Characters / Merry Gentry

Princess Meredith (AKA Merry Gentry, Meredith NicEssus)

• Action Girl: She has killed people in duels and in her own words, she can put her fist through a car door.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Merry's power is to turn people into inside-out balls of flesh. Her other one is to cause spontaneous bleeding.
• The Chosen One: The Goddess has chosen Merry as her vessel to bring life back to faerie.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Technically a mix of human, Sidhe and Brownie

• Royal Blood: She is the Queen's niece and third in line for the throne.

Doyle (AKA "The Darkness")

• Ambiguously Gay: He and Frost are very close, to the point where Doyle gave up the Crown of Faerie to bring Frost back to life.
• Bodyguard Crush: First on Queen Andais, later for Merry.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Baron Sweet Tongue. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half-Sidhe.

• Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the Captain of the Queen's guard, he is officially the biggest badass in Faerie.

Frost (AKA "Killing Frost")

• Ambiguously Gay: He and Doyle are very close.

Rhys

• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Rhys hides immense and frightening power behind a jokester facade.

• Light Is Not Good: Gorgeous exterior. Death god.

• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After his father was killed by a human, he wiped their entire race from history, down to the last baby.
• Read the Fine Print: Lost his eye because he agreed to sex with a goblin. He didn't know he could set a Safe Word beforehand.

Galen

• Implausible Hair Color: Green.
• Henpecked Husband: Not married to Merry, technically, but even he realizes how easily she can walk all over him.
• Nice Guy: Especially for an eons-old warrior.

Sholto (AKA "King of Nightmares", "King of the Sluagh", "Creature")

• Defrosting Ice Queen: He comes a long way from the awkward young king in the first book.
• The Good King: To the sluagh. Ironically, a hell of a lot better ruler than Andais or Taranis.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half-sidhe, half-nightflyer, actually.

Queen Andais

• Ax-Crazy: She got her start as a goddess of battle, and can become overwhelmed with bloodlust.
• Blow You Away/Casting a Shadow: She's called "The Queen of Air and Darkness" for a reason.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Andais seems to relish her role as Evil Queen, and furthermore believes it's representative of what the Unseelie Court is and should be.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Andais has repeatedly shown herself willing to sacrifice her own happiness for the good of the Sidhe. She loves her son beyond reason, but she almost lost her shit when she found out Cel commandeered her dead brother's guard as his harem. When she realizes she is infertile, she decides to abdicate in favor of whichever of her heirs can create a child first, knowing that she has no right to hang on to the throne in a Fisher King situation.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Yeah, she's still a sadistic tyrant, though.
• Yaoi Fangirl: In lieu of having her guard have sex with her, she sometimes orders them to have sex with each other, and watches while they do it.

Prince Cel

• Villainous Crush: He has a really squicky obsession with Merry.

King Taranis

• Evil Uncle: After his Moral Event Horizon.

• Light 'em Up/Master of Illusion: Just as Andais is The Queen of Air and Darkness, he is The Lord of Light and Illusion.
• Light Is Not Good: He's all that is bright and shining and beautiful. And he's the Big Bad.
• Meaningful Name: Taranis = "tyrannis"/"tyrant". Even Andais is a better ruler than he is.

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