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Humans
Humans live unaware of the existence of the Night World, though they are occasionally preyed on by Night People, who see them as "vermin". Other Night People, however, are more tolerant of humans and have even been known to fall in love with them, although this is against the Night World's laws.Warning: Contains some unmarked spoilers for the series
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Phillipa Hilgard
Phillipa Hilgard
Appears in: Secret Vampire
A supporting character in Secret Vampire. She is the mother of Poppy and Phil North.
- All There in the Manual: Her first name is revealed in the fanguide.
- Birds of a Feather: She and her second husband are both very responsible and rational-minded people.
- Good Parents: She is a very loving and responsible mother.
- Happily Married: To Cliff, her second husband of one year.
- Heroic BSoD: Has one when she's informed by Poppy's doctors that she has terminal cancer.
- It's All My Fault: She blames herself for Poppy's illness, wondering aloud why she didn't notice there was something wrong with her sooner.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Averted. Poppy takes after her dad more in personality (and presumably appearance); on the other hand, Phillipa's son closely resembles her on both counts - even their names sound similar.
- Opposites Attract: Seemingly with her first husband, who is rather disorganised and quirky. It didn't work out very well and her second husband is much closer to her in personality.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Subverted. She believes her sixteen year old daughter Poppy died of cancer, though in actual fact Poppy becomes a vampire. However, due to requirement to uphold The Masquerade, Poppy can never directly contact her mother again and has to let her believe she's dead.
- Shout-Out: Poppy compares her to an Alfred Hitchcock heroine.
- The Stoic: Poppy states that she "never cries", not when she got divorced from her first husband and not even at her mother's funeral. As a result, Poppy immediately knows something is terribly wrong when her mother completely breaks down, upon learning her daughter is going to die.
Cliff Hilgard
Cliff Hilgard
Appears in: Secret Vampire
A supporting character in Secret Vampire; Poppy and Phil's stepfather.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A familial example, Played for Drama. When he's told his stepdaughter has cancer, he becomes angry when he's told there's nothing they can do, yelling "Damn it!" Poppy is surprised by his outburst and states she didn't realise Cliff cared enough to swear for her. She herself later thinks he's not as bad a stepdad as she thought and is sorry she gives him a rough time.
- Birds of a Feather:He and his wife are both very responsible and rational-minded.
- Happily Married: To Phillipa.
- Parental Substitute: For Phil. Although he loves his dad, he seems to look up to Cliff more as a father figure/role model, as he's more responsible and directly involved in his life.
- Second Love: He's Phillipa's second husband, her first marriage having ended in divorce.
- Wicked Stepfather: Averted. Poppy treats him like one and it's mentioned they fight a lot, but Cliff actually cares very deeply about her and Phil, and is distraught when Poppy is diagnosed with cancer.
Emma
Miss Emma
James Rasmussen's childhood nanny. She met with a tragic end that scarred James for life.- Accidental Murder: Poor Miss Emma. And poor James. His parents took him on a three day trip without feeding him any blood. When they came home, they sent Emma upstairs to put their starving, four old year old vampire son to bed and then just waited. James states he was crying and desperately trying to stop the whole time he was drinking her blood, but was unable to.
- Came Back Wrong: James’s attempt to turn her into a vampire resulted in her coming back as a ghoul.
- Emergency Transformation: James attempted this on her after accidentally draining her blood, giving her some of his own blood in the hopes she’d turn into a made vampire. Unfortunately, she didn’t get enough blood before his parents stopped him, which didn’t end well…
- Fate Worse than Death: Becoming a ghoul, which left her a rotting, shambling undead corpse with her old personality wiped away; after a few days, James’s father delivered a Mercy Kill and buried her (or at least, James hopes
that’s what he did). - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She was basically killed by her employers for doing too good a job looking after their son (James’s parents felt he was growing too close to her, a human, but instead of just firing her, they manipulated James into killing her).
- Parental Substitute: To James. He states that she “gave [him] everything [his] mom didn’t. Love, attention – she was never too busy”.
Mary-Lynette Carter
Mary-Lynette Carter
Appears in: Daughters of Darkness
"They call me Mary-Lynette. That do speak of me."
The main protagonist of Daughters of Darkness, Mary-Lynette is an ordinary human girl who becomes caught up in the mysterious murder of her neighbour, Mrs Burdock. She is the soulmate of Ash Redfern.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted. She has little interest in Ash when he's acting like a Jerkass Casanova. She only really starts to fall for him when she realises he's actually a lot smarter and emotionally deep than she gave him credit for and that they have things in common.
- Amateur Sleuth: Takes it upon herself to investigate Mrs Burdock's disappearance and help find her killer. She even likens herself to Nancy Drew on one occasion.
- Badass Bookworm: She reads the classics, can quote Shakespeare, astronomy is her hobby, she attends Harvard...and she can take on a werewolf and come out mostly unscathed.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Ash. From the moment they meet, she's both attracted to and irritated by him, and they spend most of their time bickering and snarking.
- Betty and Veronica: Initially, her friend, the wholesome and sensitive Jeremy is the Betty and bad boy Ash is the Veronica for her. Becomes a case of Betty and Veronica Switch after Ash Took a Level in Kindness and Jeremy turns out to be an Ax-Crazy werewolf.
