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| 3 | [[folder: The Sopranos]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !!The Sopranos as a Group |
| 6 | ---- |
| 7 | %%CatholicSchoolgirlsRule |
| 8 | * CountryMouse: They're aware of the cultural gulf between them and the people of the Capital, and they've heard all the old jokes about [[NaiveNewcomer naive]] Port residents visiting the city for the first time. |
| 9 | * CulturallyReligious: Although the girls are immersed in the Catholic culture of their school, none of them have any strong religious convictions to speak of. |
| 10 | %%{{Delinquents}}: |
| 11 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: Sex is a major preoccupation throughout the story, although Kylah and Chell are somewhat blasé about it compared to the others. |
| 12 | * EverybodySmokes: All of them smoke, save for Orla, who only pretends to in a group setting, although its implied that she only abstains because of her cancer and not for any other health concerns. |
| 13 | * GossipyHens: Many of their conversations involve gossiping about the goings-on in the Port. |
| 14 | * GirlPosse: From Kay's perspective, they are a tight-knit but also slightly intimidating clique with a lot of social clout. |
| 15 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Their main goal for the trip is to spend the day getting drunk and enjoying themselves. |
| 16 | %%{{Ladette}} |
| 17 | %%LowerClassLout |
| 18 | %%SmallTownBoredom |
| 19 | * SuddenPrincipledStand: When Chell, Kylah and Manda go to see Father Ardlui to try and smooth things over with the Sisters, he asks them to lie about seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary to try and turn the Port into a pilgrimage sight. They refuse on the basis that they're "no angels" but they're not going to lie just for the sake of staying in their dump of a school. |
| 20 | * Totally18: Before approaching the {{Bouncer}} at the Mantrap, they make sure that they all have it straight in their heads when they were born. |
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| 22 | |
| 23 | !!Fionnula "The Cooler" [=McConnel=] |
| 24 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2017_05_09_023626_0.jpg]] |
| 25 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Dawn Sievewright]] |
| 26 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_231401_2.png]] |
| 27 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Abigail Lawrie]] |
| 28 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Dawn Sievewright (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Abigail Lawrie (''Our Ladies'') |
| 29 | ---- |
| 30 | * TheAce: Is described in the book as being the [[HeadTurningBeauty best-looking]] one of the girls. Kylah even points out that Fionnula is a better singer than her. |
| 31 | * AMFMCharacterization: Despite being one of the more worldly members of group, she knows nothing about music. When she heard the news about [[Music/KurtCobain Kurt Cobain's]] death, her reaction was to ask what year he was in. |
| 32 | * {{Angst}}: When [[spoiler:Kay]] breaks down in her arms, Fionnula has a moment of despair when she asks herself why the utterly random nature of the universe has somehow resulted in so much personal anguish for her friends. |
| 33 | * AttentionWhore: Manda claims that Fionnula has an exhibitionist streak, but it's unclear if there's a certain level of PsychologicalProjection on Manda's part. |
| 34 | * BelligerentSexualTension: Has had a bit of this going in the run-up to the trip with [[spoiler:Kay]], since she played a prank on her by tying a thread from [[spoiler:Kay]]'s kilt to her chair during their Higher English exam. |
| 35 | * BeneathTheMask: Is generally regarded as the LifeOfTheParty by the rest of the Sopranos, but over the course of the book she starts to explore her own identity outside of the group. |
| 36 | * BigSisterInstinct: By her own admission, Orla's illness has made her feel more protective towards her friends. |
| 37 | * CannotSpitItOut: Fionnula tries to tell Orla in the bathroom at the barrels that all she Kylah, Manda and Chell all love her, but she doesn’t manage to say it before Orla steps out back into the bar. |
| 38 | * CharacterDevelopment: Fionnula starts out as something of a [[TheFatalist Fatalist]] who doesn't feel as though life has anything to offer her beyond the Port. [[spoiler:As she and Kay grow closer, she actually starts to feel excited about the future.]] |
| 39 | * ChildhoodFriend: With Manda, who she's been pals with since they were toddlers. |
| 40 | * ComingOfAgeQueerRomance: Over the course of the day, she goes through one of these with [[spoiler:Kay]]. It's [[AmbiguousEnding unclear at the end of the first novel]] what direction their relationship will take. |
| 41 | * DeathGlare: Gives Ana-Bessie "the full stare" after she comments on the Kay wearing Kylah's skirt from French Connection. |
| 42 | * DrinkBasedCharacterization: At the Mantrap, she feels self-conscious about ordering something other than Hooch to drink after she and Manda start becoming more hostile to each other, making it all the more apparent that the two of them are growing apart. |
| 43 | * HairOfTheDog: Her reaction to realising how hungover she is at the station buffet is to get herself a drink. |
| 44 | * JealousRomanticWitness: When Kay asks Fionnula why [[spoiler:she gave her phone number to The Man]], Fionnula admits that [[spoiler:she hopes Kay felt jealous]]. |
| 45 | * LGBTAwakening: While Fionnula isn't completely unaware of her attraction to women in the book, [[spoiler:the day of the trip is the first time she's ever really acted on those feelings.]] |
| 46 | * MeaningfulRename: In ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', she goes by "Finn" rather than "Fionnula", part of the change that she’s gone through since [[spoiler:leaving the Port for university in London.]] |
| 47 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted in the book where Fionnula is known as "Fionnula the Cooler" so as to distinguish her from Ordinary Fionnula, who is only mentioned briefly. |
| 48 | * RedStringOfFate: [[spoiler:While she holds Kay as she cries, Fionnula realises that it's "just a matter of time" before they have sex. She even feels as though God has brought the two of them together, despite being very ambivalent about the existence of any sort of god at all.]] |
| 49 | * SexEqualsLove: She realises she's falling in love with [[spoiler:Kay]] not long after the first time they have sex. |
| 50 | * SorryOciffer: Had a parental version of this on holiday in Cocklawburn. She got so drunk that she got driven home by a passing couple, but had her legs hanging out the window when she was lying down in the back seat, meaning that she collapsed from the numbness outside her caravan, meaning she had to crawl towards her mum while she [[BlatantLies insisted she wasn't drunk]] |
| 51 | * SentimentalDrunk: As she and Kay get progressively drunk at the wine bar, Fionnula thinks about how beautiful Kay is and tells her how good she smells when she ends up falling into Kay's lap. |
| 52 | * SmokingHotSex: Smokes a cigarette in bed the morning after she has sex with [[spoiler:Kay]]. |
| 53 | * TranquilFury: Manda infuriates Finn by making yet another jab about her and Kay sleeping together, causing Finn to slam down her glass and spill some of her drink in her hand. Manda is nearly bursting out laughing, but Finn just points out that she’s laughing away just after the rest of them have agreed to jack in their holiday for Manda’s sake. |
| 54 | ---- |
| 55 | |
| 56 | !!Kylah Campbell |
| 57 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2021_07_21_001118_3.jpg]] |
| 58 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Frances Mayli [=McCann=]]] |
| 59 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_232653_2.png]] |
