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6	[[WMG: Baroness Gaia Sinclaire]]
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8	[[folder: Baroness Gaia Sinclaire]]
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10	->''Sometimes the best action is an indirect one.''
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12	The Headmistress of Crossroads Academy, [[spoiler: (adoptive)]] mother of Avalon Sinclaire, and all around LivingLegend. Having begun life as a medieval peasant, Gaia Sinclaire is now somewhere around [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld nine hundred years old]] and is one of the most famous Heretics around. Before being known as Gaia Sinclaire, she went by the name Scathach, after a figure from Celtic Mythology. [[spoiler: And before that, she was Morgan le Fay.]]
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14	Her Heretic aura is gold.
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18	* AffectionateNickname: Calls her daughter Valley.
19	* BigBrotherIsWatching: While it's nowhere near complete, she has a method of watching almost anything that can happen at Crossroads.
20	* BigEntrance: The Baroness knows how to enter a room with ''style''. [[spoiler: What would you call commandeering alien teleportation tech on another planet and calmly stepping into their control room before anyone realizes what's happening if not stylish?]]
21	%%* BigGood
22	* DeadpanSnarker: At times. She's a bit more gentle about it than most snarkers.
23	--> When I said that there are many things we need to discuss, I did not mean that each of those discussions should take place simultaneously within the next thirty seconds.
24	* DeathSeeker: For a time following the death of her son centuries ago, all Gaia wanted to do was join him.
25	* DividedWeFall: Gaia believes that any serious conflict between Heretics will render humanity defenseless. This is why she's so careful about her reformist intentions.
26	* FriendOnTheForce: [[spoiler: Was a complicated version of this for Joselyn within Crossroads during the revolution. Gaia was not actively working for or with them, but was willing to be a silent ally at times. Especially after Joselyn was imprisoned.]]
27	* GoodIsNotSoft: Do not anger Gaia Sinclaire. She will not hesitate to leave you to suffer an agonizing death if she thinks you deserve it.
28	** God help you if Gaia thinks you're an existential threat to humanity. She wiped a state off the map to save humanity once.
29	* InternalReformist: Doesn't agree with the overly traditionalist stance of the Crossroads Committee and is actively working to change the way things are run within the bounds of the system.
30	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She's not supposed to know [[spoiler: the identities of Joselyn's twins]], but managed to find out anyway. [[spoiler: She also doesn't know the [[IHaveYourWife real reason]] Joselyn was "captured" until Asenath angrily tells her.]]
31	** [[spoiler: Despite them knowing of her efforts to reform Crossroads, Gaia was also excluded from the anti-Seosten faction Gabriel Prosser is part of on the recommendation of her brother's wife Guinevere, who doesn't trust her not to go too far.]]
32	** She has no idea what [[spoiler: Deveron]] is doing because he no longer trusts her.
33	* MamaBear: Don't mess with any of her students. Ever. But especially don't mess with Avalon.
34	** Don't even mess with the children of her former students. She'll go out of her way to protect them too. [[spoiler: That's why she worked so hard to ensure that Flick would be able to attend Crossroads.]]
35	* MeaningfulName / MeaningfulRename: Gaia Sinclaire is not her original name, but the one she chose for herself. Sinclaire is in honor of the Scottish Clan Sinclair that took her in and kept her alive when she was a DeathSeeker (with an e added in recognition that she was not born to the clan). Gaia is a reference to the Greek Mother Earth, which she chose to remind herself that she can care for anyone who may need her.
36	** Before that she went by Scáthach, after a teacher who trained Cú Chulainn in Myth/CelticMythology. But even that isn't her original name. She picked it for herself after becoming a Heretic. [[spoiler: Her original name is Morgan le Fay.]]
37	* MentorArchetype: Gaia considered teaching her most important duty in life long before she officially took a job as one. [[spoiler: She eventually decides to personally give Flick private lessons.]]
38	* NecessarilyEvil: This is Gaia's opinion of Crossroads' current methods. She knows full well that not all Strangers are monsters, but is also keenly aware that there are plenty of Strangers that really are as bad as the propaganda says. As far as she's concerned, a flawed defense of humanity is better than no defense at all.
