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Young Wizards/Characters


Characters from Young Wizards. As usual, BEWARE OF SPOILERS!

UNDER CONSTRUCTION There are many characters missing from this list, and most need more tropes added.

Nita Callahan

  • Badass Bookworm
  • Brainy Brunette
  • Deal with the Devil: Nita attempts to make a deal with the Lone Power in order to saver her mother's life, but ends up not going through with it.
  • Embarrassing Middle Name: Louise. She hates it, but it's never stated why.
  • Little Miss Badass
  • Little Miss Snarker
  • Magic Feather: In So You Want To Be a Wizard, Nita believes that her special space pen helps her to pass tests at school.
  • Naive Everygirl: She fits the role at the very beginning of the series, but grows out of it pretty quickly after acquiring wizardry and taking her first level in badass.
  • Not So Weak: In the first book it's much more obvious, but she does keep many of the same character traits. It's also apparently a useful set of characteristics for wizards in general, who aren't really supposed to do things for their own benefit.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name is Juanita, but you can count the times she's referred to as such on one hand.
  • She's All Grown Up: By the fourth and fifth books she's become an attractive young woman.
  • The Medic: In the first few books, Nita has an affinity for living matter and a natural talent for healing that makes her start to focus on healing spells. Until her affinity starts to change, anyway.

Kit Rodriguez

Dairine Callahan

  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Dairine starts as this to Nita, but grows into her role as a wizard after the third book.
  • Ascended Fangirl: A borderline example with Dairine, a Star Wars fan who wants to beat up Darth Vader. (Borderline because, while she doesn't become a Jedi, becoming a wizard is pretty damn close.)
  • Bratty Half-Pint, although she does get better.
  • Child Prodigy: Both in regular subjects and in wizardry. She gets her Ordeal at eleven, which isn't the youngest ever by any means but still quite a bit younger than what's typical.
  • Constantly Curious: Dairine wants to know as much as she possibly can.
  • Cry for the Devil: Dairine, for the Lone Power. It works.
  • Fiery Redhead
  • Jumped At the Call: She desperately wanted to be a wizard as soon as she found out about it, and she got her wish.
  • Late Arrival Spoiler: Dairine does end up becoming a wizard in the third book.
  • Little Miss Snarker: Mostly before Roshaun disappears.
    • Even after that, although she doesn't seem to take as much pleasure in it, and it has a far darker tone.
  • Magical Computer: Dairine's signature trope. In the third book (later named "Spot") she gains a magical computer, creates of a race of quite literal computer wizards, and effectively becomes a human version of the Wizard's Manual.
  • Playful Hacker: Described as one in her debut as a protagonist, but this is dropped afterwards apart from being good with computers.

Harry Callahan

Betty Callahan

  • Mama Bear: Even while dying of cancer.
  • Take a Level In Badass

Carmela Rodriguez

  • Badass Normal: She starts participating in the plot around the eighth book, despite not being a wizard.
  • Cunning Linguist: She studies languages from the very beginning, but really comes into her own in A Wizard of Mars, where she manages to translate a key piece of information from the Martian language. By Games Wizards Play, she is actively studying the Speech, much to Nita's shock.
  • Embarrassing Middle Name: Subverted--her middle name is unique ("Emeda"), but she likes it.
  • Everything's Better with Chocolate: By Games Wizards Play, she and Ronan Nolan are planning on running their own interplanetary chocolate smuggling operation (Earth is literally the only planet that produces chocolate, and aliens covet it immensely).
  • Let's Get Dangerous: in Wizards at War especially.
  • Spicy Latina

Helena Rodriguez

  • Deal with the Devil: What she initially thinks Kit has made to become a wizard.
  • Mutant: The explanation for Kit's powers that she settles on in Games Wizards Play; if she thinks of it this way, Kit didn't do anything bad to become a wizard, and she doesn't feel evil for loving him.

Juan Rodriguez

Marina Rodriguez

Roshaun ke Nelaid

Filif

Sker'ret

Tom Swale

Carl Romeo

Ed the Master Shark

  • Badass Normal: He isn't a wizard, but he's just as powerful in his own way.
    • Though 'his own way' still isn't exactly normal.
  • Black Eyes of Evil: His eyes are completely black (though this is nothing out of the ordinary for a great white shark)
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He's an extremely sinister killing machine, but he's not evil, or mindless. He ends distress (by eating the distressed). Actually, he's portrayed a lot like The Grim Reaper.
  • Fluffy the Terrible: His real name is much more impressive.
  • Mercy Kill: His role in the ocean's society is to "end distress" by killing the distressed
  • The Unfettered
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Nita speculates at one point that there may have only been one Master Shark ever (and in fact, there is a theory that sharks don't die of old age, only when they succumb to injury or disease), and some things Ed says make him seem terribly lonely...