| 60 | [[caption-width-right:350: As portrayed by Marli Siu]] |
| 61 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Frances Mayli [=McCann=] (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Marli Siu (''Our Ladies'') |
| 62 | ---- |
| 63 | * AdaptationalJerkass: In the book, Kylah talks about befriending the girl who works at the record counter at Woolworth's and inviting her along on nights out, anticipating that when she inevitably gets pregnant, Kylah will be in a good position to take over her job. In the book, this serves mostly as a commentary on what economic prospects are like in The Port, particularly for young women - Michelle got sacked from her Saturday job at the Superstore when her boss found out about her pregnancy. In the film, however, Kylah actively encourages her to have unprotected sex and manages to get her job when she does indeed fall pregnant. Orla relays this anecdote to the audience to support her description of Kylah as "devious" but this doesn't really build to anything within the film. |
| 64 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the play and the film, her band is called Thunderpup, the name it originally had in the book before Kylah joined and changed it to Lemonfinger. |
| 65 | * AMFMCharacterization: She has very strong opinions about which bands are worth her time and is apparently able to bend the rest of the choir to her will when it comes to music selections on the coach down to Edinburgh. She immediately loses whatever interest she might have had in Danny when she finds out that he listens to "all the wrong bands". |
| 66 | ** There’s a hint of CharacterDevelopment in ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky'' where she complains about club [=DJs=] in the med trying to force their own music tastes onto others, suggesting that she might have matured a little from commandeering the coach cassette player like she did as a teenager. |
| 67 | * BlindWithoutEm: When Michelle turns up at the school, Kylah struggles to see her coming because [[BrickJoke she doesn’t have her contacts in]]. |
| 68 | * BrilliantButLazy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Kylah is a talented performer and songwriter but doesn’t harbour any great aspirations for the band she's in. She just wants to get her dream job of working the record counter at Woolies. However, her lack of ambition isn’t framed as laziness. If anything, it seems like a goal that’s actually achievable given the general lack of attractive job opportunities in the Port. |
| 69 | * FacialDialogue: Since she and Chell have become flatmates, they often communicate nonverbally. |
| 70 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Kylah does feel some guilt about spending the money the band gave her once she starts to sober up, but the events of the day prevent her from lingering on the feeling for too long. |
| 71 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: She's given the surname [=McManus=] in the play. |
| 72 | * NumberTwo: Is "an agreed first equal" with Fionnula on the length-of-legs wall, but seems quite happy to concede the group leadership to her. She's more preoccupied with her music and tends to sit out the interpersonal drama between Fionnula and Manda. |
| 73 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: In ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky'', Manda claims that Finn did a good job of “hiding” that she was clever by partying hard, but even in ''[[Literature/TheSopranosWarner The Sopranos]]'' it was already evident that she was intelligent. |
| 74 | * RaceLift: None of the main characters' ethnicities are specified in the novel. Much as the book talks about the details of the girls' outfits, there's never really a moment when we're given a clear expository overview of their appearances. Given the time and place in which the book is set (rural Scotland in the 1990s), and that the only time race is mentioned is in reference to the "Pakistani lads" who come in from out of town for the Saturday market, and when Kylah refers to Damo Suzuki from Music/{{Can}} as "the [[invoked]][[ValuesDissonance Jap]] in the German band", it's possible to infer that the characters are white (specifically from the Irish diaspora in Scotland) from context clues. In the play and the film, both of the actors who play Kylah are East Asian Scots. |
| 75 | * SelfDeprecation: In the first book, particularly, she's dismissive of Spimmy's compliments on her singing, claiming that Fionnula is a better singer. |
| 76 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: Her bandmates all fancying her proves to make being in the band much less enjoyable for her. |
| 77 | * UnwantedHarem: Kylah knows that Spimmy and the rest of the band all fancy her, but only because they see her as a [[TheMuse muse]], the same way they might think of Music/CourtneyLove or [[Music/MazzyStar Hope Sandoval]]. She had sex with all of them to "get it over with", and ultimately decides to [[DumpThemAll leave the band]]. |
| 78 | ---- |
| 79 | |
| 80 | !!Rachel "Chell" [=MacDougall=] |
| 81 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2021_07_21_000411_2.png]] |
| 82 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Caroline Deyga]] |
| 83 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_232248_2.png]] |
| 84 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Rona Morrison]] |
| 85 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Caroline Deyga (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Rona Morrison (''Our Ladies'') |
| 86 | ---- |
| 87 | * ACupAngst: She bemoans her lack of cleavage in ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky''. |
| 88 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the film, Chell's father is implied to have died more recently relative to the events of the novel than in the book. Also, with the role of the group peacemaker being transferred to Orla, Chell ends up absorbing some elements of Manda and Orla's book backstories, such as Manda's family being in the worst financial situation in compared to the rest of the group. In the book, Orla's family had originally lived in a village outside the Port, which here becomes Chell living out on The Island. |
| 89 | ** AMFMCharacterization: Chell describes rap music as sounding like "a whole load of televisions turned on at the same time." |
| 90 | * CaughtComingHomeLate: Chell suspects that, rather than confronting her directly about going out late, her mum keeps leaving the spare key outside the door in different places to spite her. |
| 91 | * DisappearedDad: Chell has two. There's Actual Daddy, her biological father, who she never knew and doesn't seem overly curious about. The man she thinks of as her father was her stepdad, Daddy Patrick, who was LostAtSea while Chell was still in primary school. (In the film, the two of them are [[CompositeCharacter compressed]] into a single unseen dad). Years later, she's still haunted by her grief over his death. She tries to brush this off in front of her friends, but towards the end of the book, [[TraumaButton she thinks she sees his face for a moment]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a pile of seaweed and lobster traps]] and her emotions rapidly overwhelm her. |
| 92 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Her main career goal is to do something that involves working with animals. |
| 93 | * TheHeart: She's generally very caring and supportive towards her friends, particularly Kylah. |
| 94 | * ParentalFashionVeto: She hides some of her more daring clothes in a local bush in order to avoid being given one of these by her mum. |
| 95 | * RunningAwayToCry: When the group have their night out at the Barrels after she finished her radiotherapy, she keeps running to the toilets and coming back with her eye makeup a complete mess. |