39	** She's also willing to resort to some pretty manipulative tactics in her quest to reform Crossroads. [[spoiler: Namely, her compliance with Joselyn's ultimate plan requires her to basically gamble with the lives of innocent part-Alter students.]]
40	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: At one point in her life, Gaia had a son. He was taken from her and died before she was able to save him.
41	* PayEvilUntoEvil: When sending Hannah Owens away to be saved from the mortal wound dealt to her by Fahsteth, Gaia made a point of leaving Hannah's abusive and similarly wounded father Reggie behind to die slowly. [[spoiler: This backfired when a vampire saved Reggie's life and he then dedicated it to murdering Hannah/Avalon.]]
42	* PlausibleDeniability: Will not hesitate to punish her students in order to mitigate the attention they would otherwise get from her more authoritarian colleagues.
43	* PragmaticHero
44	* ProperlyParanoid: Gaia is ''extremely'' cautious about who she trusts, which is fully justified by the fact that Ruthers has inserted people into her staff and she's not sure who they all are. [[spoiler: Furthermore, the Seosten have been trying and failing for ''decades'' to get their spies close enough to her to find out what she's hiding.]]
45	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Had absolutely no problem letting Seller take Hannah Owens to Eden's Garden in order to save her life. She personally asked him to do it. [[spoiler: And she's the only Heretic Joselyn Chambers told her daughter Felicity that she could trust.]]
46	** Gaia privately admired and supported [[spoiler: Joselyn,]] her pupil when she was still at Crossroads, doing everything in her power to shield said student from the attention of the much more hardline Headmaster of the day. [[spoiler: Things got a lot more complicated when Joselyn left school and started rebelling openly, which is exactly what Gaia was trying to convince her ''not'' to do.]]
47	* SecretSecretKeeper: Gaia knows a ''lot'' of things that people are trying to hide, without their knowledge. [[spoiler: She knew that Shiori and Vanessa are half-humans when they thought nobody knew, and was also aware that Sebastian Gerardo's boyfriend Mateo is a werewolf despite their best attempts to hide it as well.]]
48	* Technopath: Gaia's original power as a Natural Heretic.
49	* TricksterMentor: When she has to be. [[spoiler: Gaia doesn't totally trust most of her staff because she knows that some of them are spying for Ruthers, so she has to be extremely careful when helping students that are part-Alter or show reformist tendencies to avoid giving them or herself away.]]
50	* VindicatedByHistory: Her actions regarding a Fomorian invasion got her reviled for a long time, but the other Heretics eventually got over it.
51	* WeatherManipulation: She can call in storms.
52	* WeaponSpecialization: Her weapon is a whip that glows crimson when she's using it.
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56	[[WMG: Faculty]]
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58	[[folder: Virginia Dare]]
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60	A teacher of American history, fencing and martial technique at Crossroads Academy as well as the adviser for the Investigation Track, Virginia Dare was born in [[LostColony Roanoke]] in 1587. Yep. She's ''that'' Virginia Dare. [[spoiler: She is also Flick's grandmother, a fact that was kept secret for very good reason. For more information, see the entry for Joshua Atherby's wife on the Spoiler Characters page.]]
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64	* {{Animorphism}}: The ability to transform into a wolf is one of her original powers, obtained from the amarok that turned her into a Heretic.
65	* TheApprentice: [[spoiler: To Tiras, Asenath's father, who protected and trained her for a decade, until she left him at the age of twenty-three.]]
66	* BadassTeacher: Basically a job requirement to teach at Crossroads Academy.
67	* BigWhat: [[spoiler: Upon realizing some members of the Committee believe Flick is behind the attempts to murder Avalon.]]
68	* BlatantLies: [[spoiler: She annually tells her students that Tiras was a natural vampire-Heretic. Which is true, but leaves out the fact that all natural vampire-Heretics are themselves vampires.]]
69	* BrutalHonesty: She's ironically very blunt to her investigation students about how they're going to end up lying (a lot) to Bystanders over the course of investigating Stranger attacks.
