The Queen's Thief/Characters

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Eddis
Eugenides


 * Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The only one who can invoke this from him is Attolia, in her very scary The High Queen persona.
 * Air Vent Passageway: The escape by this method didn't work as well as it should have, thanks to interference from a certain someone. See Cosmic Plaything.
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass
 * Badass Back
 * Badass Boast: "I can steal anything," followed by "I can do anything I want!" with a helping of This Is Sparta.
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: He wanted to marry his love. He married her, along with all the responsibilities and obligations that came with the position.
 * Break the Cutie: Broken horribly and tragically in the second book.
 * Brought Down to Normal -
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer
 * The Chessmaster
 * Comes Great Responsibility
 * Consummate Liar: In the words of Eddis: "He always lies to me. He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then too."
 * Cosmic Plaything: The gods had a hand in some of his great, as well as his not so great achievements.
 * Crazy Awesome
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Crowning Moments Of Awesome: Has several throughout the series. Face it, where this Crazy Awesome, Bunny Ears Lawyer thief goes, awesome immediately follows.
 * Dance of Romance
 * The Dog Bites Back
 * Earn Your Happy Ending
 * Expository Hairstyle Change: After his episode of Break the Cutie, his long hair is cut short and it stays that way for the rest of the series.
 * First Episode Spoiler
 * First-Person Smartass: In the first book only.
 * Gallows Humor
 * Gentleman Thief
 * Hammerspace Hair: Part of his first plot: hiding something essential in his long hair.
 * Heroic BSOD / Heroic RROD
 * He's Back: Makes a spectacular and ground-breaking return after his episode of Angst in the second book.
 * Hyper Awareness
 * Impossible Thief:
 * I Should Write a Book About This: How the first book came into being, apparently. Sophos does something similiar to create A Conspiracy of Kings.
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Leap of Faith: He believes he'll only ever die of a fall if his god himself drops him. (And once your god betrays you, you really don't have any hope left anyway.)
 * Let's Get Dangerous
 * Like Brother and Sister: With Eddis.
 * Meaningful Name: Eugenides is also the name of the god of thieves, and as he's the Queen's Thief, it's his name as well as his title.
 * Memetic Badass
 * No Hero to His Valet: As much as his childhood friend Eddis respects him, she still says explicitly that she would sooner strangle him than marry him. She also tells the woman he's in love with how much of a liar he is.
 * Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: In the first book. Funny thing is, he's the narrator, using the first-person perspective. Somehow he manages to fool the reader without leaving out anything that would be noticed.
 * Reluctant Warrior
 * Screw The Rules, I'm Eugenides!
 * Sherlock Scan
 * Street Urchin: See Obfuscating Stupidity.
 * Trickster Mentor
 * Turn Out Like His Father: At first, he despised fighting and killing like his father did, but it soon became a necessary skill for him to keep his position and his life.
 * Screw The Rules, I'm Eugenides!
 * Sherlock Scan
 * Street Urchin: See Obfuscating Stupidity.
 * Trickster Mentor
 * Turn Out Like His Father: At first, he despised fighting and killing like his father did, but it soon became a necessary skill for him to keep his position and his life.
 * Turn Out Like His Father: At first, he despised fighting and killing like his father did, but it soon became a necessary skill for him to keep his position and his life.

Eddis 


 * Action Girl
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass
 * Badass Army: She has one.
 * The Chessmaster
 * The High Queen
 * Like Brother and Sister - With Eugenides.
 * Meaningful Name
 * Modest Royalty
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * Took Another Level In Badass
 * Unreliable Narrator

The Minister of War
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass
 * Badass Army: He leads one.
 * Four-Star Badass

Attolia
Attolia 
 * Afraid of Blood: 's blood, at least.
 * Arranged Marriage: In her backstory.
 * Badass
 * Big Brother Is Watching
 * Broken Bird
 * The Chessmaster
 * Dance of Romance
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Earn Your Happy Ending
 * Establishing Character Moment
 * Gallows Humor
 * God Save Us From the Queen
 * Heel Realization
 * Hidden Depths
 * I Did What I Had to Do
 * Kick the Dog
 * Kuudere
 * Meaningful Name
 * Obfuscating Stupidity
 * Pals with Jesus
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * Sherlock Scan
 * The Strategist
 * Tranquil Fury
 * Unexpected Successor
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask
 * Unexpected Successor
 * The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask

Teleus
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Relius.
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Please Spare Him, My Liege
 * Underestimating Badassery

Relius
 * Big Brother Is Watching
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Teleus.
 * The Spymaster
 * Undying Loyalty

Costis Ormentiedes
 * Badass
 * Berserk Button
 * The Chew Toy
 * Honor Before Reason
 * The Ishmael
 * Knight in Shining Armor
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech

Aristogiton

Baron Erondites

Erondites the Younger (Dite)
 * Bawdy Song
 * Ear Worm
 * The Unfavorite

Sejanus
 * Bad Liar
 * Graceful Loser
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Mugging the Monster

Sounis
Sounis

The Magus
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass
 * The Chessmaster
 * The Professor
 * Quip to Black

Pol
 * Badass

Sophos
 * Bad Liar
 * Break the Cutie
 * Comes Great Responsibility
 * Earn Your Happy Ending
 * : In A Conspiracy of Kings.
 * Took a Level in Badass
 * The Woobie
 * : In A Conspiracy of Kings.
 * Took a Level in Badass
 * The Woobie
 * The Woobie

Ambiades
 * Impoverished Patrician
 * Impoverished Patrician

Medea
Nahuseresh
 * Ass in Ambassador
 * Bad Liar
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * The Chessmaster
 * Diplomatic Impunity
 * Evil Is Sexy: Or so he thinks.
 * Fan Nickname: Nahuserfish.
 * And occasionally Nahuserloser.
 * Kick the Dog
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Playing Both Sides
 * Stupid Evil
 * Underestimating Badassery
 * Underestimating Badassery


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