| 96 | * SlutShaming: Although she doesn't harbour any ill will against Michelle, she isn't above joking about Michelle knowing where to find [[HornySailors sailors]] as she's walking up to the school. |
| 97 | * ThriftyScot: She wraps the sticky bit from her Rizla wrappers around the filter of her cigarettes since that's cheaper than buying stronger ones. |
| 98 | * TragicDropout: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Chell only stayed on for Fifth Year because the rest of the group were staying as well. |
| 99 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Chell loves animals, but hates spiders, and will put the plugs in the bath and sink before undressing in her bathroom in case any come crawling out of the drains. |
| 100 | ---- |
| 101 | |
| 102 | !!Orla Johnstone |
| 103 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2021_07_21_000411_3.png]] |
| 104 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Melissa Allan]] |
| 105 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tn_500_olopsisishainsworthorlaphotocreditmanuelharlan.png]] |
| 106 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Isis Hainsworth]] |
| 107 | [[quoteright:314:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_233245_2.png]] |
| 108 | [[caption-width-right:314:As portrayed by Tallulah Grieve]] |
| 109 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Melissa Allan, Isis Hainsworth (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Tallulah Grieve (''Our Ladies'') |
| 110 | ---- |
| 111 | * ACupAngst: In the book, Orla is self-conscious about the weight's she's lost as a result of her illness and about how this has affected the size of her chest in particular. |
| 112 | * AdaptationNameChange: Orla's last name changes from Johnstone to [=McAlister=] in ''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''. In the film it's changed again to Johnson. |
| 113 | * AmbiguouslyBi: While she is pretty keen on Stephen once she meets him, in the book there are also some hints that she might be attracted to women as well. When [[spoiler:Fionnula]] seems hesitant to say anything about her night with [[spoiler:Kay]], Orla gets [[spoiler:Fionnula]] to open up by telling her that she’s always been interested in experimenting with a girl. |
| 114 | * AntiClimax: In the book, she admits that she was expecting to feel different after [[spoiler: having sex with Stephen]], but she's just the same person she's always been. |
| 115 | * AllWomenLoveShoes: She buys herself a fancy pair of lace-up boots and wears them for the rest of the day in the Capital, although she mentions that one her pinkie toes [[AgonyOfTheFeet gets pretty sore as a result]]. |
| 116 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: The rest of the girls go out of their way to take care of her, though how true this was prior to Orla's illness is unclear. |
| 117 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. She’s described in the book as having an overly skinny and still-sickly appearance despite her [[spoiler:apparent]] recovery from her illness. In the film, this becomes something of an InformedAttribute as, apart from her short hair, Tallulah Grieve doesn't look as if she's in any worse health than the rest of the cast, which ends up undercutting the scene where Manda tells off some shop assistants for laughing at Orla because they think she looks like a drug addict. |
| 118 | * CarpeDiem: Orla states on the coach that, after having come so close to death, she believes in living for the moment. |
| 119 | %% CasualKink: |
| 120 | * CoolShades: In the film, she's seen wearing the sunglasses she got in her [[BlandNameProduct not-McDonald's]] Happy Meal. |
| 121 | * TheConfidant: Fionnula tells Orla that [[spoiler:she had sex with Kay]] in the final scene of ''The Sopranos''. Kylah and Chell’s behaviour in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' seems to suggest that Fionnula didn't discuss this with them, although Manda seems to strongly suspect something even if she doesn't have proof. |
| 122 | * CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: More from the perspective of Orla's parents than Orla herself. Orla's mother suffered a horrific miscarriage in the sixties, then later went on to have Orla in 1980 or thereabouts, [[spoiler:only for Orla to die from cancer as a teenager]]. |
| 123 | * TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Orla and the girls speak about her cancer quite frankly. [[spoiler:That is, until Orla realises that it's back. After that, she only refers to it as "[her] sickness".]] |
| 124 | * DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: While she was in hospital, Orla tried to [[spoiler:have sex with an unconscious Scandanavian sailor on the same oncology ward as her.]] She regards this as an act of pity, recognising that she would soon be as helpless as he was as result of her own illness. When she tells Manda about this, Manda also thinks of it as a kindness and not [[spoiler:a sexual assault]]. |
| 125 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Dies during the TimeSkip between the first and second book. In the film, her death forms part of the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue]]. |
| 126 | * LittlestCancerPatient: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] hard. Orla is just as eager to drink and screw around as the other girls. She's also aware of the fact that she's viewed by the school staff as something of a {{Mascot}} because of her illness and for this reason doesn't think that [[spoiler:they'll expel her or her friends for drinking.]] |
| 127 | * MustNotDieAVirgin: [[spoiler:This is part of her motivation for hooking up with Stephen.]] |
| 128 | * CountryMouse: She lived in a small village before moving to the Port, so this applies to her more so than it does to the rest of the group, such as when she tries to pay for her boots in the shoe shop by giving her money to the shop assistant instead of going to the till. Fionnula mentions that she's too intimidated by the unfamiliarity of the local Chinese or Indian takeaway to ever order anything from there. |
| 129 | * NotAfraidToDie: Having realised that [[spoiler: her cancer has relapsed]], at the end of the novel Orla tells calmly Fionnula that [[spoiler:she doesn't want anymore treatment]] and [[spoiler:[[PrizedPossessionGiveaway gives her some of the money]] that she had been saving for the holiday the group had been planning together.]] |
| 130 | * PrizedPossessionGiveaway: She freely spends the money she'd been saving up for a holiday on her friends [[spoiler:knowing that she won't live long enough to go on it.]] When she buys Manda a pair of boots, Manda feels as though something bad will happen if she accepts the gift, perhaps because she's doesn't want to think to hard about what's motivating Orla's spending. |
| 131 | * PubescentBraces: She wears a retainer, but manages to [[AvertedTrope avert]] BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill since it's removable and fits into the palm of her hand. She needs to wear it for another six months, and because to stop would mean acknowledging that she might not actually have that long to live. |
| 132 | * SuddenMorbidMonologue: A flashback in the novel to when she was in hospital for chemo appears as a monologue in a shoe shop in the play. |
| 133 | * UnbuiltTrope: Although teen sick lit novels certainly existed before the 1990s, Orla feels like a much more subversive version of the female protagonists of YA sick lit novels of the 2010s like ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' and ''Before I Die''. Rather than chastely pining after a not particularly threatening teenage boy in the hopes of falling in love before she dies tragically, she wants sex and isn’t particularly concerned about who she gets it from. Much as she’s attracted to Stephen, their very brief liaison doesn’t spark off any deeper romantic connection between the two of them. |