70	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Dare has not had an easy time of it, she had to watch her entire family die when she was twelve, then spent a year on her own living in the woods, [[spoiler: and eventually abandoned her second father figure because she was afraid she'd get him killed]]. And every year she has to describe the entire thing to her students.
71	* DatingCatwoman: Has a thing going on with [[spoiler: Hisao, an Eden's Garden Heretic.]]
72	* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Dare has gotten the better of Fossor at least twice, a fact witch shocks Flick when she first hears it.
73	* FlamingSword: One of the many things she can make her sword do with magic.
74	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: She's the very same Virginia Dare that was born in Roanoke in 1587, the first English child to be born in the Americas.
75	** She even teaches Bystander History, and her own birth is on the curriculum.
76	* InternalReformist: In the same vein as Gaia.
77	* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: For much of her early life, Dare avoided people because she was being hunted by a dangerous enemy and was afraid of getting them hurt as a result. [[spoiler: Considering that this "great evil" wiped out the colony of Roanoke to torment her, it's kind of hard to blame her.]]
78	* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Dare considers Tiras her [[ParentalSubstitute second father]], and thus could be considered Asenath's adopted sister.]]
79	* MagicKnight: Dare's combat style is all about her sword, and using magic to keep her enemies from defending against it properly.
80	* MamaBear: Fiercely protective of her students. Her relief when she comes to Wyoming after Ammon's attack to find that Flick is (more or less) okay is almost palpable.
81	* MasterSwordswoman: Dare teaches the fencing class for a reason. She's very, very good with a sword, to the point that her Heretic weapon is just a sword with hammerspace magazines for one-shot spell sticks.
82	* OffscreenTeleportation: First introduces herself to Flick by appearing behind her while she's testing whether the portal in front of her is real.
83	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Virginia quickly sees that Flick is hiding parts of what happened when she went home, but doesn't press the issue because she recognizes that Flick has understandable reasons to be distrustful. Also, she doesn't actually need Flick to tell her because she has a pretty good (though not perfect) idea of the situation.
84	* SecretKeeper: Is one for Gaia who, among other things, tells her about Flick's relation to Wyatt Rendell and Koren Fellows when neither of them are supposed to know.
85	* WolfWoman: Dare originally became a Heretic after falling into a pool of amarok blood.
86	* YoungerThanTheyLook: This usually goes without saying for Heretics, but Dare gets a special mention because her birth-date is a matter of historical fact (August 18, 1587), so we can actually calculate her exact age. She's 430 (''Heretical Edge'' starts in September, 2017) and looks four centuries younger.
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90	[[folder: Ulysses Katarin]]
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92	Hunter Track Adviser and combat instructor, Professor Katarin is a no nonsense teacher responsible for teaching a bunch of teenagers how to properly handle their (''incredibly'' dangerous) {{Magitek}} weapons. Poor bastard.
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94	[[spoiler: Banished by Manakel over Christmas vacation. Killed by Issac Acosta in Rendezvous 30-04]]
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98	* BadassTeacher
99	* TheBigGuy
100	* DarkAndTroubledPast: When he was a teenager, his family was tortured to death by Fomorians.
101	* DrillSergeantNasty: How he runs the Introduction to Combat class.
102	* InternalReformist: Part of Gaia's camp and one of the few people she trusts implicitly.
103	* SoProudOfYou: Is absolutely ecstatic to find out Flick and co killed [[spoiler: Charmeine]].
104	* SternTeacher: His class involves weapons. Lots and lots of weapons. As can be expected, he has a strict no-tolerance policy for anyone who messes around too much. Or at all.
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108	[[folder: Risa Kohaku]]
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110	Head of Security at Crossroads Academy, which includes advising the Security track, and also an art teacher.
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112	[[spoiler: She's actually Manakel's host, and he used her to kill Professor Pericles.]]
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116	* ActionMom: Kohaku has had eight children, five daughters and three sons.
117	* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Manakel might have escaped to fight another day if Kohaku hadn't told Flick and Sariel where he put his escape hatch.]]
118	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Kohaku and Columbus Porter end up with a unique bond with each other [[spoiler: over their shared experience as Seosten hosts]].
119	* InternalReformist: She's part of Gaia's camp.
