History Characters / ZeroSight

* TheSmartGuy: Science fair winner full-merit scholarship awardee. The only student in Elliot to beat [[BadassBookworm Jules']] score in

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Was warned multiple times by Rei not to react to the sights he is about to see, or interfere, while they are in the elevator of one of the Bathory's safe houses. Still walks to a dying girl to comfort her, almost cause a battle they had no chance of winning.

--->'''Dieter''': We go to a school in the sticks, gossip is life.

A genius mage and druid

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The current wielder of Excalibur

* NoSell: They all have varying levels of resistance against the vampires mind manipulation. It is the main reason they are chosen to be part of Lamba, since that is the only squad in Elliot that has a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampire]] in it.

* TrainingFromHell: They undergo one at the hands of one of the agents from ICE. The first day ends with their captain's confidence crushed and four of them in medical care.

Dieter is the sole child of an abusive single father, a perennial schoolyard brawler, and Ted Binion High's number one academic prospect. Dieter is terrified of staying poor, has few friends and is absolutely obsessed with earning a college scholarship. He's also a latent mage.

A second year student at Elliot College and ambassador to the vampires. Due to a childhood spent living cloistered among her kin she knows little of modern society and has odd speech and mannerisms.

** While in [[RedEyesTakeWarning vampire mode]] holds down a frightened Dieter long enough to remind him that she can feed on any time she wants and there's nothing he can do about it.

* DesperatelyCravesAffection: With a MissingMom and [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]] as parents, its no wonder Dieter feels so good about being treated by Dr. Montgomery during his hospital stay and gets attached to Rei so quickly after he patches him up.

* FirstPersonSmartass: His running commentary provides many of the series funniest moment.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Her answer to why she was looking at Dieter's pant pocket while he slept.
-->'''Dieter''': There was a most curious bulge!

* {{Dhampyr}}: Quarter dhamphyr. It's the reason Rei's blood heals him and Hans fails to turn him.

* TheMole: For Talmax

!The Magus

!The Werewolves
[[folder:Trey Easton]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Rei does this to him
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!The Nostophorus

!Humans
[[folder:Lauren Curray]]
* HotScoop: A very determined and good looking journalist
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!Other Characters

* {{Dhampyr}}: Quarter dhamphyr actually. It's the reason Rei's blood heals him and Hans fails to turn him.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Was warned multiple times by Rei not to react to the sights he is about to see, or interfere, while they are in the elevator of one of the Bathory's safe houses. Still walks to a dying girl to comfort her, almost cause a battle they had no chance og winning.

->''Dieter, I cannot have you waking around in public covered in our enemies' blood. Relations are tenous and appearances matter.''

A second year student at Elliot College and ambassador to the vampires. Due to a childhood spent living cloistered among her kin she knows little of modern society and has odd speech and mannersisms.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When she is introduced during the bus trip to Elliot, Rei's speech patterns are strange and she uses wrong words at times (asking Dieter if he was broken, for example), even though she seems to speak fluent english. She is also genuinely suprised that Dieter wouldn't know her name. A few chapters later the oddness is limited to her constant use of aliterations and archaich words and she is much better socially adjusted.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Asks Dieter if he succeded in killing a classmate that had goaded him into a fight and later decided not to warn him about the magic bomb in his pocket because he lost her blood coolers.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Uses her body to soften Dieter's fall from a cliff, getting her skin pulverized, nose crushed and neck cut. Calmly talks to Dieter while holding him against with a hand and using the other to reset her nose.

** To Monique, questioning why she had let a single oppenent send four of her teammates to the infirmary while she, the team's captain, was unharmed.

* BadassAdorable: A small blond girl with heavy irish accent, who is the youngest adept mage of her generation
* BadassBookworm: Earned Elliot's lone Dean's Scholarhip.

* BeautifulAllAlong: First when all her clothes are lost during the attack on Elliot and she has to borrow Sadie's jeans and tshirt, which show off her curves. Then again when Ayaan forces her to wear a green cocktail dress to a formal dinner.

* NoodleIncident: Tried to teleport her mother's paella into Elliot. The college's protective wards caused her spell to partially fail, resulting in the recipient the paella was in exploding and making Labda Squad's building stink of fish.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He is introduced as a stupid jock that likes to make lewd jokes and play pranks on others, but melows a lot on the second book.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: With Rei, who he considers an honorable opponent.