| 134 | * VirginShaming: She's embarrassed about her status as a virgin and wants to lose it as soon as possible to make up for the time she lost to her illness. None of her friends give her any stick for it directly, but they do shame other girls in their peer group who they suspect of being virgins. |
| 135 | ---- |
| 136 | |
| 137 | !!(A)Manda Tassy |
| 138 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2021_07_21_000559.jpg]] |
| 139 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Kirsty [=MacLaren=]]] |
| 140 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_230605_2_6.png]] |
| 141 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Sally Messham]] |
| 142 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Kirsty [=MacLaren=] (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Sally Messham (''Our Ladies'') |
| 143 | ---- |
| 144 | * AdaptationalComicRelief: Is framed as more a class clown in the film than in the books or novel. |
| 145 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the book, Manda runs out of shoe shop because she feels embarrassed being seen with Orla when the shop assistants are talking about how skinny she is. In the film, she actually confronts the shop assistants directly. |
| 146 | * TheAlcoholic: By ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky'', everyone else has noticed just how much Manda drinks and suspect that she’s on her way to becoming one of these. |
| 147 | * AnnoyingLaugh: Is described in the book as having a laugh like a "donkey honk." |
| 148 | * AttentionWhore: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky''. |
| 149 | -->'''Kay''': Manda thinks attention deficit disorder means people are not giving her enough attention. |
| 150 | ** Finn suspects at one point that Manda might have hidden her lost passport herself just so she could be at the centre of some drama. |
| 151 | * BathOfPoverty: Money is tight enough in the Tassy household that Manda and her dad have to share the bathwater between the two of them [[labelnote:*]]though thankfully not at the same time[[/labelnote]]. Manda tries to make the experience a little more pleasant by filling the water with [[MundaneLuxury powdered milk]]. |
| 152 | * BlatantLies: Lies about having been sick on the Friday night at the Flight Deck when challenged on it by Chell. |
| 153 | * BookDumb: Kay mentions that Manda didn't do well in her exams. Presumably this is speculation on Kay's part as the book is set in May and results don't usually arrive until August. |
| 154 | ** She read most of “[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Harry Potter and The Philosophies Stone]]”, claiming that it was too long. The book is about 76,000 words, which is at the low end for novels in terms of average word-count. |
| 155 | * CharacterDevelopment: Her attention-seeking tendencies get worse in ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky''. |
| 156 | * ChildhoodFriend: As mentioned above, she's been friends with Fionnula since the two of them were very young children. |
| 157 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Is often prone to this when in conversation with the rest of the girls. |
| 158 | * CompressedVice: In the film, Manda seems to have spontaneously overcome her homophobia towards [[spoiler:Kay and Fionnula]] by the time the gang meet up at the train station. |
| 159 | * ControlFreak: Kay says that Manda will try to claim the booking at the Flight Deck is in her own name rather than Kay’s because she’s incapable of delegating control to anyone. |
| 160 | * DislikesTheNewGuy: Is openly hostile towards Kay in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky''. |
| 161 | * EasilyEmbarrassedYoungster: She's very self-conscious, but doesn't understand why she feels the way that she does. |
| 162 | -->"[W]hy am ah so het-up about what people think about me; who am I trying to impress?" |
| 163 | * EmbarrassingPyjamas: She sleeps in baggy tshirts which depict [[AnimatedShockComedy cartoon characters having sex]]. |
| 164 | * FatIdiot / FatSlob: The others |
| 165 | * FreudianExcuse: In ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', she claims that [[spoiler:Orla's death]] is the reason why she acts out. Fionnula [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse doesn't buy it]]. |
| 166 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Seems to be on the verge of becoming this in the book. In an EstablishingCharacterMoment, she fails to offer the rest of the choir any cigarettes from the pack of twenty that her sister brought her back from her holidays, despite always bumming them off the others when the opportunity arises. |
| 167 | * FunTShirt: Manda comes down to the Flight Deck bar wearing a shirt that reads "Some Won’t. Some Might. I Will." |
| 168 | * HatesBeingAlone: When debating what to do if Manda can’t find her passport, Finn quips that there’s no way she would agree to return to the Port alone since she won’t even go to the bathroom without an escort. |
| 169 | * HumbleGoal: According to Fionnula, Manda's main aspiration in life is to get pregnant as soon as she leaves school, [[TheBabyTrap preferably by a guy with a decent job like a mechanic or a forestry worker.]] |
| 170 | * {{Hypocrite}}: She judges Kay for being a [[VirginShaming virgin]], [[spoiler:at least as far as she knows]], but [[spoiler: she herself is still a TechnicalVirgin at the start of the book]]. |
| 171 | * InSeriesNickname: Kylah refers to her as “Manda the Demander” in ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky.'' |
| 172 | * InelegantBlubbering: Kylah and Chell are quite used to Manda’s ugly crying, to the point where they can pinpoint the exact expression forming on her face when she’s about to start. |
| 173 | * ManipulativeBitch: It’s not clear just how deliberate Manda is in her behaviour. Kylah points out that Manda was the one to suggest that one of the others might have taken her passport from her, which leads to them [[DivideAndConquer arguing amongst themselves more]] rather than focussing on Manda specifically. |
| 174 | * MissingMum: Manda's mum is nowhere to be seen. No reason is given in the first book for why she left the family, although a brief recollection by Fionnula about in incident in hers and Manda's childhood seems to imply that she was present at some point when Manda was about three or four years old. In the ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', Manda tells Ava that her mum was an [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic]], which is why she wasn't in the picture. |
| 175 | * NatureAbhorsAVirgin: Fionnula reveals that Manda has [[TechnicalVirgin overstated her level of experience with guys]]. By the end of the night, [[spoiler: she has sex with the bouncer at the Mantrap]]. |
| 176 | * NeverMyFault: After being sick into her pint glass, she blames Kay for forcing the Red Bull and Vodka on her despite the fact that she was the one who complained about not getting one in the first place. |
| 177 | * NinetiesHair: In the play, she has her hair scraped back from her face with a number of butterfly clips. |
| 178 | * PetTheDog: In ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', [[spoiler:while she’s doing coke with Ava]], Manda, after spending the whole novel taking cheap shots at Kay, has a brief moment where she acknowledges that Kay isn’t a conceited person and that she was a huge support to the group when [[spoiler:Orla died]]. |
| 179 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: She does not react well when she sees [[spoiler:Kay and Fionnula]] kiss, nor when she finds out that [[spoiler: Catriona]] had sex with [[spoiler:Kay]]. In ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', she continually takes homophobic potshots at [[spoiler:Kay]]. Levelling a similar insult at [[spoiler:Ava]] is what pushes [[spoiler:Ava]] over the edge into retaliating against Manda’s behaviour over the weekend by [[spoiler:pushing her down a muddy hill.]] |