120	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Twice. Her daughter Kiyomi was killed in the Fomorian invasion of earth, and her son Yuuto died in an accident a few years before the start of the story when he was a teenager. [[spoiler: Her grief over his death causes her to withdraw enough to make it easier for Manakel to impersonate her.]]
121	* TheMole: [[spoiler: She spends much of Flick's first year as Manakel's host, a MoleInCharge situation that allows him to control the investigations into the attempts to murder Avalon.]]
122	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
123	* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:As Pericles's killer, even if she wasn't in control of herself at the time, Kohaku is the answer to one of the oldest driving questions of the series. Her being Manakel's host since before the story started only compounds her status as this.]]
124	* WalkingTechbane: A flashback in one of Nevada's interludes reveals that Kohaku had a lot of problems with technology when she was first appointed head of security, although she seems to have gotten better with it over the years.
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128	[[folder: Zedekiah Pericles]]
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130	A very old Heretic, both in age and appearance. Professor Pericles is the Development Track adviser as well as teaching the class on Strangers. At least until he's murdered a week into the beginning of the school year.
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134	* CoolTeacher: Most of his students think he's awesome. He was also Josleyn Atherby's favorite teacher.
135	* ElderlyImmortal
136	* InternalReformist: Pericles was one of Gaia's people.
137	* KilledOffForReal: He's murdered within days of the beginning of the school year.
138	* PosthumousCharacter: We learn quite a bit about Pericles after his death.
139	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's the only teacher Shiori and Gordon could trust with the knowledge of their Stranger ancestry. Too bad he was killed before they had the chance to tell him.
140	* RenaissanceMan: And not just because he was alive during the Renaissance. Over the course of his very long life, Professor Pericles picked up a lot of skills. He's well versed in various scholarly disciplines, and he teaches the Development Track.
141	* TheScapegoat: Accidentally became this and died because of it. Zekediah Atherby, now known as Wyatt Rendell, placed a spell to keep enemies from murdering Avalon. However, the Atherby family name had been erased by a memory spell, so TheMole only heard the first name Zekediah when performing a divination spell to learn who protected Avalon, and thus killed Pericles so [[NoOntologicalInertia the spell would fade after his death]].
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145	[[folder: Benji Carfried]]
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147	A young looking, chipper teacher that's filling in for Professor Tangle, who had an accident over the summer. To that end, he teaches Heretical Magic and advises the Explorer track.
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149	[[spoiler: He's actually the host of the Seosten Amatiel.]]
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153	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: He spends a lot of time pointing out that Heretical magic is not fast. You got that? Do you understand that Heretical magic is not fast? I can repeat it if you need to. Once more, Heretical magic is not fast.
154	* ImprobableAge: Carfried is really young by the standards Crossroads teachers. He graduated a year before he got his job. Granted, he's supposedly just filling in for another teacher, but still.
155	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Is very understanding when one of his students has a FreakOut in the middle of class. He takes her aside, sends her off to the therapist, and reprimands the one guy who mocked her for it.
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159	[[folder: Liam Mason]]
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161	An English Literature teacher, and Sands and Scout's father. He's raised them on his own since his wife Larissa's disappearance, and the three of them are very close.
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163	[[spoiler: He's the reason Joselyn's revolution was fought openly, as he exposed it back in the twenties.]]
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167	* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Get this guy talking about Strangers [[spoiler: or Joselyn]] and you will see exactly where Sands got it from.
168	* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: His classmates in his year at Crossroads Academy were Tribald Kine and Klassin Roe, [[spoiler: and also Joselyn Atherby and Deveron Adams.]]
169	* {{Foil}}: To Sands. [[spoiler: Both of them were confronted with the truth about Alters. Liam turned away because he couldn't cope with Heretic society being built on a lie. Sands didn't, largely because she couldn't bear to turn on Scout.]]
170	* GoodParents: He's very close to his twin daughters, who he raised on his own since their mother was lost in a Stranger attack when they were young.
171	** [[spoiler: Though he loses a lot of points later on when Sands and Scout both realize they can't trust him. They still love him, but finding out about his past and realizing he wouldn't have trusted Sariel to save Scout like Larissa did destroys their faith in him.]]
