History Literature / ChildrenOfTheRedKing

* BenevolentRuler: The Red King was certainly this, when he ruled the Red Castle centuries ago. He was kind and fair to all who were put under his care, and everyone respected and liked him.

* AlliterativeName: Tancred Torsson, and later Bartholomew Bloor, are the most prominent. Then there's Yorath Yewbeam and his daughter Yolanda, not to mention Bertram Babbington Bloor and his sister Beatrice. Eustacia Yewbeam might qualify too, depending on how you pronounce it.

%%* GenreSavvy

** Tancred and Emma could count as well, as [[spoiler: at the end of the final book they have acknowledged their feelings for one another and are pursuing a relationship of some sort]].

* ThePowerOfLove: It's Amy's remembering Lyell that keeps him alive during his trance, and she does this because she loves him. When she starts to forget him, Lyell begins to fade away.

** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lyell Bone is the true heir to Maybelle's will, and thus the Bloor's immense fortune.]]

* ShipTease: Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Olivia and Charlie would probably qualify too.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Most of the evil endowed exhibit this. Particularly Manfred, who crushed his own mother's hand and used his endowment to render a grown man utterly helpless, all when he was just thirteen and nine years old respectively. Also the Branko twins.

* UnfazedEveryman: Benjamin, Fidelio, and Olivia. [[spoiler:Until Olivia turns out to be endowed in the fourth book]].

%%* IntergenerationalFriendship

%%* {{Jerkass}}

%%* KidDetective: Charlie and his friends spend most of their time in and out of Bloors solving mysteries.

* MindOverMatter: Zelda Dobinski, Beth Strong, and Idith and Inez Branko.

%%* MissingMom:

%%* NoSenseOfHumor

* PapaWolf: Do not kill [[spoiler:Yolanda Yewbeam]] or [[spoiler:Tancred Torsson]]. Their fathers will be ''pissed''.

%%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour

%%* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForEvil: Grizelda Bone complains that Charlie and Lyell refuse to 'toe the line' and side with the Bloors in the ongoing fight between the descendants of the Red King.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler: It would've been much easier for the Bloors if they'd just killed Lyell in that car accident in 1994. The only reason they didn't was because Grizelda insisted on sparing him, and they also wanted to find out from him the location of the pearl-inlaid box that contains Maybelle's will. However, this is subverted in the fifth book, when Harken (with the Bloors' and Yewbeams' full knowledge) makes Amy forget Lyell to stop him waking up from his trance, as it's heavily implied, if not stated outright, that Lyell will ''die'' if Amy forgets him completely. Then in the last three books the Bloors resort to drowning him before he remembers where he put the pearl-inlaid box.]]
%%* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForEvil: Grizelda Bone complains to Paton about Charlie and Lyell's refusal to side with the Bloors.

%%* ChronicHeroSyndrome

* CorruptTheCutie: In the third book, Yolanda does this to Dorcas Loom, to turn her to the side of the bad endowed. Olivia also has this done to her in the final book by Titania Tilpin, after the Bloors discover her illusionist powers. She gets better eventually.
%%* ColdBloodedTorture

%%* TheDreaded

* EvilMatriarch: Grandma Bone.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Norton Cross]]. Dorcas Loom, to an extent. Previously she was neutral, and even hinted to be a good person. It wasn't until Yolanda came around that she became bad.

%%* FantasticRacism

%%* FriendToAllChildren

%%* HiddenInPlainSight

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Charlie frequently wishes to be normal, particularly when he first discovers his endowment and goes to Bloor's.
** Olivia goes through this in ''Castle of Mirrors'', when she goes into denial about being an endowed child of the Red King.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: It is Charlie's entering Bloor's that begins to weaken Lyell's trance.]]

** Amy and Lyell, after [[spoiler: Lyell's awakening at the end of the fifth book.]]
** Tancred and Emma could count as well, as [[spoiler: at the end of the final book they do seem to have acknowledged their feelings for one another and are pursuing a relationship of some sort.]]

%%* AdultFear: There's quite a bit of this for a children's series. First of all, there's Billy's life as a ward at Bloor's Academy.

* RedHerring: Bartholomew is implied to be the Red Knight in the last three books. [[spoiler: In actuality, it's Lyell Bone.]]
%%* ResignedToTheCall: Olivia at the end of ''Castle of Mirrors'', [[spoiler: after finding out about her endowment]].
%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge

%%* SchoolForScheming
%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Both Charlie and Lyell have this attitude.

%%* SecretLegacy

%%* SternTeacher

%%* ActionGirl

%%* AdultFear

%%* BadassFamily

%%* BenevolentRuler

* BigFriendlyDog: Runner Bean.
%%* BigGood
%%* BigLabyrinthineBuilding

* BodyHorror: Asa when he changes from human to beast, or vice versa.

%%* CerebusSyndrome

%%* ChekhovsGun

%%* ChekhovsSkill

%%* TheClan

%%* CorruptTheCutie

%%* DancesAndBalls
%%* DarkerAndEdgier

%%* FriendToAllLivingThings

%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold

%%* HappilyMarried
%%* HaveWeMetYet

%%* HeroWithBadPublicity: Christopher Crowquill was framed for robbery by the Bloors and sent to jail for seven years.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Lyell Bone and Emma Tolly have this as a result of their hypnotization. Later on in ''Blue Boa'', [[spoiler: Samuel Sparks

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: It is Charlie's entering Bloor's that weakens Lyell's trance.]]

%%* ThePowerOfLove

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Asa Pike, due to his nature as a Changer. It's implied that he actually might have rejoined the Bloors, had they not seen fit to lock him up for a few months in a cave, later on without sunlight (which is what he requires in order to be human). In other words, they deprived him of his humanity for several weeks and nearly starved him to death in the process. Their actions also led up to Asa's father being shot and killed by local hunters. It's no wonder he turned his back on them completely after that]].

%%* KilledOffForReal
%%* LaserGuidedAmnesia
%%* LastOfHisKind

%%* LukeIAmYourFather

* MasterOfIllusion: [[spoiler: Olivia Vertigo]].

%%* MindRape

* ParentalAbandonment: Emma's dad, Mostaf Tolly, traded her to the Bloors for a replica of the Toledo knight when she was a baby. He eventually tries to put this right, but is murdered before he can.
%%* ParentalSubstitute

* TalkingToAnimals: Billy Raven.
%%* TellMeAboutMyFather

%%* TookALevelInJerkass

%%* TwoActStructure
%%* UnexpectedInheritance

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Tancred]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Christopher Crowquill, which makes him one of the very few non-evil characters to be KilledOffForReal]].

%%* HeroWithBadPublicity

%%* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest

* KaleidoscopeHair: Olivia.
%%* KidDetective

%%* KillItWithFire

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

%%* PutOnABus

%%* RedHerring
%%* TheRival

* SchoolForScheming
%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight

%%* SecondLove: Meng for Bartholomew Bloor.

%%* TookALevelInBadass

%%* WhyDontYouJustShootHim
%%* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForEvil

* INeverToldYouMyName: Alice Angel knows Olivia's name immediately when she and Charlie walk into her shop, and uses it repeatedly. It doesn't say much for Charlie's character that he doesn't think anything is wrong until Alice also says his name. It turns out that, unknown to them [[spoiler:Alice is Olivia's next door neighbor, godmother, and self-declared guardian angel and a friend of Charlie's Uncle Paton]].

* SuperpowerfulGenetics