The Lone Power

  • Aloof Big Brother: To the other Powers; the Lone One is frequently known as "Eldest, Fairest and Fallen", after all.
  • Big Bad: All minor villains answer to It one way or another; more to the point, It is implied to be at least partly responsible for all the evil in the universe.
  • Black Sheep: The Powers That Be kicked It out for inventing entropy and death.
  • Body Surf: Appears in lots of bodies over the course of the series, sometimes possessing mortals, sometimes as an aspect of Itself.
  • Cain and Abel: A variation with multiple Abels, since the Powers are more or less siblings.
  • Demonic Possession: Has the ability, but it is very difficult to use effectively, especially on a wizard.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: To Dairine in book 3.
  • Evil Redhead: Appears in different bodies and doesn't look the same to everyone, but Nita usually sees It as a man with red-gold hair.
  • Fiery Redhead: The Lone Power is pretty hot-tempered. And he appears as a redheaded guy-- Nita sees him that way, at least, in SYWTBAW and High Wizardry.
  • Fighting a Shadow
  • I Have Many Names: The Lone Power, the Starsnuffer, the Old Serpent, Esemeli...
  • Man Behind the Man: prefers this tactic, although when dealing with wizards it is often forced to come out into the open.
  • No Sense of Humor: the one thing It hates the most is being made fun of.
  • Omnicidal Maniac
  • Satan
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: as Esemeli.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: suggested in book 3 but not brought up again

Ronan Nolan

Darryl McAllister

  • Barrier Maiden: A Spear Counterpart version. And if he realizes it, he'll die, so everyone is very careful about preserving the Masquerade.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Again, only in the last book or so-- Wizards At War, arguably, and A Wizard Of Mars, definitely.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: If he ever learns that he's an abdal, he'll immediately a) stop being one and b) die.
  • Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: Both played straight AND averted. In the original version of A Wizard Alone, Darryl becomes autistic in an attempt to withdraw from the sensations of being malignantly observed by the Lone Power. In the New Millennium Edition, an update/rewrite created by the author, Darryl was always autistic. He seemed to withdraw more from the world due to his Ordeal, the Lone Power's attention, and Darryl's own determination that the Lone Power must be kept occupied (and not hurting anyone else). However, the key word is "seemed." Darryl was no worse than before, but since all of his attention was directed inward, where he was keeping the LP's attention, neurotypical people tended to misinterpret what they saw as stereotypical symptoms of severe autism.
  • Self-Duplication: One of Darryl's powers as an abdal. Initially, he tends to be slightly taxed when he has to operate three or more sapient and sentient bodies; by Games Wizards Play, however, he seems to have gotten much better at being in three places at once.
  • The Rainman: Though his autism is bizarrely portrayed (his behaviour on the outside is accurate enough, but his experience from the inside not so much), Darryl makes his first appearance as a severely autistic boy who also turns out to be a human conduit for a large amount of the wizardly power available to Earth.
    • Justified Trope: In the original version, Darryl's autism was something the Lone Power had done to him, so of course it only superficially resembled an organic condition.
      • In the NME, however, autism is very much a part of Darryl and always has been. Darryl's response to his Ordeal (that the Lone Power must not be allowed to hurt others EVER) leads to his focusing on this problem almost exclusively and thus--to the eyes of the neurotypical--withdrawing more and more from the world.
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: Darryl, who has eyes so innocent that it hurts the first time you see them.

Ponch

Memeki

Fred (sentient white hole)

S'reee

Irina Mladen

Spot

Bobo

Mamvish

Macchu Picchu/Peach

The Stationmaster

Biddy O Dalaigh

The Transcendent Pig

Mr. Millman

The Oracular Koi

Areinnye

  • Eaten Alive: By Ed's people (sharks), after she accepts the offer of the Lone Power and she breaks the Song of the Twelve.


Ehef

Iniihwit

Nelaid ke Seriv

Miril am Miril

Pralaya

  • Devil in Disguise: The wizard Pralaya in The Wizard's Dilemma is "overshadowed" by the Lone Power (meaning, possessed by the Devil, basically).

Amadaun

Arooon

Dazel

Evryss

Liused

Pont

Rhiow

Urruah

Joanne Virella

Arhu


Fang

Kkirl

Mmemyn

Neme

Roots

Rraah-yarh

Saash

T!h!ki

Tualha

Khretef

Aurilelde

The Shamask-Eilitt

  • Human Aliens: After they move planet and adapt themselves to suit the new surroundings. Justified by their having seen early humans and decided that shape looked suitable.
  • Starfish Aliens: We're never told what they looked like in their original form, but it's pretty clear it wasn't humanoid.
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