The Skinjacker Trilogy/Characters

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The characters of The Skinjacker Trilogy include:

Main Characters

Nicholas/"Nick"

"What if we're lost here forever?"

The fourteen-year-old hero. He arrives into Everlost with Allie following a car accident. While initially passive and at times insecure, Nick develops into a more determined and strong-willed person. He quickly develops a crush on Mary Hightower.

In Everlost

In Everwild

In Everfound

  • Empty Shell
  • Fake Memories: Milos manipulates Nick into believing that Jill is who he loves and not Mary. This doesn't last for long.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Due to his near dissolving into nothingness and returning as a "Ogre," Nick can barely recall who he was.
  • Star-Crossed Lovers: With Mary.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Nick eventually regains his memories and sense of self. He also completely sheds his chocolate coating...including the smudges on his cheeks that were there from the very beginning.


Alexandra "Allie" Johnson

"What if I don't want to forget the living world?"

The-fourteen-year-old heroine. Arrives into Everlost with Nick following a car accident. She is practical and sarcastic. Allie desperately desires to return home and displays hostility towards Mary. Her choices in the story cause a chain of events that lead her to untimely consequences.

In Everlost

In Everwild

In Everfound

  • Humanity Ensues: Allie ultimately choose to return to her own body and reunites with her mother.


Mary Hightower/Megan Mary McGill

"You see emptiness. I see possibility."

Mary is a fifteen-year-old girl who takes in Afterlights and gives them a home in her utopia. She is exceptionally knowledgable when it comes to Everlost and has written many books on it. Mary is slowly drawn to newcomer Nick.

In Everlost

  • Defrosting Ice Queen/Kuudere
  • Meet Cute
  • The Reveal: The McGill is Mary's younger brother Mikey, and she has known about it the entire time. She also lied about the coins that Afterlights brought with them to Everlost being useless--she knew it was the key to Afterlights going into the light and wanted them to stay with her in Everlost instead.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko

In Everwild

  • Dating Catwoman: Despite Nick betraying her in Everlost, Mary still holds strong feelings for Nick. It is hinted in various occasions, such as when she is captured by Pugsy Capone in Chicago and fantasizes about Nick finding and rescuing her.
  • Humanity Ensues: Nick's plan succeeds and Zin crams Mary out of Everlost and into the human world, but Mary convinces Milos to kill her and watch over her body in Everlost during the nine-month hibernation period until she awakens.
  • Not So Different: With Nick and Mikey.

In Everfound


The McGill/Michael "Mikey" Edward McGill

"I am the McGill. Hear my name and tremble."

A monster feared by all of Everlost. It is said that he leaves no survivors.

In Everlost

In Everwild

  • Body Horror: When he turns into the McGill once again. He gets better.
  • Butt Monkey: For some time in the story since he's not as threatening in his fifteen-year-old body than he was as the monsterous McGill, and well, because Loners Are Freaks.
  • Cassandra Truth: When he tells the Afterlights at the diner that he was the McGill, and when Mikey tells Milos, Squirrel, and Moose that Mary Hightower is his sister.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: He does not take too kindly to Milos, a rival for Allie's affections and a fellow skinjacker. What sends him on the tip of the iceberg and makes him become the McGill once more is seeing Milos and Allie kiss.
  • Date Peepers: Mikey spies on Milos's and Allie's "lesson," and everything went downhill after that...
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Sees Milos as a threat and is jealous of the growing closeness between Allie and Milos and how much time they've been spending together.

Mikey had no idea whether or not Milos was a good spirit, or bad, all he knew was that he hated Milos for simply existing.

  • If I Can't Have You: Mikey (reprising his role as the McGill) literally says this to Allie in Everwild, convinced that he can never have Allie because she had chosen Milos over him, and he would rather have Allie take a coin and be returned to the tunnel to the light than to not be able to have her at all.
  • I Will Find You: Twice towards Allie--Once as the McGill (again) to return Allie to the tunnel to the light than to be unable to have her, having been convinced that Allie had chosen Milos over him, and then as Mikey when Allie is captured and taken to the west, leaving Nick and him to find her.
  • Loners Are Freaks
  • Love Hurts
  • Love Makes You Crazy
  • Love Makes You Evil
  • Not So Different: With Mary.
  • Reckless Sidekick

In Everfound

  • Love Redeems: He acknowledges that his love for Allie had "saved" him and restored him to his true self, but at the time, cooled off his furious McGill nature, which serves to be a bit of a problem when the "Ogre" version of Nick and him are attempting to follow Mary's train by going through the earth (as doing so needs willpower and fury).