172	* HotForTeacher: Liam's wife, Larissa, was one of his students in the nineties, although they didn't actually enter into a relationship until after she left school.
173	* {{Hypocrite}}: He becomes increasingly uncomfortable with having his daughters on the same team as Avalon and Flick because of all the danger it puts them in... after he sent them to school for a life of extraordinarily dangerous monster hunting, and with full understanding of the fact that moving Sands and Scout to a different team would just put their replacements in that same danger.
174	** This is pointed out in-universe as him being irrational about his daughters' lives after his wife's disappearance.
175	* HypocriteHasAPoint: He's not exactly wrong to think that Avalon, Flick, and those around them are in greater danger than most students.
176	* MayDecemberRomance: He was around 99 and his wife was 25 when their daughters were born.
177	* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: Liam refuses to take responsibility for his role in starting Joselyn's war, instead blaming it all on Joselyn herself for being "naive" and "insane."]]
178	* ParentalObliviousness: Liam doesn't really notice the growing distance between him and his daughters. [[spoiler: He misses the way Scout basically ignores him when he thinks he's comforting her after Sands's disappearance.]]
179	* {{Turncoat}}: [[spoiler: Joselyn and Deveron trusted Liam back in their school days. He in turn ratted them out to Ruthers, turning what was supposed to be a quiet UndergroundRailroad into [[LaResistance a guerrilla war that lasted nearly a century]].]]
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183	[[folder: Nevada]]
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185	A teacher who looks like "Patient Zero for the epidemic of ditzy blonde cheerleader types in pretty much every movie ever." She takes over Professor Pericles' responsibilities after his death.
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187	[[spoiler: She was originally a Djinni created by Denuvus in 1615. After spending centuries being passed along to different masters (and often reclaimed by her creator), she was recruited by Deveron to modify the Heretical Edge to affect [[HalfHumanHybrid part-Alter]] students in 1986. She then turned herself into a human and became a Heretic to help Gaia reform Crossroads.]]
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191	%%* BadassAdorable
192	%%* BadassTeacher
193	* BagOfHolding: Nevada's "weapon" is a large metal crate that collapses into a metal bracelet she wears on her wrist. Inside the crate is an armory of her actual weapons, designed by her.
194	* BenevolentGenie: [[spoiler: What she used to be. She wasn't happy with it.]]
195	* ChainsawGood: Owns a ''[[{{BFS}} massive]]'' chainsword.
196	* DumbBlonde: Subverted. Nevada looks and superficially acts like this, but she's anything but dumb.
197	* GadgeteerGenius: Nevada designs and creates all her own weapons. She also teaches the development track.
198	* InsistentTerminology: [[spoiler: She was ''not'' a "genie," she was a ''Djinni''.]]
199	* InternalReformist: Another of the people that Gaia trusts implicitly. She actually joined Crossroads specifically to help reform the Heretics.
200	** [[spoiler: Her interlude reveals that she wasn't always an ''internal'' reformist - she's personally responsible for one of the revolution's greatest victories, and one that wasn't negated by the memory spell.]]
201	* LineOfSightName: Chose the name Nevada when she saw an old poster for the movie ''Wanda Nevada'' and felt the second word fit her.
202	* OlderThanTheyLook: This is true of most adult Heretics, but Nevada in particular looks to be the same age as her sixteen and seventeen year old students. [[spoiler: In reality she's 402 at the start of the story, having originally been created in 1615. She's even older if you include Theda's life in her age.]]
203	* PlayingWithFire: One of her powers is to send forth flickers of flame that ignite into controlled bursts of fire that reduce their targets to ash in seconds.
204	* ThePollyanna: All those smiles of hers are completely genuine. Nevada just plain loves life and will always look for the bright side of things.
205	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She warns against asking dangerous questions when one of her students privately brings sensitive topics up.
206	* TookALevelInBadass: Before becoming a Heretic ([[spoiler:back when she was a Djinni]]), Nevada was so innocent and unused to violence that she had no idea how to fight. Now she's a total badass able to shred her way through a zombie horde without breaking a sweat.
