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| 8 | This is a listing of characters for the ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' and ''Deptford Histories'' trilogies, as well as the ''Deptford Mouselets'' books that have been released so far. The ''Histories'' and ''Mouselets'' are categorised by book as, unlike the main trilogy, each individual one stands alone, taking place within the same universe but in different time periods and with different sets of characters. Spoilers have ''mostly'' been hidden. |
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| 11 | |
| 12 | !''The Deptford Mice'' |
| 13 | |
| 14 | !!The Mice |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[folder:Audrey Brown]] |
| 17 | [[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/audrey_1.jpg]] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | The headstrong heroine, who tends to dream and enjoys wearing lace and ribbons. She is described as having delicate features, almost like a mouse version of [[OurFairiesAreDifferent a fairy]] or elf. Stubborn, though courageous, she is not afraid to speak her mind. |
| 20 | ---- |
| 21 | * BelligerentSexualTension: Between her and Piccadilly. [[spoiler:She never gets to resolve it once Piccadilly dies]]. |
| 22 | * BerserkButton: Being told her father is dead in ''The Dark Portal''. Later subverted when she accepts the truth later on. |
| 23 | * BreakTheCutie: Throughout the books, she goes through a lot of trauma. [[spoiler:Audrey's father is violently murdered (she refuses to believe he is dead at first, but gradually comes to accept it), she is accused of being a witch and almost hanged (with the only way to save her being marriage to a friend who is not her true love), Piccadilly, the boy mouse she is in love with, is murdered before she can confess her feelings to him, she is attacked by multiple brainwashed and violent ghosts of those she knew in life (including Piccadilly, but she is able to jog his memory and tell him she loves him; though of course it is too late to do anything about it and she witnesses his crossing over to the other side), she is forced to face the BigBad Jupiter head-on multiple times, and she is tricked into becoming the (at least initially) unwilling successor of the Starwife.]] At the end she is left as a weary, melancholy shadow of her former self. She is described as having 'learned many things' and she 'no longer wears lace and ribbons'. |
| 24 | * BurnTheWitch: The Fennywolders are wrongly led to believe that Audrey is a witch, and are ready to burn her for it. [[spoiler:When Mr. Woodruffe expresses his disgust with their actions, they opt to hang her instead. However, Twit saves Audrey by [[MarriageOfConvenience marrying her]], an act which, by their laws, instantly reprieves someone accused of any crime.]] |
| 25 | * CannotSpitItOut: Just before Piccadilly leaves with Thomas, Arthur, and Barker to confront Jupiter at the power station in ''The Final Reckoning'', Audrey tries to confess her feelings to him. However, what she does manage to say comes out in an awkward and confusing manner, and before she can clearly explain what she's trying to tell him, she is interrupted. [[spoiler:She never sees him again before his death.]] |
| 26 | * TheChosenOne: She is the one prophesied to bring down Jupiter, and also [[spoiler:is picked by the Starwife to become her successor]]. |
| 27 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: As outspoken as she is, this has happened several times with Jupiter. [[spoiler:The prime example is at the end of ''The Dark Portal'', where she goads him into emerging from his pitch black lair for the first time in ''centuries''. This has the twofold reaction of busting Jupiter's deception wide open, as his rat followers felt betrayed at being made to serve a natural predator]]. |
| 28 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:She defeats Jupiter... twice!]] |
| 29 | * DisappearedDad: His disappearance is what sets the plot in motion. |
| 30 | * HearingVoices: In ''The Final Reckoning'', a voice in Audrey's head compels her to return to garden of the empty house in Deptford, in spite of the dangers of being attacked by Jupiter's spectral army. In the garden she finds a snowdrop flower that will be useful later on. |
| 31 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's hot-tempered and very snarky, but she's ultimately a nice girl who is also the heroine of the series. |
| 32 | * JuniorCounterpart: She is this to the Starwife. Coincidentally, it turns out that they even share the same name. |
| 33 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: When Audrey is battling against Jupiter and his minions, she wears her usual outfit; a lace skirt with matching collar and a pink ribbon in her hair. |
| 34 | * LittleMissSnarker: She has a fiery personality which causes her to snark and not hold her tongue in an argument. |
| 35 | * MarriageOfConvenience: [[spoiler:She married Twit not for love but to be saved from being hanged as a witch. She comes to regret the marriage as, while she's grateful to Twit for saving her, it prevents her from pursuing a romantic relationship with her true love, Piccadilly.]] |
| 36 | * TheMourningAfter: She never gets over the loss of [[spoiler:Piccadilly]], and when she is presented with a picture of him in ''The Deptford Mice Almanack'', she is overcome with emotion and runs away. When she comes back, she requests it be given to her and hangs it behind her throne. |
| 37 | * NiceMice: She is a heroic mouse. |
| 38 | * TheProtagonist: Though all the main characters have a role to play, the story focuses mostly on Audrey. |
| 39 | * PsychicLink: Audrey has this with the Starwife. At first Audrey cannot understand why, but as it turns out [[spoiler:it has to do with her becoming the Starwife's successor.]] |
| 40 | * SayMyName: "I am Audrey Brown," she shouted proudly, "and I know nothing of spells or dark magic; I place myself in the protection of the Green Mouse!" |
| 41 | * TraumaCongaLine: Where do we even begin?! |
| 42 | * UptownGirl: Audrey's relationship with Piccadilly. Her family seems fairly well-to-do (as far as mice go) and she has high class tastes, wearing fancy lace and ribbons. He is an ArtfulDodger orphan living on the streets of London. |
| 43 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: With Piccadilly. [[spoiler:[[StarCrossedLovers They never have the chance to.]]]] |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Piccadilly]] |
| 47 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/piccadilly.jpg]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | A streetsmart and cheeky grey mouse from the city who is drawn into the battle against Jupiter when he loses his way in the sewers during a foraging expedition. He falls in love with Audrey and she with him, but neither will admit their feelings for the other publicly. |
| 50 | ---- |
| 51 | * TheArtfulDodger: He fits this trope, being an orphan who has lived on the streets from a young age and is very independent. |
| 52 | * BelligerentSexualTension: Between he and Audrey. [[spoiler:It never gets resolved]]. |
| 53 | * DeadpanSnarker: He's known for his cheekiness. |
| 54 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:He and Audrey don't end up together due to circumstances beyond the control of either of them.]] |
| 55 | * TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Towards the end of ''The Final Reckoning'', he attempts to defeat the spirit of Jupiter using Audrey's mousebrass, which worked before. It doesn't this time.]] |
| 56 | * HeroicBSOD: He does this more than once in ''The Final Reckoning''. [[spoiler:First when he discovers that everyone in his home, Holeborn, has been savagely slaughtered by Morgan's rat army. Then he sees that his friend Marty did not survive the attack after all, and his skin is being used as the rats' flag.]] |
| 57 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:When Audrey is fighting for her life against the ghost of Piccadilly, who is being controlled by the evil magic of Jupiter and intends to strangle her. She is finally able to get him to remember who he was, and a tearful farewell takes place as he finds peace and crosses over to the other side.]] |
| 58 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Downplayed. He's cheeky and snarky much like Audrey, but he's a very nice and heroic mouse. |
| 59 | * NiceMice: He's a nice mouse. |
| 60 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: Morgan tells Piccadilly this during their duel, which disgusts the latter and causes him to snap out of the rage that had blinded him. |
| 61 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Barker asks him if Audrey is his girlfriend. A moment of awkwardness ensues. |
| 62 | * SurvivorGuilt: It becomes clear that he feels this way about surviving his first trip into the sewers while Albert did not. Audrey's initial perception of him as a coward who left her father to die only makes him feel worse. |
| 63 | * WillTheyOrWontThey: With Audrey. [[spoiler:[[StarCrossedLovers They never have the chance to.]]]] |
| 64 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: When Morgan expresses admiration for Piccadilly's bloodlust during their DuelToTheDeath, the latter is horrified and snaps out of the rage that blinded him to everything else. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Oswald Chitter]] |
| 68 | [[quoteright:152:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oswaldchitter.jpg]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | A sickly albino who nonetheless is very heroic. Though a runt, he is taller than the other mice and is apt to stoop. Due to his size, on one occasion he was mistaken for a young rat. |
| 71 | ---- |
| 72 | * DowsingDevice: He uses a forked hazel twig to find lost objects. |
| 73 | * TheInfiltration: He is attempting to retrieve Audrey's mousebrass in the midst of a bunch of sleeping rats when they suddenly awaken. He thinks he's done for, but they actually mistake him for a young rat. Though a bit insulted, he goes along with it and, calling himself Whitey, he works in the mines with them for a while... [[spoiler:until he realises Jupiter's plan to bring back the Black Death and escapes.]] |
| 74 | * NiceMice: He's a mouse and heroic. |
| 75 | * ThePoorlyChosenOne: Sort of. The bat Ashmere was given a prophecy by the Lady of the Moon that "a mouse with pink eyes would save all". [[spoiler:He doesn't, though he is very courageous in facing [[BigBad Jupiter]].]] |
| 76 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Subverted in ''The Crystal Prison''. The book begins with him being deathly ill, and it seems certain that he will not make it. Then he is healed by the magic of the Starwife. [[spoiler:Death does finally catch up to him in ''The Final Reckoning'', though]]. |
| 77 | * UnlikelyHero: You wouldn't think a frail albino runt would be capable of acts of bravery, but there you'd be wrong. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:William "Twit" Scuttle]] |
| 81 | [[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twit.jpg]] |
| 82 | The cousin of Oswald Chitter who lives in the country, he is the result of the union of a house mouse and a field mouse. He is thought of as having "no cheese upstairs" (in other words, as a simpleton), but there is much more to him than that. Several times he has proven his intelligence and bravery. |
| 83 | ---- |
| 84 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: You do ''not'' want to threaten his friends! |
| 85 | * CountryMouse: Literally! |
| 86 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He is ''perceived'' as an idiot, but when danger appears, [[LetsGetDangerous he will prove how tough he really is]]. |
| 87 | -->Twit was breathing hard. No one had ever known this mood in the little field mouse and the crowd gasped and wondered at the outcome. Twit's teeth flashed as he bared them and he put up his fist. |
| 88 | -->"You oughtn't to have done that," he shouted, trembling with emotion. "Try it again and I'll do fer you." |
| 89 | * KindheartedSimpleton: This is how he is regarded by many. Deep down, [[HiddenDepths he's so much more]]. |
| 90 | * NiceGuy: He's incredibly goodhearted and never has a mean thing to say about anyone. |
| 91 | * NiceMice: He's a mouse who's a NiceGuy. |
| 92 | * TooDumbToLive: There is one instance where he ''does'' live up to his humiliating nickname. When he, Arthur, and Oswald enter the sewers to look for Audrey, he shouts her name as loud as he can in spite of knowing that there are bloodthirsty rats around who would definitely hear him. And they do. The three are almost killed before they happen to be rescued by Audrey and Piccadilly. |
| 93 | * UnwantedSpouse: Though she does care for him as a friend, [[spoiler:Audrey]] regrets having married Twit (she only agreed to do so to be [[MarriageOfConvenience saved from the hanging noose]]) because now she is unable to pursue her true love, Piccadilly. |
| 94 | -->"If only I had been kinder then, things might be different, he might have come to Fennywolde and I might be his wife instead. I wish Twit had let me hang." |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Arthur Brown]] |
| 98 | [[quoteright:153:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arthur_brown.jpg]] |
| 99 | |
| 100 | Audrey's brother who has a positive outlook and is steadfast in friendship. He enjoys fighting but most of the time he comes off worse. |
| 101 | ---- |
| 102 | * AuthorAvatar: Robin Jarvis always likes to insert a character based on himself ("a bit clumsy and a bit too fond of supper") in his books. Arthur is the representation of him in this series. |
| 103 | * BigEater: He really enjoys his food. |
| 104 | * BigFun: He is described as fat and jolly. |
| 105 | * CarryABigStick: His weapons of choice are sticks, which he calls "rat beaters". |
| 106 | * EvilMeScaresMe: The dark magic of the Grille causes him to say some hateful things about Audrey, and when it wears off, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he is horrified]]. |
| 107 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Granted, he was influenced by dark magic at the time, but after he realizes he said some really hateful things about Audrey, he immediately regrets it. |
| 108 | * NiceMice: He's a nice mouse. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Thomas Triton]] |
| 112 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thomas_5.jpg]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | A retired midshipmouse with a DarkAndTroubledPast. He lives in Greenwich inside the dry docked clipper ship, the ''Cutty Sark''. |
| 115 | ---- |
| 116 | * AlliterativeName: '''T'''homas '''T'''riton. |
| 117 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He blames himself for the death of his friend Woodget. |
| 118 | * TheDrunkenSailor: He loves rum, partly because it helps him to temporarily ease his guilty conscience. |
| 119 | * ILetGwenStacyDie: [[MyGreatestFailure He is haunted by feelings of guilt for killing his friend Woodget]]. This is made all the more tragic when it is revealed that [[spoiler:he was under mind control when it happened. On top of it all, he is unaware that Woodget was rescued by the siren Zenna whose song gave him amnesia. He was brought to the City of Hara in India and is presently the Holy One.]] |
| 120 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: His reaction to Bess's rejection of him in favour of Woodget. He cares deeply for both of them and so he backs down. [[spoiler:However, as fate would have it, neither of them end up marrying Bess.]] |
| 121 | * LonerTurnedFriend: When Twit first came across him, Thomas was living alone on the ''Cutty Sark''. He soon befriended the fieldmouse and became a trusted ally of the mice in the Skirtings. |