Introduced in Everlost

Lief/Travis

"It would have been a fun forever. But that's okay. I don't mind. I'm ready."

An initially nameless boy who finds Nick and Allie and introduces them to the world of Everlost. Allie names him "Lief."

Speedo

A finder working under Mary. Owns the Hindenburg.

In Everwild

In Everfound

  • Motor Mouth: Because he's in the engine room with no one to talk to, once someone comes, he or she will be a "captive audience" until the train stops.

Johnnie-O

"Welcome to Everlost. This here's my territory, and you gots to pay me for passage."

A gang leader that Nick and Allie encounter during their first few days in Everlost.

In Everlost

In Everwild

Stradivarius/"Vari"

"She'll grow tired of you. She likes you because you're new, but you won't be new forever. Soon you'll be just another Afterlight, and she won't even remember your name. But I'll still be here."

Mary's right hand man and favorite, Vari is greatly loyal to Mary and grows jealous of Nick, who Mary takes an interest in.

The Haunter

"The price of faliure is an eternity to think about it."

An expert in the Criminal Arts of haunting the living world. He captures Nick and Lief.

Pinhead

"He's my captain, not my master."

The McGill's chief associate, Pinhead is a boy with an unusually small head.

Choo-Choo Charlie

A nine-year-old Afterlight and the conductor of a ghost train.

In Everlost

  • Cool Train: Owns a ghost train and the only source of transportation for Nick's team.

In Everwild

In Everfound

Introduced In Everwild

Main Characters

"Zach the Ripper"/Zinnia "Zin" Kitner

Known as "Zach the Ripper" in rumors of an Afterlight with the Criminal Arts skill of ecto-ripping. Nick hopes to find the Ripper to add to his forces to defeat Mary. It is soon revealed that "Zach" is actually a girl named Zin. She reluctantly joins Nick's cause when she hears about a war.

Vitaly Milos Vayevsky

"I can forgive you for everything...except for taking her away from me. I will never forgive you for that."

A skinjacker who befriends Allie and Mikey and travels with them. Milos and Allie can understand each other because they are both skinjackers. He is the leader of the group, the Deadlies, and his companions are Squirrel and Moose. Milos is looking for their former companion, Jackin' Jill, who he was once fond of.

... Curious eyes that were blue, speckled with white, like a sky dotted with clouds.

In Everwild
In Everfound

Jackin' Jill

Jackin' Jill was the former member of the Deadlies, a group consisting of Milos, Squirrel, and Moose. Among the jobs they did, she was the one who passed on messages of Afterlights to the living. Milos and Jackin' Jill were close. But one day, Jackin' Jill left, taking with her all of their belongings, as well as the belongings of the Afterlights they were staying with. Milos, Squirrel, and Moose are currently trying to find Jackin' Jill.

In Everwild
In Everfound

Jill: Very touching. I may have to skinjack someone just so I can hurl.

  • Defrosting Ice Queen/Pet the Dog: She sacrifices her coin in an attempt to free Jix when they are ambushed by the Neon Nightmares.
  • High Heel Face Turn: She leaves Mary's group after Jix and over fifty souls sink to the center of the earth through drowning.
    • Reverse Mole: But she rejoins Mary at Jix's suggestion to remain in her good graces and to keep an eye on her.
  • Kiss Kiss Slap: When having to choose between Jix and returning to Milos and the gang, Jackin' Jill kisses Jix and then slaps him before deciding to stay.
  • Love Redeems: Jix's presence makes her second-guess her choices and lifestyle.
  • Tsundere

Supporting/Minor Characters

Squirrel and Mitchell "Moose" Terrence Moessner

Skinjackers who follow Allie, mistaking her for their former companion Jackin' Jill. Squirrel and Moose are companions of Milos, the leader of their group, the Deadlies.


Introduced in Everfound

Jix

The loyal subject of the Mayan King of Everlost, perpetually fifteen-year-old Jix is a "furjacker"--a skinjacker except that Jix prefers to possess animals (specifically jaguars) rather than humans. After spying on Milos and his group on a reaping excursion, he decides to join them their cause with a hidden agenda--to learn more about the "Eastern Witch" Mary Hightower.

Clarence

A former firefighter hero turned public nuisance following a fire rescue that burnt the left side of his face and left his eye dead, his ear deaf, and stole his left fingers, Clarence can see Everlost through his left eye and is determined to uncover the "spirits" he sees to prove to everyone that he's not going mad. He turns out to be a "scar wraith," a being that is half in Everlost and half in the human world and has the ability to extinguish an Afterlight by touching one.

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