History Tsundere / Literature

* Aria H. Kanzaki of ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' is a full-blown Harsh type towards the main character.

* Mel from ''Literature/CrownDuel'' is Sweet to such an extent that [[spoiler: Shevraeth]] has to resort to wooing her through anonymous letters.

* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' Daylen is a male Tsundere, but only towards [[BrokenBird Lyrah]]. (To everyone else, he's a [[MoodSwinger Mood Swinging]] JerkWithAHeartOfGold.) He's initially very uncomfortable around her, [[BerserkButton getting angry]] and shouting at her over [[RantInducingSlight minor things]]. After many apologies (from him) and her pushing his KindnessButton, he acts “like the perfect gentleman,” opens doors for her, goes into his playful moods, and thinks about her in distinctly affectionate terms.

* ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'': Lan Wangji is mostly a {{kuudere}}, but he exhibited tsundere-like traits towards Wei Wuxian pre-timeskip. He enforced the rules more harshly than necessary during his time in Cloud Recesses, coldly rebuffing all his attempts to befriend him, which all turned out to be because he'd fallen in LoveAtFirstSight with him and had no idea how to properly deal with it due to a buttload of issues. Unfortunately, this backfired horribly, since it lead everyone around him including Wei Wuxian to believe he hated him, which made it near impossible to help him when the rest of the cultivation world turned on him after he became the Yiling Patriarch. By the time Wei Wuxian returns in the present day, he's completely abandoned the tsundere traits and has gone full kuudere, but he still has difficulty verbaly communicating his feelings, so it still takes the whole book for the misunderstandings to fully clear up.

* Harrow in ''Literature/GideonTheNinth''. Just look at how often she calls Gideon an idiot, while becoming a flustered mess when Gideon hugs her. Deconstructed in that her treatment of Gideon has created a lot of emotional baggage between them and is a huge roadblock to Gideon trusting her. [[spoiler:Reconstructed after they have a long, honest conversation; Harrow is still this trope, but now that their relationship is in a better place, their back-and-forth is less loaded and tense, and more affectionate.]]

* Alia slowly transforms into this after she mellows out. She definitely remains on the prickly side, though.

* Rangi the firebender is this in ''Literature/RiseOfKyoshi''. While she is often seen as prickly and angry to outsiders, she is almost always sweet to Kyoshi.

** Sandstorm's daughter, Squirrelflight, became a second generation tsundere, since her mother passed her personality to her. Squirrelflight is the most fitting to this trope since in some ways, is even worse than Sandstorm. Squirrelflight is a proud, independant, incredibly impulsive, very rude and a spitfire of a warrior, making her Harsh, though she agruably [[CharacterDevelopment had mellowed out with age]]. Squirrelflight's relationship with her mate Brambleclaw was that of any Main Character/Tsundere couple. She was greatly annoyed with his bossy attitude and hated him. Over the course of the The New Prophecy Series, Squirrelflight fell deeply in love with Brambleclaw and they got together.

* Sophie from the French novel ''Les Malheurs de Sophie'' seems to fit to this trope. She's always fighting with her cousin Paul, but also really loves him.

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* Princess Eilonwy from Creator/LloydAlexander's ''[[Literature/PrydainChronicles The Chronicles of Prydain]]'' says "Taran, I'm not speaking to you" about five times a novel, and as the last line of at least the first three.

All the heavy reading in the world won't get past your little brain! Now study already!

Leaving to {{Tsundere}} already? Well, then, go and fail for not studying enough. [---Thank you for studying with me, a-at least.---]

* The title character of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' is an extremely sweet, warm, and expressive girl always searching for kindred spirits, but say something insulting about her red hair and she will reveal a temper to match. This is her BerserkButton. She reveals her tsuntsun side to people other than her love interest GilbertBlythe, but her rage towards him (for making fun of her red hair) is significant, and indicative of BelligerentSexualTension.

