Character Profile: Dracos Family

I recently found the draft version of the Magic on Main Street Character profiles. I was originally going to make them longer and write more of them but I decided to just go ahead and publish them as is rather then never share them. Important: character profile posts do contain spoilers! If you haven’t read the Magic on Main Street series yet I suggest you wait to read these character profiles until you finish!

The Dracos Family

Turned by Ambrose Dracos, the Dracos Offspring—aka the Snake-Brats—make up one of the most powerful vampire Families in the Magiford world.

Although they have each split off to found their own Family, every member chose a name that honors their Sire/Family in that each name is a variation of the word dragon.

Each of the Dracos offspring come from a different country and era, starting with Vìgì as the oldest and being a viking, and spanning all the way to Killian, who is from England and was the last of the Dracos children to be changed.

As readers, you haven’t met—or heard of—all the Dracos Offspring, but as Ambrose was a careful individual, as far as vampire Families go his is on the smaller side considering how old and powerful he was.

Considine has become the unwilling defacto leader/Sire to the Dracos Children due to a promise he made Ambrose before his best friend died that he’d watch over the Family and make sure they all survived.

As others—namely Killian and Jade—have guessed, Ambrose did make that particular request of Considine because he knew Considine’s honor would make him keep his promise, and thus would keep him alive along with the Dracos Family.

Aware this had the potential to be a miserable life—immortal with little true affection—Ambrose was betting that someone from his Family would eventually find their One, and hopefully become the tipping point for the entire Family to change their outlook, Considine included.

It is safe to say Ambrose never would have pictured Killian would be the vampire to accomplish this, but that is a bigger reflection on Hazel’s influence than it is of Ambrose’s ability to guess.

While initially the Snake-Brats might seem to have a contentious relationship with Considine, by the end of the series you can see that they actually love him dearly—even if they do feel that he makes their lives miserable.

This affection for him is what initially makes them slow to accept Jade—except for the recently punished Vìgì and the One-Influenced Killian—but when they do, it is with great respect.

Character Profile: Considine

I recently found the draft version of the Magic on Main Street Character profiles. I was originally going to make them longer and write more of them but I decided to just go ahead and publish them as is rather then never share them. Important: character profile posts do contain spoilers! If you haven’t read the Magic on Main Street series yet I suggest you wait to read these character profiles until you finish!

Considine Maledictus

Out of all the Magiford main male characters, Considine has become my favorite…because he’s just so *fun* to write!

Considine unapologetically says whatever he’s thinking. He doesn’t pull punches, he doesn’t care what others think of him, and somehow he’s such a strong person that his immortal life has made him jaded and bitter, but he still manages to pull through and hasn’t lost himself despite being one of a handful of vampires who are that old and still alive/not sleeping.

To be fair to Considine, his life is the exact opposite of what he wanted. He purposely never turned another vampire before because he didn’t want that responsibility, and then he gets saddled with watching his best friend’s offspring after Ambrose Dracos dies from a broken heart with the death of his One.

While that alone would have been enough to drive a less righteous person into giving up, Considine sticks it out—poking and prodding the Dracos children into surviving while the years drag on him.

Since Considine is a very rare vampire in that he’s so old and is still alive/awake, I wanted to explore what something like immortal life would actually mean.

This isn’t something I could really explore with someone like Noctus, because elves at large are long lived, so Noctus doesn’t experience constant pain of loss like Considine and the other Dracos vampires have. This kind of pain is uniquely a vampire problem.

Character Profile: Jade

I recently found the draft version of the Magic on Main Street Character profiles. I was originally going to make them longer and write more of them but I decided to just go ahead and publish them as is rather then never share them. Important: character profile posts do contain spoilers! If you haven’t read the Magic on Main Street series yet I suggest you wait to read these character profiles until you finish!

Jade O'Niel

Jade is reminiscent of Pip from Pack of Dawn and Destiny in that she is already very competent and skilled by the time we meet her, unlike Hazel, Leila, and Chloe who all undergo training to get new skills.

If we want to get really detailed, Jade is the only female main character in Magiford who gains no new powers during her books, as Pip gets a form of new magic, too.

But while Jade might be the complete package when it comes to kicking butt, knowing her limits, and understanding how to fight in a group, there is still a trait she spends the entire series working hard to master, and that is her social anxiety. (And her baking skills, but mostly her social anxiety.)

Jade, having grown up in a home where family was everything, might possess enough skills to make her a human swiss army knife, but she never socialized much outside her paternal and maternal family. When she did it was either 1) on a job—which she had trained for or 2) with another slayer family or for training purposes, like the werewolves she trained with.

Much the way you can see characters like Hazel and Leila improve at magic throughout the course of their series, you can see Jade’s path to improvement as well.

It was very important to me to show that Jade didn’t stop doubting—even in the last book she still has a hard time grasping why her team is so awed of her—but she learns that just because she has her doubts, doesn’t mean those doubts are real.

Jade is a unique character in that she has a lot of heart immediately from the very start of the book, and she is a very rare person in that she’s able to forgive Considine for his little Connor/Ruin act, and move on much faster than any of my other Magiford Heroines would have been able to. (Hello, Hazel…)

Jade doesn’t have to learn how to love others more, she doesn’t even have to adjust the way she views others, instead she has to learn how to be more accepting/easier of herself, and to work constructively on her issues instead of letting them dangerously fester.

So that’s Jade O’Niel in a nutshell! What did you think of her as a heroine? I’ll admit, I still included training scenes for her because it always bothers me in books/movies how heroines can stay effortlessly fit when it takes serious work to develop and keep those kinds of physical abilities!