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== Main Characters ==

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: He is the Veronica to Vari's Betty in ''Everlost'', and the Betty to Milos's Veronica in ''Everwild'' and ''Everfound''.

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Nick is half-Japanese.

* [[Redheaded Hero|Reddish-Brown Headed Hero]]

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

* [[Boy Meets Girl]]: Nick meets [[Tsundere|Allie]], Nick meets [[Meet Cute|Mary]].

* [[Dude in Distress]]: Gets captured twice--first by the Haunter and then by the McGill.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|When Nick realizes that Mary has been lying to the Afterlights about their coins in order to keep them in Everlost instead of moving on, he betrays Mary and frees all the Afterlights so they can reach the light.}}

* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Between Nick and Allie.

* {{spoiler|[[Body Horror]]: He's not called the Chocolate Ogre without reason...}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dating Catwoman]]: In spite of Mary's true colors and her scheme to prevent Afterlights from moving on and instead trapping them in Everlost, Nick is still in love with her.}}

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: {{spoiler|Mary labeling Nick "the Chocolate Ogre" in an attempt to ward Afterlights from him.}}

* [[Not So Different]]: With Mary.

* {{spoiler|[[Empty Shell]]}}

* [[Fake Memories]]: Milos manipulates Nick into believing that Jill is who he loves and not Mary. This doesn't last for long.

* {{spoiler|[[Star-Crossed Lovers]]}}: With Mary.

* {{spoiler|[[Unexplained Recovery]]}}: Nick eventually regains his memories and sense of self. {{spoiler|He also completely sheds his chocolate coating...including the smudges on his cheeks that were there from the very beginning.}}

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: The McGill/Mikey and Milos.

* [[Body Surf]]

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Mikey and Allie. {{spoiler|They will.}}

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: To the McGill. {{spoiler|This is why Mikey has a [[Heel Face Turn|change of heart]] and [[Rescue Romance|rescues]] her.}}

* [[Batman Gambit]]/[[Scheherazade Gambit]]: Allie convines the McGill that she can teach him the twelve steps on how to skinjack so she won't get thrown overboard. They're all [[Blatant Lies]].

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Nick calls out Allie on this when it appears the McGill's influence is rubbing off on her.

* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Between Nick and Allie.

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Allie attempts this on the McGill to defend herself from the Haunter. The Haunter [[Family-Unfriendly Death|gets thrown overboard]], but the gambit fails for Allie because the McGill already knew she had fooled him.

* [[Badass in Distress]]/[[Damsel in Distress]]: {{spoiler|Gets strapped to the front of the train Milos and the rest of Mary's children are on, headed for the West.}}

* [[The Hero]]: In her respective team.

* [[Mentor Ship]]: With Milos.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: In her respective team.

* {{spoiler|[[Humanity Ensues]]: Allie ultimately choose to return to her own body and reunites with her mother.}}

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: {{spoiler|1=Megan Mary McGill.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Beware the Nice Ones]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Villain with Good Publicity]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]}}

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]/[[Kuudere]]

* [[Meet Cute]]

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|1=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]]

* {{spoiler|[[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.}}

* {{spoiler|[[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.

* {{spoiler|[[Break the Haughty]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Charm Person]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Counterpart]]: To both Nick and Allie.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Star-Crossed Lovers]]}}: With Nick.

 

{{quote|''"I am the McGill. Hear my name and tremble."''}}

 

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

* [[Alliterative Name]]: {{spoiler|1=Mikey McGill.}}

* [[Beast and Beauty]]: The McGill and Allie.

* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Initially doesn't understand and denies his feelings for Allie.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: With Allie. {{spoiler|They will.}}

* [[Big No]]: {{spoiler|1=When Mary shows him a picture of who he really is--Mary's brother, Michael Edward McGill, which changes him back from an [[Eldritch Abomination]] to the fourteen-year-old boy he once was.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Defeat Equals Friendship]]}}

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: After he starts to like Allie, he has a habit of appearing behind her several times.

* [[Take My Hand]]: {{spoiler|"Hold on to me, and don't let go."}}

* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|1=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]].

* [[Not So Different]]: With Mary.

* [[Reckless Sidekick]]

* [[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 {{spoiler|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).

 

 

 

 

{{quote|''"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."

* [[Character Focus]]

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Becomes this after he gets captured by the Haunter and gets stuck in a pickle barrel.

* [[Tagalong Kid]]: For Nick and Allie.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

 

A finder working under Mary. Owns the ''Hindenburg''.

* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]/[[Limited Wardrobe]]

* [[Keet]]

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

* [[Mission Control]]

* [[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.

