Line #59 Characters/The100Sanctum


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4	!!The Primes
5	[[folder:In General]]
6	!!The Primes in General
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8	* BrainUploading: Just like how the Flame holds the memories and consciousness of a Commander, the Primes use a similar technology and process to upload their consciousnesses into a new host body after their previous host dies, effectively rendering them immortal.
9	* CreepySouvenir: They keep the skeletons of their previous hosts on display in a vault.
10	* AGodAmI: The Primes are worshipped as gods. This is because they have manipulated the rest of their people into believing they were sacrificing themselves to gods, so that the Primes could live forever.
11	* GrandTheftMe: How they achieve their immortality, by uploading their minds into new bodies that possess nightblood.
12	* ImmortalsFearDeath: For all their talk about having abandoned violence, the Primes are quick to fall back on threats of murder and violence when their potential 'new hosts' refuse to go along with their plans, putting their own survival over their civilisation.
13	* ItsAllAboutMe: The Primes treat Clarke as basically disposable in the name of restoring Josephine, proclaiming it 'destiny' that the former Earth residents came to Sanctum as the 'darkblood' birth rate is dropping. Later on, when the Earth residents turn against them, Russell and Simone only react as though it's the fault of the new arrivals that they have to resort to these extreme measures, rather than acknowledge the horror of what they've become over the centuries.
14	* MayflyDecemberRomance: Any relationship between a Prime and someone that is not one is basically this, because when the Prime dies, they'll be resurrected in a new host, while their lover will simply be gone forever.
15	* Really700YearsOld: Thanks to their ability to upload their minds into new bodies all of the Primes are this.
16	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After enacting the Adjustment Protocol, the remaining Primes planned to hijack the ''Elegius IV'' to start again on a new world, with the ship's mindwiped crew as their new devoted followers.
17	* SecretlyDying: Not quite dying, per se, but they have discovered that fewer and fewer viable hosts are being born among Sanctum's population, leading them to come to the conclusion that they will eventually die a final death.
18	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: There are twelve Primes in Sanctum, divided into four families; the Lightbournes, the Desais, the Masons and the Lees. Gabriel Santiago is the thirteenth Prime, who had a "moral awakening" and defected against his fellow Primes and began to work toward bringing their eventual downfall.
19	[[/folder]]
20
21	[[folder:Russell Lightbourne]]
22	!!Russell VII Lightbourne
23	->'''Played by:''' Creator/JRBourne, Creator/SeanMaguire
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26	* AwesomeMcCoolname: With a name like "Lightbourne", he and his family were all but destined to become either [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] or [[AGodAmI villains with a god complex]]. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he and them chose the latter.
27	* BigBad: Of Season 6, as the leader of Sanctum and one of the inventors of the Primes' BrainUploading technology.
28	* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:He's the leader of a group of body snatchers, and ultimately dies when Sheidheda steals his body.]]
29	* GrandTheftMe: He and Simone inflict this to Clarke after they discover she has nightblood, so they can bring their daughter back from the dead. [[spoiler:Ironically, he becomes a victim of this himself after his mind is destroyed by Sheidheda, who then takes control of his body]].
30	* LastOfHisKind: Although Ryker and Priya Desai are technically still alive [[labelnote:Note]]Their host bodies are dead but their mind drives are still intact albeit dormant[[/labelnote]] as of the Season 6 finale, Russell and Gabriel are the last living Primes after Clarke blew the rest of the out an airlock. [[spoiler:Russell's consciousness is erased in the Season 7 premiere, leaving Gabriel the last active Prime.]]
31	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Murdering Clarke to bring Josephine back, although he expressed remorse for doing so, and he was perfectly willing to transfer Josie's mind drive to another host after it's revealed that Clarke's mind is still alive.
32	* MadnessMantra: While going batshit insane and killing his family during the first eclipse: "Sanctum is mine!"
33	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The first time he went through the eclipse-induced psychosis, he killed his wife and daughter. He then spent the next twenty-five years trying to bring them back from the dead until he finally succeeded by resurrecting Josephine.