| 180 | ** When spots an Asian family heading towards check-in, she comments about there being "lots of foreigners" at the airport. When Kylah points out that all of them, except presumably Ava, are foreigners by virtue of being Scots in England, Manda amends this to "lots of weirdos". She also describes Shelly as a "spacker", though this period-typical term is also used by others in the group. |
| 181 | * PovertyFood: Frequently eats "cowboy dinner", i.e. beans on toast, with her dad since it's cheap and he can't cook very well. |
| 182 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Is said in the book to be the spitting image of Catriona. |
| 183 | * StrugglingSingleMother: Much as Manda plays up to the idea of being a martyred single mum in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', the rest of the girls know that [[ParentalNeglect it’s the rest of her family who do all the work of raising Sean.]] |
| 184 | * ThreeWaySex: She tries to claim that she and Kylah had a threesome with Barry [=McLean=]. Kylah points out that the three of them merely ended up in the same bed and that Barry had “[[UnusualEuphemism boxed the Jesuit]]” while they were both asleep. |
| 185 | * TraumaButton: The prospect of getting left behind at the airport brings back [[FriendlessBackground childhood memories of crying alone in the playground]] at primary school. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder: Other Port Residents]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | !!Kay Clarke |
| 193 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Eve Austin (''Our Ladies'') |
| 194 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2021_07_21_000504_2.png]] |
| 195 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Karen Fishwick]] |
| 196 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_231407_2.png]] |
| 197 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Eve Austin]] |
| 198 | ---- |
| 199 | * BigFancyHouse: Lives in a detached house on Pulpit Hill, an affluent area of the Port. |
| 200 | * BrainyBrunette: In the book and play. |
| 201 | * TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Kay’s father is a doctor who is also [[spoiler:a religiously-motivated anti-abortion advocate.]] Kay’s main goal on the trip to Edinburgh is to [[spoiler:terminate her pregnancy without him finding out about it.]] |
| 202 | %%ComingOfAgeQueerRomance |
| 203 | %%CoolKidAndLoserFriendship |
| 204 | * EightiesHair: She had a perm in the past. It was so cold in the winter that the mousse she used to put in it would often freeze in her hair when she walked to school in the morning. |
| 205 | * ElegantClassicalMusician: She plays the cello, and uses it to great effect when it comes to [[spoiler:romancing Fionnula.]] |
| 206 | * FullNameUltimatum: Occasionally uses this in an endearing way with Fionnula. |
| 207 | * GirlInTheTower: When she takes Fionnula up to her house, she mentions that their burglar alarm is so sensitive that she's managed to set it off a few times just by opening her bedroom window during the night to let some air in, leaving her to wonder if its real purpose isn't to keep her in the house rather than to keep thieves out. |
| 208 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Kay feels as though [[spoiler:she can't go through with having an abortion because she believes she needs to be punished for [[SlutShaming having sex with Iain]] and [[{{Gayngst}} Catriona]].]] It's revealed in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' that [[spoiler:she did end up terminating her pregnancy after telling her parents about it.]] |
| 209 | * HeadTurningBeauty: In the book, she attracts a lot of attention at the Mantrap and the Barrels while she's wearing Kylah's new clothes from French Connection. |
| 210 | * InterclassFriendship: Her relationship with Fionnula starts out as this [[spoiler:progressing into her becoming an UptownGirl to Fionnula]]. ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' mentions that by the time the girls were in Sixth Year, Kay had been more-or-less fully integrated into the gang. |
| 211 | * IneffectualLoner: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Because Kay doesn't have much of a social circle, she's actually been able to [[spoiler:experiment sexually with another girl]] and keep it under wraps, whereas Fionnula had wanted to do something similar for a long time but never felt able to because she knew that someone would be sure to gossip about it if they found out. |
| 212 | * JealousRomanticWitness: Throughout ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky'', Kay experiences some jealousy at seeing Finn and Ava being best friends, although it’s [[AmbiguousSituation never entirely certain]] just how close Finn and Ava are. She even feels a somewhat more irrational flurry of possessiveness at seeing Finn and Chell hug while Chell’s in the middle of getting changed. |
| 213 | * LonelyRichKid: Kay is an only child whose parents apparently spend a lot of time away from The Port, leaving Kay home alone. At the start of the novel, it's clear that she has trouble fitting in with the other girls at school, save for the other TokenRichStudent, Ana-Bessie, due to their different worldviews and priorities as a result of the difference in their economic backgrounds. |
| 214 | * MoodWhiplash: InUniverse, when she's drunk in Casualty she goes very quickly from trying to ask the doctor treating her to marry to cussing him out and threatening to grass him up to his wife. |
| 215 | * OutOfCharacterAlert: While in UsefulNotes/{{McDonalds}}, the girls notice how Kay didn't seem to be making much of an effort in rehearsals, which is unlike her, suggesting that Kay is preoccupied by something besides the competition. |
| 216 | * RichLanguagePoorLanguage: Particularly in the first book, Kay's speech is much closer to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_English Scottish Standard English]] than the rest of the girls, who fall more towards the Scots end of the dialect spectrum. |
| 217 | * NoPreggerSex: [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] - she has sex with Fionnula.]] |
| 218 | * SixthRanger: The end of the first novel hints at this when Kylah suggests they collaborate on a music project, and in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' we learn that she became a part of the main group during Sixth Year. |
| 219 | * SpoiledSweet: Offers to pay for Michelle to get into The Mantrap when she complains about being too skint to go out with the rest of the girls, only to get called out by Fionnula for committing a major faux pas by doing so. |
| 220 | * SourPrudes: Is [[spoiler:mistakenly]] believed to be this by the Sopranos at the start of the first novel. |
| 221 | * TeachersPet: Kay and Ana-Bessie are the only ones who laugh at Sister Condron’s attempts at jokes, although there are some hints that Kay is just as dismissive of her under the surface as the Sopranos are openly contemptuous of her. In Chell's flashback to Primary Four, Kay is more a straightforward example of this trope, as she immediately [[TheStoolPigeon grasses up Chell to their teacher]] when she spots her licking a wall. |
| 222 | * ThreeWaySex: Had a threesome with [[spoiler: Catriona and Iain Dickinson]], which results in her [[spoiler: [[OneNightStandPregnancy getting]] [[TeenPregnancy pregnant]].]] |
| 223 | * TryingNotToCry: She has to fight back tears after Fionnula tears her down for offering to pay Michelle’s way into the Mantrap. |