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210	[[folder: Erica Ross]]
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212	The Heretical history teacher, Professor Ross is one of the Heretics that actually looks old. Flick describes her as looking "like one of those amazing Amazon warriors if they happened to live to be about ninety."
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216	* ElderlyImmortal: As noted, Ross is a centuries old Heretic that genuinely appears old, which is something of a rarity.
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220	[[folder: Giselle Tangle]]
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222	Professor Tangle is supposed to be teaching the Explorer track and magic classes, but she was injured over the summer and Professor Carfried is filling in for her while she recovers. She's a black woman who appears to be in her mid-forties.
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226	* AnArmAndALeg: She lost a leg and part of her side to a shark attack over the summer, and for some reason the wound isn't healing.
227	* BitchInSheepsClothing: She presents herself as a very friendly lady, to the point where she was Deveron's favorite teacher in his first year. She's not actually that nice. [[spoiler: Except she totally is. Flick is led to believe that Tangle is actually a malicious bitch, but the truth is that she's been manipulated and controlled to be that way by the Seosten Paschar.]] .]]
228	* CoolTeacher: She's a pretty popular and even fun teacher.
229	* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler: She's involved with someone from Eden's Garden, who eventually turns out to be the host of a Seosten that was magically inducing her obsessive crush on him. ]]
230	* {{Geek}}: She's a huge gamer with a room filled with two consoles and tons of video and boards games.
231	* MeaningfulName: She managed to get wrapped up in a tangle of plots. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded on several occasions.]]
232	* NoodleIncident: The "shark attack" that injured her was bad enough that it's taking her months to recover despite having a HealingFactor. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Seosten sent Fahsteth after her to stop her from telling Gaia when she realizes she's under mind control.]]
233	* RetiredBadass: Not fully retired, but she hasn't been an active duty Heretic in some time.
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237	[[folder: Stephen Vandel]]
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239	The Heretical Geography teacher, the guy who teaches students about landmasses, planets, and everything else that Bystanders don't know about. He tends to get a lot of questions about Atlantis.
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243	* HighClassGlass: Dude wears a monocle.
244	* LimitedWardrobe: He always wears a long-sleeved black and white checkered shirt with a bolo tie and crisp blue jeans that looked brand new. Flick's not sure if he even ''owns'' other clothes.
245	* TemptingFate: While lecturing his students about how the island containing Crossroads Academy exists in a pocket dimension in one of Hieronymus Bosch's paintings, he assures them the painting is well protected and couldn't ''possibly'' be placed in any danger, thus making many a reader FacePalm.
246	* TheNapoleon: Vandel is a short dude, even shorter than Flick and just barely taller than Sands and Scout.
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248	[[/folder]]
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250	[[folder: Professor Carver]]
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252	One of the older-year teachers.
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256	* DeadpanSnarker
257	* EinsteinHair: Or "Einstein-esque," as Flick puts it.
258	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: His first appearance has him show up to disperse a crowd of rumor-mongers bothering Flick [[spoiler: after she kills Doxer.]]
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260	[[/folder]]
261	[[WMG: Other Staff]]
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263	[[folder: Wyatt Rendell]]
264
265	--> ''[[CrazyPrepared Always have a plan, and always have a back-up plan for that plan. Never rely on a single solution to any problem.]]''
266	A security guard at Crossroads. He's extremely enthusiastic at his job to the point of being disruptive, but also an excellent enchanter. And he's Flick and Ammon's older half-brother, Joselyn and Deveron's son, and Koren Fellows' uncle through her mother and his twin, Abigail. His birth name is Zedekiah Atherby.
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270	* AbusiveParents: Wyatt only ever received cold treatment and harsh punishments for even the slightest of infractions from his adoptive parents. It actually got to the point where he started training himself to wake up silently with electrical shocks rather than let them realize he was awake.
271	* BoisterousBruiser: He's not the most subtle guy in the world.
272	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite his eccentricities, his skill with magic and security magic in particular is downright prodigious.
273	* CoolUncle: To Koren, once they both learn that they're related.
274	* CrazyPrepared: Whether he's taking students on a jungle trip, just waking up in the morning, or getting ready for combat, Wyatt is ready for anything with magical and mundane back up plans.