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]

* [[Character Focus]]

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: {{spoiler|He loses his cigarette in ''Everwild''.}}

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

* [[Defeat Equals Friendship]]: He and his gang join Allie in rescuing Nick and Lief from the Haunter.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Allie [[Little Miss Snarker|compares]] him and his gang to [[Peter Pan]] and the lost boys with herself as Wendy.

* [[Number Two]]: To Nick.

* [[Reckless Sidekick]]

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: The Manly Man to Charlie's Sensitive Guy.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: With Zin. Lampshaded by Nick.

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Betty and Veronica|The Betty]]: The Betty to Nick's Veronica.

* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]]]

* [[Tagalong Kid]]: To Mary {{spoiler|1=until he accidentally gets left behind. Then Vari becomes the new McGill.}}

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

 

{{quote|"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.

* {{spoiler|1=[[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: When the McGill sends the Haunter overboard his boat to sink.}}

* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Friends]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

 

{{quote|''"He's my captain, not my master."''}}

 

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

* {{spoiler|[[I Choose to Stay]]}}

* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]/[[Limited Wardrobe]]

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|1=The reason why the McGill never goes to Atlantic City is because that is where he suffered his first defeat at the hands of the Twin Pier Maradaurs, who captured him. One of the members of the Maradaurs later turned traitor and set the McGill free. He knows of this crucial information because ''he'' was the traitorous Maradaur who set the McGill free.}}

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

 

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

* [[Character Focus]]

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Cowardly Sidekick]]

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

* [[Mission Control]]

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: The Sensitive Guy to Johnnie-O's Manly Man.

* [[Broken Record]]/[[Madness Mantra]]: Sings endlessly while trapped on the ''Hindenburg'' with Johnnie-O.

 

 

=== '''Main Characters''' ===

 

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.

* [[Affirmative Action Girl]]

* [[A Boy and His X|A Girl And Her Dog]]

* [[Team Pet]]: Her dog, Kudzu. {{spoiler|Nick later orders her to cram Kudzu back into the living world and she reluctantly complies.}}

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

 

{{quote|''"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.

* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Played with. Jackin' Jill and he are both skinjackers and were once in a relationship, but Jackin' Jill betrayed the Deadlies and disappeared. As fellow skinjackers, Allie and he also gradually grow closer, much to Mikey's jealousy, but Allie ultimately rejects him for Mikey.

* [[Blue Oni]]: To Mikey's [[Red Oni]].

* [[Betty and Veronica|Veronica]]: To Mikey's [[Betty and Veronica|Betty]] for Allie and to Nick's Betty for Mary Hightower.

* [[You Are Not Alone]]

* [[Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are]]: He hunts down Allie to bring her to Mary as a prisoner in this fashion in order to be in Mary's favor.

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]

* [[Face Heel Turn]]

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]/[[Tranquil Fury]]: {{spoiler|When Mary is thrown back into the living world.}}

* [[Break the Haughty]]

* {{spoiler|[[Cessation of Existence]]: Via intentionally touching Clarence at the command of Mary.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Willingly gets extinguished by Clarence at Mary's request.}}

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: He can be quite furious at times if his buttons are pushed or if he's stressed.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To Mary.

* [[Yandere]]: Only for Mary.

 

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.

* [[Body Surf]]

* [[Dark Chick]]

* [[Unkempt Beauty]]

* [[Wild Card]]

* {{spoiler|[[Career Killer]]}}

* [[Number Two]]: She wants to be this towards {{spoiler|Mary.}}

* [[So Long and Thanks For All the Gear]]: Stole all the finest belongings of the Deadlies and of the Afterlights they were staying with.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Inverted. Jix is the one who's attracted to her. She later reciprocates his feelings.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: With Jix.

* [[Love Redeems]]: Jix's presence makes her second-guess her choices and lifestyle.

* [[Tsundere]]

=== '''Supporting/Minor Characters''' ===

 

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.

* [[Body Surf]]

* [[The Brute]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

 

 

 

 

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 {{spoiler|reaping}} excursion, he decides to join them their cause with a hidden agenda--to learn more about the "Eastern Witch" Mary Hightower.

* [[Animal Motifs]]/[[Transformation Conventions]]

* [[The Atoner]]: After because the indirect cause of a little girl's death, Jix makes it his responsibility to look after the girl and apologize her to after she wakes up from her nine-month-hibernation.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]

* [[Wild Card]]

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.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: He quickly takes notice to Mikey's feelings for Allie and isn't above telling Mikey straight to his face that Mikey is in love with her.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]