* TooDumbToLive: Wait, we have a vampire student among us now? She is faster and stronger than us? She can regenerate broken ribs and a collapsed lung in seconds? She can control us just by looking at us in the eyes? Her entire race is composed of merciless killers? I know, let's call her names and try to get her expeled. No, better yet, let's take a picture of her taking a shower!
* TrenchcoatBrigade: The standard uniform includes a gray robe that doubles as anti-magic armor so students don't get hurt when a spell fails.

->''Oh, hush, magus. We've just started our relationship and you're already hurting my feelinhs.''

* MeaningfulName: Resnick is the americanized spelling of Jewish Reznik, which means "Butcher"

* Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Dante.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Jules assumes Dieter and Rei had sex after he tells her they went to her cabin to dry themselves in front of the fireplace. Dieter denies it vehemently, much to the dismay of the rest of the caffeteria who is eavesdropping.
* StuffBlowingUp: The student dormitories in Elliot.

biochemistry.

* DisproportionedRetribution: Asks Dieter if he succeded in killing a classmate that had goaded him into a fight and later decided not to warn him about the magic bomb in his pocket because he lost her blood coolers.

* Badass Bookworm: Earned Elliot's lone Dean's Scholarhip.

* Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Dieter.

* {{Determinator}}: Is dying from being electrocuted and lost most of the fingers in his hand, but still manages to create a PsychicLink between himself and Rei and conjure an AbsurdlySharpBlade for Rei to fight the mooks.

* SharingABody: With the very evil... thing... in his head.

* TheSmartGuy: Science fair winner full-merit scholarship awardee. The only student in Elliot to beat [[BadassBookworm Jules']] score in biochemestry.

* BreakTheCutie: At eight years old she killed her only friend/caretaker when the vampire's urge to feed manifested for the first time. It torments her to this day.

* InSeriesNickname: Ms. Fangtastic, Count Chocula, Fanger, Bunnycola, Baby Rays.

* TheReasonYouSuck: Delivers one to Dieter after he implies that she is going out to feed on humans.

[[folder:Maria]]

[[folder:Monique]]

* InSeriesNickname: Ms. Fangtastic, Fanger, Bunnycola, Baby Rays.

* IdiotBall:

[[folder:Dante]]

** Kills a group of Mexican hitman, leaving only one alone. Proceeds to phsycologically torment him.

!Elliot Students and Staff

[[folder:Dean Joseph Albright]]
* TheMentor: To both Rei and Dieter.

* Dhampyr: Quarter dhamphyr actually. It's the reason Rei's blood heals him and Hans fails to turn him.
* Determinator: Is dying from being electrocuted and lost most of the fingers in his hand, but still manages to create a PsychicLink between himself and Rei and conjure an AbsurdlySharpBlade for Rei to fight the mooks.

* Ambadassador: She is a Badass and the vampires' ambassador in Elliot College.
* Badass: She can take down werewolves and trolls using a box cutter.

* Berserk Button:

* Determinator: Tries to get back up on her feet after getting electrocuted, even with her face bashed in, multiple broken bones and a collapsed lung.

* BatmanGambit: Uses Talmax's plan to revive Mexico and Dieter's own hero tendencies to get him to break the seal holding an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abomination]].
* BiggerBad: She is the one actually in control of Talmax.
* TheVamp: Evil, sexy, and bends [BigBad Diego Carrera] to her will.

Dieter

* IdiotBall:
** He refuses to take the time to learn the truth about the creatures and myths of the world he lives in, even though multiple characters tell him to. This gets taken advantage of when an apparently friendly character gives him an [[IncrediblyObviousBomb incredibly obvious magic bomb]] telling him it's a departing gift.
* ThanksForTheMammary: Rei's, during the trop to Las Vegas.

Rei
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Flays alive a mage mook and licks her hand clean in front of him. Becomes an example of TortureIsIneffective because the guy had no memories

Jules
* AccidentalPervert:

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A group of students chosen specifically for their combat prowess and resistance to vampire mind powers. The following tropes applies to the squad as a whole:

* NoSell: They all have varying levels of resistance against the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent nostophorus']] [[MindManipulation glamour]]. It is the main reason they are chosen to be part of Lamba, since that is the only squad in Elliot that has a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampire]] in it.
* BadassCrew: These guys can cast [[DeathRay death ray spells]], teleport in and out of buildings, create cones of silence, kill werewolves and trolls with box cutters, encase their fists in fire, shroud from enemies and more.