- Brainy Brunette: Has dark hair and is intelligent and well-read.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She has a crush on her childhood friend Jeremy. Subverted, as Ash turns out to be her soulmate and Jeremy turns out to be a murderous nutcase who's obsessed with her, which she doesn't take well.
- Damsel out of Distress: In the climax she manages to distract the killer long enough to untie herself , lures them away from an unconscious Ash and is ultimately the who kills them.
- Deadpan Snarker: She can be very snarky when she wants to (especially towards Ash).
- Did Not Get The Guy: Downplayed. She and Ash are clearly in love but she lets him leave her at the end of the novel so she can finish growing up and come to terms with everything that happened, while promising to wait for him They stand out as being the only soulmate couple in the series who don't officially get together in the end.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Inverted. It's Mary-Lynette, NOT Mary, Lynette, Lynn or M'Lynn. Mary-Lynette. (She let's her brother call her 'Mare' on occasion, but no one else).
- First Love: Out of all the girls he's been with, Mary-Lynette is the first one Ash truly fell in love with.
- Heroic BSoD: Has one after being forced to kill an Ax-Crazy Jeremy to protect herself and Ash, collapsing into a sobbing heap in Ash's arms. She's over it by the end of the story, but is clearly still haunted by what happened.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Has shades of this. She's never felt like she truly fitted in with the other residents of Briar Creek and when Ash offers to make her a vampire, she initially seems quite tempted by the idea, believing this will give her a chance to finally transcend her monotonous existence and do something more with her life. Subverted in the end; after everything that's happened, Mary-Lynette realises she's not really cut out for vampirism and that she still has growing up to do; she also gains a new appreciation for her 'boring' normal life.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With her elderly neighbour, Mrs Burdock. She often helped her care for her goats and they seemed fond of each other; Mary-Lynette defends her as merely being "eccentric", not "crazy" and is pretty determined to find out the truth behind her death.
- Interspecies Friendship: With the Redfern sisters eventually (once she realises they didn't murder Mrs Burdock).
- Interspecies Romance: With Ash. She briefly considers becoming a vampire too but ultimately decides against it.
- I Will Wait for You: She promises to wait for Ash who leaves her to atone for his past misdeeds and to give her time to grow up more, as well as come to terms with being forced to kill her best friend and one-time crush.
- Missing Mom: Her mother died when she was a child.
- Mistaken for Murderer: She initially believes that Rowan, Kestrel and Jade murdered their aunt Opal; in her defense their behaviour did come off as really shifty. However, she eventually finds out they didn't kill Opal and helps them find the real murderer.
- Morality Chain: Big time to Ash. Because of her, Ash does a near-complete one-eighty on his former attitude and becomes The Atoner to be worthy of her. When questioned about this, he outright states that "Everything I do is for [Mary-Lynette]".
- Opposites Attract: With Ash, though as it turns out they have more in common than she first realised.
- Promoted to Parent: It's implied she took this role towards her younger brother, Mark, after their mother died.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her usual type. Ironically, her soulmate actually turns out to be Ash, though he becomes something of a Reformed Rake after falling for her.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: A bit with Ash, being rather fond of kicking him in the shins when he's being an ass.
- Small Town Boredom: She finds Briar Creek rather dull and closeminded, wishing something exciting would happen there for once. After the events of Daughters of Darkness she doesn't seem to mind it so much.
- Sworn Brothers: She becomes blood sisters with the Redfern sisters after they do a blood tie.
- Test Kiss: When Ash confesses he's fallen in love with her Mary-Lynette agrees to kiss him to see if she returns his feelings at all, as she is rather confused about her attraction to him at this point. As it turns out, it's a great kiss and she soon realises she does love him back. Notably, it was her First Kiss, too.
- True Love is Exceptional: She actually lampshades this. Ash is not her usual type at all, but there's no arguing with the Soulmate Principle. By the end of Daughters of Darkness, she doesn't seem to mind.
- Tsundere: Dere, dere. She's usually reasonably polite and friendly, but Ash riles her to the point of violence and she's not afraid to get tough to protect her loved ones.
- Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle: Is in one with Ash (the vampire) and Jeremy (the werewolf). Ash wins by default, as the Soulmate Principle means he and Mary-Lynette are destined for each other, though the fact that Jeremy turns out to be a psycho who tries to kill her helps too.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: In the end, she kills Jeremy to protect Ash though it was also to protect herself. Deconstructed somewhat in that whilst she's glad Ash is okay, she's distraught that she was forced to kill her best friend.
- Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Towards Ash, though she softens up a bit by the end of the novel.
- What Does She See in Him?: A lot of people wonder this about Ash when it turns out he's Mary-Lynette's soulmate - including Mary-Lynette herself. However, she eventually finds common ground with him and also realises he can be quite selfless and affectionate when he wants to.
Mark Carter
Mark Carter
Appears in: Daughters of Darkness
Mary-Lynette's brother and a supporting protagonist in Daughters of Darkness. He falls in love with Jade Redfern.
- Afraid of Blood: He doesn't seem overly fond of it. After Jade takes him hunting with her, he seems a bit pale afterwards and Jade cheerfully announces that he "threw up", though this could be less to do with him seeing the blood as opposed to seeing Jade drinking the stuff.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not made entirely clear if he and Jade are actually soulmates. They are instantly attracted to each other (on both a physical and emotional level) and Jade is initially convinced they're soulmates, but after hearing a description of the soulmate bond and how it is for Mary-Lynette and Ash, she wonders if she and Mark are truly soulmates after all because it doesn't sound much like the bond they have. Then again, this could be because Jade and Mark are both quite different people to Ash and Mary-Lynette and have a far more easy-going, less combative relationship. Regardless, they clearly care for each other and Mark is happy with their relationship.
