History Literature / TheColdestGirlInColdtown

* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's hard to feel bad for [[BigBrotherBully Aleksander]] when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] shoots him through the heart in a duel.

* MortonsFork: [[spoiler:Gavriel's older brother puts him in this dilemma by showing up drunk to their duel. Gavriel can kill his brother when he's too drunk to defend himself, making it an [[PyrrhicVictory honor-less victory]] and be ridden with guilt for the rest of his life. Or he could walk away from the duel, forfeiting his honor and being marked a craven (in a society where upholding honor is SeriousBusiness) for the rest of his life. Either way, his honor is forfeit and the rest of his emotional life is ruined. Gavriel figures that since he's damned either way, might as well KickTheSonOfABitch.]]

* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor obsessed with vampires and immortality.]]

* LongTitle: With a description of ProtagonistTitle and a mention of ThePlace she's in.

* TheVamp: Elisabet is hinted at having been this before living in Coldtown.

* TransRelationshipTroubles: The book features an interesting version, Valentina is a trans woman who has a crush on her friend Jameson. One of the main reasons she won't pursue a relationship with him is that she's afraid if he found out about her being trans, he'd reject her. Turns out [[spoiler: that Jameson also had a crush on Valentina and that he genuinely doesn't care about her being trans at all]].

* TransRelationshipTroubles: The book features an interesting variation, Valentina is a trans woman who has a crush on her friend Jameson. One of the main reasons she won't pursue a relationship with him is that she's afraid if he found out about her being trans, he'd reject her. Turns out though though [[spoiler:that he also had a thing for her as well and that he genuinely doesn't care about that at all]].

* TransEqualsGay: Averted. [[spoiler:Valentina is a transwoman. The narrative makes it clear that she is ''female'', and she has a crush on Jameson as a girl who likes a boy, not as a gay boy dressed as a girl who who likes another boy. In fact, the main reason she won't pursue him is she's afraid he wouldn't like her without her underwear on.]]

* MindGameShip: [[invoked]] How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan. He often complained of ex-girlfriends acting like [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy jealous girls]], but then kept flirting and making out with other people while carefully watching her reaction. Tana felt compelled to shrug it off and pretend it didn't bother her so as not to appear ''uncool'', to win his unspoken mind games. Then he dumped her over Twitter anyway.

* AmicableExes: Tana and Aiden, more or less. They're not dating anymore, but they're still friends and care about each other. Though she does find him pretty exasperating at times.

* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Tana to Gavriel on their way to Coldtown. Gavriel's vampiric strength and hunger, coupled with his scattered thoughts and erratic behavior, leaves the other human characters freaked out. [[spoiler:He also attacks and almost drains Aiden, Winter, and Midnight, in short order.]] Only Tana has any semblance of control over him, since [[MoralityChain she's the only person he'll listen to]].

* DomesticAbuser: Aiden openly cheated on Tana without countless girls (and boys), played mind games with her while they were together, then dumped her over Twitter.

* ForegoneConclusion: Since Aiden has never even ''tried'' to control his [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] impulses, and beating the Cold requires fighting the uncontrollable urge to drink human blood for over ''sixty eight days'', he feels it's only a matter of time before he succumbs. [[spoiler:He's right.]]

* TheHedonist: Aiden, who fully admits he never even tried to contain his desires.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Aiden was self-centered and thoughtless even ''before'' the trauma of seeing all his friends slaughtered and getting infected and tied up as a meal for Gavriel. In fact [[spoiler: being a vampire actually ''improves'' his personality, which maybe says something.]] However, his worst behavior afterwards is explicitly at least half-driven by a SurvivorsGuilt -induced deathwish, and in the end he helps Tana by [[spoiler: finding and protecting Pearl.]]

* TheLoad: Aiden is dead weight during his recue and trip to Coldtown, and both Tana and Gavriel lampshade it many times.

* MauveShirt: While he gets more characterization than random side characters, Winter has significantly less dialogue and characterization than the rest of the group on their way to Coldtown (Tana, Aiden, Gavriel, and Midnight), so so in a book where AnyoneCanDie you know he isn't long for this world.

* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and maybe doesn't want to go to Coldtown, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].

* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and doesn't want to go to Coldtown, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].

* DomesticAbuser: Aiden openly cheated on Tana without countless girls (and boys), played mind games with her while they were together, then dumped her over Twitter anyway.

* DomesticAbuser: Adrien openly cheated on Tana without countless girls (and boys), played mind games with her while they were together, then dumped her over Twitter anyway.

* TheLoad: Adrien is dead weight during his recue and trip to Coldtown, and both Tana and Gavriel lampshade it many times.

* TheHedonist: Adrien, who fully admits he never even tried to contain his desires.