275	* CynicismCatalyst: Eavesdropping on his parents to discover that they never cared about him and are prepared to murder him if ordered. As a result, he doesn't trust ''anyone''.
276	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Despite his genius at security magic, Wyatt's utterly convinced that the first time he doesn't perform perfectly he'll be fired for cause, regardless of the actual circumstances. [[spoiler: He's convinced he failed after the cruise ship ambush and offers to resign, but Gaia states that his security measures were actually the only thing that kept the attackers from just teleporting Avalon away to kill her and commends him for forcing the attackers to use a contingency plan that could be defeated.]]
277	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Wyatt wants to be able to trust people, but his intense paranoia and the weirdness that results prevents him from doing so. He's never had a real friend in his life. He's overjoyed to learn of his relation to Flick, Koren, and Deveron because it means he's finally found people he can trust.
278	* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Wyatt is ''fiercely'' protective of his sisters and niece, to the point where he comes very close to starting a war with Eden's Garden after learning what Pace almost did to Flick (and did do to Roxa).
279	* LargeHam: When he's acting the hilariously jumpy security guy, Wyatt makes an incredibly production out of stopping people.
280	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Crossroads didn't let him know anything about his biological family even before they started using memory magic. Consequently, he has ''no idea'' why spies have been following him around all his life.
281	* LongLostRelative: Wyatt is the son of Joselyn and Deveron, making him Flick and Ammon's older brother, Koren's uncle, and Seller's descendant.
282	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: As it turns out, [[spoiler: leaving a child with AbusiveParents and sending spies after them for their entire life]] isn't a good way to build loyalty. Who knew?
283	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: He's not happy to realize that he's killed a number of innocents when he learns that not all Strangers are evil.]]
284	* TheNapoleon: The five foot, four inch tall Flick mentions that he's only about an inch taller than her.
285	* NoSocialSkills: A lifetime of not letting himself get close to anyone has left Wyatt with a distinct lack of understanding how to interact with others.
286	* ObfuscatingStupidity: He often exaggerates his overenthusiastic personality to keep people from noticing when he becomes suspicious of them.
287	* TheParanoiac: His interlude reveals that Wyatt is even more paranoid than he seems. His morning rituals consist of elaborate checks to ensure that he's alone and he doesn't trust anyone because he's convinced that spies are always trying to get close to him. Every so often he uproots his life and moves on to avoid anyone that might be reporting on him. Tragically, this is [[ProperlyParanoid completely justified]]. His life really has been filled with people spying on him on Ruthers' orders. As the tags put it:
288	--> It’s Not Paranoia When They Really Did Kidnap You To Force Your Mother To Surrender And Erase All Memory Of Her From Existence.
289	* TellMeAboutMyFather: Once he learns the truth about his family, he becomes very curious to learn more about his real mother.
290	* TooGoodToBeTrue: To Wyatt, even something as simple as meeting someone who's nice to him is too good to be true. Inverted when he finds out about his family. He believes Flick, Deveron, and Koren in part because the complicated and dangerous circumstances they describe are ''not'' too good to be true.
291	* SeparatedAtBirth: From his twin sister Abigail Fellows in order to hide them from their father and the rest of the rebellion.
292	* SinsOfTheFather: To an even greater extent than his little sister. Being Joselyn Aterby's son has led Ruthers to turn his life into a nightmare of paranoia.
293	* SpannerInTheWorks: The security magic he places on Avalon is ''the'' chief reason none of the attempts on her life have succeeded. Even when they manage to block one of his spells, another functions well enough to prevent TheMole from kidnapping her.
294	* StraightGay: His interlude casually reveals that he's gay and has a bit of a crush on Reid Rucker. Most people wouldn't guess it from interacting with him.
295	* WeakButSkilled: Due to his reclusive lifestyle, Wyatt hasn't been able to rack up as many powers as other Heretics his age. He makes up for this with his incredible skill with magic.
296	* WellDoneSonGuy: Wyatt was desperate to earn his parents' love when he was young, only to give up when he realized that he was never going to get it. He's overwhelmed to the point where he can barely form coherent sentences when he finally meets his real father, who wastes no time telling him how proud he is of him, and that he loves him.