- Beta Couple: With Jade in Daughters of Darkness.
- Boy Meets Ghoul: With Jade (a lamia). Upon finding out she's a vampire, he's initially shocked, but quickly gets over it. Jade being a Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire helps.
- Deadpan Snarker: Often does this. It's implied part of it is to cover up shyness or social anxiety.
- Delicate and Sickly: He spent the first two years of his life in an oxygen tent due to severe asthma and for years was smaller and frailer than the other kids. He's managed to catch up, but he doesn't like to be reminded about his childhood illness and can be shy and standoffish.
- First Love: To Jade, seeing as she wasn't allowed to date on the enclave; he's also possibly her soulmate.
- Interspecies Romance: With Jade; he's human and she's lamia, though he's unaware of this at first.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. He can be somewhat rude and anti-social, though this is due to shyness more than anything and he's a genuinely caring guy beneath it, especially to Mary-Lynette and Jade.
- Strong Family Resemblance: To his sister, Mary-Lynette; they both have dark hair, tanned skin and "snapping" blue eyes.
- Sworn Brothers: He becomes blood siblings with the Redfern sisters after they do a blood tie, save for Jade - although he did the blood tie with her too, his feelings for her are romantic.
- You Need to Get Laid: Mary-Lynette suggests this to him (in a PG way), believing the right girl will help him chill out a bit and bring him out of his shell. He's not impressed, though it turns out she might be right, as he seems far more relaxed and cheerful after falling for Jade.
Tanya Jun
Tanya Jun
Appears in: Dark Angel
Tanya is a supporting antagonist in Dark Angel. She is a popular girl at her school and David Blackburn's girlfriend, thus making her a rival to Gillian Lennox for his affections.
- Aloof Darkhaired Girl: She's tall, dark-haired and usually quite composed and level-headed, looking down on most of the other students in the school.
- Alpha Bitch: Type 2, with some shades of Academic Alpha Bitch thrown in.
- Asshole Victim: Subverted. Whilst she isn't particularly sympathetic, her being cursed with flesh eating bacteria in her arm so severe she nearly loses a finger is portrayed as Disproportionate Retribution. Gillian, who is responsible for the curse, is utterly horrified when she realises how serious it is.
- Betty and Veronica: Initially, she's the Betty to David, but is revealed to be the Veronica when her true colors come to light.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Whilst she initially comes across as an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl and rather condescending, she doesn't appear to be a genuinely bad person. The mask quickly begins to slip, though, and by the middle of the novel, when Gillian overhears her revenge plot for David and herself, it becomes blatantly obvious just how malicious she truly is.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: For David, though in more subtle ways than most examples. After hearing rumours about David and Gillian and seeing how she is fawned over by their classmates, she spreads rumours about Gillian and her home-life to undermine and humiliate her. She also comes up with an elaborate revenge scheme against them both after David dumps her for Gillian.
- Condescending Compassion: Towards Gillian. When she finds out she fell in the creek, she does help her get warm, but does so in a way that makes Gillian feel like a child, talking down to her and stripping her clothes off without asking. Gillian also overhears Tanya making disparaging comments about her teddy bear pyjamas and stuffed toys, clearly thinking of her as being childish for her age and looking down on her shyness.
- Disc-One Final Boss: She's the main antagonist for the first half of Dark Angel, but after being hospitalised, she drops out of focus and Angel picks up the slack.
- Disproportionate Retribution: After David dumps her for cheating on him and lying about it, she decides to get revenge…by telling the college he applied to, his grandparents who are funding his education and the school that he once cheated on an English lit. paper (which she orchestrated in the first place), which could potentially ruin his life (or at the very least his career prospects). When Kim points this out, she simply laughs and states "I know".
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Though she's not evil - just a Jerkass - she admits to Kim that she truly cares about David and wanted him to "make something of himself". This doesn't stop her from cheating on him and plotting to ruin his reputation and career prospects, though.
- First Love: She's David's. It falls apart in spectacular fashion after he finds out she's not who he thought she was and he ends up with Gillian instead.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed. Her friends are nice to her face (possibly partly because they're afraid of her) but the moment she's not hanging around with them, they go on about how they dislike her. Gillian is surprised, as she had assumed Tanya was popular because she was well-liked.
- Hypocrite: She goes apeshit after Gillian and David were spotted parked together at the side of the road (nothing actually happened between them), when it turns out that she herself had cheated on David multiple times with Bruce Faber and never intended to tell him. note
- Jerkass Has a Point: Her being a bit suspicious and put out when she walks in on David trying to undress Gillian is understandable, though David quickly explains that he's just trying to help Gillian get warm after she fell in a freezing creek.
- Kick the Dog: She mocks Gillian's pyjamas for having teddy bears on them and the stuffed animals in her room...whilst she’s meant to be helping Gillian recover after falling into an icy creek and nearly freezing to death (in fact, she did freeze to death, then came back, though Tanya was unaware of this). She also spreads nasty rumours about Gillian’s mother being a drunk out of jealousy over the attention Gillian is getting from David and the other popular kids.