34	* Really700YearsOld: Russell looks like a man who is pushing fifty [[labelnote:Note]]JR Bourne is 49 as of 2019[[/labelnote]]. Chronologically he is actually closer to three-hundred.
35	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Gets his consciousnesses destroyed by Sheidheda at the end of the Season 7 premiere]].
36	* TookALevelInJerkass: Despite his actions, Russell is shown to be a kind man who is sympathetic to what the people from Earth have gone through, and is willing to right some of the wrongs he did in the interest of peace. That goes right out the window after Simone is assassinated, and he becomes willing to burn people at the stake to get justice.
37	* WouldHurtAChild: One of the hosts Russell used to try and resurrect Josephine was a baby, and after Simone and the rest of the Primes are killed by Clarke he is willing to kill Madi in revenge.
38	[[/folder]]
39
40	[[folder:Simone Lightbourne]]
41	!!Simone Lightbourne
42	->'''Played by:''' Tattiawna Jones, Creator/ChelahHorsdal, [[spoiler:Creator/PaigeTurco]]
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45	* BluffTheImposter: "What's my father's name?" Simone's failure to answer that proves fatal.
46	* DislikesTheNewGuy: Instantly distrusts the new arrivals from Earth and wanted them to leave the safety of the village. She changes her mind after it's discovered that some of them possessed nightblood.
47	* RaceLift: In-universe. Simone is a black woman that used to be a white redhead two-hundred years ago. She gets another race lift when she is placed in Abby's body.
48	* Really700YearsOld: Simone looks like a woman who is pushing forty [[spoiler:and later a woman in her fifties after she inhabits Abby's body]]. Chronologically she is actually closer to three-hundred.
49	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Which is how she and most of the remaining Primes meet their final death.
50	* TookALevelInJerkass: In the flashbacks we get to see of Simone while still living in her original body she doesn't seem to be the complete sociopath she is during the events of Season 6.
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Josephine Lightbourne]]
54	!!Josephine Ada Lightbourne
55	->'''Played by:''' Sara Thompson, Creator/SkylarRadzion, Creator/GwynythWalsh, [[spoiler:Creator/ElizaTaylor]]
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58	* ActuallyIAmHim: After reading Josephine's book on Oblation, Abby concludes that she was a monster. She is completely unaware that said monster is actually in the same room as her, currently inhabiting her daughter's body.
59	-->'''Josephine:''' ''(muttering to herself)'' "Or a ''visionary''."
60	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Begins to understand Trigedasleng just after hearing a few sentences.
61	* BackFromTheDead: Before being uploaded into Clarke's body, Josephine had been dead for around six years. And she would have stayed dead for years more if Clarke hadn't arrived to Sanctum aboard ''Eligius IV''.
62	* ComedicSociopathy: Josephine is the ''definition'' of this trope, casually describing the brains of the other people she'd inhabited (and subsequently murdered) as annoying and messy.
63	--> '''Bellamy:''' "You really think we care about that traitor?"
64	--> '''Josephine:'''(as she holds a knife to Murphy's throat): "Lord knows you shouldn't! But yeah, I do, which brings us to another episode of ''No Good Choices!''"
65	* DestinationDefenestration: How her seventh host was killed.
66	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Pretty much her ''only'' redeeming quality is her love for her parents and former lover Gabriel, despite the latter abandoning Sanctum out of guilt decades ago. Her happiest memory is of the two having a romantic dance.
67	* EvilIsPetty: Given the choice of killing Clarke after she discovers her mind is still alive or waking up in a new, willing host made possible thanks to the blackblood serum and moving on in the interest of peace? She would rather kill Clarke and keep her body.
68	* EvilutionaryBiologist: Was originally a biologist before she died the first time. She then eventually began to promote a eugenics program to purify the so-called "royal" bloodline and provide the Primes with a steady supply of viable hosts.
