(Un)Fortunate Me/Characters

Adele Skye Becker
The protagonist and narrator of the book.


 * Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch:
 * Cool Loser
 * Fiery Redhead: Subverted in that Adele is pretty shy most of the time. Double subverted when she gets pissed off.
 * Only Sane Man
 * Picked Last: Mainly because she fails at "running, dancing, and basically anything involving throwing a ball".
 * Plucky Girl
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Shrinking Violet: Sometimes.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years
 * The Woobie: At times.

Delilah Zinnia Horton
Adele's snarky and lazy (but likable) best friend.


 * Awesome McCoolname: She hates her name. We disagree.
 * Black Sheep
 * Brainy Brunette: When she feels like doing something.
 * Brilliant but Lazy
 * Character Development: More than anyone else.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Freudian Excuse: Being the Unfavorite may be why she's such a bitch sometimes.
 * Gamer Chick
 * Hazel Eyes
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Precocious Crush: A rated G example, as Alec is only 2 years older.
 * Tomboy
 * The Unfavorite: In her family, where she's constantly criticized. If that's not happening, she's ignored.

Brooke Penn
A cheerful, optimistic and compassionate animal rights activist.


 * Blue Eyes
 * The Ditz: In her more clueless moments.
 * Ditzy Genius
 * Dumb Blond: While she is by no means dumb, she is easily the most clueless main character.
 * Granola Girl
 * Hair of Gold
 * The Heart
 * Miss Imagination: In that she's a hopeless romantic, and even has Patrick and Adele's love story planned out.
 * Shipper on Deck: She supports Patrick/Adele.
 * Team Mom

Aurora Day
Brooke's best friend.


 * Alternate Character Interpretation: Having the hots for Brooke.
 * Or Delilah.
 * Never mind that she obviously has a crush on Danny. Of course, she could always be bisexual.
 * Black Best Friend
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Brooke.
 * Les Yay: With Brooke.
 * Sassy Black Preteen
 * Token Minority
 * The Girlie Girl To Delilah's Tomboy

Patrick Hudson
Adele's BGF.


 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Fiery Redhead: Inverted.
 * Innocent Prodigy: Sometimes can be this.
 * Military Brat
 * Nice Guy
 * Shrinking Violet: A male version.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Wise Beyond Their Years
 * The Woobie:

Alec Wilder
Delilah's eighth-grader crush, a musician.


 * Berserk Button: You don't want to mess with the people he cares about.
 * Big Brother Mentor
 * Fan-Preferred Couple: Him and Delilah.
 * Genius Bruiser
 * Official Couple:
 * Reason Before Honor: He has no problem at all with hiring a few seniors to jump Sophia (who is a sixth grader) if she gives Adele too much trouble.
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: When he gets in trouble for fighting, chances are he was motivated by this.

Sophia Blank
The antagonist. A mean girl.


 * Alpha Bitch
 * Brainy Brunette: She's by no means stupid.
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Foe Yay: With Adele
 * Les Yay: With Lyn
 * Love to Hate
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Pet the Dog:
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful / Screw the Rules, I Have Money: Seems to be motivated by this.
 * With Friends Like These...: She tends to push around and insult her "friends".

Lyn Patterson
Sophia's Dragon.


 * The Ditz
 * Dumb Blond: Oh my GOD...
 * Les Yay: Some with Sophia.
 * Popular Is Dumb
 * With Friends Like These...: One has to wonder why she and Sophia are even friends, which Delilah lampshades.

Ashton Keller
The biggest bully in the school.


 * The Brute
 * Jerkass
 * One Chapter Wonder

Fala Jean
A love interest for Alec.


 * Betty and Veronica: A weird example. From an outsider's point of view, Fala is clearly the Betty, but since we want Delilah to get Alec, she can also be viewed as a Veronica.
 * Die for Our Ship: Poor girl gets a lot of flak from Alilah shippers.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Nice Girl
 * Spoiled Sweet
 * True Neutral

Milo Becker
Adele's older brother


 * Beta Couple: Compared to all the ship teases, crushes, and relationships of the other characters, he and Saffron have a much more stable relationship.
 * Big Brother Mentor
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Readers absolutely love him.
 * Official Couple: With Saffron.
 * Perverse Sexual Lust: If you read the reviews, you'll see that one reviewer has this for him.

Mama Horton
Delilah's mother


 * Abusive Parent: Shows shades of being emotionally abusive to Delilah.
 * Jerkass
 * Jewish Mother: Literally! The trope is Deconstructed with her relationship with Delilah.
 * My Beloved Smother: To most of her children.
 * Parental Neglect: To Delilah
 * Pride: Seems to have an issue with this.
 * Stage Mom

Mr. Horton
Delilah's father


 * Closer to Earth: Inverted-- he's the normal one.
 * Henpecked Husband
 * Nice Guy
 * What Does He See In Her?: A Jerkass Stage Mom with a Pride problem. An easy-going Nice Guy who is very loving. They're married, and have five kids together. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Mr. and Mrs. Horton.

Piper May Horton
The oldest Horton daughter.


 * The Ace: Female version. Pageant queen, violin player, and studies earlier than is necessary.
 * Attention Whore
 * Blondes Are Evil: Has gold hair, is easily the nastiest Horton girl. She gets it from Mom.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold

Phoebe Cleo Horton
The third-oldest Horton daughter. One year Delilah's junior.


 * Annoying Younger Sibling: In Delilah's eyes.
 * Attention Whore: She's worse than Piper May.
 * Breakout Character: First was offhandedly mentioned, then briefly introduced. She's now set up to be a major character.
 * Spotlight-Stealing Squad: In-Universe - She gets all the attention once she comes to Phoenix.

Clara Eloise Horton
The second-youngest Horton daughter.


 * Nice Girl
 * Only Sane Daughter: Stuck-up beauty queen Piper May, snarky Delilah, Attention Whore Phoebe, and space cadet Nicola and Clara is... normal.
 * The Team Normal

Nicola Jane Horton
The youngest Horton daughter.


 * The Ditz: She spaces out a lot. Justified as she's only 6.

Hannah Bats
One of Sophia's friends. Notably kinder than both of her friends.


 * The Dark Chick
 * Lovable Alpha Bitch
 * Nice Girl
 * Shrinking Violet
 * With Friends Like These...: With the way Sophia and Lyn act, one has to wonder why she's stuck around this long.
 * With Friends Like These...: With the way Sophia and Lyn act, one has to wonder why she's stuck around this long.

Holly Evers
The sportiest girl in Adele's grade.


 * Has Two Daddies: She briefly mentions that she could never deal with it if one of her dads died. Her two dads aren't considered a big deal. No one even raises an eyebrow.
 * Ship Tease: Some with Patrick
 * Tomboy

Danny Mann
Aurora's love interest.


 * Camp Straight
 * Token Minority

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