- Model Couple: Starts out as this with David. She's beautiful, popular and heavily involved in community projects, whilst he's also a popular, handsome Nice Guy. That is, until he finds out that Tanya cheated on him and treats other people like garbage behind his back, swiftly leading to the demise of their relationship.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Becomes this to David after he breaks up with her, though she's level-headed enough to keep the 'psycho' part private. Plotting to ruin his academic career for rightfully dumping her (she cheated on him) and to mess with his new girlfriend out of jealousy (and because she unwittingly revealed the cheating) is pretty unhinged, though.
- The Resenter: Towards Gillian after she helps expose her and starts dating David shortly after he dumped Tanya.
- The Rival: To Gillian for David.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Gillian removes the curse, she is never mentioned again, though it is assumed she got better.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: A downplayed and more sinister example. Tanya proves herself to be very cunning and resourceful...which she primarily uses to keep herself on top and crush those she perceives as a threat. She’s still in high school and is rather accurately described as being a "future executive".
Amy Nowick
Amy Nowick
Appears in: Dark Angel
Gillian Lennox's best friend; a supporting character in Dark Angel.
- Commonality Connection: She and Gillian are both somewhat regarded as outcasts at their school, are both rather geeky and not all that outgoing or popular with boys – until Amy began dating Eugene, that is.
- Drives Like Crazy: She tends to break the speed limit and swerve across the road when she drives, mostly because she needs glasses but refuses to wear them.
- Guilt Complex: Gillian describes as easily developing "guilt complexes". She is deeply remorseful over forgetting to pick up Gillian, especially when she learns she got half-frozen from falling in the creek, and repeatedly apologises and tries to make it up to her.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: Towards her boyfriend, Eugene. She actually forgets to pick up Gillian after school due to being distracted by him.
- Unwitting Muggle Friend: To Gillian (after she finds out she's a witch).
Melisande Jordan
Melisande Jordan
Appears in: The Chosen
Rashel Jordan's mother, who is killed by a vampire at the beginning of The Chosen.
- Connected All Along: Thicker Than Water reveals she is also Keller's mother, she being Rashel's twin, but that her shapeshifter husband ran off with her when Keller was still a baby.
- Death by Origin Story: Her murder by a vampire forms a huge part of Rashel's orgin story as a Vampire Hunter.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: In her brief appearance in The Chosen, she is shown to be a loving mother to Rashel. She is then murdered in front of her daughter in the second chapter.
- Interspecies Romance: It's revealed that Melisande's supposedly dead husband was in fact a shapeshifter. She was apparently unaware of this, until one of their daughters was born with cat ears and a tail, prompting her husband to take Keller and leave Melisande and their other daughter Rashel, who was born human.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: She and Rashel are both described as having long, black hair. So does Keller.
- Long-Lost Relative: It's revealed in the short stories that Raksha Keller is her long-lost daughter, separated from her as an infant by Keller and Rashel's father.
- Mama Bear: When she hears her daughter screaming for help after being abducted by a vampire, she immediately rushes to save her. Unfortunately, she's no match for the vampire's hypnotic powers...
- Neck Snap: The vampire that attacked Timmy and Rashel kills her this way.
- No Name Given: Her first name isn't mentioned in The Chosen, though the fanguide reveals it's Melisande.
- Sacrificial Lamb: We are given just enough information about her to know she's a kind and loving single mother, whose daughter adores her, before she is killed off very early in The Chosen, traumatizing Rashel for life.
Nyala
Nyala
Appears in: The Chosen
A troubled girl recruited by the Lancers shortly before the events of The Chosen.
- Ax-Crazy: By the end of the story, she has few qualms about flinging Molotov cocktails at vampires and burning down mansions while standing at ground zero. She seems almost disbelieving she went through with it, laughing and crying at the same time. Prior to this, she had displayed violent tendencies, agreeing with Vicky that vampires didn't deserve quick deaths and wanting to make them suffer the way her murdered sister did.
- Big Damn Heroes: Just as the heroes are surrounded in the enclave, Nyala turns up carrying a Molotov, announces she’s poured gasoline all over the surrounding rooms and then smashes the Molotov at Hunter Redfern’s feet, starting a massive fire that allows them to escape.
- Broken Pedestal: She hero worships Rashel...until she shows sympathy for Quinn and helps him escape. Nyala doesn’t take it well, even saying she’ll tell everyone in Boston that Rashel is a ‘vampire lover’ and really supports the Night World. It also rapidly erodes what little mental stability she'd been clinging to.
- Butt-Monkey: Pretty much her entire character arc in The Chosen is dedicated to making her even more broken than she already was. There's a ray of hope for her at the end though, with Rashel and Quinn deciding to take her to Circle Daybreak to get her some help and protection.
- Damsel in Distress: Poor Nyala isn't really cut-out for the vampire hunting business. First she is kidnapped by the vampires whilst trying to investigate them by herself, although it wasn't revealed she'd been captured until Rashel encounters her at the enclave. Rashel frees her, but Nyala stays behind rather than flee with the others to try and kill the vampires, setting fire to their mansion. She is subsequently trapped inside the burning building, but is fortunately rescued by Quinn.
- Freudian Excuse: Her hatred of vampires and dubious sanity stems from finding her sister dying after being attacked by a vampire.