69	* FantasticRacism: Seems to have a hatred toward "Nulls" [[labelnote:Note]]Those citizens of Sanctum who not only have red blood, thus making them non-viable as hosts, but also aren't hereditary carriers. They are banned from having children, and are considered only good enough to clean toilets and guard the Primes, etc.[[/labelnote]], and even goes so far as to call them less than useless. And as shown in [=S06E07=] Josephine's proposed eugenics program involved killing them off so that only those that were useful to her and the other Primes were left.
70	* HumanSacrifice: She calls her eugenics program "Oblation," a meaning of which is "the act of making an offering, especially to a deity." Naturally, the name and the fact Oblation involves taking Null babies out to be eaten by the trees so that the "royal" bloodline may be purified has religious connotations which Josephine, as a religious figure, takes full advantage of.
71	* ImmortalityImmorality: One of the first things she does after coming back from the dead? She kills her best friend, Kaylee, because Kaylee killed her last host for murdering someone else. It's implied that she had been pretty immoral for a while, given her philosophy concerning eugenics, in order to create more hosts.
72	* ItsAllAboutMe: Arguably the absolute most selfish person the show has seen thus far, seeing nothing wrong with killing innocent people and keeping control of Clarke's body even when she could have taken another host.
73	* KilledOffForReal: Clarke destroys her mind in order to regain control of her body.
74	* {{Omniglot}}: She can speak English, German, Mandarin and is even getting a handle on Trigedasleng after hearing a few sentences.
75	* ManipulativeBastard: In order to shake Clarke's resolve and find out how her mind is still alive, Josephine shows a fake memory of Bellamy agreeing to her GrandTheftMe, which works. Even after admitting it was a fake, she delivers such a brutal BreakThemByTalking speech arguing that [[{{Determinator}} Clarke]] genuinely gives up fighting her.
76	* OutOfCharacterAlert: Josephine doesn't do that great a job while she is impersonating Clarke, and plenty of Clarke's friends and family noticed the inconsistencies. Gaia questions the wisdom of letting Madi go to school despite the risk of being outed as a nightblood, Abby almost figures it out after noticing she was writing with her right hand, since Clarke is left-handed, and Bellamy and Murphy figured it out after one too many hints that Clarke was not Clarke anymore, Murphy only keeping the secret to pursue his own agenda. The deception only lasted as long as it did because most of them were still angry at Clarke over the events of the previous season, and weren't inclined to look at the oddities too closely.
77	* Really700YearsOld: Josephine looks to be around twenty-four after being uploaded into Clarke's body but is really over two centuries (although she may not have been conscious for all of that).
78	* VillainousCrush: She certainly seems to have one on John Murphy, calling him cute before revealing herself to him and recruiting him to join her in immortality. She looks annoyed every time she sees Emori, and interrupts his proposal to Emori before walking between the couple and laying her head on his shoulder.
79	* WouldHurtAChild: Her Oblation program involves taking Null babies out to the woods to be eaten by the trees.
80	[[/folder]]
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82	[[folder:Kaylee Lee]]
83	!!Kaylee Lee
84	->'''Played by:''' Creator/SarahJaneRedmond
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87	* DeadPersonImpersonation: Ends up being impersonated by Emori, as part of Murphy's deal with the Primes, after her mind drive is wiped for Emori's use. Suffice to say, neither Murphy or Emori do a very convincing job.
88	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Although she has no problem with body snatching, she is against the Adjustment Protocol.
89	* KilledOffForReal: After Josephine pressured her mother into erasing Kaylee and the rest of her family from their mind drives.
90	* RaceLift: In universe: Kaylee's original body was that of a Chinese girl, but her current host is white.
91	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Kaylee and the rest of her family attempt (and fail) to hijack the ''Elegius IV'' to escape the red sun eclipse. It's also implied that they did so because Kaylee had murdered Josephine and wanted to escape before her eventual resurrection.
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93
94	[[folder:Daniel Lee]]
95	!!Daniel Lee
96	->'''Played by:''' Unknown Actor
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99	* DeadPersonImpersonation: Ends up being impersonated by John Murphy, as part of his deal with the Primes, after his mind drive is wiped for Murphy's use. Suffice to say, neither Murphy or Emori do a very convincing job.
100	* KilledOffForReal: After Josephine pressured her mother into erasing Daniel and the rest of his family from their mind drives.
101	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Daniel and the rest of his family attempt (and fail) to hijack the ''Elegius IV'' to escape the red sun eclipse. It's also implied that they did so because his sister Kaylee had murdered Josephine and wanted to escape before her eventual resurrection.
102	* StraightGay: When Murphy pretends to be Daniel reborn, a man comes up and kisses him, revealing that he had a relationship with Daniel with his last host. Naturally, Murphy was completely unprepared for it.
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104
105	[[folder:Ryker Desai]]
106	!!Ryker IX Desai
107	->'''Played by:''' Thomas Cocquerel
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110	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: From Raven: "Is this your last body?" The fact that Ryker doesn't answer her says a lot about him. Turns out it is his last body, assuming Ryker isn't placed in another host.
111	* CreepySouvenir: He keeps mementos of his previous hosts, as well as gifts from them such as a music box that his second host had made. Raven thinks it's profane.
112	-->'''Ryker:''' "How do you do that? How do you make something beautiful seem so profane?"
113	-->'''Raven:''' "News flash: keeping a gift from somebody whose body you stole ''is'' profane."
114	* DefectorFromDecadence: Slightly downplayed, in that he disagrees with what the Primes are doing and even tries to distance himself from them, choosing to live in a machine shop instead of the palace, but aside from helping Gabriel escape from Sanctum decades ago, Ryker doesn't actually ''do'' anything about it. Fully subverted when he stops Echo from killing Russell, then turns her in and nearly wipes her mind.
115	* TheEngineer: He is the one who keeps all of Sanctum's technology running.
116	* {{Hypocrite}}: He doesn't agree with the Prime's practice of wiping hosts' minds and taking over their bodies as a form of immortality and he is quick to protest that he never asked to be resurrected, but such words run pretty hollow when one is over two-hundred years old and is already on his ninth host.
117	* KilledOffForReal: Averted. Ryker's host body is killed but his mind drive is still intact, leaving the possibility open that he will be resurrected again one day.
118	* PetTheDog: Of all the Primes, Ryker is the only one who honours his hosts. He even used to visit his sixth host's mother every month to celebrate his life. However, Raven considers this disgusting and cowardly, since it lets him escape from the guilt without having to do anything about hosts being taken in the first place.
119	* RaceLift: In universe: Ryker's original body was that of an Indian boy, but his current host is white.
120	[[/folder]]
121
122	[[folder:Priya Desai]]
123	!!Priya Desai
124	->'''Played by:''' Ashleigh [=LaThorp=]
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127	* BackFromTheDead: Priya is the first Prime shown to be resurrected, in the body of Delilah Workman.
128	* KilledOffForReal: Averted. Priya's host body is killed but her mind drive is still intact, leaving the possibility open that she will be resurrected again one day.
129	* RaceLift: In universe: Priya's original body was that of an Indian woman, but her current host, Delilah Workman, is black.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Miranda Mason]]
133	!!Miranda Mason
134	->'''Played by:''' Lucia Walters, Kat Ruston
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137	* DislikesTheNewGuy: Is distrustful of outsiders, presumably due to the troubles Sanctum has had with the Children of Gabriel.
138	* LackOfEmpathy: Her reaction to the thought of committing genocide by turning those members of Wonkru who were still in stasis into mind wiped hosts? At least she doesn't have to know who her next hosts were before taking their bodies.
139	* MamaBear: Is shown to have a strong maternal instinct, kind of, as she's shown to be overly protective of Rose when she pulls her away from the Earth group who landed on Sanctum. Of course, since viable hosts were in short supply and Rose was to be one for Miranda's daughter, she might just be making sure nothing happens to her daughter's future body.
140	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Which is how she and most of the remaining Primes meet their final death.
141	[[/folder]]
142
143	[[folder:Jasmine Mason]]
144	!!Jasmine Mason
145	->'''Played by:''' Bethany Brown
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148	* KilledOffForReal: Courtesy of Clarke.
149	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Along with her parents and Simone Lightbourne.
150	* WeHardlyKnewYe: We don't get to see much of Jasmine's character as she is floated by Clarke along with the rest of her family shortly after her resurrection.
151	[[/folder]]
152
153	[[folder:Caleb Mason]]
154	!!Caleb Mason
155	->'''Played by:''' Ian Butcher
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158	* KilledOffForReal: Courtesy of Clarke.
159	* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Along with his wife, his daughter, and Simone Lightbourne.
160	* WeHardlyKnewYe: We don't get to see much of Caleb as he is floated by Clarke along with the rest of his family shortly after his resurrection.
161	[[/folder]]
162
163	!!The Children of Gabriel
164
165	[[folder:In General]]
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167	* {{Battlecry}}: Of sorts. "Death to Primes!"
168	* BrokenPedestal: Their faith in Gabriel is shattered when they find out he's inhabiting Xavier's body.]]
169	* DefectorFromDecadence: After Gabriel's "moral awakening," he left Sanctum to form the Children of Gabriel and fight the Primes.[[/folder]]
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171	[[folder:"The Old Man"]]
172	!!Gabriel Santiago
173	->'''Played by:''' Ian Pala, Creator/ChukuModu
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176	* BerserkButton: In a rage, Gabriel killed the man who resurrected him in Xavier's body against his wishes.
177	* {{Irony}}: He fully intended to die, but the moment a viable host was available he was brought back against his wishes in Xavier's body.
178	-->'''The Old Man:''' I was trying to take down a system dedicated to the worship of false gods. I became a false god all over again.
179	* LastOfHisKind: Although Ryker and Priya Desai are technically still alive [[labelnote:Note]]Their host bodies are dead but their mind drives are still intact albeit dormant[[/labelnote]], Russell and Gabriel are the last living Primes after Clarke blew the rest of the out an airlock.
180	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When he helped Russell Lightbourne develop virtual immortality via the mind drives and open up a door to generations of innocent people living under the thumb of false gods and countless deaths in the name of said immortality, the Old Man had a "moral awakening" and founded the Children of Gabriel in order to fight the Primes.
181	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Before he escaped Sanctum, Gabriel destroyed the Primes' nightblood embryos to stop them from taking new hosts. The only effect destroying the embryos had was leading Josephine to come up with a horrific eugenics program to purify what was left.
182	* OffingTheOffspring: The ''adopted'' offspring, but still.
183	* RaceLift: In universe: Gabriel's original body was that of a hispanic man, however, his current host is black, and in Josephine's memories is shown that his first host was of asian ancestry.
184	* Really700YearsOld: The Old Man is said to be over a hundred years old. As a former Prime, Gabriel is actually closer to ''three'' hundred.
185	* SatanicArchetype: For the people of Sanctum. As they see the Primes as gods they see Gabriel in the same light as the Devil.
186	* TheUnseen: In universe. The Children of Gabriel hasn't seen the Old Man for quite some time, leading some to theorize that he has either died or abandoned them. It turns out he was Xavier all along.
187	* UnwantedRevival: Gabriel was so enraged upon waking up in Xavier's body that he killed Eduardo, his adoptive son, for resurrecting him.
188	[[/folder]]
189
190	[[folder:Xavier]]
191	!!Xavier
192	->'''Played by:''' Creator/ChukuModu
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195	* ActuallyIAmHim: Whenever anyone speaks of the Old Man in Xavier's presence, completely unaware they are actually speaking about him.
196	* CombatPragmatist: Instead of fighting Diyoza and Octavia fairly, Xavier uses the forest to incapacitate them both, rightfully calling it his weapon.