* TrainingFromHell: They undergo one at the hands of one of the agents from ICE. The first day ends with their captains confidence crushed and four of them in medical care.

* BadassInDistress: Gets captured during the battle at the Over the Top. He is rescued by Rei, but the manner in which it happens is part of the reason for the book's [[DownerEnding downer ending]].
* CombatClairvoyance: His Sight warns him of incoming danger.

* Determinator:
** During the series first serious battle, Dieter is dying from being electrocuted, but still manages to create a [[PsychicLink weft link]] between himself and Rei and conjure a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sword from the Midden]] for Rei to fight the mooks.
* FirstPersonSmartass: His running commentary provides many of the series funniest moment.

* IdiotBall: Dieter seems to have a special relationship with the ball, considering how many times he screws up.
** In the throes of a [[HeroicBSOD heroic BSD]] caused by the realization that he enjoys murdering, Dieter starts running through Elliot's forest at night... straight into a cliff.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In his attempt to stop the [[BigBad big bad's]] plan, Dieter unknowingly breaks a seal and release an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abomination]]
* PopCulturedBadass: His jokes frequently involve mentions of Star Wars and many other series.

* TheSmartGuy: Science fair winner and full-merit scholarship winner. The only student in Elliot to beat [[BadassBookworm Jules']] score in biochemestry.

Rei is a second year student at Elliot College and ambassador to the vampires. Due to a childhood spent living cloistered among her kin she knows little of modern society and has odd speech and mannersisms.

* Ambadassador: She is a [[Badass badass]] and the nostophorus' ambassador in Elliot College.

* Blood Knight: Loves a good fight.

** So far only the series [[BiggerBad bigger bad]] and one of her mooks survived after harming Dieter in front of her. The others met very gruesome ending. At one point Rei even goes [[OneWingedAngel one winged angel]] to protect him.

* BlindObedience: To Dean Albright. When one of the characters asks Rei why she is helping them when the big bad's plan would not affect her or her family, her answer is '''"Because Joseph Albright asked me to"'''

* ClingyJealousGirl: Gets irritated whenever Dieter mentions Jules. Rushes back to the hotel to stop the two from taking their relationship further even though she had just delivered a [[TheReasonYouSuck the reason you suck]] speech to him.

* DarkActionGirl: Abandons her mask of civility often and with gruesome results.
** Tortures a captured mook by flaying him with a box cutter and '''licking''' her hand clean.

** During the travel to Las Vegas, while in [[RedEyesTakeWarning vampire mode]] holds down a frightened Dieter long enough to remind him that she can feed on any time she wants and there's nothing he can do about it.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Goes from intentionally acting like a monster in front of Dieter to try to push him away to giving him a goodbye kiss at the ending of the second book.

* ShamelessFanServiceGirl: Swimming naked in your college's lake? Check. Taking a shower next to your male friend? Check. Offering said friend a picture of you naked as a reward? Check.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Dieter says covering her black hair should be a breach of the Geneva Conventions, at 5'10'' she is only smaller than Sheila, and her weft link with Dieter is causing her to develop an interest in humour.

* ExactWords: Uses Madame Freemont wording of her offering for Xenia to include Rei, stopping the woman from killing her.

* HotForTheStudent: For Dieter

* ButtMonkey: Along with Dieter he is on the receiving end of many of the jokes. Jules even captures his walk of shame for posterity.

* StatuesqueStunner: She is six feet tall.

* NoodleIncident: Tried to teleport her mother's paella into Elliot. The college's protective wards caused her spell partially fail, resulting in the recipient the paella was in exploding and making Labda Squad's building stink of fish.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Rei claims that the two bonded after their cat fight, where Rei shaved all of Monique's hair.
* DontLookAtMe: Refuses to go anywhere after getting her head shaved by Rei.
* KilledOffForReal: At the end of the second book
* TheCaptain: Promoted after Lucas' death

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A comedic example, she is called "The Florist", for her habit of getting teenage boys drunk and bedding them.

* NoSell: They all have varying levels of resistance against the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent nostophorus']] [[MindManipulation glamour]]. It is the main reason they are chosen to be part of Lamba, since that is the only squad in Elliot that has a [FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampire]] in it.

* TheSmartGuy: Duke and Harvard started a bidding war for his application.

