Line #61 Characters/CastleInTheAir


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3	This page refers to the sequel of the book ''Howl's Moving Castle''.
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6	[[folder: Abdullah]]
7	A young, dreamy carpet merchant. He is sold a magic carpet by a strange man by which he meets and falls in love with a princess, Flower-in-the-Night, who is snatched by a djinn before he can elope with her. Abdullah then embarks on a quest to rescue her.
8	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A large number of Abdullah's daydreams come true - including his most horrible ones that include merciless villains and the like. [[spoiler: Turns out Hasruel did this on purpose.]]
9	* FireForgedFriends: Abdullah and the soldier.
10	* FirstGirlWins: Flower-in-the-Night is the first girl Abdullah encounters in the story. He falls in love with her instantly and marries her by the end of the story.
11	* GuileHero: The first thing Abdullah tries to do when confronted with the robbers in the desert is convince them that he is a powerful magician who is wearing chains that prevent him from using his magic. He says this in an attempt to trick the robbers into taking his chains off him.
12	* IChooseToStay: Abdullah and Flower-In-The-Night stay in Ingary.
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16	[[folder: Flower-in-the-Night]]
17	The princess Abdullah falls in love with. She is abducted by a djinn when she is about to elope with Abdullah.
18	* IChooseToStay: Abdullah and Flower-In-The-Night stay in Ingary.
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20	%%* LoveAtFirstSight
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24	[[folder: The Soldier]]
25	A Strangian soldier who makes a living out of robbing and cheating other people. Abdullah first meets him outside an inn in Ingary and together they end up travelling to Kingsbury to speak with Royal Wizard Suliman.
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27	* AccidentalKidnapping: Near the end of the novel, the djinn Hasruel abducts Princess Valeria. The soldier, wanting to get a reward, orders the genie to take him after the djinn and place Whippersnapper, who had reverted back into his true baby form, with someone who could look after him. The genie, being the JackassGenie that he is, brings the baby to the castle in the air with them. When Sophie discovers that her baby's been taken to the djinn's hideout, she is furious and accuses the soldier of abducting him.
28	* AchillesInHisTent: [[spoiler: Prince Justin]] is apparently in the habit of doing this.
29	* ActuallyIAmHim: The soldier says this almost word-for-word to Princess Beatrice at the end of the novel, when he reveals his true identity.
30	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler: All the characters from the first book got one of these from Hasruel, but Prince Justin's in particular is a very specific bit of ironic karma -- the mastermind of Ingary's invasion of Strangia is forced to live the life of one of the war's many victims, as a homeless veteran of the losing side.]]
31	* FireForgedFriends: Abdullah and the soldier.
32	* KindHeartedCatLover: The Soldier turns out to be this. Much to Abdullah's disgust, he insists on keeping the two strays they find in the mountains and even names them 'Midnight' and 'Whippersnapper'.
33	* MuggingTheMonster: The Strangian soldier finances his tour of Ingary by flashing a few gold coins in a village and waiting until the local toughs attack him.
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36	[[folder: The Genie]]
37	Exactly what it says on the tin. A genie trapped in a genie bottle that Abdullah obtains while in the desert near Zanzib.
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39	* BewitchedAmphibians: The genie threatens to turn anyone who annoys him into toads. At one point in the story he actually does turn Abdullah and the soldier into toads, but only for a limited amount of time. He also turns the first people to open his bottle into toads, though Abdullah makes him reverse the spell during his attempt to challenge fate.
40	* GenieInABottle: He's a genie trapped in a genie bottle.
41	%%* HiddenDepths
42	* JackassGenie: He grants only one wish a day and thinks up ways to specifically screw whoever makes the wish over. His justification is that being stuffed in an old bottle makes him cranky. Toward the end, the genie is revealed [[spoiler: to be Howl, cursed to be a genie by the djinn]].
43	* MakeAWish: He is forced to grant any character who asks a wish a day.
44	* NoSympathy: The genie shows no sympathy towards Abdullah's plight, and is always very difficult when being asked for a wish. He doesn't show any sympathy at all either when the soldier wishes for salmon and milk for Midnight and Whippersnapper who he claims are starving.
45	* FreeingTheGenie: He is finally freed from the genie bottle by Flower-in-the-Night, who had promised to do so if he helped Abdullah, Jamal, the soldier, [[spoiler: Sophie]] and the princesses defeat Dalzel and Hasruel.
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49	[[folder: Midnight/[[spoiler: Sophie]]]]
50	A stray mother cat the soldier and Abdullah find living in the mountains north of Kingsbury.
51	* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: As Midnight, Sophie seemed relatively sweet to the soldier. However, as a human mother who thinks that said soldier has purposefully abducted her child, she is not so nice.]]
52	%%* CatsAreMagic
53	* CoolCat: Is this as Midnight.
54	* FieryRedhead: Once she is a human again, this is abundantly clear to Abdullah, who is very discomfited by her strong-mindedness when he first gets to know her as a human.
55	%%* ForcedTransformation
56	* MamaBear: Do NOT harm [[spoiler: Morgan Jenkins]] if you know what's good for you.
57	* NiceGirl: She is again shown to be very kind and even empathizes with the genie's plight.
58	%%* SilkHidingSteel
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63	Midnight's kitten.
64	%%* ForcedTransformation
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67	[[folder: Wizard Suliman]]
68	One of the Royal Wizards of Ingary. He is charged by the King with protecting Princess Valeria from the djinn. Abdullah and the soldier go to him to warn him of the djinn's plan to abduct Princess Valeria.
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74	Wizard Suliman's wife. She is pregnant with their first child.
75	* BabiesEverAfter: Gives birth to her and Suliman's first child at the end of the novel.
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79	[[folder: Princess Beatrice]]
80	The princess of Strangia. Prince Justin was meant to wed her, but she ran away rather than consent to it. She is one of the princesses who was taken by Hasruel to the castle in the air.
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83	[[folder: Princess Valeria]]
84	The princess of Ingary. She is only four years old, and is prone to throwing tantrums when she doesn't get her own way. She is taken to the castle in the air during the course of the novel.
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89	[[folder: Princess Hilda]]
90	Princess of High Norland. She is very elderly. She is one of the princesses held captive in the castle in the air.
91	%%* CoolOldLady
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95	[[folder: Hasruel]]
96	A good djinn who was enslaved by his own brother, who stole his life and hid it from him. He is the main cause of almost all of Abdullah's troubles in the story.
97	* AffablyEvil: He's not truly evil, but has been forced into the role after his brother stole his life and made him his slave.
98	* BigBrotherInstinct: Hasruel to Dalzel.
99	* EvilFeelsGood: Hasruel admits to it.
100	* ForcedIntoEvil: Hasruel...but he's thoroughly enjoying it.
101	* HiddenInPlainSight: Hasruel's life is ''under his nose''.
102	* MadeASlave: Hasruel was forced to slave away for his brother after his brother stole his life.
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108	[[folder: Dalzel]]
109	Hasruel's brother. He stole his own brother's life and forced him to slave away for him.
110	* HaremSeeker: Dalzel. He settles for all of the highborn ladies in the world because no female djinn will have him.
111	%%* ItsAllAboutMe
112	* KidWithTheLeash: Dalzel to Hasruel.
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