| 224 | * UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Downplayed|Trope. In the first book, Fionnula falls in love with Kay of the course of the day. While Kay at least reciprocates the attraction between them, the reader never gets any insight into her thoughts, so she comes across as something of a cipher. In ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky'', we get more of an insight into Kay’s perspective than Finn’s, and Kay seems to be experiencing some jealousy at seeing Finn being so close with Ava, with Finn’s feelings towards Kay being less clear. |
| 225 | * WineIsClassy: In ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', she tends to drink wine while the rest of the girls are on the spirits. |
| 226 | * YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: She takes off her clothes in front of [[spoiler:Fionnula and plays her cello naked for her.]] |
| 227 | ---- |
| 228 | |
| 229 | !!Michelle [=MacGregor=] |
| 230 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/our_ladies_michelle.PNG]] |
| 231 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Claire Gordon]] |
| 232 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Karen Fishwick (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Claire Gordon (''Our Ladies'') |
| 233 | A former pupil who has dropped out due to her TeenPregnancy. |
| 234 | ---- |
| 235 | * BackForTheFinale: In the book, she briefly joins the girls for part of their night out after the competition. |
| 236 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: She shows up at the school at the start of the day on her way to her antenatal appointment. Kay's ham-handed attempt to be kind to her by offering to pay for her to get into the Mantrap hints at [[spoiler:Kay's own TeenPregnancy]]. |
| 237 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] She thinks that abortion is a sin and chose to continue her pregnancy, but she also feels that it's a decision for an individual and that she wouldn't judge another girl for having one. |
| 238 | * NoPreggerSex: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. She still carries condoms after getting pregnant since she doesn't intend to stop having sex. |
| 239 | ---- |
| 240 | |
| 241 | !!Other Choir Members: |
| 242 | The other pupils in the school choir are [[DramatisPersonae listed]] early on in the book, but are only mentioned [[RecurringExtra in passing thereafter]]: |
| 243 | * Aisling - A OneSceneWonder who contributes to the conversation about the submariners at the start of the book by talking about a bizarre sex dream she had once. |
| 244 | * Ana-Bessie Baberton - Another fee-paying pupil like Kay. Her dad works as a solicitor. At the start of the novel, she and Kay appear to be friends due to their shared TokenRichStudent status, but Kay admits that she didn't confide in Ana about [[spoiler:the threesome and her resulting pregnancy]] because she didn't think that Ana could handle it. |
| 245 | * Assumpta |
| 246 | * English Katie - Used to play [[Franchise/{{Barbie}} Barbies]] with Chell. She has a baby sister who Kylah has babysat in the past. |
| 247 | * "Ordinary" Fionnula Morton - She and English Katie are briefly seen having lunch with Kay in [=McDonalds=] |
| 248 | * Iona |
| 249 | * Shuna - In the play, she’s given the [[NamedByTheAdaptation surname]] [=MacLaughlin=] and made into a CompositeCharacter with Michelle [=MacGregor=]. |
| 250 | * Yolanda [=McCormack=]: Was originally a soprano when she joined the choir but now sings in a lower section due to her heavy smoking habit. |
| 251 | * [[FatAndSkinny Fat Clodagh and Wee Maria McGill]] - Towards the end of the book, we find out they’ve had a [[HeroOfAnotherStory similarly wild day]] as they've been arrested for shoplifting. |
| 252 | ---- |
| 253 | |
| 254 | !!Catriona Tassy |
| 255 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_230304_3.png]] |
| 256 | Manda’s big sister. Works as a hairdresser at ''[[PunnyName The Best Little Hairhouse in Town]]''. |
| 257 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Megan Shandley (''Our Ladies'') |
| 258 | ---- |
| 259 | * CoolBigSis: Is idolised by Manda. This [[BrokenPedestal waivers]] when Manda finds out that [[spoiler:she had sex with Kay]], but by ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'', their dynamic seems to have re-established itself. |
| 260 | * TheGhost: She never appears onstage in the play. |
| 261 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Is said to have done a lot of hard partying on her holiday to Lloret de Mar. |
| 262 | * ThreeWaySex: Had a threesome with [[spoiler:Iain Dickinson and Kay]]. |
| 263 | * ThriftyScot: According to Manda, when going on holiday, she buys a copy of ''Magazine/{{Cosmopolitan}}'' with free toiletry samples so she has everything she needs for the time she's away. |
| 264 | ---- |
| 265 | |
| 266 | !!Iain "The Dick" Dickinson |
| 267 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dickie_8.png]] |
| 268 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Adam Hope (''Our Ladies'') |
| 269 | ---- |
| 270 | * CompositeCharacter: In the film, he's merged with Kylah's bandmate Spimmy and Michelle's unnamed babydaddy. |
| 271 | * LustObject: Is considered to be "a right spunker" by the girls in the choir. In the film, Orla specifically admits to fancying him. |
| 272 | * ReallyGetsAround: He already has a bit of a reputation in the book for impregnating both Moira Grierson and [[spoiler:Kay]], but thanks to him being a CompositeCharacter in the film, there he's also revealed to had have sex with Kylah, Michelle and Fionnula. He attempts to put the moves on Orla in the Mantrap, who turns him down, and according to the epilogue eventually ends up in a relationship with [[spoiler: Manda]]. |
| 273 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His [[ThreeWaySex threesome]] with [[spoiler:Catriona and Kay]] proves to be the catalyst for much of what happens over the course of day. |
| 274 | |
| 275 | !!Sister "Condom" Condron |
| 276 | -> '''Portrayed by:''' Kirsty [=MacLaren=], Karen Fishwick (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Creator/KateDickie (''Our Ladies'') |
| 277 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2021_07_21_000453_2.png]] |
| 278 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Karen Fishwick]] |
| 279 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_222751_2_3.png]] |
| 280 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Kate Dickie]] |
| 281 | One of the sisters who teaches at the school and runs the school choir. |
| 282 | ---- |
| 283 | * AdultsAreUseless: For all her bluster, she can’t even manage to get the choir to the competition and back without anyone getting arrested or hospitalised. |
| 284 | * FaintInShock: Does this when Manda has to be the one to explain that she Orla, Chell and Kylah had their uniforms stolen and Manda lowers a bag she'd been holding in front of herself to show just how short her French connection skirt is. |
| 285 | * {{Hypocrite}}: She tells the girls to set aside their selfish desires on the trip for the good of the choir, but her motivation for entering the choir into the competition is to win the cash prize and chase after a false notion of prestige that only she cares about. |
| 286 | * RichLanguagePoorLanguage: In the stage show, she speaks with a Kelvinside accent. |
| 287 | * SternNun: Particularly in the book, she's portrayed as a humourless authority figure who's completely out of touch with the needs and goals of her students. She's [[LighterAndSofter softened a little]] in the film. |
| 288 | * TheObiWannabe: Fionnula criticises her for caring too much about trying to bolster the school's image by having the choir compete in the competition, claiming that it has nothing to do with any of the problems the pupils at the school are actually facing in their lives. She goes on to say that if Sister Condron and the rest of the nuns were a bit more laid back about the choir, she and Manda would be more enthusiastic about it rather than actively disrupting it. |