| 122 | * LoveTriangle: He and Woodget are both in love with Bess Sandibrook. She, however, only has eyes for Woodget. When she tells Thomas this after he proposes to her, he bows out gracefully, only to find that Woodget has run off. He left a note explaining his mistaken belief that Thomas' feelings for Bess are reciprocated and that he doesn't want to get in the way of their romance. Thomas sets out to find him and bring him back. |
| 123 | * MeaningfulRename: Originally Thomas Stubbs, he took on the last name Triton in tribute to his friend Woodget, who used to tease him with it after their encounter with the sea maidens. |
| 124 | * MyGreatestFailure: That he was unable to return Woodget safely to Betony Bank ''and'' was the one responsible for his death. |
| 125 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He and Woodget travel to Singapore in the hopes of finding [[TheArchmage Simoon]]. They do eventually, but they've also [[MacGuffinDeliveryService unwittingly taken the]] [[EggMcGuffin ninth fragment]] right into [[ReligionOfEvil Scale]] territory. |
| 126 | * NiceGuy: He's a heroic mouse. |
| 127 | * TalkLikeAPirate: He tends to do this. For instance he calls friends "mateys". |
| 128 | * TragicKeepsake: He always wears Woodget's blue woolen hat in memory of his friend. |
| 129 | * UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: In spite of her rejection of him and his not having seen her in years, it seems Thomas still has affectionate feelings for his boyhood crush, Bess Sandibrook. After he is wounded by an ice spear in ''The Final Reckoning'' and his fever has him talking out of his head, he imagines that [[spoiler:his future wife]] Gwen Brown is Bess and he speaks passionately to her. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Gwen Brown]] |
| 133 | The loving mother of Arthur and Audrey, who stays strong for her family amid all the horror and heartache. |
| 134 | ---- |
| 135 | * TragicKeepsake: She has her husband's mousebrass, which Piccadilly gave to her after being instructed to do so by Albert before his death. |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder:Albert Brown]] |
| 139 | The husband of Gwen, and father to Arthur and Audrey. His disappearance sets the plot in motion. |
| 140 | ---- |
| 141 | * FlayedAlive: His implied fate. |
| 142 | * SacrificialLamb: He dies in the first chapter. |
| 143 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Though only appearing briefly, it is his disappearance that sets the plot in motion. |
| 144 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He is killed almost immediately after being introduced. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Alison Sedge]] |
| 148 | [[quoteright:162:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alisonsedge.jpg]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | A vain fieldmouse girl who feels threatened by Audrey when she comes to Fennywolde. |
| 151 | ---- |
| 152 | %%* AlphaBitch |
| 153 | * ExcessiveMourning: She withdraws into her own little world after [[spoiler:Jenkin]] dies, having delusions that they are together and neglecting to groom herself. By the time of ''The Deptford Mice Almanack'', she has become so frightful in appearance that she looks more like a rat than a mouse. |
| 154 | * GreenEyedMonster: Alison is insanely jealous of Audrey, because she feels that the latter is threatening her relationship with Jenkin. |
| 155 | * HumanSacrifice: After [[spoiler:Audrey is tied into the Green Laws by her marriage to Twit]], Alison is to be the sacrifice that will allow [[spoiler:Jupiter's]] spirit to return to the living plane. She escapes after [[spoiler:Akkikuyu [[HeroicSacrifice casts herself]] into the bonfire she was to have been thrown into.]] |
| 156 | * ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Alison falsely believes Audrey is trying to steal Jenkin away from her (though the two of them have already grown apart due to her vanity). While he himself falls for Audrey (and even proposes to her), she politely refuses him and lets him know that Alison is the one for him. |
| 157 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She could be interpreted as this, as even after her semi-FaceHeelTurn to a ProudBeauty when she gets her mousebrass, she still has feelings of compassion for Jenkin. |
| 158 | * TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Jenkin]] qualifies as this to her, as he was her true love and she has an extreme SanitySlippage over his death. |
| 159 | * MaliciousSlander: She is in part responsible for making the Fennywolders believe that Audrey is evil. |
| 160 | * TheMourningAfter: Upon [[spoiler:Jenkin's]] death, she throws away her mousebrass and stops taking care of her appearance. With him gone, it is stated that she knew then that she would never marry. |
| 161 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Though she's not a hero (falling into a grey area at ''best''), this trope literally happens when she [[spoiler:breaks Akkikuyu's crystal ball, unwittingly allowing the spirit of Jupiter to escape from within.]] |
| 162 | * TheOphelia: The state she's in at the epilogue of ''The Crystal Prison'', driven mad and wearing a shabby dress with her hair disheveled. |
| 163 | * ProudBeauty: Ever since she received her mousebrass, the Sign of Grace and Beauty. Then gets flipped on its head [[spoiler:after Jenkin dies]]. |
| 164 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Jenkin's]] death sets this in motion for her. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Jenkin Nettle]] |
| 168 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jenkin.jpg]] |
| 169 | ---- |
| 170 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[DeathByChildbirth His mother died bringing him to the world]], and his grief-stricken father [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild abuses and demeans him for taking his wife away]]. [[KickTheDog He even wished that his son got carried away by an owl]]. |
| 171 | * DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:A tragic version of this. In ''Whortle's Hope'', his father says cruelly that he wishes an owl would come and carry him off so he'd never have to see him again. Guess what happens to Jenkin in ''The Crystal Prison''?]] |
| 172 | * [[spoiler:DoomedByCanon: ''Whortle's Hope'' ends on a rather happy note, but anyone who has read ''The Crystal Prison'' beforehand knows the sad fate awaiting Jenkin.]] |
| 173 | * MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: His father blames him for the death of his mother, who died while giving birth to him. |
| 174 | * MissingMom: His mother died in childbirth, which his father blames him for. |
| 175 | * WellDoneSonGuy: He is shown to be this in ''Whortle's Hope''. It's rather one-sided. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Isaac Nettle]] |
| 179 | [[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isaacnettle.jpg]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | A devoutly religious field mouse. He is the mousebrass maker of Fennywolde and scorns anyone and anything that he feels is against [[GodOfGood the Green Mouse]]. |
| 182 | ---- |
| 183 | * AbominationAccusationAttack: He convinces most of the other field mice that Audrey is evil. |
| 184 | * AbusiveParents: He is this to his son Jenkin, who he abuses physically, emotionally, and verbally for "killing" his wife in childbirth. |
| 185 | * ActivistFundamentalistAntics: His rants against Audrey, who he (wrongfully) believes is a bad influence on the Fennywolders. |
| 186 | -->"Silence, fiend of the deep cold," ranted Isaac. "Thy craft speaks for itself. It is a blasphemous effigy and mocks the design of the Green Mouse. Oh Great One, do not let us pay for the misguided deeds of the ignorant. She is the scum of vile cities, the cream of the sinners - not one of your true servants. Punish us not for her wrong doing." |
| 187 | * CondescendingCompassion: Isaac shows a condescending pity to those he sees as having welcomed sin into Fennywolde. |
| 188 | -->Isaac pointed a shaking finger at the King of the Field and cried, "What heresy is this? What sin have thee welcomed, Woodruffe?" He flung his arms open wide and yelled to the sky. "Forgive thy subject, Almighty, that he should have fallen into such folly." |
| 189 | * TheFundamentalist: Believes in the Green Mouse so fervently that he looks down on those who don't, and persecutes anyone suspected to be against his god. |
| 190 | * IWishedYouWereDead: Chillingly, in ''Whortle's Hope'' he declares to his son Jenkin in a fit of anger that he wishes he were snatched away by an owl. In ''The Crystal Prison'', that is exactly what happens and Isaac is devastated. |
| 191 | * KickTheDog: He wishes that Jenkin would get carried off by an owl so he wouldn't see his face again. [[spoiler:Guess what happens after?]] |
| 192 | * MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: He holds his son responsible for his wife's death because she died giving birth to him. |
| 193 | * MeaningfulName: His surname is Nettle, like the plant known for its stinging hairs. This is fitting due to his abrasive personality. |
| 194 | * NoIndoorVoice: He tends to do a ''lot'' of angry shouting. |
| 195 | * TargetedToHurtTheHero: Madame Akkikuyu leads Isaac to Mahooot's tree where he finds Jenkin's remains in owl pellet form along with his mousebrass, resulting in him having a HeroicBSOD. This was part of Nicodemus's plan to get Isaac enraged enough to create a mousebrass of hate to curse Audrey, which would be a crucial ingredient in the spell that would release the spirit from limbo ([[spoiler:he was really Jupiter in disguise]]). |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | !!The Rats |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Morgan]] |
| 201 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/morgan_62.jpg]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | Jupiter's lieutenant, who obeys his every command. He is a piebald rat from Cornwall and has served his master ever since throttling his predecessor, Black Ratchet. |
| 204 | ---- |
| 205 | * DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Eventually tired of being under Jupiter's thumb, so he asked Piccadilly to kill him so he could atone. When refused, he kills himself instead]]. |
| 206 | * TheDragon: To Jupiter, increasingly unwillingly. |
| 207 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He kills himself to atone for his sins after Piccadilly refuses to kill him]]. |
| 208 | * KlingonPromotion: He earned his position as TheDragon to Jupiter after throttling Black Ratchet, his predecessor. |
| 209 | * PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler:After wearying of their duel, Morgan urges Piccadilly to go ahead and kill him, as he wants to be free of Jupiter's control. When the mouse refuses after coming to his senses, [[DrivenToSuicide Morgan commits suicide.]]]] |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Madame Akkikuyu]] |
| 213 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akkikuyu.jpg]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | A fortune-telling black rat from Morocco. She is a phony, as she possesses no true magical powers, though she desperately wishes she had them. Jupiter takes advantage of this desire to enlist her into his service. |
| 216 | ---- |
| 217 | * AnimatedTattoo: The face on her ear, through which Nicodemus [[spoiler:(really the spirit of Jupiter)]] is able to speak to her. |
| 218 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wants to have magic of her own so she can truly be a genuine fortuneteller and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends have friends]]. [[spoiler:When she realizes ''just'' what she got herself into and sees Jupiter's true form as a cat, she doesn't take it well]]. |
| 219 | * CreepySouvenir: She keeps the head of a kitten drowned at birth as a macabre sort of good luck charm. After getting TraumaInducedAmnesia, she finds it in her bag and wonders why she would have such a gruesome thing. |
| 220 | %%* CrystalBall: Akkikuyu's most prized possession. |
| 221 | %%* FortuneTeller |
| 222 | %%* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition. |
| 223 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:When Akkikuyu sees that Jupiter is a monstrous cat, her mind snaps.]] |
| 224 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Madame Akkikuyu throwing herself on the bonfire to stop Jupiter's plans in the second book. While she earns *personal* redemption, Jupiter's spirit finds his way to freedom anyway...]] |
| 225 | %%* IJustWantToHaveFriends: What she truly desires most of all. |
| 226 | * {{Manchild}}: After she loses her mind, Akkikuyu is described as being "little more than a harmless mouse child dressed in a rat's skin". |
| 227 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She defies Jupiter and [[HeroicSacrifice saves Alison]] by [[SelfImmolation jumping onto a bonfire]] where she burns to death.]] |
| 228 | * SelfImmolation: [[spoiler:She leaps onto a bonfire to prevent Jupiter returning by taking possession of her body.]] |
| 229 | * TragicVillain: Deep down, she has a good heart, but is manipulated by Jupiter, who promises the real magical powers she so craves in exchange for serving him. She is hesitant to do the things he tells her to. All she really wants is [[IJustWantToHaveFriends to be happy in summer sunlight and have friends]]. |
| 230 | * TransformationOfThePossessed: In ''The Crystal Prison'', [[spoiler:the spirit of Jupiter]] plans to take possession of Madame Akkikuyu's body as his was destroyed. Akkikuyu begins to transform into a cat (much to her horror), but before [[spoiler:Jupiter]] can fully take control of her body, [[spoiler:she kills herself]]. |
| 231 | * TraumaInducedAmnesia: After seeing Jupiter crawl out of his lair, she gets this. She still is aware of her identity, but has no memory of her life prior to that point. |
| 232 | * WeatherManipulation: When there is a drought in Fennywolde, the fieldmice approach Akkikuyu in the hopes that she has some magical way to make it rain. While she herself doesn't, Nicodemus [[spoiler:(a.k.a. [[BigBad Jupiter]])]] tells her to gather ingredients to cast a rain spell -- a bird to represent air, and a fish to represent water. It works, but unfortunately, the shower doesn't last long. |
| 233 | * YouNoTakeCandle: She speaks broken English with a Moroccan accent. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | !!Deities |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:The Green Mouse]] |
| 239 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greenmouse.jpg]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | The main GodOfGood in the series, worshiped by the mice and many other woodland creatures. He is the spirit of life and growing things whose power is at its height in the spring and summer, but wanes in the winter. |
| 242 | ---- |
| 243 | * GodsHandsAreTied: This tends to be the case with the Green Mouse. He might appear and give some encouragement to the heroes, but that's about all. |
| 244 | * HaveYouSeenMyGod: The powers of the Green Mouse weaken in the winter (he actually dies temporarily and is reborn in the spring), so he is not available to protect his followers all the time. In ''The Final Reckoning'', due to the eternal cold conjured up by Jupiter, the heroes were essentially on their own with no chance of any divine intervention. |
| 245 | * PlantPerson: He is the rodent version of the mythical Green Man. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:The White Lady of the Moon]] |
| 249 | The moon goddess, revered by the bats. She is a comrade of the Green. He invited her to take part in the Midsummer's Eve celebration in Fennywolde and she worked her magic on the water of the still pool, making it taste like wine to the mice. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * {{Lunacy}}: Among other things, she is responsible for giving the bats their gift of [[{{Seers}} prophecy and insight]]. |
| 252 | * MoonRabbit: Her messenger, sent to earth in the form of a hare, is in all likelihood based on this myth. |
| 253 | * {{Seers}}: Probably this herself, as she's able to give the bats their gift of prophecy. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Jupiter]] |
| 257 | [[quoteright:337:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jupiter.jpg]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | A living GodOfEvil who dwells in the blackness of a portal in the sewers of London, and the main trilogy's BigBad. No one has seen him, not even the rats who worship him and do his bidding. |
| 260 | ---- |
| 261 | * AnimalisticAbomination: Jupiter is a borderline example even when alive, but in undeath he slides fully into this trope. In that state, he is a building-sized ghost whose mere presence freezes everything around him and whose magical might threatens the whole world. |
| 262 | * TheAntichrist: An animal version of this. The opening sentence of ''The Alchemist's Cat'' is even a derivation of a line from the Book of Revelation. |
| 263 | * BigNo: He yells this when [[spoiler:the Starglass falls from his grasp]]. |
| 264 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:He is a horrifically bloated cat whose body is covered with warts and poisonous boils poking through his ginger fur.]] |
| 265 | * CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The Cain to his deceased brother, the original Jupiter. Growing up, he had to watch Jupiter being loved and cared for by Dr. Spittle while he was abused and called "Leech" for being an ugly runt. When Jupiter was prophesied to be the "Lord of All", Leech murdered him, took his name, and became the god everyone feared]]. |
| 266 | * CameBackStrong: Although he was skilled in black magic when he was alive, after Jupiter returns as a spirit his powers are vastly increased. This is best demonstrated when he quickly and easily destroys the Anti-Cat Charm that had previously led to his death, dashing the hopes of the mice who thought it could work again. |
| 267 | * CatsAreMean: [[spoiler:An exaggerated example: As it turns out, he is a hideous giant cat who [[CainAndAbel murdered his brother]], took his name and identity, and usurped the original Rat deities as god of the rats. He's also responsible for almost every tragedy the heroes have suffered]]. |
| 268 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:He was born an ugly runt and abused by Dr. Spittle, who gave him the insulting name "Leech" because he hated him so much. He was forced to watch from the shadows as his brother received the love and positive attention he wanted so badly.]] |
| 269 | * DeadpanSnarker: He's prone to moments of this, particularly in ''The Dark Portal'', such as when he comments on the irony of being a cat worshipped as a god by rats. |
| 270 | * TheDreaded: He is thought of this way by the mice. |
| 271 | * EmergingFromTheShadows: At the end of ''The Dark Portal'', he finally steps out of the eponymous portal thanks to Audrey's taunting, and [[TheReveal reveals himself]] as [[spoiler:a giant cat]]. |
| 272 | * EntertainglyWrong: Apparently thinks the Raith Sidhe are completely fictional, the final book of the trilogy and several of the spinoff books confirm they are very real, arguably a lot more powerful than Jupiter was before he CameBackStrong and are ........ unhappy about Jupiter usurping their followers among the rats. |
| 273 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: In ''The Alchymist's Cat'', he is alarmed at the news of his mother Imelza's death (at the hands of an angry mob of humans who feared animals were carrying the plague). He secretly vows to avenge her one day and make all mankind pay. |
| 274 | * EvilGloating: He does plenty of this. |
| 275 | -->"Yes Akkikuyu," sneered the great deceiver, "it is I, your master returned. JUPITER has come back from eternity." |
| 276 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: He aims to smother the world in eternal winter in ''The Final Reckoning''. |
| 277 | * EvilIsHammy: He is very dramatic and almost theatrical in his villainy. |
| 278 | * EvilPlan: In ''The Dark Portal'', he plans to unleash the Black Death once more. In ''The Final Reckoning'', his goal is to smother the world in an eternal winter. |
| 279 | * EvilOverlord: Of the rats in the sewers of Deptford. |
| 280 | * EvilSoundsDeep: His deep, melodious voice is often described. |
| 281 | * FatBastard: [[spoiler:He is a cat "grown bloated and evil by years of hatred in the sewers".]] |
| 282 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Audrey uses the power of the snowdrop flower to condemn him to the doom of everlasting spring throughout eternity.]] |
| 283 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Particularly while in the [[spoiler:Nicodemus]] persona. There he purposefully adopts a higher, "sickly sweet" voice and charms [[spoiler:Madame Akkikuyu into doing his bidding. He lies about being a spirit of the fields trapped in limbo who desperately needs to return so he can tend to nature. In reality, he is manipulating her into releasing him from from the other side.]] |
| 284 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:In his early years, he was abused by Dr. Spittle, who would take out his frustrations on him by kicking him. It was Spittle who gave him his original name, Leech, and showered affection on his brother while despising him for being an ugly runt.]] |
| 285 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: He started off as [[spoiler:a pathetic, scrawny runt of a kitten known as 'Leech'. He ended up becoming an immortal sorcerer with legions of followers, and later still a godlike creature that came within an inch of conquering the world.]] |
| 286 | * GodEmperor: Rules the rats under London, and is worshiped as their living god. [[spoiler:Come the reveal that he's a [[CatsAreMean cat]], the rats feel betrayed for having to work under a predator animal]]. |
| 287 | * IAmTheNoun: "I am the dark thought in their waking hours, I invade their dreams and bring horror! I am the essence of night, the terror around the corner, the echo behind!" |
| 288 | * {{Immortality}}: After drinking [[ImmortalityInducer the Elixir of Life]], he gained a sort of immortality, living for hundreds of years in the sewers of London. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, he ''is'' still vulnerable to [[AchillesHeel fire and water]]. It's the latter that does him in, but not for long, as he returns in spirit form to torment the living.]] |
| 289 | * LargeAndInCharge: [[spoiler:He's a giant cat whose subjects are rats (though they are unaware of what species he is until he reveals himself at the end of ''The Dark Portal'').]] |
| 290 | * MultipleHeadCase: Most characters believe he takes the form of a giant, two-headed rat. [[spoiler:They're wrong.]] |
| 291 | * NoOneSeesTheBoss: For hundreds of years, Jupiter has lived in the dark portal, unseen by anyone. However, he can see things anywhere through an extension of himself in Madame Akkikuyu's CrystalBall. [[spoiler:Everyone finally does in ''The Dark Portal''; he's a giant ''cat'']]. |
| 292 | * NothingIsScarier: Initially he is this, a mysterious and powerful being who dwells in the complete blackness of a portal in the sewers. Even InUniverse, characters can only speculate as to ''what'' exactly he is as no one has ever seen him... [[spoiler:at least until he is goaded by Audrey into crawling out and reveals himself to be a giant cat.]] |
| 293 | * PhysicalGod: He is a living god with a physical body [[spoiler:(at least until the end of ''The Dark Portal'').]] |
| 294 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: All anyone has ever seen of him are his glowing red eyes. |
| 295 | * TheReveal: When Audrey goads him into finally crawling out of the dark portal after hundreds of years in blackness, he reveals himself to have been [[spoiler:a giant cat]] all along. [[spoiler:The rats who worshiped him feel betrayed to have been slaving away for a natural predator.]] |
| 296 | * TheSociopath: His cruelty has no bounds and he never shows remorse for any of the vile things he has done. |
| 297 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Played with, as he is in the first book of the trilogy Jupiter has very real and dangerous magical powers and a form of contractual immortality, but he is not a true God, and indeed seems unaware of the existence of several real deities in the setting like the Raith Sidhe who he disregards as fictional superstition. When she mentions him to a would-be worshipper the Raith Sidhe Goddess Mabb describes Jupiter as an upstart-inferior who would be overthrown when the Raith Sidhe returned. Then Jupiter [[CameBackStrong Comes Back Strong]] and becomes an undead force of destruction and dark magic to the point the Starwife thinks a confrontation between Bauchan, who is observing his rampage, would go badly for Bauchan. |
| 298 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Particularly in his guise as [[spoiler:Nicodemus]], where he is described as having a "sickly sweet voice" that made Akkikuyu shudder. |
| 299 | * TakeOverTheWorld: His ultimate goal. |
| 300 | * ThisCannotBe: When he realizes that [[spoiler:Audrey has defeated him]], he screams this. |
| 301 | * TomTheDarkLord: In ''The Alchymist's Cat'', it is revealed that his real name is [[spoiler:Leech]]. |
| 302 | * UnknownRival: Jupiter thinks the Raith Sidhe are not real and happily co-opted their worship among the Rats for himself including appropriating several Raith Sidhe religious practices like peeling victims. The Raith Sidhe are in fact very much real and none to happy about Jupiter's actions. |
| 303 | * VillainousBreakdown: He has one at the end of ''The Dark Portal'' [[spoiler:after trying and failing multiple times to force Audrey to go to him with his powers. When she [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu goads him to come get her himself]], that's the last straw. Furious, he indeed emerges and reveals himself for the first time after ''several hundred years'' of hiding in darkness.]] |
| 304 | * VillainousGlutton: His subjects frequently bring him food as offerings. [[spoiler:When he finally shows himself, it is revealed he is a grossly obese cat.]] |
| 305 | * WeatherManipulation: At Akkikuyu's request, he aids her in casting a spell to make it rain. [[spoiler:This is while he is manipulating Akkikuyu in the guise of Nicodemus.]] |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:The Raith Sidhe]] |
| 309 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raithsidhe.jpg]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | The three ancient [[GodOfEvil gods of the rats]] who lost power long ago and in the 'modern day' had their faith overtaken by Jupiter but they are not gone and are in fact plotting their return to power. Most powerful of all is Hobb, the hideous horned rat, who revels in bloodshed. Mabb, his consort, is known as the Sleep Visitor, for she visits rats in their dreams and inspires them to commit murder. Bauchan is a trickster who can appear in any form he desires to walk unnoticed among his followers. |
| 312 | ---- |
| 313 | * BigBad: Hobb is this in The Oaken Throne. His followers being recurring enemies with he himself manifesting in terrfying glory at the book's finale to be fought by the heroes. |
| 314 | * EldritchAbomination: Overlapping with DemonLordsAndArchdevils. |
| 315 | * EvilVersusEvil: While things never escalated to the point of a face to face confrontation with Jupiter both times a member of the Raith Sidhe becomes active in the same era as Jupiter the Raith Sidhe in question is interested in acting against him, because they see him as a usurper for taking the worship of rats. Bauchan in the final book of the main trilogy was explicitly active to look into the possibility of overthrowing Jupiter and in Fleabee's Fortune Mabb suggests Fleabee elevated to her high priestess could takeover rule of the sewers from Jupiter. |
| 316 | * ExactWords: Mabb uses this to trick Virianna in ''Whortle's Hope''. She says she'll take only one life, but doesn't specify whose. |
| 317 | * FlayingAlive: Victims are traditionally skinned alive when sacrificed to Hobb. His HighPriest wears a red silk costume to imitate the look of a corpse that has been stripped of flesh. |
| 318 | * FoodChainOfEvil: It's heavily implied they are **much** higher up the supernatural foodchain than Jupiter, atleast before he CameBackStrong, and that their return would not go well for him. When Jupiter senses Mabb's magic in play during FleaBee's Fortune he becomes uncharacteristically agitated. |
| 319 | * GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld: The disguised Bauchan whispers in the ear of Kelly's corpse to tell Hobb he sent him. |
| 320 | * MasterOfDisguise: Bauchan, who can assume any form he likes to walk among mortals incognito. |
| 321 | * PredecessorVillain: In the main trilogy, they were worshipped by rats and other creatures long before Jupiter came to power and many of the nastier practices among the rats of the modern day like flaying their victims are leftover's of their time in power. Their are several ominous hints they are looking to make a come back. |
| 322 | * PretenderDis: Mabb makes several less than impressed remarks about Jupiter's magic when she appears. |
| 323 | * SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Hobb]] |
| 324 | * ThemeNaming: Each of the Raith Sidhe are named after a sort of fairy from Celtic lore. Hobb gets his name from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hob_(folklore) hob]], Mabb is named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mab Queen Mab]], and Bauchan gets his name from a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauchan Scottish hobgoblin]]. |
| 325 | * UnknownRival: Jupiter thinks the Raith Sidhe are not real and happily co-opted the worship of the Rats for himself including appropriating several Raith Sidhe religious practices like peeling victims for his own use. The Raith Sidhe are in fact very much real, looking to make a comeback and none to happy about Jupiter's actions. |
| 326 | * VillainRespect: Bauchan claims that the Raith Sidhe appreciate those who show bravery, whether they be rats or not. Whether this is true or not is uncertain due to Bauchan's reptuation as a trickster, but he does seem to genuinely respect [[spoiler:Piccadilly for his courage and mourns his death]]. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:Sarpedon]] |
| 330 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarpedon.jpg]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | A serpent GodOfEvil from out of the East who is the GreaterScopeVillain of ''Thomas''. He was banished from the living plane many years ago, but if all nine fragments of a jade egg are assembled when his nine stars are shining in the sky, he will return. The heroes are doing everything in their power to ensure that doesn't happen. |
| 333 | ---- |
| 334 | * EggMacGuffin: A jade egg needs to be pieced together for him to return. |
| 335 | * IHaveManyNames: He has been referred to as Sarpedon, Suruth Scarophion, and Gorscarrigern. |
| 336 | * LivingStatue: His spirit inhabits a statue of himself when [[spoiler:his plans of being reborn in the jade egg are thwarted.]] |
| 337 | * ReptilesAreAbhorrent: He is an evil snake god. |
| 338 | * TheVoiceless: He gets one line: "SPEAK!" |
| 339 | * WhenThePlanetsAlign: He is closest to the living plane when his nine stars appear in the sky. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | !!Other Characters |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:The Starwife]] |
| 345 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starwife.jpg]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | The ancient queen of the squirrels who possesses incredible magical powers. While some would call her a "rude old battleaxe", her seemingly cruel actions are for the good of all, though they may not understand them at first. |
| 348 | ---- |
| 349 | * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: She has the Silver Acorn pendant and the Starglass, and they are the sources of her power. |
| 350 | * BenevolentMageRuler: Though she can appear short-tempered and callous, she is in fact a good ruler and means well. |
| 351 | * CoolChair: She sits upon an intricately carved Oaken Throne. |
| 352 | * CoolOldLady: A sassy magic-wielding old squirrel woman? Definitely cool! |
| 353 | * CruelToBeKind: Her modus operandi. A notable example is in ''The Final Reckoning'', when she suggests that the wounded Thomas (suffering from the effects of an evil enchanted ice spear) be finished off quickly as it would be better than the fate of freezing to death she believes Jupiter has in store for everyone. Ultimately she is convinced by Audrey to heal Thomas, however. |
| 354 | * DeadpanSnarker: She has a very sharp tongue, so it's no surprise that whenever she and Audrey meet, they engage in intense SnarkToSnarkCombat. |
| 355 | * GreatOffscreenWar: There was one at the time she chose to become the Starwife in her youth as she recalls racing "uphill from the battle to the safety of the throne". This can't be the war between the bats and the squirrels as it has been [[http://robinjarvis.com/oakenthrone.html confirmed by the author]] that she is not Ysabelle. |
| 356 | * TheHighQueen: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold While she does have her temper and other faults]], she is a well-intentioned BenevolentMageRuler. |
| 357 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though the Starwife has the best of intentions, she initially comes across as rude and cruel. This probably has something to do with the fact that being a [[BrokenBird Broken Bird]] is an actual ''requirement'' for the job, as Ninnia states in the prequel ''The Oaken Throne''. |
| 358 | -->"To become the Handmaiden of Orion, one must know terrible grief in order to learn compassion." |
| 359 | * JuniorCounterpart: Audrey is hers, and she is fully aware of their similar personalities, all but saying that [[YouRemindMeOfX the mouse reminds her of herself]]. That's why they so often clash, and why she [[spoiler:chooses Audrey to be her successor. As it turns out, they even share the same name.]] |
| 360 | * LastOfHerKind: She is the sole remaining black squirrel. |
| 361 | * MeaningfulFuneral: The Starwife orders Thomas Triton to observe the ceremony the squirrels hold to honour their dead in ''The Final Reckoning''. This is because she wants him to make sure she has one exactly like it when she passes on. |
| 362 | * NeverMessWithGranny: It is dangerous to get on the wrong side of the Starwife. As ancient as she is, she is still an imposing figure and possesses great power. Even her servants fear her fiery temper; she has been known to throw her stick at them when they annoy her. |
| 363 | * TheOmniscient: She is aware of pretty much everything. |
| 364 | -->"This is where the stars are studied," boomed Orfeo. "They search for answers far out in the deep heavens."\ |
| 365 | "When at their feet the Starwife knows all. Wise fools!" snorted Eldritch. |
| 366 | * ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Her tendency to be snappy with others causes her to be perceived as rude. She justifies it with having been given little chance to practice her manners |
| 367 | -->"I do have manners but it's so rare that I find anyone worth practicing them on." |
| 368 | * SelfSacrificeScheme: In ''The Final Reckoning'', after [[PassingTheTorch passing on her title]] to Audrey, the Starwife goes outside into the snowstorm and ritualistically freezes herself to death. Her body is found and burned in a pyre, and then a magical snowdrop flower grows on that spot. It is later used by Audrey to defeat BigBad Jupiter once and for all. |
| 369 | * SeniorSleepCycle: At one point during her first meeting with the Starwife, Audrey wonders if the old squirrel nodded off. The Starwife is indignant at this. |
| 370 | * SurroundedByIdiots: She is most certainly not a villain, but often she will grumble about the incompetence of her grey squirrel servants. |
| 371 | * WhenEldersAttack: If riled, she will throw her stick at her servants. |
| 372 | * WizardsLiveLonger: Much like the Holy Ones, the Starwives are given a much longer life span than ordinary creatures, and this one in particular has remarked that she has lived for more years than is even normal for ''them''. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Orfeo and Eldritch]] |
| 376 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orfeoeldritch.jpg]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | Bat brothers who live in the attic of the empty house in Deptford. They can see into the future and will give predictions to those who visit them, but in such a cryptic manner that it is impossible to make any sense of them. |
| 379 | ---- |
| 380 | * CrypticConversation: Being omniscient {{Cloudcuckloolander}}s, this is basically how they communicate. They're so incapable of answering a straight question with a straight answer they wouldn't be out of place on ''Series/KitchenNightmares''. |
| 381 | * DelightingInRiddles: They clearly get enjoyment from knowing what is to come and giving others only clues about it. |
| 382 | * FigureItOutYourself: The bats are really no help at all to anyone seeking their aid. They speak the truth, but refuse to do so in an easily understandable manner. |
| 383 | -->Orfeo snorted and spread his wings. "Beware the ear that whispers, did we not tell the fat one?" he pointed accusingly at Arthur. |
| 384 | * ProphecyTwist: There are plenty of these. For one, they mention that [[TheHero Audrey]] will be wearing silver if "all survive the dark months". All the mice can think of are the silver bells Twit gave her that she wears on her tail. In reality, [[spoiler:the bats are referring to the [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome Silver Acorn pendant]] that will be around Audrey's neck when she becomes the new Starwife at the end of ''The Final Reckoning''.]] |
| 385 | * {{Seers}}: All bats have the gift of prophecy and insight, and they are no exception. |
| 386 | * VaguenessIsComing: The long-winded prophecy they give in ''The Dark Portal'' foreshadows the events not only of that book but of the next two. |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | !''The Deptford Histories'' |
| 390 | |
| 391 | !!''The Alchymist's Cat'' |
| 392 | [[folder:William Godwin]] |
| 393 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/willgodwin.png]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | The son of a yeoman who is lured to London to meet his late father's estranged brother. Instead, he is framed for murder and blackmailed by a wicked alchemist who forces him to work in his apothecary shop. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | * BreakTheCutie: He's an innocent preteen boy whose entire family (save for an unknown uncle) is wiped out by smallpox, he goes to London to meet the aforementioned uncle only for [[spoiler:his traveling companion to be murdered right in front of him, he is framed for the murder of that man, and is forced into servitude by an evil alchemist who abuses him and sends him on horrifying errands. And in the end, the evil alchemist turns out to be [[EvilUncle his uncle]], who attempts to murder him.]] |
| 398 | * FarmBoy: He qualifies, being the son of a farmer from the village of Adcombe. |
| 399 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: [[spoiler:When Spittle is dying of the plague, Will decides that, in spite of his cruelty, he can't let him die. With Jupiter's help Will creates the Elixir of Life which restores Spittle back to health. But then he is revealed as Will's estranged uncle who proceeds to attempt to murder him.]] |
| 400 | * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler:He is initially hesitant to help Jupiter create the Elixir of Life to restore the cruel Spittle to health, but Jupiter responds by asking that if he lets him die "Does that not make you even as he?"]] |
| 401 | * MistakenForMurderer: Spittle frames him for the murder of John Balker so he will work for him, as otherwise he will be hunted down and lynched if he dares to step outside the apothecary shop. |
| 402 | * MuggleInMageCustody: He is held against his will by an evil alchemist who makes him work at his apothecary shop. |
| 403 | * NiceGuy: He is a kindhearted young man. |
| 404 | * TheProtagonist: He is the main character of the story. |
| 405 | * SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Despite the abuse he has suffered at his hands and the possibility of his being finally free from his servitude, Will refuses to let Spittle die of the plague. He finishes creating the Elixir of Life that the alchemist had been attempting to make prior to falling ill and uses it to restore him to health. However, Spittle [[UngratefulBastard doesn't care that Will saved his life]] and tries to kill him afterward.]] |
| 406 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He rescues the last surviving cat from the burning wreckage of Spittle's apothecary shop. While from his perspective, he saved an innocent animal, he doesn't realise that this cat is the villainous Leech (who would go on to become the living GodOfEvil Jupiter). Will's small act of kindness unleashed horror upon the world.]] |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | [[folder:Elias Theophrastus Spittle]] |
| 410 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drspittle.jpg]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | An evil old alchemist, obsessed with finding the PhilosophersStone and later [[ImmortalitySeeker the Elixir of Life]]. A ginger kitten, who he names Jupiter, becomes his familiar and ends up learning magic from him. |
| 413 | ---- |
| 414 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The kitten Leech is a common target for his wrath, being mercilessly kicked around. [[spoiler:He also kills and dissects Dab, for no other reason than to [[ForTheEvulz satisfy his morbid curiosity about anatomy]].]] |
| 415 | * CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:He hated his younger brother Daniel, and once tried to murder him when they were children.]] |
| 416 | * DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:This ''almost'' happens to him. After being so obsessively careful not to contract the plague, the vain Spittle creates a hair colourant to use on himself and impulsively kisses the rat he successfully tested the formula on in gratitude. By doing so, he gets the plague and is doomed to die. However, Will is moved to save his life and teams up with Jupiter to create the Elixir of Life, which restores Spittle to full health.]] |
| 417 | * EvilUncle: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Spittle ''is'' Will's uncle, Samuel Godwin.]] |
| 418 | * ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:Why he kills, dissects, and pickles the innocent cat, Dab.]] |
| 419 | * ImmortalitySeeker: He sets out to create the Elixir of Life. [[spoiler:Ultimately he is successful, but fire and water are the [[AchillesHeel Achilles Heels]] of anyone who drinks it. It's fire that does him in.]] |
| 420 | * MeaningfulName: His surname, Spittle, refers to saliva (as in spitting). This suits his vile personality, though oddly enough InUniverse it was an alias he chose for himself. [[spoiler:The surname he was given at birth was Godwin, as he is really Will's estranged uncle.]] |
| 421 | * {{Necromancer}}: Late at night, he goes to St. Anne's Churchyard to summon Magnus Zachaire from beyond the grave. The particular chapter in which he does this is even titled "Necromancy". |
| 422 | * ShedTheFamilyName: He severed ties with his family, changing his name from [[spoiler:Samuel Godwin]] to Elias Theophrastus Spittle. |
| 423 | * ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:During TheReveal that he is Will's uncle, Spittle proclaims "My name is Elias Theophrastus Spittle - I do not recognise that former life. I have ceased to be Samuel Godwin!"]] |
| 424 | * UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:When Spittle is dying of the plague, Will's good nature moves him to help his captor and abuser by creating the Elixir of Life with the help of Jupiter. Spittle is restored to health, but doesn't care that Will saved his life, and proceeds to try to murder him.]] |
| 425 | * UnknownRelative: [[spoiler:He is in fact Will's uncle Samuel Godwin, the one who wrote and invited him to London in the first place.]] |
| 426 | * VainSorcerer: One of his unsuccessful attempts to make the Elixir of Life results in him creating a hair restoring potion with which he grows thick auburn locks. He's so proud that he risks going out into the plague-ridden streets of London to show it off. [[spoiler:Naturally, that does not end well for him...]] |
| 427 | * WhamLine: [[spoiler:"I have ceased to be Samuel Godwin!"]] |
| 428 | * WouldHurtAChild: Spittle abuses and even tries to murder Will, who is 11 years old at the start of the book and can't be more than 13 or 14 by the end. [[spoiler:He is revealed as Will's EvilUncle, who wants him out of the way so he can keep the family fortune for himself. He fails and Will ends up surviving after all]]. |
| 429 | [[/folder]] |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Jupiter]] |
| 432 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jupitercat.jpg]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | Dr. Spittle's familiar, a ginger kitten who can be arrogant but possesses a love for his family, even as his brother resents his knowledge of magic. |
| 435 | ---- |
| 436 | * BigBrotherBully: He is initially cruel to his younger brother Leech, using his magic skills to pick on him. He eventually regrets his mistreatment of him, but by then it was already too late to make amends. |
| 437 | * CatsAreMagic: He learns to perform magic by observing Dr. Spittle. |
| 438 | * DuelToTheDeath: He has one with Leech during the finale, which is interrupted when they both realize the apothecary shop is burning down. |
| 439 | * {{Familiar}}: At Will's suggestion, Dr. Spittle makes Jupiter his familiar, which is the only reason he decided to keep the cat family. |
| 440 | * NotHisSled: Throughout ''The Alchymist's Cat'', there are many hints that he will grow up to become the BigBad of the original trilogy. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]] |
| 441 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:The god Jupiter is actually Leech posing as his brother, the real Jupiter, who died long ago]]. |
| 442 | * TalkingAnimal: Though all the animals in this universe are capable of speaking to one another, it has been mentioned that they generally do not speak in a way humans would understand. However, due to his magic skills and teaching himself to do so, Jupiter is eventually able to talk to humans. His voice is described as "a hissing parody of a human voice". |
| 443 | * UnstoppableRage: When Jupiter finds [[spoiler:his sister's pickled corpse in a jar in Spittle's cabinet]] and turns against him completely. |
| 444 | [[/folder]] |
| 445 | |
| 446 | [[folder:Leech]] |
| 447 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leech.jpg]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | Jupiter's envious brother, an ugly sable kitten who was the runt of the litter. He wants to learn magic, but is furious when he learns that only one member of any family may use it. |
| 450 | ---- |
| 451 | * BrainsEvilBrawnGood: His brother is physically stronger than him, but he is conniving and manipulative. |
| 452 | * CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Want to know how the cocky but well-meaning Jupiter in the prequel grows up to be a remorseless god of evil? He doesn't. His brother kills him and assumes his identity.]] |
| 453 | * CatsAreMean: He is spiteful towards others due to being a runt. [[spoiler:He would go on to become the evil god Jupiter of the main trilogy]]. |
| 454 | * DuelToTheDeath: He has one with Jupiter during the finale, which is interrupted when they both realise the apothecary shop is burning down. |
| 455 | * EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:He and Jupiter climb the chimney of the burning apothecary shop in an effort to escape. At a moment when Jupiter is slipping and needs his brother's aid, Leech instead pries his claws from the brickwork and lets him fall to his death.]] |
| 456 | * EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:He lets his sister Dab be murdered and dissected by Spittle because she was calling to her brother for help and not him]]. |
| 457 | * FreudianExcuse: From the moment the litter of kittens was brought into Dr. Spittle's apothecary shop, the alchemist despised and abused Leech (he was the one who gave him that insulting name) while praising his brother. It's no excuse for his becoming a horrific, cruel monster, but his feelings of bitterness and envy are understandable given the circumstances. |
| 458 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:As it turns out in the TwistEnding, ''he'' is the Jupiter of the main trilogy, having murdered his brother and stolen his identity.]] |
| 459 | * KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:He murders Jupiter by letting him fall down the chimney of the burning apothecary shop.]] |
| 460 | * LackOfEmpathy: As part of his sociopathy. [[spoiler:He didn't even shed a tear as Dab was carried away to her horrific fate because she was expecting their brother Jupiter to save her, not him]]. |
| 461 | * LeanAndMean: He is the spiteful, bony runt. |
| 462 | * TheResenter: He hates his brother for being able to use magic and because he is adored by everyone. |
| 463 | * SiblingMurder: [[spoiler:He kills his brother Jupiter and assumes his identity.]] |
| 464 | * SiblingRivalry: He despises his brother Jupiter, and envies him for his ability to use magic. |
| 465 | * TheSociopath: He lacks any true feelings of empathy for anyone, caring only for himself. [[spoiler:When his sister Dab was being carried to her death by Dr. Spittle, he refused to help her because she was crying out for Jupiter, not him.]] |
| 466 | * TheUnfavourite: He is this, but not so much to his family as to Dr. Spittle. |
| 467 | [[/folder]] |
| 468 | |
| 469 | [[folder:Dab]] |
| 470 | A tortoiseshell kitten, Jupiter and Leech's only sister who tries to be a peacemaker as she doesn't like to see them fighting. |
| 471 | ---- |
| 472 | * KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:She is a sweet little cat who is killed by the cruel Dr. Spittle.]] |
| 473 | * PeopleJars: [[spoiler:This is her sad fate after being taken away one night, murdered, and dissected by Dr. Spittle. When Jupiter finds her remains, he is filled with UnstoppableRage.]] |
| 474 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:She is pure and tenderhearted -- certainly the most sympathetic of the animal characters -- and ends up murdered.]] |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:Imelza]] |
| 478 | The mother of Jupiter, Leech, and Dab who hates being trapped in the apothecary shop. She is used to roaming free. Her longing for the outside world will be her undoing. |
| 479 | ---- |
| 480 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She hates being cooped up in Spittle's shop and longs to be outside again. [[spoiler:She ends up killed by humans who feared she was carrying diseases]]. |
| 481 | * MamaBear: When the feline midwife recommends killing the scrawny runt Leech, Imelza is outraged and threatens her for suggesting such a thing about her new baby. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Magnus Zachaire]] |
| 485 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/magnus_0.jpg]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | The ghost of a sorcerer from the previous century whom Spittle imprisons in a bottle in order to learn his secrets. |
| 488 | ---- |
| 489 | * BarredFromTheAfterlife: Called back from the afterlife, Magnus cannot re-enter it (much to his frustration) as he has been trapped by Dr. Spittle in a glass bottle. |
| 490 | * DemBones: [[spoiler: At the end of the book, his skeletal remains are called from the grave, and when they are united with his spirit, he comes back to life.]] |
| 491 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After having been trapped in a bottle and tortured by Spittle, he manages to free himself ''and'' come back to life to get his revenge on the evil alchemist.]] |
| 492 | * EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:He is aghast when he learns that Leech let his own sister be murdered by Dr. Spittle merely because she was calling for Jupiter's help and not his.]] |
| 493 | * IHatePastMe: He has plenty of regrets regarding his behaviour in his mortal life, and knows Spittle is making the same mistakes he did. |
| 494 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: He is [[{{Necromancy}} called back from the grave]] by Dr. Spittle and subsequently trapped in a glass bottle from which he is unable to escape. Frustrated by the spirit's unwillingness to help him, Spittle tortures him by holding the bottle to a flame. The heat causes Magnus great pain as he is used to the cold of the void. |
| 495 | * PosthumousCharacter: He is a ghost for most of the story. |
| 496 | * SicklyGreenGlow: He glows blue to reflect the fact that he's a spirit. |
| 497 | * TheSnarkKnight: Having been brought back from the peaceful void against his will, he is very bitter and snarky - especially towards his captor, Spittle. |
| 498 | * SpiritAdvisor: He speaks with Leech nightly (as he is dead, he now has the ability to converse with any creature no matter the species). He even tries to advise Leech to turn away from his dark path of jealousy, but the cat doesn't listen. |
| 499 | * TailorMadePrison: Dr. Spittle uses magic to trap Magnus' spirit in a glass bottle from which he is unable to escape. |
| 500 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:After going through all the trouble of coming back from the dead to be immortal, Magnus suddenly decides that he'd rather die again and return to the peace of the eternal void. [[TakingYouWithMe He drags the horrified Dr. Spittle with him into the raging fire enveloping the apothecary shop]].]] |
| 501 | [[/folder]] |
| 502 | |
| 503 | [[folder:Molly]] |
| 504 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/molly_4.jpg]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | A beautiful young woman who befriends Will. |
| 507 | ---- |
| 508 | * BrokenBird: When she first came to London, she was very naive. Several men (including Sir Francis Lingley) swept her off her feet before breaking her heart. Those negative experiences caused her to become cynical. |
| 509 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[MissingMom After her mother died]], [[AbusiveParents Molly's father]] [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild would lash out at her in his grief and anger over her death]]. |
| 510 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has blonde hair and an angelic personality. |
| 511 | * MissingMom: Her mother is dead. |
| 512 | * PlagueDoctor: Molly wears this outfit as she tends to plague victims. Also, she stands in the alley outside Dr. Spittle's window while wearing it to scare him, and for a while he is convinced a horrific beaked monster is haunting him. |
| 513 | [[/folder]] |
| 514 | |
| 515 | [[folder:Sir Francis Lingley]] |
| 516 | [[quoteright:251:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lingley.jpg]] |
| 517 | |
| 518 | Dr. Spittle's rival, a commoner who poses as a lord and has become quite popular in the court of King Charles II. |
| 519 | ---- |
| 520 | * TheDandy: He always dresses in the finest silks and velvets, with elaborate plumed hats. At one point, he criticises Spittle for his shabby wardrobe, threatening to take his business elsewhere if he doesn't improve his appearance. The enraged Spittle makes a trip to the raghouse to try to find fancier garments with which to impress Lingley. |
| 521 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After he is tricked by Dr. Spittle into disgracing himself, he commits suicide by poison.]] |
| 522 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: He is introduced as a lord who is a well-respected member of the king's court. After Spittle gives him a list of phrases in French (which he cannot speak), he says them to the king and his guests, only to realise that they are insults. Subsequently he is stripped of his title. |
| 523 | * MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: A banquet is being given by the king for a friend who is visiting from France. Lingley is invited, but cannot speak French, so he is forced to enlist the aid of Dr. Spittle who can. He is given a list of phrases that are supposed to be compliments and general conversation. But as Dr. Spittle hates Lingley, they are in reality horrible insults. Naturally, when Lingley says them to the king and his guests, he is disgraced. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Peggy Blister]] |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | !!''The Oaken Throne'' |
| 530 | [[folder:Ysabelle]] |
| 531 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ysabelle.jpg]] |
| 532 | |
| 533 | A black squirrel princess of the Hazel Realm, Coll Regalis, she must go on a perilous journey to the land of Greenreach to become the new Starwife. Along the way, she encounters the young bat Vespertilio, and initially they despise each other. However, their feelings soon turn into different ones entirely. |
| 534 | ---- |
| 535 | * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: The Silver Acorn, which [[spoiler:gives her the power to bring down the BigBad, [[GodOfEvil Hobb]]]]. |
| 536 | * BenevolentMageRuler: What she becomes as the Starwife. |
| 537 | * TheBigDamnKiss: When Vesper kisses her passionately in front of the gathered bat and squirrel armies, who react with shock and revulsion. |
| 538 | * BreakTheCutie: Initially an innocent, fun-loving pampered sweet princess, she experiences so much tragedy and heartbreak on the road to Greenreach that by the end of the book, she is basically a BrokenBird. |
| 539 | * CharacterDevelopment: At the beginning of the story, she is a carefree and naive princess. During her journey, she is forced to mature and becomes far more humble and compassionate. Through her relationship with Vesper, she sees that the bats are not the monsters she thought they were and slowly begins to forgive them for the crimes they committed against her kind in ignorance. |
| 540 | * TheChosenOne: The [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome Silver Acorn]], the Starwives' badge of office, drops from the sky and she catches it. This seems to be by chance, but it is implied that fate was at work and she was meant to be chosen as the new Starwife. In any case, that's how things play out. |
| 541 | * ComesGreatResponsibility: Gradually she comes to understand that the powers she is inheriting need to be used responsibly, and that it is not as simple as casting a spell to annihilate the bats, the perceived enemies of the squirrels. |
| 542 | * DaddysGirl: Her father, Lord Cyllinus, adores her. |
| 543 | -->"Did you see me, Father?" she asked. "How was my dancing? Did it compare to the others?" |
| 544 | -->With paw on heart, the lord had to admit that he had not even noticed that there had been any other dancers. "You were as the sun and they the stars," he told her. "You did outshine them all." |
| 545 | * DeusAngstMachina: Her parents die, several of her friends die and one betrays her, and then to top it all off [[spoiler:the love of her life dies]]. And she is destined for a long and lonely reign as the Starwife. |
| 546 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:She defeats Hobb.]] |
| 547 | * DoomedHometown: Coll Regalis, which falls to the army of bats that besieged it. |
| 548 | * DressingAsTheEnemy: She fools the Hobbers by wearing the outfit of their high priest. |
| 549 | * FindersRulers: The Silver Acorn literally falls into her paws. This is a sign that she is TheChosenOne who must journey to Greenreach and take up the Starwifeship. |
| 550 | * HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler:After she finds Vesper dead, she takes her place as the Starwife, ruling for [[WizardsLiveLonger nearly three hundred years]].]] |
| 551 | * TheHighQueen: What she becomes as the Starwife. |
| 552 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Initially, she does not want to be the Starwife, but accepts the position because it is her duty. |
| 553 | * InterspeciesRomance: She, a squirrel, falls in love with Vesper, a bat. [[spoiler:They don't get to pursue a relationship due to a villain's curse and Ysabelle's poor choices]]. |
| 554 | * LovedINotHonorMore: [[spoiler:She refuses to run away with Vesper at the end of the book because she values her duty as the Starwife above everything else. While she does later change her mind, by then it is too late.]] |
| 555 | * ParentalAbandonment: Early on, her parents are murdered by the bat army, having given their lives so she could escape to Greenreach. |
| 556 | * AProtagonistShallLeadThem: It is her duty to journey to the war-ravaged land of Greenreach and become the new Starwife. |
| 557 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She [[spoiler:[[SealedEvilInACan banishes]] an evil rat god]]. |
| 558 | * SoleSurvivor: She is the last of the royal line of Coll Regalis. |
| 559 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Vesper. |
| 560 | * TakeALevelInBadass: She starts out as a typical spoiled princess, but circumstances soon require her to get powerful enough fight the villains head-on. |
| 561 | * TraumaCongaLine: As she sends her away to become the Starwife, Ysabelle's mother is concerned that her wisdom has failed her in regards to her decision. This is because "to become the Handmaiden of Orion, one must know terrible grief in order to learn compassion". Let's just say that by the end of the book, that's not an issue anymore. |
| 562 | * UptownGirl: She is a princess [[spoiler:and ultimately [[TheHighQueen the Starwife]]]], whereas Vesper is a commoner. |
| 563 | * WatchingTroyBurn: She and her entourage pause to watch the attack on Coll Regalis in the distance, knowing that their loved ones have [[HeroicSacrifice stayed behind]] as a diversion and are being killed by the bat army. |
| 564 | * WellExcuseMePrincess: She at first has a haughty attitude toward Vesper, viewing him as nothing more than a repulsive bat. |
| 565 | * WizardsLiveLonger: According to ''The Deptford Mice Almanack'', she reigned for nearly three hundred years. |
| 566 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: She is forced to leave the Hazel Realm, which will soon be destroyed by the bat army, and travel to Greenreach to take up the Starwifeship. |
| 567 | [[/folder]] |
| 568 | |
| 569 | [[folder:Vespertilio]] |
| 570 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vesper.jpg]] |
| 571 | |
| 572 | A young bat who dreams of becoming a Knight of the Moon like his father was. Like all bats, he hates squirrels, but when he meets Ysabelle, he begins to see things differently. |
| 573 | ---- |
| 574 | * AncestralWeapon: He takes his father's screechmask and gauntlets and attempts to follow the bat army to the attack on Greenreach. However, they prove too heavy for him and he ends up losing them and getting his wing broken in the process. |
| 575 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: He makes one to Ysabelle at the end of the book. [[spoiler:She initially rejects him and leaves, but changes her mind. When she returns, however, it is too late.]] |
| 576 | * BigDamnHeroes: His rescue of Ysabelle from being eaten by toads. |
| 577 | -->"Begone!" commanded a voice that boomed throughout the cavern. "Release her!" |
| 578 | -->The toads cringed and flinched as the hateful intruder charged at them, rising into the stale air, beating them with its wings and lashing out at them like a thing demented. |
| 579 | * TheBigDamnKiss: When he kisses Ysabelle passionately in front of the gathered bat and squirrel armies, who react with shock and revulsion. |
| 580 | * DeadpanSnarker: He can be this at times, especially early on when he is antagonistic towards Ysabelle. |
| 581 | * DeusExMachina: He is part of one near the end of the book. Ysabelle is tricked by the treacherous Morwenna into descending far below the Hallowed Oak and becoming trapped in a locked room where hungry toads are waiting to devour her. There seems to be no way out, but somehow Vesper (who is outside in the midst of a presumably noisy battle) is able to not only hear her cries, but quickly find his way down a dark maze of unfamiliar passages (it was previously noted that even Morwenna, who was familiar with them, had some trouble navigating) to rescue her. |
| 582 | * FantasticRacism: Initially hates squirrels, but comes around once he meets Ysabelle. |
| 583 | * HappilyFailedSuicide: In the opening scene, Vesper leaps from a tall turret, intending to fall to his death. Then he changes his mind and flies upward just before he hits the ground, proclaiming that he'll "not be quenched so easily". |
| 584 | * InterspeciesRomance: He, a bat, falls in love with Ysabelle, a squirrel. |
| 585 | * LoveHurts: [[spoiler:Just before his murder, he is rejected by his love interest Ysabelle, who believes it would be best for them to abandon their romantic dreams and never see each other again as it is her duty to become the new Starwife. She ''does'' change her mind and comes back to find him, but by then it is too late.]] |
| 586 | * MeaningfulName: Vespertilio is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. |
| 587 | * ProphecyTwist: He is cursed by the HighPriest of [[GodOfEvil Hobb]] to die at the sound of bells, so throughout the book he is terrified whenever he hears them. [[spoiler:When his death inevitably comes at the end, the bells surrounding him are in fact ''bluebell flowers''.]] |
| 588 | * StarCrossedLovers: With Ysabelle. |
| 589 | * TooDumbToLive: Drinking an unknown liquid given to you by a cloaked stranger? Yup, that sounds like a good idea... |
| 590 | * TurnOutLikeHisFather: Vesper's mother forbids him to join in the war against the squirrels. She says it is because he is too young, but she probably also fears he may be killed as his father was. |
| 591 | * YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:In the end, all the evil is defeated and it seems Vesper has avoided his death curse after all. Then the ghost of Wendel Maculatum appears and [[DownerEnding kills him at last, leaving the grief-stricken Ysabelle to weep over his corpse]].]] |
| 592 | [[/folder]] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | [[folder:Giraldus]] |
| 595 | A blind, leprous mole who is on a pilgrimage to the land of Greenreach in the hopes that he and his friend Tysle will be healed. |
| 596 | ---- |
| 597 | * GentleGiant: He towers over the other characters and can be intimidating both because of his size and because of the leprosy that afflicts him. However, those who get to know him will find him to be very kind. |
| 598 | * TheGrotesque: As a leper, he is disfigured by the disease and his appendages have been known to fall off. Those who encounter Giraldus always feel revulsion and/or pity at the sight of him. |
| 599 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Tysle. |
| 600 | [[/folder]] |
| 601 | |
| 602 | [[folder:Tysle Symkin]] |
| 603 | A shrew with a lame leg, the only survivor of an attack by [[ReligionOfEvil Hobbers]]. He was rescued by Giraldus and became the blind mole's guide. |
| 604 | ---- |
| 605 | * DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Invoked by his killer, Wendel, who taunts the grief-stricken Giraldus by saying [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor "The little runt always did want me to carve him."]] Tysle wanted a wooden puppet made in his likeness, but ended up getting FlayedAlive.]] |
| 606 | * HandyHelper: He is faithful in leading his blind friend Giraldus. |
| 607 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Giraldus. |
| 608 | [[/folder]] |
| 609 | |
| 610 | [[folder:Wendel Maculatum]] |
| 611 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wendel.jpg]] |
| 612 | |
| 613 | A traveling stoat jester [[spoiler:with a dark secret. He is in truth the high priest of Hobb.]] |
| 614 | ---- |
| 615 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:At first he appears to be a kindly, if dim-witted, friend to Ysabelle... but nothing could be farther from the truth.]] |
| 616 | * BloodMagic: [[spoiler:After FlayingAlive one of Ysabelle's guards, he dips the stolen [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome Silver Acorn]] into his blood three times and then calls [[GodOfEvil Hobb's]] name three times. This is what summons the evil rat god back to the world.]] |
| 617 | * {{Curse}}: [[spoiler:Angered that he cannot reach Ysabelle and Vesper as they are being protected by [[GodOfGood the Green's]] sacred stream, he lays curses upon them. For Ysabelle, it's to be the first victim of [[GodOfEvil Hobb]] when he emerges from the earth. For Vesper, it's to die at the sound of bells. As it turns out, Ysabelle is spared because of ExactWords, but Vesper is not so lucky.]] |
| 618 | * DirtyCoward: Wendel runs away as soon as the monsters emerge from the depths of the lonely mere, essentially leaving his friends to die. They hold this against him for a while afterward. [[spoiler:However, considering his true villainous nature, this turns out to have been intentional cruelty rather than just a shameful act of a craven coward.]] |
| 619 | * TheDitz: He is a self-proclaimed duncefellow. [[spoiler:In reality, he is a cold, calculating villain.]] |
| 620 | -->"From the pot of learning I did but take a sip, and found it so bitter to my taste that I did spit out what I supped. Beneath [[HappyHarlequinHat my tinkling hat]], not an ounce of brains do I possess, and that I like full well." |
| 621 | * EvilPuppeteer: [[spoiler:He carves wooden puppets which he delights in using to cruelly mock others.]] |
| 622 | * FalseFriend: [[spoiler:While he at first seems like an ally to Ysabelle, he is in fact the exact opposite.]] |
| 623 | * FlayingAlive: [[spoiler:He does this to his victims, and as the high priest of Hobb, he dresses in an outfit that makes himself resemble a skinned corpse.]] |
| 624 | * HappyHarlequinHat: He wears one of these in red and yellow. |
| 625 | * HighPriest: [[spoiler:He is the high priest of [[GodOfEvil Hobb]].]] |
| 626 | * MonsterClown: [[spoiler:As an evil jester, he qualifies.]] |
| 627 | * ObviouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Arguably, the illustrations could lead one to the conclusion that Wendel is evil before it is ever revealed in the book. He looks nasty even during his innocent jester routine at Aldertide.]] |
| 628 | * PerformerGuise: [[spoiler:He gains the trust of the heroes by playing a jester.]] |
| 629 | * PluckyComicRelief: He is this, even helping Ysabelle InUniverse to deal with the trauma she is experiencing. [[spoiler:At least until he's revealed to be evil.]] |
| 630 | * ShooOutTheClowns: Wendel naturally stops being funny when [[spoiler:it turns out he is the murderous HighPriest of [[GodOfEvil Hobb]] in the latter half of the story]]. |
| 631 | * WalkingSpoiler: You'll notice that most everything about Wendel has been spoilered out. There's a reason for that... |
| 632 | * WickedWeasel: [[spoiler:He's evil, and he's a mustelid.]] |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:Morwenna]] |
| 636 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/morwenna.jpg]] |
| 637 | |
| 638 | The treacherous black squirrel who orchestrated the fall of Greenreach. |
| 639 | ---- |
| 640 | * BodyguardBetrayal: She was the Starwife's handmaiden, who supposedly was giving her mistress medicine to cure her illness, when in reality it was poison that was making her sicker. She also used her access to the Starglass to lower the magical defenses the Starwife had put around Greenreach so the bats could attack. |
| 641 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: As seen in illustrations of her. |
| 642 | * EtTuBrute: Her betrayal of the Starwife, who trusted her completely as her handmaiden. |
| 643 | * EvilChancellor: To the Starwife. |
| 644 | * FauxAffablyEvil: She served the old Starwife for years in the guise of a humble servant. |
| 645 | * FourthWallObserver: There is a bizarre example in the first chapter, where she comments on something explained by the narrator. Fourth wall breaking is not something that happens in these books (this is the ''only'' time it ever does). |
| 646 | -->No other squirrel, red or black, had ever had the courage to explore these ghastly caverns. A sinister smile split Morwenna's face.\ |
| 647 | "Well, if they have," she muttered in a voice as sharp as her features, "none have ever returned." |
| 648 | * HighPriest: Gender-inverted. She is the priestess of Mabb, the goddess of [[ReligionOfEvil the Raith Sidhe]]. Beneath the circlet she wears, there is a third eye tattooed on her forehead to signify this. |
| 649 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: She has magical powers that derive from being Mabb's priestess. |
| 650 | * LeanAndMean: She is described as gaunt and bony. |
| 651 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: She took pleasure from hearing the cries of the remaining inhabitants of Greenreach as they were eaten by her pet toads. |
| 652 | -->"How my ears were amazed to hear their ignoble shouts and screams." She chuckled ever so faintly. "Soon you, too, will squeak as they did before you - squeak and squeal until your lungs rupture." |
| 653 | -->"You will not hear me cry out," Ysabelle swore. "I shall not satisfy thy black heart by shrieking for mercy!" |
| 654 | * ManOnFire: [[spoiler:Squirrel in her case; she unwittingly finds herself the victim of the fate intended for Ysabelle - being burned to death by Hobb.]] |
| 655 | * ObviouslyEvil: As can be gathered by the illustration to the right. |
| 656 | * PimpedOutCape: She wears one that she created herself. The inside of it is a black tapestry depicting vile scenes. Into its fibers she wove spells of smothering and silence, and she uses it to cover the Starglass and stifle its protective magic over the realm. |
| 657 | * PoisonIsEvil: She uses it to slowly kill the Starwife. [[spoiler:Eventually, however, she finishes her off by stabbing her.]] |
| 658 | * ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: To Ysabelle she fondly recalls hearing the screams of the royal princesses she lured into the secret chamber beneath the Hallowed Oak to be eaten alive by her pet toads. |
| 659 | * ThinChinOfSin: She's got one to go along with her overall angular appearance. |
| 660 | * TheUsurper: She fully ''intends'' to be this, taking up the Starwifeship for her own nefarious purposes, but she never quite gets the chance to do so. |
| 661 | * VillainousCheekbones: She has these, as can be seen in illustrations of her. |
| 662 | * YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: She taunts Ysabelle after she has lured her to the secret chamber where she keeps pet toads that are hungry to devour the squirrel maiden. |
| 663 | -->"Oh," she cried, "perhaps you hope to be rescued? Ah, my dear, vulgar peasant urchin, how simple thou art." |
| 664 | [[/folder]] |
| 665 | |
| 666 | [[folder:Lady Ninnia]] |
| 667 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ninnia.jpg]] |
| 668 | |
| 669 | Ysabelle's mother, the ruler of the Hazel Realm, renowned for her vast wisdom. |
| 670 | ---- |
| 671 | * EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: In addition to the bronze hazelnut pendant she wears around her neck, she also has several rings on her fingers. |
| 672 | * TheHighQueen: She is part of the {{Matriarchy}} of squirrel queens governing five different lands. |
| 673 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: How she justifies sending Ysabelle away to Greenreach to become the next Starwife, although even she has her doubts. |
| 674 | * NeverGotToSayGoodbye: She manages to keep her emotions in check as Ysabelle prepares for her journey to Greenreach. But after she leaves, she breaks down crying, lamenting the fact that she never even said goodbye to her daughter. |
| 675 | * WhatTheHellHero: Her husband calls her out for planning to send their daughter away into danger in the faint hope that she will make it to Greenreach and take her place as the Starwife. She snaps back that if she stays in Coll Regalis, she will most certainly perish, but if she leaves she at least has a chance of survival. He grudgingly agrees. |
| 676 | * WomenAreWiser: Since the rulers of the Hazel Realm are part of a large {{Matriarchy}}, this is a required trait. Ninnia is known for her wisdom; after sending Ysabelle away, she mollifies her angered husband by justifying her action with the fact that their daughter would die if she stayed, though even she doubted her own judgement. |
| 677 | [[/folder]] |
| 678 | |
| 679 | [[folder:Griselda]] |
| 680 | [[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/griselda.jpg]] |
| 681 | |
| 682 | The nervous field mouse maidservant of Ysabelle, who has looked after her since she was a baby. |
| 683 | ---- |
| 684 | * ButtMonkey: She goes through quite a bit of humiliation, such as when she is forced to dance with Wendel. |
| 685 | * TheFinickyOne: A perfect example of this, fussing over her charge and making sure she isn't seen doing anything that wouldn't befit her station. |
| 686 | * LadyInWaiting: To Ysabelle. |
| 687 | * MaidAndMaiden: She is the maid to Ysabelle's maiden. |
| 688 | * NervousWreck: She frets constantly. |
| 689 | [[/folder]] |
| 690 | |
| 691 | [[folder:Godfrey Gelenos]] |
| 692 | [[quoteright:140:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/godfrey.jpg]] |
| 693 | |
| 694 | Prime counselor to the Lady Ninnia, so intelligent that even she has bowed to his judgement on more than one occasion. |
| 695 | ---- |
| 696 | * CoolOldGuy: An old and wise advisor |
| 697 | * TheGoodChancellor: To the Lady Ninnia. |
| 698 | * IndyPloy: Watching his friends get taken away to [[HumanSacrifice their doom]], one by one, at [[ReligionOfEvil the Hobbers']] gathering, he comes up with a plan on the spot to trick their guard into untying him so he can punch him out... and it works. He unties everyone else and they escape. |
| 699 | * MentorArchetype: He acts as a mentor to Ysabelle. |
| 700 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:He is killed fairly early on in the book.]] |
| 701 | * TheProfessor: Not only is he a learned scholar, but he ''did'' also teach Ysabelle as she was growing up. |
| 702 | * SternTeacher: He fits this trope perfectly as he has little patience for Wendel's antics, believing that they are distracting Ysabelle from listening to the wisdom he gives her. |
| 703 | [[/folder]] |
| 704 | |
| 705 | [[folder:The Ancient]] |
| 706 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theancient.jpg]] |
| 707 | |
| 708 | The messenger of the moon goddess who came to earth in the form of a hare to converse with the Green Mouse in ages past. He still remains in a chamber beneath the ground, waiting for the time when he will need to emerge and do battle with Hobb. |
| 709 | ---- |
| 710 | * BlindSeer: He is able to see in this book, but by the time of ''Whortle's Hope'', he has gone blind. |
| 711 | * CreepyGood: Ysabelle is initially frightened of his eyes, which shine like the moon. He gently tells her not to fear. Overall he is very intimidating in appearance, but entirely benevolent. |
| 712 | * GodInHumanForm: He is an angel who came to earth in the form of a hare. |
| 713 | * IHaveManyNames: He has been referred to by a long list of names over history, such as the purblind one, the dew hopper, the furze cat, the stag of the stubble, he with the leathery horns, the legs of the four winds, and the Moon-Sent Angel. |
| 714 | * MoonRabbit: He is based on this myth, except he doesn't embody the moon; rather, he's the messenger of the moon goddess. |
| 715 | %%* TheOmniscient |
| 716 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: He is a servant and messenger of a goddess and referred to as the Moon-Sent Angel. |
| 717 | * ProphetEyes: His eyes look like twin moons. |
| 718 | [[/folder]] |
| 719 | |
| 720 | [[folder:The Starwife]] |
| 721 | The Starwife who ruled Greenreach before being betrayed and murdered by her trusted handmaiden, Morwenna. In her youth she had woven the magical protective barriers that prevented enemies from assailing the blessed hill -- at least until Morwenna caused the enchantments to fail. |
| 722 | ---- |
| 723 | * BenevolentMageRuler: She used her magic to protect her subjects. |
| 724 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Morwenna served her for years, and even as an [[TheOmniscient all-knowing]] BenevolentMageRuler, the Starwife apparently never ''once'' suspected her handmaiden was not who she appeared to be. |
| 725 | * TheOmniscient: "The Starwife knows all." |
| 726 | [[/folder]] |
| 727 | |
| 728 | !!''Thomas'' |
| 729 | [[folder:Thomas Stubbs]] |
| 730 | ''See '''Thomas Triton''' above.'' |
| 731 | [[/folder]] |
| 732 | |
| 733 | [[folder:Woodget Pipple]] |
| 734 | [[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/woodget.jpg]] |
| 735 | |
| 736 | A little field mouse who befriended Thomas when he arrived at the former's home, Betony Bank. When a misunderstanding causes him to leave and board a ship, Thomas sets out to find him, and the two of them become embroiled in a battle against a ReligionOfEvil from the East. |
| 737 | ---- |
| 738 | * BreakTheCutie: By the end of his ordeal, "the endearing air of innocence that shone in Woodget's face [is] gone forever." |
| 739 | * GoingNative: [[spoiler:With no memory of who he once was thanks to the Siren who sang to him, he becomes the new Holy One of Hara. When asked by Sobhan if he can recall anything about his former life, he responds that he can't and that it is better that way, as he would not want to be anywhere else but with "[his] people".]] |
| 740 | * IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:In the epilogue, it is revealed that Woodget was saved from drowning by the siren Zenna, whose song made him forget all about who he was. She took him to the City of Hara where he became their new Holy One.]] |
| 741 | * InnocenceLost: This happens to Woodget and is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at the end of the book. |
| 742 | * InterspeciesRomance: Downplayed, but his defending the dark and antisocial siren Zenna from mockery by her fairer, more PrincessClassic sisters leaves her visibly smitten with him. [[spoiler:[[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe This is why she follows him across the ocean]], and ultimately saves his life when a mind-controlled Thomas throws him into the sea to drown.]] |
| 743 | * MeaningfulName: His name is a clever reference to Richard Woodget, the former captain of the ''Cutty Sark''. The famous dry docked clipper ship would become his friend Thomas' home upon his retirement. |
| 744 | * TarotTroubles: Simoon has him select one card to reveal the ruling influence in his life. There is an image of [[GodOfEvil Sarpedon]] on it, and Simoon uses sleight of hand to switch it for the positive Love card instead so as not to upset him. |
| 745 | * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:He never gets back home to marry Bess.]] |
| 746 | [[/folder]] |
| 747 | |
| 748 | [[folder:Mulligan]] |
| 749 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mulligan.jpg]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | An Irish mouse who carries around a bag, inside which is something that he is ready to defend at all costs. |
| 752 | ---- |
| 753 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Melted into a pile of sludge by Dimlon]]. |
| 754 | * TheDrunkenSailor: He is depicted as this, having a taste for rum. |
| 755 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: He saves [[spoiler:Dimlon]] from drowning, only to find out that he is in fact [[spoiler:Dahrem Ruhar, adept of the Scale. He is intent on killing Mulligan and taking the MacGuffin he is guarding.]] |
| 756 | * FightingIrish: He's an Irish mouse and will resort to violence to keep the [[EggMacGuffin ninth fragment]] out of enemy hands. |
| 757 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: As mistrusting of others as he is, he never thinks to suspect [[spoiler:Dimlon]] as being a member of the Scale. |
| 758 | * ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: [[spoiler:As he dies, he gives the ninth fragment to Woodget and tells him to take it to the City of Hara.]] |
| 759 | * ImMelting: [[spoiler:His death scene, during which his body melts into a pile of sludge, is described in all its incredibly gruesome detail.]] |
| 760 | * MacguffinGuardian: [[spoiler:Mulligan's family has for years been entrusted with the largest and most dangerous fragment of Sarpedon's egg, moving it from place to place so it will never be found.]] |
| 761 | * SeadogPegLeg: He has one of these. |
| 762 | * TalkLikeAPirate: He tends to talk this way. |
| 763 | [[/folder]] |
| 764 | |
| 765 | [[folder:Chattan Giri]] |
| 766 | A mongoose captain from the City of Hara in India. |
| 767 | ---- |
| 768 | %%* TheCaptain: Of the ''Chandi'' |
| 769 | * ColonelBadass: He leads an army of mongoose warriors. |
| 770 | %%* CoolBoat: The ''Chandi'' |
| 771 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He says this to Dahrem after the latter's poisoned blades slice into him.]] |
| 772 | [[/folder]] |
| 773 | |
| 774 | [[folder:Simoon]] |
| 775 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simoon.jpg]] |
| 776 | |
| 777 | A wandering jerboa prophet whom Thomas and Woodget meet on board the ''Calliope''. |
| 778 | ---- |
| 779 | %%* TheArchmage |
| 780 | * ContinuityNod: When Thomas and Woodget ask him to tell a story, he brings up the events of the previous book, ''The Oaken Throne''. |
| 781 | -->"Of the great war between the messengers of the moon and the treefolk of the wood I know much. Grievous was the sorrow of that dark time, when the young Ysabelle gained the throne through misery and despair." |
| 782 | * {{Seers}}: What he is. |
| 783 | * TarotTroubles: He uses cards to tell the fortunes of Thomas and Woodget. Much to the former's dismay, he foresees a life at sea with no joy in it, for "a great weight shall ever drag [Thomas] down". He then offers to show Woodget his ruling influence. After he selects a card and Simoon gets a look at it, noticing that it has an image of [[GodOfEvil Sarpedon]] on it, he deftly switches it with the positive Love card so as not to upset Woodget. |
| 784 | [[/folder]] |
| 785 | |
| 786 | [[folder:Dahrem Ruhar]] |
| 787 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dahrem.jpg]] |
| 788 | |
| 789 | An adept of [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale]]. |
| 790 | ---- |
| 791 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He outwardly seems to be a good, if imbecilic friend of Thomas and Woodget's, but deep down he would like nothing better than to savagely murder them.]] |
| 792 | * EvilGloating: He does this a lot. |
| 793 | * EvilIsHammy: Members of the Scale tend to be this way. |
| 794 | * {{Gorn}}: The series itself is full of this, but he is guilty of what are likely the most over-the-top examples of it. When he murders [[spoiler:the ''Calliope'''s bosun, Able Ruddaway]], he not only stabs him with his poisoned blades (consigning him to a painful death as he slowly [[ImMelting melts into a pile of sludge]]), but then he ''also'' slices him in half and throws the mutilated carcass off of the ship! |
| 795 | * FalseFriend: He pretends to be a friend to Thomas and Woodget, but in reality is deceiving them. At one point he is reunited with the two of them, and while they are overjoyed to see him, he is imagining himself viciously murdering them! |
| 796 | * HostageForMacGuffin: He captures the temple maiden Neltemi and threatens to kill her if Mulligan doesn't hand over the ninth fragment of Scarophion's egg. Mulligan is ready to do as he asks, but [[spoiler:Neltemi [[HeroicSacrifice stabs herself]] with Dahrem's blades so he doesn't have to make the choice and can escape.]] |
| 797 | * ManipulativeBastard: He [[spoiler:pretends to be a [[TheDitz dim-witted]] mouse named Dimlon to befriend Thomas and Woodget, even coming up with an entire false backstory for the character, just to gain their trust.]] |
| 798 | * ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Beneath his mouse facade, he is an evil lizard. |
| 799 | * ScaledUp: As an adept of [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale]], he can tear off his mammalian skin and assume the form of a lizard. |
| 800 | * SmugSnake: Literally. |
| 801 | * TheSociopath: He fits the criteria for being one. |
| 802 | * UngratefulBastard: Mulligan saves his life. He wants to kill him. |
| 803 | [[/folder]] |
| 804 | |
| 805 | [[folder:The Holy One]] |
| 806 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theholyone.jpg]] |
| 807 | |
| 808 | The head of the Green Council, a wizened loris who has devoted himself to a life of austere solitude as the sadhu. He is among the wisest of all creatures and he dwells in a chamber atop the thousand steps of the mountain in the City of Hara. |
| 809 | ---- |
| 810 | * DirtyBusiness: [[spoiler:He regrets having to commit an act of betrayal for the greater good.]] |
| 811 | * LotusPosition: He sits like this to meditate. |
| 812 | * NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:He unlocks the main gate of the City of Hara so [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale can enter]]. This apparent betrayal is part of a plan the higher level good guys have come up with to defeat their enemies.]] |
| 813 | * TheOmniscient |
| 814 | * ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:His betrayal of the City of Hara. He saw it as necessary, but deeply regrets doing so]]. |
| 815 | [[/folder]] |
| 816 | |
| 817 | [[folder:Zenna]] |
| 818 | A mouse-like siren who falls in love with Woodget after he defends her against the cruel taunts of her sisters. |
| 819 | ---- |
| 820 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Though she never confesses her feelings to him (preferring to watch from afar), Woodget in all likelihood would not return her love as he only has eyes for Bess. |
| 821 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She is mocked by her sisters for her supposedly plain looks and for being a loner who prefers to spend her time in stagnant grottoes rather than singing in the sun. |
| 822 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She becomes infatuated with Woodget after he stands up for her when her sisters are mocking her. |
| 823 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Her sisters mock her as "the plain one", because whereas they are the mouse equivalent of the pale-skinned, blonde-haired, blue-eyed PrincessClassic, she is a darkly hued siren with glossy black fur and big moon-like eyes. In addition, whereas they are associated with various beautiful, clear, warm seas, Zenna is associated with the cold, dark regions of the oceans. Despite this, she is the only one of the sirens who is not presented as spiteful, vain and cruel, and she is even directly helpful to Woodget on several occasions in her gratitude to him for his standing up for her. |
| 824 | * StalkerWithACrush: Of the non-sinister variety. She follows Woodget, unbeknownst to him, on his voyage across the sea due to her having fallen in love with him. |
| 825 | * {{Tuckerization}}: She is named after the daughter of a librarian Robin Jarvis once met. |
| 826 | * UndyingLoyalty: Woodget's kindness toward her earns him hers. |
| 827 | [[/folder]] |
| 828 | |
| 829 | [[folder:The High Priest of Sarpedon]] |
| 830 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarpedonpriest.jpg]] |
| 831 | |
| 832 | A sable who is fanatically devoted to [[GodOfEvil Suruth Scarophion]]. |
| 833 | ---- |
| 834 | %%* BlackMagic: He uses it. |
| 835 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He is never referred to by his real name, only by his title. |
| 836 | %%* EvilIsHammy: He gives off strong vibes of this.%%Of what? |
| 837 | %%* EvilGloating: Lots and lots of it. |
| 838 | %%* EvilLaugh:%%Quotes are not acceptable context. |
| 839 | %%-->''At last the impregnable refuge of the vainglorious Green was about to fall and he let loose a shrill cackle of evil, gloating laughter.'' |
| 840 | %%* HighPriest: Of [[ReligionOfEvil the Scale]]. |
| 841 | %%* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When he realises that the EggMacGuffin has been rendered useless.]]%%What happens? |
| 842 | [[/folder]] |
| 843 | |
| 844 | [[folder:Mother Lotus]] |
| 845 | A hideous bloated rat who runs the Lotus Parlour, a bar in Singapore. Her customers also refer to her as "Ma Skillet". |
| 846 | ---- |
| 847 | * AsianSpeekeeEngrish: She is a Singaporean who speaks broken English. |
| 848 | * CompellingVoice: Part of her hypnotic powers. [[spoiler:She commands the mesmerized Thomas to throw his friend Woodget into the sea, and he does so without question. When he awakens from the trance, he realises he has made the worst mistake of his life.]] |
| 849 | * HypnoticEyes: She has the power to hypnotize others to do whatever she wants them to. Initially she does this to Thomas for her own cruel amusement, but [[spoiler:then he ends up saying too much and putting he and Woodget in danger.]] |
| 850 | [[/folder]] |
| 851 | |
| 852 | !''The Deptford Mouselets'' |
| 853 | |
| 854 | !!''Fleabee's Fortune'' |
| 855 | |
| 856 | [[folder:Fleabee]] |
| 857 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fleabee.jpg]] |
| 858 | |
| 859 | A rat girl who is unlike others of her kind. She is gentle and refuses to harm anything. |
| 860 | ---- |
| 861 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Robin reveals that after escaping the sewers at the end of her book, Fleabee traveled the world, became a very respected ratwitch, and changed her name to something more serious]]. |
| 862 | * FamousAncestor: She is the granddaughter of Black Ratchet, who was formerly Jupiter's lieutenant until he was throttled to death by Morgan. |
| 863 | * FantasyKeepsake: She finds an ornate dagger on her pillow, a gift to her from Mabb. |
| 864 | * SoProudOfYou: Fleabee's mother tells her this after learning that [[spoiler:Mabb has asked Fleabee to become her [[HighPriest high priestess]]]]. In spite of how she acts toward her, Klakkweena has always secretly been proud of her daughter and believed she was destined for great things. But as she has a HiddenHeartOfGold to keep hidden, she warns Fleabee that if she's asked to repeat it, she'll deny it was ever said. |
| 865 | * TokenHeroicOrc: Rats of Deptford are known for being vile and despicable, but she is the complete opposite. |
| 866 | * TheUnfavourite: Her parents are embarrassed by her and wish she could be more like her sister. |
| 867 | * WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Often Fleabee's parents will express this sentiment concerning her kindness, wondering why she isn't like the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil other rats]]. |
| 868 | [[/folder]] |
| 869 | |
| 870 | [[folder:Scabmona]] |
| 871 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scabmona.jpg]] |
| 872 | |
| 873 | The little sister of Fleabee who is an absolute terror, a true rat of Deptford. She can't wait to [[FlayingAlive peel a mouse]]. |
| 874 | ---- |
| 875 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Fleabee, who she torments mercilessly. |
| 876 | * BrattyHalfPint: As they are rats, her parents are actually ''proud'' of her rude behaviour, whereas they are ashamed of her polite older sister Fleabee. |
| 877 | * EnfantTerrible: She is a perfect example of this trope. She cannot wait for the opportunity to "doofer" (do for) someone. |
| 878 | * {{Expy}}: She's a rat version of [[Literature/RamonaQuimby Ramona]], though far more bratty. Her name even combines the last part of Ramona's first name with "Scab". |
| 879 | * LittleMissSnarker: She definitely has her moments. |
| 880 | * MeaningfulName: A scab is a skin disease that occurs in animals. She acts like an outright pest to Fleabee. |
| 881 | * ParentalFavoritism: She is favored by her parents for acting like a true rat, unlike the kinder and gentler [[TheUnfavorite Fleabee]]. |
| 882 | %%* TagalongKid: At times she can be this. |
| 883 | * TalkToTheHand: She says the rat version of this; "Talk to the claw 'cos the snout ain't listening!" |
| 884 | * UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: She brings home a cockroach that she names Growler to keep as a pet. Soon she tires of him and eats him. |
| 885 | [[/folder]] |
| 886 | |
| 887 | [[folder:Klakkweena]] |
| 888 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/klakkweena.jpg]] |
| 889 | |
| 890 | Wife of Rancid Alf, and mother of Fleabee and Scabmona. |
| 891 | ---- |
| 892 | * AbusiveParents: Both she and her husband emotionally (and sometimes physically) abusive to Fleabee for not being like other rats, and favor her sister Scabmona over her because of it. |
| 893 | * AlmightyMom: She's the domineering matriarch of her household, and her husband Alf often kowtows to her. |
| 894 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: |
| 895 | ** As much as she fights with and insults Alf, there are some genuine moments of affection between the two of them. |
| 896 | ** Her relationship with [[TheUnFavorite Fleabee]] is also this trope. While she does demean her oldest daughter for not being like other rats, it's merely a facade and deep down she's really proud of her. |
| 897 | * FamousAncestor: She boasts of being the daughter of Black Ratchet, who was previously Jupiter's lieutenant before Morgan throttled him. |
| 898 | * GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood: This is true for her and all the sewer rats. |
| 899 | -->"Good morning, Mother," said Fleabee.\ |
| 900 | Another raucous laugh burst from across the tunnel.\ |
| 901 | "Good?" shrieked the ratwife in outrage. "Good? Don't you dare be polite -- you little horror." |
| 902 | %%* HappilyMarried: By rat standards, she and Alf are this.%%Are what? |
| 903 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: It becomes clear that a lot of her nastiness is an act, though she'd never publicly admit to that. |
| 904 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though outwardly she is as mean and unpleasant as any rat in the sewers, she secretly truly cares for her much-maligned eldest daughter and is proud of her after all. |
| 905 | * ParentalFavoritism: She favors Scabmona for behaving like a true rat. This is part of a facade she keeps up to hide the fact that she loves Fleabee, too. |
| 906 | [[/folder]] |
| 907 | |
| 908 | [[folder:Rancid Alf]] |
| 909 | Klakkweena's husband, and father of Fleabee and Scabmona. |
| 910 | ---- |
| 911 | * AbusiveParents: Along with his wife, he's emotionally (and sometimes physically) abusive to his oldest daughter Fleabee for not being like other rats. |
| 912 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Though he takes a lot of [[DomesticAbuse abuse]] from Klakkweena, it is made clear that they are as HappilyMarried as rats can be. |
| 913 | * HenpeckedHusband: Klakkweena is definitely the one in charge and Alf always does what he is told. |
| 914 | [[/folder]] |
| 915 | |
| 916 | [[folder:Lickit]] |
| 917 | A young rat with a lisp. He has a crush on Fleabee, to her disgust. |
| 918 | ---- |
| 919 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: It could be gathered from the way he interacts with Fleabee that he has a crush on her, much to her disgust. |
| 920 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:When he tries to run away after having failed to kill anyone during First Blood, it is implied that he is caught by the other ratlings and murdered. Scabmona expresses the hope that they'll [[OffWithHisHead tear his head off]] for a [[SeveredHeadSports Kickabout]].]] |
| 921 | * SpeechImpediment: He doesn't say much, but when he does, he speaks with a lisp from having such a long tongue. |
| 922 | [[/folder]] |
| 923 | |
| 924 | [[folder:Ambrose]] |
| 925 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ambrose.jpg]] |
| 926 | |
| 927 | A nervous young grey squirrel servant of the Starwife who is captured by the rats to be used as a victim for their [[AFeteWorseThanDeath Festival of the First Blood]]. |
| 928 | ---- |
| 929 | * HumanSacrifice: Squirrel in his case. He nearly becomes this after being caught and brought to the rats' [[AFeteWorseThanDeath Festival of the First Blood]]. |
| 930 | * LovableCoward: He could be regarded as this, depending on whether you find his cowardice endearing or annoying. Really, you can't blame him for being scared out of his wits considering the situation he's in. |
| 931 | [[/folder]] |
| 932 | |
| 933 | [[folder:'Orace Baldmony]] |
| 934 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orace.jpg]] |
| 935 | |
| 936 | The ghost of the first rat to ever rebel against Jupiter and live peacefully among the mice. Unfortunately, that did not last long, for he was sought out and murdered along with his new friends. |
| 937 | ---- |
| 938 | * FriendlyGhost: He acts as a kindly mentor to Fleabee, giving her hope. |
| 939 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: When he appears, Fleabee remarks that he doesn't look how she imagined a ghost would look (that is, he appears no different than if he were alive). He laughingly replies that he didn't want to scare her by being "all see-through and smoky". |
| 940 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: Formerly a lieutenant of Jupiter, he realised the error of his ways and befriended the mice whom he decided to live with. However, an army of his kind was sent to find him. When they did, they pulled him to pieces, stuck his head on a spike, and slaughtered all his mouse friends too. Jupiter placed a curse on the Grille in the cellar of the old empty house in Deptford that would lure generations of mice to their doom. |
| 941 | * SpiritAdvisor: He becomes this to Fleabee as, like her, he was an unusually goodhearted rat. |
| 942 | [[/folder]] |
| 943 | |
| 944 | [[folder:Nuff]] |
| 945 | [[quoteright:195:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nuff.jpg]] |
| 946 | |
| 947 | A hamster who escaped the life of a pet to become a circus performer. He has big theatrical ambitions. |
| 948 | ---- |
| 949 | * ClassicallyTrainedExtra: He's very theatrical with everything he does. |
| 950 | * IAmNotWeasel: Klakkweena, having never seen a hamster before, says he looks like a flattened mouse to her. |
| 951 | %%* LargeHam: Definitely!%%ZCE! |
| 952 | [[/folder]] |
| 953 | |
| 954 | [[folder:Tilik and Vasili]] |
| 955 | [[quoteright:171:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tilikvasili.jpg]] |
| 956 | |
| 957 | Gerbil brothers from Mongolia who escaped from captivity with Nuff. They speak little English but are very talented acrobats. |
| 958 | ---- |
| 959 | * AsianSpeekeeEngrish: They have thick accents and the only English words they know are "yes", "no", and "chocolate finger" (oddly enough). |
| 960 | [[/folder]] |
| 961 | |
| 962 | !!''Whortle's Hope'' |
| 963 | |
| 964 | [[folder:Whortle Nep]] |
| 965 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whortle.jpg]] |
| 966 | |
| 967 | A young field mouse who wants to win the Fennywolde Games and become Head Sentry. |
| 968 | ---- |
| 969 | * DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler:Anyone reading ''Whortle's Hope'' likely has read ''The Crystal Prison'' beforehand, so they know that Whortle will eventually end up murdered.]] |
| 970 | * FieldTripToThePast: He is sent on one to witness for himself that [[spoiler:the watervole brothers' mother was not guilty of murdering Fenny]]. |
| 971 | * ThrowingTheFight: [[spoiler:In the end, he allows Jenkin Nettle to win the Fennywolde Games. He has found out that Jenkin's father [[AbusiveParents abuses him]] and may start being kinder to him if he won.]] |
| 972 | * UnderdogsNeverLose: [[spoiler:Subverted by Whortle ThrowingTheFight to help Jenkin. Were it not for that, he would indeed have won when no one expected him to.]] |
| 973 | * YouAlreadyChangedThePast: [[spoiler:After being sent to the past, Whortle mistakenly believes that Virianna is attempting to murder Fenny (in reality, she is casting a spell of protection against [[GodOfEvil the Raith Sidhe]]). He manages to grab her bag of powders and discards it. In doing so, he has allowed Mabb to enter and it is she who kills Fenny (while possessing the body of Virianna).]] |
| 974 | [[/folder]] |
| 975 | |
| 976 | [[folder:Figgy Bottom, Samuel Gorse, Todkin, and Hodge]] |
| 977 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whortlesfriends.jpg]] |
| 978 | |
| 979 | Whortle's friends, who are willing to do anything to help him win the Fennywolde Games. Together with him they are a club called the Wolf Killers. |
| 980 | ---- |
| 981 | * CripplingTheCompetition: Samuel does this to [[spoiler:Dimsel Bottom by giving her his magical biscuit. It makes her gain a tremendous amount of weight and renders her completely immobile so that Whortle can win the raft race.]] |
| 982 | * ThePromise: They swear an oath to help Whortle win the Fennywolde Games, adding darkly that if they fail, may they all be cursed and doomed. [[spoiler:It is implied that, since Whortle ''didn't'' win in the end and the oath was left unfulfilled, they indeed unwittingly brought misfortune upon themselves... the events of ''The Crystal Prison''.]] |
| 983 | * TrueCompanions: They're Whortle's friends who will do anything to help him. |
| 984 | * UnwantedAssistance: Whortle's friends use cheating to help him win the Fennywolde Games. When he finds this out, he is furious with them. |
| 985 | [[/folder]] |
| 986 | |
| 987 | [[folder:Dimsel Bottom]] |
| 988 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dimsel.jpg]] |
| 989 | |
| 990 | A local bully, and the younger sister of Whortle's friend, Figgy Bottom. |
| 991 | ---- |
| 992 | * AlphaBitch: She is the ringleader of her group of friends. |
| 993 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Figgy, her older brother and one of Whortle's friends. |
| 994 | * BalloonBelly: She is given a magical biscuit by Samuel Gorse which, unbeknownst to her, comes with the side effect of making anyone who eats it rapidly gain weight. She becomes too large to move, and it takes over a year for her to return to normal. Her ordeal causes her to become kinder to others. |
| 995 | * GirlPosse: Made up of her (the leader), Iris Crowfoot, and Lily Clover. |
| 996 | * {{Jerkass}}: She is incredibly nasty to others. After eating a strange biscuit that made her too fat to move, [[HeelFaceTurn she changes her ways]]. |
| 997 | * KarmicTransformation: It is believed by the fieldmice that Dimsel's tremendous weight gain is punishment by [[GodOfGood the Green]] for her haughty behaviour. [[TheFundamentalist Isaac Nettle]] had indeed coincidentally warned her previously that she would be cursed and "the weight of His wrath shall not be lifted till thou repenteth a thousandfold!" As none of them are aware of Samuel's magical biscuit, it's the only logical explanation to them. |
| 998 | * {{Tomboy}}: This is what she is described to be. |
| 999 | [[/folder]] |
| 1000 | |
| 1001 | [[folder:Woppenfrake, Willibald, and Firgild]] |
| 1002 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/volebrothers.jpg]] |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 | Three magical water vole brothers who have secretly lived in Fennywolde for centuries in the Grelffit Houm. |
| 1005 | ---- |
| 1006 | * ConLang: They speak one, calling Whortle a "rimpi-too" as that is their word for "field mouse". |
| 1007 | * ForcedToWatch: They were forced to watch as their mother was wrongly [[BurnTheWitch burned as a witch]]. |
| 1008 | * MaliciousSlander: They and their late mother are victims of this, though the ones who spread the lies didn't know any different. |
| 1009 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The brothers have been around since the war between the bats and the squirrels, which took place sometime in the Middle Ages. |
| 1010 | * ReclusiveArtist: Firgild, who painted the Grelffit Houm's walls with scenes from history. All three of them are reclusive, actually, though he is the only one with artistic talent. |
| 1011 | * SiblingTeam: They are this, as they work together. |
| 1012 | * TheWeirdSisters: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-inverted]] with the brothers. |
| 1013 | * WrongAssumption: Whortle is led to believe that their mother was a [[ReligionOfEvil Hobber]] and that they're all liars. They quickly set him straight. |
| 1014 | [[/folder]] |
| 1015 | |
| 1016 | [[folder:Virianna]] |
| 1017 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/virianna.jpg]] |
| 1018 | |
| 1019 | The water vole priestess of [[GodOfGood the Green]] who guided Fenny and the other woodlanders to the land that would become Fennywolde. She was falsely believed to have been a treacherous [[LadyOfBlackMagic Ratwitch]] who ''appeared'' to have murdered Fenny. |
| 1020 | ---- |
| 1021 | * BalancingDeathsBooks: This is the sort of agreement she believes she is making with Mabb, offering her own life in exchange for Fenny's. However, it's not wise to trust the promises of the Raith Sidhe. |
| 1022 | * BringIt: |
| 1023 | -->The water vole chuckled bleakly. "A contest twixt thee and me," she said, rolling up imaginary sleeves and clapping her paws. "Bring it hither!" |
| 1024 | * BurnTheWitch: [[spoiler:The woodlanders find the possessed Virianna dancing madly about the tree where Fenny has been hanged, and assume that she killed him, when in reality it was Mabb controlling her body. They burn her as a witch, and even force her children to watch.]] |
| 1025 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: She taunts the rat goddess Mabb to get her to come out of hiding and fight with her. |
| 1026 | -->"Can it be?" she cried. "Is the Great Mabb, the Beldame of the Pit, afraid to confront me? Ho - what a night this is. What was I afeared of? Indeed, what terror is left in thee now? Hobb is the true power of the Unholy Three and without Him - thou art naught but a shifter of shadows and a causer of bad dreams. Why, any gripe in the guts can boast the same!" |
| 1027 | * HighPriestess: Virianna was the priestess of the Green. |
| 1028 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Virianna served the old Starwife (the one before Ysabelle) and was tender of the Hallowed Oak. She later became an important ally of Fenlyn Purfote, but was never mentioned in ''The Oaken Throne''. |
| 1029 | * SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Though she tries to save Fenny's life by dying in his place, Mabb tricks her. Instead, Virianna is possessed by Mabb, who kills Fenny through her. The woodlanders naturally believe she is guilty and [[BurnTheWitch burn her]] as punishment.]] |
| 1030 | * TakeMeInstead: She offers her own life to the evil rat goddess Mabb in exchange for her sparing Captain Fenny. Mabb agrees to take only one life... [[spoiler:though she [[ExactWords doesn't specify whose]] and so tricks Virianna. Fenny dies anyway, and by Virianna's own hand, no less, as she unwittingly allowed Mabb to take control of her body. When Fenny's corpse is discovered by the woodlanders with Virianna dancing about it madly, they kill her in retribution for the crime she has seemingly committed.]] |
| 1031 | [[/folder]] |
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