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This is the character sheet for Brent Weeks' The Night Angel Trilogy.

Azoth/Kylar Stern

• A Man Is Not a Virgin: Subverted.
• Accidental Pervert
• Always Save the Girl
• Badass
• Balancing Death's Books
• Calling the Old Man Out
• Can't Have Sex Ever
• Career Killers
• Celibate Hero: Durzo is keen on pushing this ideal onto Kylar, but it ultimately fails when Kylar realizes his feelings for Elene.
• Chick Magnet
• Conflicting Loyalty: Between his duty to Durzo and his love for Elene.
• Earn Your Happy Ending
• Faking the Dead
• Green-Eyed Monster: Gets considerably jealous over Elene getting proposed to by a man named Pol and when he sees a naked statue of Elene and mistakes her for one of lord Jadewin's mistresses.
• The Hero
• Heroes Want Redheads: Seems very fixated on Vi's hair in Book 3.
• I Will Fight No More Forever: Attempts to retire with Elene in Book 2, but he ends up getting dragged into the mess again.
• Love Triangle: In Book 1, Kylar is caught in one with his best friend Logan, who's in love with his childhood friend Serah, who loves Logan but also has feelings for Kylar, who doesn't reciprocate. And then, Kylar gets into another love triangle with his own childhood friend Elene and his former enemy Vi.
• Luke, I Am Your Father
• Meaningful Name: "Azoth" is an poetic word for mercury, coming from the Arabic. Azoth, as a wetboy, will be mercurial in his disguises.
• Meaningful Rename: "Kylar" is similiar to the word "cleave": it means both "to kill" and "one who is killed".
• Near-Death Experience
• Oblivious to Love: In particular, towards his own feelings for Elene until half way through Book 1.
• Power At a Price
• Psychic Link: Involuntarily with Vi.
• Resurrective Immortality
• Stalker with a Crush: Quite a bit. Kylar often watches Elene shopping from the Modaini Smoking Club, much to Momma K's disapproval.
• Three Amigos: Azoth, Jarl, and Doll Girl.
• Victorious Childhood Friend: Doll Girl/Elene. Until Book 3.

Durzo Blint

• The Atoner
• Back from the Dead
• Badass
  • Badass Creed: "Life is Empty. Life is Meaningless. When we take a life, we take nothing of value."
• BFS
• Cannot Spit It Out: His feelings for Momma K.
• Career Killers
• Celibate Hero: "Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose."
  • Fridge Brilliance: From his point of view, love is indeed a noose- tohis loved ones.
• I Have Many Names
• Julius Beethoven Da Vinci
• The Lancer
• Like a Son to Me: Kylar.
• Love Hurts: His deeply conflicted and restricted relationship with Momma K ends with a series of misunderstandings, which leads to Momma K betraying Durzo and Durzo's death.
• The Masochism Tango: With Momma K.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Parental Substitute: For Kylar.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Training from Hell: Unfortunantely for Kylar.

Logan Gyre

• Arranged Marriage: With Jenine.
• Badass Normal
• The Big Guy
• Caught with Your Pants Down: At the worst possible time.
• Chekhov's Gun
• Honor Before Reason
• I Did What I Had to Do
• It Will Never Catch On
• My Girl Is Not a Slut: Defends Serah from the rumors of her sleeping with his best friend Prince Aleine -- among others -- but she really did get around.
• Rousing Speech
• Second Love: Jenine.
• To Be Lawful or Good

Gwinvere 'Momma K' Kirena

• Cannot Spit It Out: Her feelings for Durzo.
• Dead Little Sister: Vonda.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold
• Love Hurts: Her deeply conflicted and restricted relationship with Durzo ends with a series of misunderstandings, which leads to Momma K betraying Durzo and Durzo's death.
• The Masochism Tango: With Durzo.
• The Smart Guy

Doll Girl/Elene Cromwyll

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Vi's Veronica.
• Brown Eyes
• Can't Have Sex Ever
• The Chick
• Death of the Hypotenuse
• Demonic Possession
• Forbidden Fruit: To Kylar.
• Girl Next Door
• Hair of Gold
• Heroic Sacrifice
• I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Elene doesn't believe she's good enough for Kylar.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness
• The Ingenue
• The Power of Love
• Rags to Riches: When Doll Girl gets adopted into the Cromwyll family.
• Scars Are Forever: The scars on her face she recieved as a child from Rat -- an X-mark on her cheek and lips, and a loop from the corner of her mouth to the outside of her eye. For Kylar, it's a reminder of his faliure. For Elene, it's a reminder of Azoth/Kylar saving her.
• She's All Grown Up
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man
• Three Amigos: Azoth, Jarl, and Doll Girl.
• Victorious Childhood Friend: Azoth/Kylar. Until Book 3.
• X Marks the Hero