| 289 | ** Chell also says in a separate conversation that in general, the nuns are so old and out of touch they don't really have any respect for them because they're so easy to wind up. |
| 290 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: Her reaction to the stolen uniforms incident. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | |
| 293 | !!Sister Fagan "[[InSeriesNickname The]] [[RhymingNames Pagan]]" |
| 294 | Sister Condron's sidekick, who appears the start of the book. |
| 295 | ---- |
| 296 | * AdaptedOut: Doesn't appear in the play or film. |
| 297 | * CaringGardener: She has her own greenhouse on the convent lawn, and frets over Lord Bolivia after he flies away from the chapel. |
| 298 | ---- |
| 299 | |
| 300 | !!Father Ardlui |
| 301 | The school's parish priest. |
| 302 | ---- |
| 303 | * TheBore: He seems incapable of giving a sermon likely to hold anyone’s attention. |
| 304 | * CigarChomper: He smokes cigars as well as pipe in an attempt to cultivate an image as an intellectual. |
| 305 | * CorruptChurch: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His biggest concern seems to be improving the Port's economic prospects, and even goes so far as to attempt to recruit Chell, Kylah and Manda into his scheme to turn it into a major pilgrimage by manufacturing a sighting of the Virgin Mary. He's conscious of the fact that he isn't all that different from [=McPherson=] and his quest to find young women to staff his would-be brothel. |
| 306 | * DemotedToExtra: He gets a passing mention at the end of the play, and is fully AdaptedOut of the film. |
| 307 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He bought a chandelier for the dining room in the parochial house where he lives, but when it collapsed thanks to the Mud Bucket rattling by on the road outside, some parishioners thought this was what he deserved for buying something so extravagant. |
| 308 | * TheMissionary: Spent eleven years in Kenya at some point in the past before taking up his current position in The Port. |
| 309 | * MostWritersAreWriters: He's working on a novel in between his priestly duties. When he goes down to the submarine to minister to the dead sailor, he wonders idly if he can find a way to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot work the day's events into his book]]. |
| 310 | ---- |
| 311 | |
| 312 | !!Miss "Pick and Flick" Cameron |
| 313 | Chell’s teacher in Primary Four. |
| 314 | ---- |
| 315 | * DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: She's a wheelchair user who Chell suspects took out her frustration at being unable to walk on her pupils. |
| 316 | * LaserGuidedKarma: After being [[SadistTeacher openly abusive]] towards her pupils, none of them stop to help her escape when a fire breaks out in the school, so she’s left in a panic thinking she’s going to die until Chell decides to come to her aid. |
| 317 | ---- |
| 318 | |
| 319 | !!Buzz [=MacDougall=] |
| 320 | The brother of Chell’s late stepfather, and also the husband of Chell’s older sister, Shirley. |
| 321 | ---- |
| 322 | * TheAlcoholic: Buzz would frequently stop at pubs and [[DrunkDriver drive drunk]] between them while looking after Shirley and Chell, leaving them waiting in the Zebra with only the beehives for company even when it got cold and dark. |
| 323 | * LecherousStepparent: Is implied to have been this to Shirley, but we don't find out anything about how their relationship started or even just how much older Shirley is than Chell. Chell jokes that her family tree is "more like a stick!". |
| 324 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Presumably “Buzz” is a nickname related to his beekeeping and not his given name, which we never find out. |
| 325 | * ThriftyScot: Chell claims that he used to fill up all the cushions in his house with his own hair to save money. |
| 326 | ---- |
| 327 | |
| 328 | !!Jamie Prenter |
| 329 | Manda’s ex-boyfriend of three years, who belongs to a rough family. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: When Jamie was thirteen, his parents would have him drive them back from the pub and give him ten pence for every car he overtook. |
| 332 | ---- |
| 333 | |
| 334 | !![=McNiven=] |
| 335 | A local Protestant undertaker. |
| 336 | ---- |
| 337 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: We know that Father Ardlui doesn't think too much of him because, unlike the captain of the submarine, he isn't able to keep his hat on in the high winds when Ardlui goes out to meet them at the pier. |
| 338 | |
| 339 | !!Sergeant [=McPherson=] |
| 340 | A police sergeant in the Port. |
| 341 | ---- |
| 342 | * DirtyCop: He bought the Mantrap so that he could turn the rooms above the club into a brothel. |
| 343 | ---- |
| 344 | |
| 345 | !!Station Guy |
| 346 | A British Rail employee working in the Port station buffet. |
| 347 | ---- |
| 348 | * AdaptedOut: He doesn't appear in the film. |
| 349 | * AMFMCharacterization: He got so fed up with the CD selection in the buffet jukebox that he swapped them out for his own [=CDs=], changing all the heavy metal albums to reggae classics. |
| 350 | * EccentricTownsfolk: Probably the most obvious example of this that we're shown out of the background characters living in the Port. He was previously arrested for leaving anarchist slogans in amongst the books and tourist tat at the local newsagent's. |
| 351 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: In the play, he occasionally includes some Gaelic in his speech, although this isn't written down in the published script. |
| 352 | * NoNameGiven: He's only known as "Station Guy" in the script of the play and isn't given a specific name or moniker in the book. |
| 353 | * TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Since he's quitting his job at the buffet, he gives himself and the girls free drinks and fry-ups. |
| 354 | |
| 355 | !!Sean |
| 356 | Manda's son, born during the TimeSkip between ''[[Literature/TheSopranosWarner The Sopranos]]'' and ''Literature/TheStarsInTheBrightSky''. |
| 357 | ---- |
| 358 | * MoralityPet: Manda tries to use him as a way to garner sympathy from her friends, with variable results. |
| 359 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: He bears such a strong resemblance to his father that he doesn’t seem to have taken any of his looks from Manda. |
| 360 | |
| 361 | [[/folder]] |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[folder:Elsewhere]] |
| 364 | !!Stephen |
| 365 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_232755_2.png]] |
| 366 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Martin Quinn]] |
| 367 | -> '''Portrayed by''': Kirsty [=MacLaren=] (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Martin Quinn (''Our Ladies'') |
| 368 | The young man Orla meets in the Pillbox. |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | * BigEntrance: In the book, he enters the Pillbox and rides up to the bar on an old orange chopper bike. |
| 371 | * BlindWithoutEm: In the play, he apparently couldn't clearly see what Orla looked like before he started chatting her up. |
| 372 | * CrosscastRole: In the stage show, he's played by the actor playing Manda. |
| 373 | * HiddenDepths: In the book, he's not necessarily the benign NiceGuy he appears to be. When Orla tells him that he can do anything he wants to her, his reaction to this, thinking of both Orla and her friends is that "[t]hese chicks are the damaged goods." |
| 374 | * NerdGlasses: More present in the book than the play or film - Kylah thinks of him as a "speccy weirdo". |
| 375 | * VagueAge: His age is never stated. He's old enough to have a job and seems to be at least of a comparable age with Orla and the rest of the Sopranos or maybe slightly but not significantly older, so perhaps nineteen or twenty. |
| 376 | * TheStoner: He's apparently in the habit of getting baked in the wee hours of the morning. It's heavily implied that [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Man]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext whose budgie he is looking after]], is his dealer. |
| 377 | ---- |
| 378 | |
| 379 | !!Velcro Suit/Terry Mooney |
| 380 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_232335_2.png]] |
| 381 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Stuart Martin]] |
| 382 | -> '''Portrayed by''': Dawn Sievewright (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Stuart Martin (''Our Ladies'') |
| 383 | The leader of the group of men who chat the girls up in The Pillbox. |
| 384 | ---- |
| 385 | * CasanovaWannabe: Manda tells him straight up that she thinks his chat-up lines are terrible. |
| 386 | * CrosscastRole: In the play, he's played by the actor playing Fionnula. |
| 387 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Sits himself down with a pint at the girls' table despite being snubbed by them multiple times. |
| 388 | * MaleFrontalNudity: Done while doing a handstand, no less. In the stage show, this is stylised as the actor doing an open-legged handstand and one of the bandmembers sticking an arm between them. It's [[PlayingWithATrope Played Straight]] in the film. |
| 389 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's only known as "Velcro Suit" in the book because he wears one in order to attach himself to the velcro stunt wall in The Pillbox. |
| 390 | * SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: Says this almost verbatim when he disappears into his room in order to strip off to show off his supposedly squid-ink-enhanced erection. |
| 391 | * SharpDressedMan: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Manda actually finds the suit he wears really off-putting. |
| 392 | * TextualCelebrityResemblance: Manda comments that he obviously thinks he's [[Music/RoxyMusic Bryan Ferry]]. |
| 393 | ---- |
| 394 | |
| 395 | !!The Divorcee/Bobby |
| 396 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_233200_2.png]] |
| 397 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Jack Greenlees]] |
| 398 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Karen Fishwick (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Jack Greenlees (''Our Ladies'') |
| 399 | ---- |
| 400 | * CrosscastRole: In the play, he's played by the actor playing Kay. |
| 401 | * InelegantBlubbering: Breaks down in tears and locks himself in the bathroom after showing the girls his wedding video. |
| 402 | ---- |
| 403 | |
| 404 | !!Danny |
| 405 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2021_12_02_233223.png]] |
| 406 | [[caption-width-right:350:As portrayed by Chris Fulton]] |
| 407 | ->'''Portrayed by''': Melissa Allan, Isis Hainsworth (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour''), Chris Fulton (''Our Ladies'') |
| 408 | ---- |
| 409 | * CrosscastRole: In the play, he's played by the actor playing Orla. |
| 410 | * StutterStop: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. He has a mild-to-moderate stutter but it doesn't disappear at dramatic moment. |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | |
| 413 | !!The Man |
| 414 | -> '''Portrayed by''': Frances Mayli [=McCann=] (''Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour'') |
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| 416 | * TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Is quite insistent that he can offer Fionnula and Kay something that will take their fancy despite their multiple refusals. |
| 417 | * AdaptedOut: Does not appear in the film. |
| 418 | * CrosscastRole: In the play, he's played by the actor playing Kylah. |
| 419 | * TheOldestProfession: It's implied that he may also being doing some pimping as well as dealing, given how the girls loitering outside The Broadsword react to the mention of him. |
| 420 | * TattooAsCharacterType: He declares to Fionnula and Kay that several brand names tattooed onto his body to save money on having to buy the actual clothes. |
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| 422 | |
| 423 | !!Ava Hurmalainen |
| 424 | Fionnula's flatmate who joins the girls for their holiday in ''The Stars in the Bright Sky'' |
| 425 | ---- |
| 426 | * TheBeautifulElite: Is both dizzyingly wealthy and extremely good-looking. |
| 427 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes across at first as affable and down-to-earth despite her parents' wealth, [[spoiler:but later emerges as having a very manipulative personality]]. |
| 428 | * BrainlessBeauty: Kay briefly wonders if this might be the case with Ava when they first meet. [[spoiler:It isn’t]]. |
| 429 | * DesignatedDriver: She refuses a drink while picnicking at Hever Castle since she's the one driving the hire car. |
| 430 | * EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Has a French father and is considered very glamorous and exotic by the rest of the group. |
| 431 | * {{Foil}}: To Manda. As Ava points out, they both believe in [[AgentScully questioning established beliefs]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Epicureanism}} acting according to one’s wants and desires.]], but the class divide between the two of them shows just how society has different rules for the rich. |
| 432 | * GoingColdTurkey: [[spoiler: She's managed to stay clean for a few weeks at Fionnula's urging, but Manda's behaviour over the course of the book drives her to a relapse.]] |
| 433 | * HeadTurningBeauty: The first thing Kay notices about her when she sees her for the first time is how attractive she is. When she goes up to the bar at the airport pub, Manda, Chell and Kylah all stare at her arse in an attempt to find some flaw. Both Chell and Kylah concede that she’s gorgeous, but Manda thinks that there’s something suspicious about her. |
| 434 | * JewishAmericanPrincess: She's not American, but comes from a wealthy family describes herself as "lapsed Jewish", in contrast to the rest of the main characters who've grown up in The Port where they presumably only ever encountered Protestants and other Catholics like themselves. |
| 435 | * PowerHigh: She gets a sexual thrill out of convincing others to [[spoiler:try cocaine for the first time.]] |
| 436 | * SecretlyWealthy: [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]]. Given the veritable class chasm between her and the rest of the leads, Ava doesn't bother to pretend that her parents aren't wealthy, but she tries to portray them as moderately wealthy NonIdleRich who just happen to own a [[BigFancyHouse listed]] house. [[spoiler: Fionnula later blows this wide open when she tells Kay that Ava's parents are aristocrats with a secret vault in France where they keep the paintings that they own and are too highly insured to be put on display.]] |
| 437 | * SelfDeprecation: Ava says that her French is rusty, but Finn contradicts this by saying that Ava is fluent and that she’s heard Ava muttering in French while she dreams. |
| 438 | * TextualCelebrityResemblance: The rest of the group remark on her resemblance to Jenny Agutter in ''Film/TheRailwayChildren''. |
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| 440 | |
| 441 | !!Joanne and Ben |
| 442 | A friend of Ava’s and her boyfriend. |
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| 444 | * BeneathTheMask: On the surface, they appear to be a perfectly happy couple, but both of them are dealing with [[spoiler:some pretty serious trauma from childhood sexual abuse.]] |
| 445 | * ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: [[spoiler:Both of them were sexually abused by relatives as children]], meaning that they have been not able to develop a sexual relationship with one another or have sex with Ava when she proposes a [[ThreeWaySex threesome]]. |
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