197	* DeadPersonImpersonation: After Gabriel awoke in Xavier's body against his wishes, he decided to pose as him among the Children of Gabriel. In doing so, he allowed the Children to assume that either Gabriel had died or abandoned them. Until the coming of the ''Eligius IV'', Gabriel had been posing as Xavier for ten years.
198	* LikeASonToMe: Xavier was said to have been like a son to the Old Man.
199	* PosthumousCharacter: Technically. His body is very much alive and well as Gabriel's host, but the original Xavier has been dead for ten years.
200	* TheReveal: After seeing the mind drive scar on the back of Xavier's neck, Diyoza realises that the man who had been escorting them to see the Old Man was Gabriel himself, in a new host.
201	[[/folder]]
202
203	%%[[folder:Nelson]]
204	%%!!Nelson
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206	%%->'''Played by:''' Lee Majdoub
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208	%%[[/folder]]
209
210	!!Other Sanctum Citizens
211
212	[[folder:Jade]]
213	!!Jade
214	->'''Played by:''' Bethany Brown
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217	* AlienBlood: Is turned into a nightblood to serve as a host to Jasmine Mason.
218	* DeathByIrony: She fails in her duty to protect Rose, the future host of Jasmine Mason, and some episodes later Jade herself is turned into a nightblood in order to host Jasmine's mind.
219	* DeathOfPersonality: When her body is taken over by Jasmine Mason.
220	* MyGreatestFailure: Being unable to avoid Rose's death really shakes her.
221	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: It's possible that Russell have thought that a guard that failed all the tasks she was given would be more useful as a host for a prime.
222	[[/folder]]
223
224	[[folder:Delilah Workman]]
225	!!Delilah Workman
226	->'''Played by:''' Ashleigh [=LaThrop=]
227
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229	* AlienBlood: She was born with black blood, the reason why she is used as a host for Priya Desai.
230	* DeathOfPersonality: When her body is taken over by Priya Desai.
231	* MauveShirt: We get to see some of her personality and she even briefly becomes Jordan's love interest before her mind is wiped to become Priya Desai.
232	* RaisedAsAHost: Since it was discovered that Delilah has black blood, she was raised to believe that it would be an honor to become a Prime's host after turning 21.
233	[[/folder]]
234
235	[[folder:Jae and Blythe Ann Workman]]
236	!!Jae and Blythe Ann Workman
237	->'''Played by:''' Dean Marshall and Karen Holness
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240	* OffingTheOffspring: However, Blythe Ann only kills Delilah's body, as her mind has already been wiped.
241	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Both outlive their only daughter, Delilah.
242	[[/folder]]
243
244	[[folder:Rose]]
245	!!Rose
246	->'''Played by:''' Amélie Eve
247
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249	* AlienBlood: She was born with black blood, and because of this, if it wasn't for her untimely death, she was supposed to become the future host of Jasmine Mason.
250	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Dramatically averted, as Rose is killed by the children of Gabriel right before Octavia is able to get her to safety.
251	* RaisedAsAHost: Was being raised to become a host in her adulthood.
252	[[/folder]]
253
254	[[folder:Gavin]]
255	!!Gavin
256	->'''Played by:''' Creator/GreystonHolt
257
258	----
259	* AlienBlood: Is turned into a nightblood to serve as a host for Marcus Kane.
260	* DeathOfPersonality: When his body is used as a host to Marcus Kane's mind.
261	* WeHardlyKnewYe: His mind is wiped shortly after he is introduced.
262	[[/folder]]
263
264	[[folder:Sierra]]
265	!!Sierra
266	->'''Played by:''' Kat Ruston
267
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269	* AlienBlood: Is turned into a nightblood to serve as a host for Miranda Mason.
270	* DeathOfPersonality: When her body is used as a host to Miranda's mind.
271	* WeHardlyKnewYe: We don't get to see much of her before Russell wipes her mind.

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