297
298	[[/folder]]
299
300	[[folder: Reid Rucker]]
301
302	Professor Kohaku's NumberTwo of the school's Security staff. He looks to be in his early twenties and reminds Flick vaguely of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
303
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305
306	* NiceGuy
307	* NumberTwo: To Professor Kohaku.
308	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's a pretty easygoing guy, very understanding to both students and his staff.
309
310	[[/folder]]
311
312	[[folder: Chef Escalan]]
313
314	The school's... rather intense chef. He takes his job pretty seriously. [[spoiler: Fossor zombified him and turned him into his [[TheMole mole]].]]
315
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317
318	* ChubbyChef: Described as squat and rotund.
319	* FunetikAksent: Has a thick Russian accent.
320	* SupremeChef: His meals are delicious. All three of them, every day.
321
322	[[/folder]]
323
324	[[folder: Klassin Roe]]
325
326	Crossroads Academy's on-staff therapist who helps students (particularly Bystander-kin) deal with traumatic experiences and the stress of the life they're embarking on. Professor Dare sets up an appointment with him for Flick after her visit home.
327
328	Klassin Roe isn't his original name, Jonathon Ruthers is. He changed it in an effort to disassociate himself from his father.
329
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331
332	* CallingTheOldManOut: More or less his entire life for the last two decades.
333	* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: Klassin lures Liam Mason to his office and then goads him into argument about his betrayal of Joselyn when he knows Flick can overhear them.]]
334	* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He was a classmate of Tribald Kine and Liam Mason. [[spoiler: Which also makes him a classmate of Joselyn and Deveron.]]
335	* {{Foil}}: To Flick, as they both renamed themselves in an effort to affect their parents. The difference is that Flick was a young child lashing out in confusion to hurt her MissingMom, while Klassin was a full grown man who knew exactly what he was doing by changing his name in protest of his father's uncompromising and irrational actions.
336	* GreaserDelinquents: How he dresses. Leather jacket, slicked back hair, jeans, a t-shirt, the whole nine yards.
337	* HeelRealization: Jonathon was his father's son, until a family of Alters saved his life and then gave theirs to protect his.
338	* InternalReformist: Joselyn eventually brought him around to her line of thinking, which eventually placed him in Gaia's camp (although he's not one of Gaia's most trusted people).
339	* MeaningfulRename: He renamed himself Klassin Roe after rebelling against his father. [[DontExplainTheJoke Roe sounds like row, a word for a heated disagreement.]]
340	* TheMole: He spent the entire revolution being a mole for Joselyn.
341	* ReformedBully: One of his classmates described him as having been a bully when he was a student. Not so much anymore.
342	* RomanticRunnerUp: It's implied that he eventually developed feelings for Joselyn over the course of the rebellion.
343	* TheShrink: For the student body of Crossroads Academy. He takes his job seriously, going out of his way to learn the names of every new student.
344	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Roe is Crossroads' living Subversion of this trope.
345	* YoureNotMyFather: The reason for the MeaningfulRename up there. Klassin basically disowned himself in protest of Joselyn Atherby's banishment.
346
347	[[/folder]]
348
349	[[folder: Peterson Neal]]
350
351	Crossroad Academy's Head of Student Affairs, he's generally a serious guy and doesn't show up very often. He reports directly to Counselor Ruthers, and Counselor Davis Neal is his older brother.
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354
355	* HeroWorshipper: Towards Gabriel Ruthers. Although it's not to the point where he won't question the man's decisions.
356	* HiddenDepths: Initially presented as a stooge, it later comes out that Peterson has good reasons for being so loyal to Ruthers and doesn't just mindlessly obey the man.
357	* TheMole: Not the one trying to kill Avalon, but one who works for Ruthers.
358	** Secretly becomes an unknowing mole for Wyatt when he and Koren switch out his watch for one enchanted to serve as a listening device.
359	* YouKilledMyFather: Implicit. Peterson is a hardliner who was introduced to the supernatural when a group of Nocen murdered his parents.
360

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