* ClothingDamage: Tana's outfits frequently suffer this, but it serves as an indication of trauma rather than fanservice. She even lampshades this.

* AerithAndBob: You have people named AwesomeMcCoolname Midnight and Winter along with Aidan and Pearl. Subverted in that [[spoiler: Midnight's and Winter's real names are Jenny and Jack Gan. [[DoNotCallMePaul But don't call Midnight that.]]]]

* BastardBoyfriend: Adrien openly cheated on Tana without countless girls (and boys), played mind games with her while they were together, then dumped her over Twitter anyway.

* VampireVannabe: The motivations for humans who go to Coldtowns.

* PetTheDog: Aidan may be [[YourCheatingHeart kind of a dick]], but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.

* YourCheatingHeart: Aiden to Tana frequently when they were together, which is part of why they broke up.

* BiTheWay: Aiden will kiss another boy as soon as he'll kiss a girl, though he seems to mostly date the latter.

* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's relationship. He shamelessly flirted with other girls ([[BiTheWay and boys]]), and she pretended not to care. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.

* AmicableExes: Tana and Aiden, more or less. They're not dating anymore, but they're still friends and care about each other. Though she does find him pretty exacerbating.

* BastardBoyfriend: Adrien openly cheated on Tana without countless girls (and boys) played mind games with her while they were together, then dumped her over Twitter anyway.

* DepravedBisexual: Adrien is the only openly bi character, and of course he's selfish, hedonistic, promiscuous and unfaithful. He cheated on Tana constantly when they were together, and doesn't even try to control his bloodlust when he's infected [[spoiler:casually attacking Tana after all she did to try to help him]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Gavriel]] is the Thorn of Istra.

* ForegoneConclusion: Since Aiden has never even tried to control his impulses, and beating the Cold requires fighting the uncontrollable urge to drink human blood for over ''sixty eight days'', he feels it's only a matter of time before he succumbs. [[spoiler:He's right.]]

* ItAmusedMe: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Gavriel was planning on letting Lucien's men take him back to his lair so he could kill him from the novel's beginning. However, he let Tana rescue him at the start of the novel because he was curious to see how the little detour would carry out, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe partly because he was touched that someone chose to save him for the first time in his life]].]]

* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. He shamelessly flirts with other girls ([[BiTheWay and boys]]), and she pretends not to care. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.

* MindGameShip: [[invoked]] How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan. He often complained of ex-girlfriends acting like [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy jealous girls]], but then kept flirting and making out with other people while carefully watching her reaction like he wanted to get a rise out of her. Tana felt compelled to shrug it off and pretend it didn't bother her so as not to appear ''uncool'', to win his unspoken mind games. Then he dumped her over Twitter anyway.

* MortonsFork: [[spoiler:By showing up drunk to the duel, Gavriel's older brother puts him in this dilemma. He could either kill his own brother when he's too drunk to defend himself, making it an [[PyrrhicVictory honor-less victory]] and be ridden with guilt for the rest of his life. Or he could walk away from the duel, forfeiting his honor and being marked a craven (in a society where upholding honor is SeriousBusiness) for the rest of his life. Either way, his honor is forfeit and the rest of his emotional life is ruined. Gavriel figures that since he's damned either way, might as well KickTheSonOfABitch.]]

* ShipperOnDeck: Tana to [[spoiler:Valentina and Jameson.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Gavriel's ''entire backstory''. His BigBrotherBully seduced his fiance and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel challenged him to a duel, which Aleksander didn't even take seriously enough to show up sober, giving him a SadisticChoice to either murder a man who couldn't defend himself, or face the shame of backing out of the duel forever. He killed his brother for it, which caused his fiance to commit suicide, and him to have to leave his mom and sister. Then he got [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]], and was later offered a servant girl to complete the transformation, which he refused to spare her life. Later, [[StartOfDarkness he accidentally massacred an innkeeping family during his transformation]], and found out [[AllForNothing Lucien killed the girl anyway]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. He was then manipulated by his master to take the fall for creating him in the first place, but was made into the Spider's personal hitman instead. Then, his old master Lucien decided to taunt him by deliberately creating targets that resembled his brother. Finally broken down from the jests, he let one go, [[NoGoodDeed and was then tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak.]] DrivenToMadness indeed.

** Gavriel is a former assassin (not to mention the series' strongest vampire after [[spoiler: imbibing the Spider's blood]]), but his troubles stretch back for centuries. [[spoiler:His brother stole his lover and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel killed his brother for it, which causes the girl to commit suicide. Then he gets [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]] and [[StartOfDarkness accidentally massacres an innkeeping family during his transformation]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. To top it all off, he was [[NoGoodDeed tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak.]] [[TheWoobie It's a wonder he's still functional]].