- I Did What I Had to Do: She tells Rashel that she "had to do it" after she sets the vampire enclave ablaze.
- It's Personal / Revenge: Her motive for joining the Lancers is to try and find the vampire that killed her sister.
- Made a Slave: She's kidnapped and enslaved by vampires while trying to carry out her own investigation. Rashel is able to free her, though not before one of the slavers took a bite out of her. It doesn't exactly help her mental state.
- The Ophelia: She's described as being a fairly attractive girl, with a "sleep-walking" or "faraway" look in her eyes, and drifts between periods of Dissonant Serenity, or uncontrollable anger and grief. See also Sanity Slippage.
- Revenge Before Reason: She's utterly consumed with the idea of getting revenge for her murdered sister, to the point where she places it above her personal safety and well-being. She winds up being captured by the vampires and has to be rescued by Rashel as a result.
- Sanity Slippage: Becomes increasingly unstable over the course of the novel, especially after the above mentioned case of Broken Pedestal. By the end of The Chosen, she suffers a complete breakdown and tries to burn down the entire enclave whilst she’s still in it. After seeing what she’s done, she begins laughing before collapsing in tears.
- Vampire Hunter: What she aspires to be.
Vicky
Vicky
Appears in: The Chosen
"You're a vampire lover. I could tell from the beginning. I don't know, maybe you're one of those damned Daybreakers who wants us all to get along, but you're not on our side."
The Lancers's new second-in-command; a supporting character in The Chosen.
- Bitch Alert: She is immediately hostile towards Rashel despite the fact she's volunteered to help them on their mission.
- Jerkass: She's generally rude, abrasive, demands respect... oh, and she actively enjoys using torture on vampires and other Night People.
- Jerkass Has a Point: When giving her "Reason You Suck" Speech to Rashel, she rightly points out that Rashel released Quinn, a very dangerous vampire who is also currently their only lead on finding the kidnapped girls.
- Number Two: To Elliot, the leader of the Lancers.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Believes that giving vampires a quick death is "too good for them", seeing how they "make our people suffer".
- Pet the Dog: She makes a point of being kind and inclusive to newcomer Nyala, promising to help her get revenge for her sister, though it's debatable as to how much this actually helped her.
- The Resenter: She took an instant dislike to Rashel, but really starts to hate her after she lets Quinn go, believing she's a "damned Daybreaker".
- Rich Bitch: Implied; she's said to have attended a "fancy prep school" growing up, and has a rather spiteful and entitled attitude.
- She Who Fights Monsters: Her sheer glee at the prospect of torturing Quinn to death suggests this.
- Spell My Name With An S: Her name is usually spelt Vicky, but on two occasions in one edition of The Chosen, it's spelt Vicki.
- Still the Leader: She rather likes reminding Rashel she's in charge of the operation, despite Rashel being more experienced and not showing much interest in leading the mission.
- Team Prima Donna: To the point where she completely refuses to help or tell the other Lancers when Rashel calls her with a huge lead on the kidnapping case, just because she hates Rashel. While Vicky does have her reasons to be wary of Rashel after the incident with Quinn, she completely dismisses all the information Rashel offers her, forcing her to go it alone.
- Torture Technician: Takes it upon herself to torture vampires they capture; she even brings her own personal torture kit wherever she goes.
- Vampire Hunter: She'd gained some level of notoriety for her kills on America's south shore before joining the Lancers.
Daphne Childs
Daphne Childs
Appears in: The Chosen
"Oh, my God! You're Buffy the Vampire Slayer!"
A human girl kidnapped by vampires in The Chosen, who escapes with Rashel's help and teams up with her to find the rest of the missing girls.
- All There in the Manual: Her surname is not mentioned in the novel itself, but is revealed in the fanguide.
- Anti-Magic: To an extent. She’s one of the rare humans able to resist vampire mind control.
- Damsel out of Distress / Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After being kidnapped from the club, she pretended to be under mind control despite being scared out of her wits to avoid alerting the vampires and after being put into the back of a van, she watched to see how her captors locked the door, then got it open and jumped out once the van started moving.
- The Ditz: Can be one at times, being a bit scatter-brained and coming across as a Dumb Blonde, as well as mispronouncing words like enclave as “ont-clave”. Overlaps with Genius Ditz, as she can actually be pretty smart when she has to and is vital to Rashel figuring out where the girls are being taken from.
- Dumb Blonde: Subverted. She’s not nearly as stupid as she first appears and actually plays up this stereotype to trick the vampires.
- Hidden Depths: Rashel’s first impression of her is that she’s a “bit of blonde fluff”, but she’s soon revealed to be a lot tougher and more resourceful than she looks.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She has big “cornflower blue” eyes and is a kind and well-meaning girl, if not a bit naive.
- Made a Slave: She was kidnapped from the Crypt nightclub to be enslaved, but manages to escape. She later lets herself be captured again alongside Rashel to help free the other girls.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: She has six siblings, including four sisters and two brothers. She has to share a room with one of her younger sisters and they tend to take up all her mother's time and attention.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Subverted and deconstructed. She initially finds death and darkness fascinating, with she and her friends often talking about “surrendering to the darkness”, the most painful way to die and stuff like that. However, when she finds out vampires and other supernatural creatures are very much real, she’s freaked out by it. Her obsession with darkness is also implied to be a sign of underlying emotional problems she has.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: She brilliantly acts like a complete moron whilst interacting with Quinn and Lily in the Crypt, pretending she doesn’t remember being kidnapped, as part of her plan to help Rashel rescue the kidnapped girls.