* Adora Belle Dearheart from Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', though she's more ''dere-dere'' towards the golems with which she works at the golem trust.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', specifically in Bluestar's Prophecy, Bluestar was seen as Harsh towards her mate Oakheart. She would lose all her patience with him and was quite snappy, especially when she was in denial about her feelings for him since she couldn't be mates with a cat from another Clan. Despite this, Bluestar geniunely loved Oakheart and since their parting, he was the only cat she ever truly loved.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' gives us a rare male version: Sandor [[{{Jerkass}} Clegane]]. He's of the titanically, emotionally screwed-up and repressed variety thanks to his [[AbusiveParents absolutely]] [[BigBrotherBully horrendous]] [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror childhood]]. As a result, he's no stranger to using [[BloodKnight frustration and rage to lash out and kill or maim others]] with under a StrawNihilist, TheStoic exterior. But, that he could still find it in himself to [[MoralityPet care about two specific others]]? [[KnightInSourArmor Knocked him for six]]. Granted, he could [[TheCynic no more express]] ''how'' to care healthily than fly thanks to acute lack of practice [[spoiler: (neither Sansa nor Arya left unscathed by his worry over them--for all they both would have wound up in far worse shape without him)]]. However, it's still both his triumph and tragedy that he ''could'' care: despite his father's best efforts to turn him into a [[TheBrute dehumanised attack dog]] like his brother, the little boy who could care for others is still somewhere in there. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And, had always made his anger and disappointment with world that much hotter, in fact]]. [[TheAlcoholic Sadly, also the anger at himself]] for not living up to [[NobleDemon ideals he always denied he could have]].

* Shairn in [[Creator/{{LeighBrackett}} Leigh Brackett's]] ''The Starmen of Llyrdis''. At the end, she straight-up tells Trehairne that she hates him for what he's done, but then she tells him that she loves him, and asks whether he'll have on those grounds. He realizes that they will never have a peaceful life together, but he says yes.

** While not fully well-known (due to being post-mortem characters), this seems to be how Lily Evans was with her future husband, James Potter. Initially, she did not like him very much, thinking him of a showoff while also not liking him because of the fights he had with her friend [[spoiler: Severus Snape.]] Yet, there were some hints of this. Harry sees a memory of back when they were in Hogwarts; With James winning a Quidditch game and him being tossed in the air, all while Lily looks at the specactle rolling her eyes yet smiling as well. It would also explain how she went from disliking him in fifth year to dating in seventh year.

* Leafpool from the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series became a Sweet tsundere over time. She was originally, while an apprentice, a very meek and soft-spoken individual with a calm and controlled profile, much different from both her mother Sandstorm and sister Squirrelflight. As she got older, Leafpool became more bossy and ill-tempered, becoming a full-blown Sweet Tsundere in The Power of Three. Leafpool still is usually very gentle and kind despite a slight temper. She is both a romantic and non-romantic example. Leafpool was annoyed by her former mate Crowfeather's prickly attitude, but realized that she actually loved him when he confessed his love after saving her. The non-romantic example of this is her relationship with Jayfeather. Leafpool loves her son dearly and is protective over him, though they often got into arguments since her son had inherited Crowfeather's personality. This was especially seen when Jayfeather was her apprentice, her patience always being a short fuse with him particularly.

* Sophie from the French novel ''Les Malheurs de Sophie'' seems to fit to this trope. She uses to fight with her cousin Paul, but also really loves him.

** Yellowfang, the prickly medicine cat of both ShadowClan and ThunderClan. She is often characterized as grumpy and obstinate, with a tongue described as "sharp as thorns." However, she holds a surprising amount of inner compassion in her heart despite her rough exterior; her softer side was usually brought out through her relationships with Cinderpelt (her apprentice), Raggedstar (former mate), Brokenstar (son) and Firestar (who she claimed was like a son to her while on the verge of death).

* ''Literature/ShadesOfGrey'': Jane. She is so Tsun, the Dere throws you off rails, but suddenly there it is.
* ''Literature/LightAndDarkTheAwakeningOfTheMageknight'': Instead of the 'ulra-violent mood swinging' of the modern tsundere, Sabrina is more like the classic tsundere. Her 'civilian mask' is friendly and sweet but she's actually aloof and focused on knight training. When she develops feelings for Danny she stubbornly refuses to acknowledge them yet still shows tantalizing displays of affection.