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* Smart people play chess

!Elliot Students

* GossipyHens
* TrenchcoatBrigade

!Elliot Staff

[[folder:Dean Joseph Albright]]
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!DEA
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!Talmax
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!The Magus
[[folder:Madame Fremont]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: A very powerful Magus with no qualms about using her power to get her way.

[[folder:Dolores Fink]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A comedic example, she is called "The Florist", for her habit of getting teenage boys drunk and bedding them.

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* InSeriesNickname: Ms. Fangtastic, Fanger, Bunnycola.

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A group of students chosen specifically for their combat prowess and glamour resistance. The following tropes applies to the squad as a whole:

* NoSell: They all have varying levels of resistance against the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent nostophorus']] [[MindManipulation glamour]]. It is the main reason they are chosen to be part of Lamba, since that is the only squad in Elliot that has a [FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire not so friendly neighborhood vampire]] in it.

* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone gets at least one line, though Dieter, Rei, Dante and Jules, having the most screen time, are the most prone to this.
* TrainingFromHell: They undergo one at the hands of one of the agents from ICE who disables and crushes the confidence of half of them.

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* BadassinDistress: Gets captured during the battle at the Over the Top. He is rescued by Rei, but the manner in which it happens is part of the reason for the book's [[DownerEnding downer ending]].
* CombatPragmatist: Being the weakest mage in the Lambda Squad, he frequently resorts to sneak attack's to take down his enemies.

** During the series first serious battle, Dieter is dying from being electrocuted after a spell backlashes, but manages to create a [[PsychicLink weft link]] between himself and Rei and conjure a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sword from the Midden]] for Rei to fight the mooks.
* FirstPersonSmartass: On dozens and dozens of occasions. Check the series Funny page for some.

** In the throws of a [[HeroicBSOD heroic BSD]] caused by the realization that he enjoys murdering, dieter starts running through Elliot's forest... straight into a cliff.
* IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: Shortly after arriving in Elliot, Dieter watches as Ichigo helps a girl escape from a spell who backfired. As he discribes what he is seeing, Dean Albright that Dieter already has the Sight and Dieter comments that he thought it was something normal for mages. Also part of the serie's Nightmare Fuel when Albright explains how a mage acquires it.

* NeverLiveItDown: Lambda squad refuses to let him cast any spells near them due to his habit of causing mayhem.
** His first spell killed a boy and blew up a school building.
** His second spell almost drowned him and Saddie in a sphere of juice.
** His third spell set fire to multiple mooks and a building.

* SelectiveObliviousness: Is so infatuated with Rei that he constanly downplays or ignores the fact the she feeds on people for a living. Various characters call him on it.

* TookALevelInBadass: [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Rei, who comments that whereas his spells initially killed a single person, now he can kill four of them with a single spell.
* WhiteKnighting: For Rei, whenever one of Elliot's students says she can't be trusted because she is a vampire

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* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Jules Betty and Dieter's Archie.
* BlindObedience: To Dean Albright. When one of the characters asks Rei why she is helping them when the big bad's plan would not affect her or her family, her answer is "Because Joseph Albright asked me to"
* BreakTheCutie: When the vampire's urge to feed appeared for the first time when she was eight, Rei killed her only friend/babysitter and enjoyed doing so. It torments her to this day.
* TheReasonYouSuck: Delivers a one to Dieter after he implies that she is going out to feed on humans.

'''Rei wiped off her hand like it was dirty'''\\

* ChallengeSeeker: Frequently ignores the main advantages that vampires have over normal humans in favour of a frontal attack just because she likes a challenge. Dieter lampshades it when she is about to start a fight with a mage from the council who has already demonstrated she is badass:
-->'''Shitty odds gets Rei all hot and bothered.'''

* Badass in Distress: Gets captured during the battle at the Over the Top. He is rescued by Rei, but the manner in which it happens is part of the reason for the book's [[DownerEnding downer ending]].
* Combat Pragmat: Being the weakest mage in the Lambda Squad, he frequently resorts to sneak attack's to take down his enemies.
* Determinator:

* First-Person Smartass: On dozens and dozens of occasions. Check the series Funny page for some.

* MissinMom: She left shortly after giving birth to him. His father destroyed all her photos and refuses to talk about her.
* NeverLiveitDown: Lambda squad refuses to let him cast any spells near them due to his habit of causing mayhem.

* Selective Obliviouness: Is so infatuated with Rei that he constanly downplays or ignores the fact the she feeds on people for a living. Various characters call him on it.