- Odd Couple: Platonic example between her and Rashel, of the "they fight vampires" variety. She’s a ditzy goth with a hidden backbone, while Rashel is a stoic Jerk with a Heart of Gold who has been hunting vampires since she was a kid.
- Parental Neglect / Parental Obliviousness: Her mother and stepfather are getting divorced and so pay very little attention to her. They didn't seem to notice or show much concern when she went missing for a whole day and she outright states they "don't really care what I do".
- Perky Goth: She frequently dresses in black, writes angsty poetry and is a bit obsessed with death and the occult, whilst also being bubbly and friendly most of the time (though she’s implied to be Troubled, but Cute beneath the surface).
- Shout-Out: She thinks Rashel is Buffy the Vampire Slayer when they first meet (ironically, she's not that far wrong, seeing as Rashel's a Vampire Hunter who's soulmate turns out to be a vampire and all...)
- Troubled, but Cute: She’s implied to be very lonely and possibly depressed due to her parents ignoring her, among other things, easily allowing the vampires to take advantage of her vulnerability. But she is a nice person in spite of this.
Chess Clovis
Catherine 'Chess' Clovis
Appears in: Soulmate
A supporting character in Soulmate. She is Hannah Snow’s best friend and is apparently an Old Soul like her.
- Affectionate Nickname / In-Universe Nickname: Chess, which Hannah says she usually goes by in lieu of Catherine.
- Alliterative Name
- Ambiguously Brown: She's described as having dark hair, slanted green eyes and a "faintly exotic" look.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Hannah, to point where they've been reincarnated as best friends since the Stone Age. She is constantly supportive of Hannah and willing to do just about anything for her.
- I Have Many Names: Not to the same extent as Hannah, but she's been known by a few names over the centuries, due to being an Old Soul. As a cavegirl she was called Ket and as an Egyptian priestess she was called Khet-hetepes.
- Irony: She tells Hannah they should be "best friends forever", unaware that Hannah and the reader knows this is literally the case.
- Reincarnation: It's strongly implied she's also an Old Soul, who has been reincarnated alongside her best friend in at least two of Hannah's previous lives. Hannah first starts to suspect this when she experiences her first life under hypnosis and sees that Hana's friend Ket is nearly identical in appearance and personality to Chess. Unlike Hannah, though, Chess doesn't seem to be consciously aware she's an Old Soul (besides her strong bond with Hannah).
- Uncertain Doom: It's unclear if her first incarnation, Ket, survived Thierry's massacre of the Three Rivers Tribe.
- Undying Loyalty: To Hannah. And we do mean undying in a literal sense. When Hannah tells her she needs to borrow money to go to Vegas to find Thierry, Chess lends her some with no questions asked, agrees to cover for her to her mother and deliver a letter to her mother in the event she doesn't return after a set time. Chess was even willing to go with Hannah in a heartbeat, but Hannah talked her out of it, worried she would be endangered.
Roxanne Goddard
Roxanne Goddard
Appears in: Huntress note
Jez's human mother and sister to her uncle Jim Goddard. She was murdered by vampires for knowing about the Night World.
- Actually Not a Vampire: Jez assumed Roxanne was a lamia because she herself is a vampire and her paternal family are the Redferns, and so she had no reason to think otherwise. However, she eventually figures out her mother was in fact human, much to her shock.
- All There in the Manual: Her first name is only revealed in the fanguide and family tree.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Jez describes her as having a "face like a fairytale princess" and Bracken states she was "a good woman".
- Face Death with Dignity: When the vampires came to kill her and her family, she calmly told them to go ahead and kill her, only pleading for her daughter to be spared.
- Happily Married: Was apparently to her husband.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Died defending Jez from vampires.
- Interspecies Romance: With Jez's father (a lamia).
- Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Her actual fate, as Jez learns. However, given that Roxanne had been upholding The Masquerade for at least four years up to that point, it's at least plausible the vampires killed her simply for being human.
- Mama Bear: She fought a group of vampires unarmed to protect her daughter.
- No Name Given: Her name isn't stated in Huntress, whilst the fanguide reveals it was Roxanne.
- Secret Relationship: With Jez's father, due to her being human. The other vampires didn't react well when they found out.
Claire Goddard
Claire Goddard
Appears in: Huntress
A supporting character in Huntress. She's the maternal cousin of Jez Redfern, who inadvertently becomes tangled up in her search for the Wild Power.
- But Not Too Foreign: If her mother's name and physical description is anything to go by, as well as Claire's own description (she takes after her mother in looks), she's apparently half-Japanese, though born and raised in the United States.
- The Chosen One: She's suspected of being the Wild Power, as she's always in the vicinity when the blue fire appears. She insists she isn't. As it turns out, she's not; Jez is. However, Claire was inadvertently helping Jez to use her abilities at times, as on two occasions when Jez unwittingly used blue fire, Claire had accidentally caused her to bleed by digging her nails into Jez's arm; the fire can only be used when a Wild Power's blood is spilt and so if it weren't for Claire, they might not have figured it out.
- Clashing Cousins: To say she and Jez don't get along too well would be putting it mildly. Prim and proper Claire is the exact opposite of Jez and she resents that her cousin is allowed to get away with stuff she can't, as well as suspecting her of constantly being up to no good. However, they eventually become friends.
- Fire-Forged Friends: She and Jez don't much like each other at first, but over the course of their various trials and tribulations in Huntress, they come to trust and respect each other.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She eventually admits to Jez that the reason she acts like such a jerk to her at times is because she's jealous of her and how she always seems to get away with things that her parents would punish Claire herself for.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Jez herself acknowledges that although Claire can be a whiny, stuck-up jerk about it, she has a point about it being unfair to her that Jez gets given way more leeway by Jim and Nanami, even though they both live under the same roof.
- Secret Chaser: She's convinced that Jez is hiding things from her family and isn't all that she appears; in fairness to her, she's completely right. After overhearing Jez and Hugh talking about the Night World and the Wild Power prophecies, she ends up following them and discovers Jez's secret. However, upon realizing just how important Jez's mission is, she is resolved to help her cousin.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She's said to look like a "miniature" of her mother, Nanami.
- The Team Normal: Of the main protagonists of Huntress, she's the only one who is comparatively normal, neither being a Night Person or a human with extra abilities (Jez is a dhampyr, Hugh is an Old Soul and Morgead is a lamia vampire). She's also the only major character who is initially clueless about the Night World.
Maggie Neely
Maggie Neely
Appears in: Black Dawn
"You're stronger than me; we both know that. But whatever you do, you can't make me your prey. You don't have that power. You can't control me."
The main protagonist of Black Dawn, who heads into the Dark Kingdom to find her missing brother, Miles. She is the soulmate of Delos Redfern.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She is quickly drawn to Delos, even though he's a stuck-up, sullen jerk who constantly insults her...at best. However, it's because she believes he's actually not so bad on the inside (she's right). The fact that during their first meeting he saves her life certainly helps to establish him as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold in Maggie's mind.
- All-Loving Heroine: She seems to believe everyone has the chance to be good and shows compassion towards everyone, even if they might not deserve it.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: She thinks that she can come across as one to Miles...but it turns out he actually thinks she's pretty awesome.
- Big Brother Worship: She adores her big brother Miles and refuses to give up on him.
- Big Sister Instinct: Inverted; she goes to great lengths and risks her life to find her older brother Miles, refusing to believe he's dead.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: She is the Gentle Girl to Delos' Brooding Boy.
- Care-Bear Stare: How she gets through to Delos using a telepathic connection that allows her to share feelings and memories, literally bombarding him with happy thoughts. And possibly Sylvia too.
- The Chosen One: It turns out she's prophesied to be the 'Deliverer', who will free the Dark Kingdom's slaves from tyranny.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: She sets off by herself to find her missing brother, helps Cady - a girl she's only known for a few hours - even though it puts her own chances of escape in jeopardy and makes it her mission to free the slaves in the Dark Kingdom despite having known them for even less time.
- Damsel out of Distress: When she's captured by slavers, she manages to tip the cart over with some help from the other slaves and makes a run for it.
- Defusing The Tykebomb: Tries this with Delos. She's successful.
- Determinator: She's not called 'Steely Neely' for nothing.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: Dreams of Delos before meeting him. It's later revealed he had attempted to project his consciousness back in time to warn her away.
- Elemental Motifs: Like her soulmate Delos, she's linked with the earth element, though in a comparatively softer way. She has red hair compared to autumn leaves and "sorrel" brown eyes (sorrel refers to both a herb and a shade of color used to describe a horse's coat). She has an interest in the outdoors, including hiking and mountain-climbing. She's also characterized as nurturing and strong-willed.
- The Fettered: Maggie's compassion and altruism are often criticised throughout the story by more cynical and pragmatic characters, but are presented as being some of her greatest strengths and help save the day.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: To an extent. Maggie was raised in a very loving, tight-knit family and is always very compassionate towards others. When she sees Delos's traumatic memories of his dark and abusive childhood, she's completely horrified and says that's not how families are supposed to be. She's also nearly reduced to tears when she sees the scars on Jeanne's back where slavers tortured her for 'fun', not understanding how they could be so needlessly cruel.
- Hyper-Awareness: Upon discovering a hole in Sylvia's story claiming that Miles had died in a climbing accident from not securing his equipment properly - when Miles had in fact had always put safety first when hiking - she quickly notices that the "hysterical" Sylvia isn't actually crying, and she spends the whole time explaining the tragedy staring at Maggie's mismatched socks.
- I Can Change My Beloved: After glimpsing inside Delos’s mind and seeing that there are good parts of him that he’s suppressed, she becomes determined to bring them to the surface and convince him he’s not just some emotionless killing machine. Delos is initially resistant but Maggie eventually prevails and they’re both happier for it.
- Ignorant of the Call: She didn’t even know about the Night World, the plight of the Dark Kingdom’s slaves, the Wild Power prophecies or the prophecy about herself prior to Black Dawn; she just wants to find her missing brother and helps anyone she meets along the way if they’re in trouble.
- Interclass Romance: With Delos, he being a prince whilst she's an Ordinary High-School Student.
- Interspecies Romance: Again, with Delos.
- It's Personal with the Dragon: She and Sylvia have a prior connection due to Sylvia being the girlfriend of Maggie's brother, and Sylvia is the direct cause of many of the challenges Maggie faces, including kidnapping her and being responsible for her brother's disappearance.
- Made a Slave: Early in Black Dawn, Sylvia kidnaps her and sells her into slavery in the Dark Kingdom to prevent her from causing trouble. However, Maggie manages to escape early on.
- Morality Pet: To Delos, mostly. He goes out of his way to protect her on several occasions and is generally nicer to her than anyone else.
- Nice Girl: To the point where she can nearly weaponize it (see Care-Bear Stare).
- Opposites Attract: With Delos.
- Outdoorsy Gal / Passionate Sports Girl: She's captain of her local soccer team and enjoys mountain-climbing with her brother.
- Plucky Girl: She's optimistic, incredibly brave (even if she doesn't think she is) and never gives up no matter how bleak a situation seems.
- Tomboy: Seems to be one; she has an interest in sports and the great outdoors, worships her older brother and doesn't seem to care too much about things like fashion, throwing on clothes rather haphazardly. See also Outdoorsy Gal / Passionate Sports Girl.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Does this a lot towards Delos. And to Sylvia too, in the climax.
P.J
P.J
Appears in: Black Dawn
A supporting protagonist in Black Dawn. She is a child who has been kidnapped by the Dark Kingdom's slavers.
- Harmful to Minors: She was snatched by slavers whilst trick-or-treating with her best friend, and witnesses or is caught up in some truly horrific stuff during the events of Black Dawn.
- Made a Slave: A few weeks before the events of Black Dawn, she was kidnapped by Night People to be enslaved in the Dark Kingdom, though with Maggie and Jeanne's help she quickly escapes.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: PJ is obviously a nickname, but she never gives her full name and just goes by PJ.
Jeanne
Jeanne
Appears in: Black Dawn
A supporting protagonist in Black Dawn. She is a slave in the Dark Kingdom who helps Maggie.
- Broken Bird: The trauma she's suffered has made her very cynical and sharp-tongued.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: After being captured the first time she tried to escape, the slavers punished her...by playing Tic-Tac-Toe on her back using blades and fire.
- Made a Slave: In her backstory. She explains that a few years ago, when she was fourteen, she was playing video games in an arcade, took a bathroom break which involved walking down a long, dark corridor, then passed out. The next thing she remembers is waking up the back of a slavers' wagon in the Dark Kingdom; she guesses they were watching her and drugged her. Ever since, she's either been trying to survive or trying to escape.
- Scars Are Forever: She still has scars on her back from where she was tortured for trying to escape.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She's described as having dark green eyes and red hair, and is a significant supporting character in Black Dawn.
- The Snark Knight: No one escapes her snarking.
Sarah Strange
Sarah Strange
Appears in: Thicker Than Water | Ash and Mary-Lynnette: Those who Favor Fire
The main protagonist of the as-yet-unreleased final novel Strange Fate. She is notable for her visions, which can predict the future or at least possible futures.
- Alliterative Name: Sarah Strange.
- Betty and Veronica: Gender-flipped. Sarah's two love interests are Kierlan, a flirtatious and easy-going prankster, and Mal, an aloof loner who has a protective streak towards her.
- Blessed with Suck: To an extent. Her visions are accompanied by painful migraines and passing out, which can come at any time, and she seemingly has no control over them.
- Fainting Seer: In the preview of Strange Fate included in the Ultimate Fan Guide, Sarah passes out when she gets a vision.
- I Am Not Pretty: She seems to think she's plain, mousy and nothing special to look at, whilst other characters have noted she's actually quite attractive and compared her to a dryad in appearance.
- Love Triangle: Unique in the series, it's been indicated that Sarah has two soulmates - as in two One True Loves - in her friends, Kierlan and Mal. Presumably, why she appears to have two soulmates and who she ends up with will be a plot point in the tenth book.
- Meaningful Name: Meaningful surname. She's described as being a bit odd by other people and is unique amongst the other characters for her visions (the only other character with a similar gift is Aradia, and even then, she's a witch, not a human as Sarah appears to be) and seemingly has two soulmates instead of one.
- Missing Mom: She mentions that her mother died and she lives with her stepfather and stepsiblings.
Brionwy
Brionwy
Appears in: Brionwy's Lullaby
Brionwy is the main protagonist in the short story Brionwy's Lullaby; according to Word of God she's also set to appear in Strange Fate. In the Bad Future Brionwy's Lullaby is set in, she is a 'courtesan' in a vampire overlord's harem.
- Beautiful Slave Girl: Played straight, though it's mentioned her vampire master hasn't taken an interest in her…yet. To Brionwy's horror, he suggests he's going to choose her as his new favourite at the end of the short story.
- Gilded Cage: Her life in the harem. Though she's sheltered, has fine food and clothing, and lives in relative luxury – especially compared to other slaves - she's still not free, can never leave and lives in constant terror of drawing her master's attentions or, should she displease him, being cast out to live in the same squalid conditions as the others or even ending up as a dragon's meal.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She has violet-blue eyes and is rather sheltered and naïve.
- Made a Slave: She mentions she was enslaved at the age of twelve.
- Sex Slave: It's all but stated she's this.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Because of her beauty, Brionwy was chosen to be a slave in the vampire overlord's harem. And at the end of the short story she catches his eye and he picks her as his new favourite.
