Is the only one of the Five to have the same name in the past and the future. However, this is shown to be a coincidence. Their identities aren't defined by their names, but by their roles.