Jarl

• Ambiguously Gay/Bi the Way: He's in love with Vi, but...
• Bishonen: He's been described as the prettiest character in the book.
• Black Best Friend: To Azoth/Kylar.
• Rape as Drama: Was raped by Rat.
• Rousing Speech
• Three Amigos: With Azoth and Doll Girl
• Two Guys and a Girl: With Azoth and Doll Girl.

Ulyssandra

• Father, I Want to Marry My Brother Towards Kylar. Dawww....
• Heartwarming Orphan Sorta, given that both her parents are alive but have to keep secret from her.
• Morality Pet To Viridiana. Dawww...

Viridiana 'Vi' Sovari

• Accidental Pervert
• Badass
• Berserk Button: Don't touch Vi's hair. Really, don't.
  • Unless you're Kylar, in which case go for it. Vi apparently considers her hair to be what most people consider nakedness to be.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Elene's Betty.
• Career Killers
• Fiery Redhead
• Heel Face Turn
• Last Girl Wins
• Luke, I Am Your Father: On the receiving end from the God King
• Psychic Link: With Kylar.
• Show Some Leg
• The Sixth Ranger

Dorian Ursuul

• A God Am I: When he embraces the vir and becomes Godking Wanhope. He really is thought of as a god. Also, when he wields Curoch and Iules and COMES OUT ALIVE! Dorian is as close to a godlike character in the trilogy that we see.
• Badass
• Better as Friends: Dorian and Jenine.
• The Corruption: The vir. Its one of many reasons he doesn't use it, preffering to rely on his Talent and other gifts. Its far more corrupting than he thought and is using it too much is probably the main factor behind his Face Heel Turn.
• Earn Your Happy Ending
• Either/Or Prophecy
• Faith Heel Turn: He'd been doing bad things up to this point already as God-King Wanhope, most notably murdering every single one of his brothers (young kids included, and even forcing pregnant concubines to have abortions) but he justified it by hoping and praying that God was on his side and that now all potential rivals (who would have been puppets of the Vurdmeisters) he could finally get round to being a good, reforming leader. But learning that Jenine's husband was alive immediately before his wedding pushed him off the deep end and he decided he couldn't take any more, forsook God, and started truly thinking of himself as a God-King.
• Heel Realization
• God King
• Love Hurts: Dorian loves Jenine so much, but loses her to Logan in the end.
• Mad Oracle: Parts of the trilogy, this IS Dorian. But at the end he really does become mad. Maybe. He smiles at Vi when she realizes he implanted Kylar and Elene's child in Jenine. He might not be so mad as people think.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Necessarily Evil: What Dorian first thinks of him becoming Godking Wanhope. He then realizes that he has to do despicable things to keep the people in line, and to save his wife, Jenine. Towards the end of it, though, between his behaviour and the vir and his returning madness that the vir is making worse, he becomes indifferent to Jenine's fate and starts thinking about ow he "deserved" to be God-King, and it takes Solon to make Dorian realize that he'd started to forget the "necessarily" part and was becoming a full-blown villain.
• Nightmare Fuel: Some of the things Dorian does as Godking Wanhope. Raising krul, raping young girls, murdering unborn children...
• One-Winged Angel: Dorian's confrontation with the aethlings in the Citadel hall. Wow. I fell in love with Dorian then and there.
• Three Amigos: With Solon and Feir.
• Training from Hell: While being groomed as the Godking's heir in his childhood/teens, Dorian had to flay a woman alive and kill his mother, along with a host of other horrific behaviour. But what sickens Dorian the most is that, being a child and not knowing any different, he used to actually enjoy it and didn't think he was doing anything wrong.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He feels he has to act like a true God-King (ie. The Caligula) in the present to put the fear of...well, God...into his subjects since the culture of Khalidor is so corrupt that all of them would interpret kindness as weakness and try to kill him and Jenine. His plan is to gradually introduce more and more reforms and eventually cut the insanity out of is kingdom for good, in other words for the Greater Good. However, by the end he sees that the Greater Good had become an excuse and he was becoming just as depraved as his father was for the sake of an imaginary future.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity