Characters

Kuro
The protagonist of the series. A down-on-his-luck servant of the sadistic wizard Phineas Hearn.

After Hearn's arrest, he is driven to theft to survive, and is dubbed by the media the "Winking Weasel" as a result of the IOU notes left after each theft.

Phineas Hearn
Kuro's Master and general neer-do-well

Charlie (Charlotte) Cook
Kuro's best friend, and general chatterbox. Her mother was a witch from Tirnanog, and her father a stray. She grew up on a farm, keeping many magical creatures.

Marie Akinwande
Francophone blandlander and firefly, with no previous connection to the fey realm. She was discovered to have the ability to change the colour of coloured pencils.

Arthur Wood
Kuro's typically silent and shy roommate at the Academy.

Evelyn Lemieux d’Ys
"'Father is seventeenth in line for the Winter throne, and Mother is a second cousin of the Spring queen'"A high born student in Kuro's year. Generally stuck-up.

Meredith Thrump
A half-ogre (on her mother's side) high school student. An orphan.

Belladonna Lamorak
Goes by Bella. A petty thief, alongside onetime boyfriend Seph. Steals some shoes that lead to the inciting incident that gets Kuro caught.

Azalea Lamorak
"'Azalea was a year younger than Kuro and had not yet started school. ... Within an hour of meeting, she had declared herself his mortal enemy.'" Bella's younger sister. Fierce.

Seph
Petty thief, alongside onetime girlfriend Bella.

Principal Liath McCutcheon
''The woman was a middle-aged witch in a long black skirt, with a tweed jacket over a white blouse that had a collar so stiff it could stop an axe. She had black hair streaked with grey, all pulled back tightly into a bun, which emphasized the severe look on her face. She wore cat’s-eye glasses, further enhancing the sternness of her features. Her grey eyes were cold as stone, and her lips were so pursed they looked like a raisin.'' The principal of Avalon Junior High School Principal of Avalon Junior High.

Principal Thrymson
"Thrymson looked like a man hewn from stone, his face and hair grey with age, his skin chiselled with wrinkles like crevices." Principal of Avalon High.

Vice Principal Sycamore Flint
Vice Principal of Avalon Junior High. Delights in meting out punishments.

Vice Principal Mademoiselle Lefay
Vice Principal of Avalon High.

Ms. Beatrice Crawley
Spellcraft teacher.

Professeur Gustave De Rigueur
"He was an old man with thin and bony fingers and drooping features, though he carried himself like a Spring prince: haughty, melancholic, and detached. He wore a gaudy wig of white curls and powdered his face heavily to hide his wrinkles. He spent most of the class reclining on a velvet chaise longue he had in the classroom, draped in a silk smoking jacket"Alchemy teacher.

Bad at evaluations, good at classism.

Ms. Frigard
Elvish teacher.

Mrs. Lovelace
Numerology teacher. A Tirnanogian woman.

Mr. Stanislav Ogonov
Evocations teacher. Very eager to show off.

Miss Ligeia
Music teacher

Mr. Widdershins
Social Studies Teacher

The Guard
See also The Guard.

Talen Dubois
"He was called Loup-Garrot across the eastern lands of Acadia, Fenrisúlfr in Alfheim, and the Dread Wolf throughout Tirnanog."Head of the Hounds

Sabine El-Assar
From the Office of Orphan Affairs. A therapist or guidance counselor for Kuro. Also works with Meredith Thrump.

Helena Vigdis
A victim of Phineas Hearn. Mind controlled for years into raising Kuro as a child. Eventually she escaped and informed The Guard of Hearn's location. Hearn escaped the Guard, and killed Helena in revenge.

Father John
A deceased (but still practicing) reverend at a burnt out church in Detritus Lane. Always yelling.

Mr. Schumacher
Proprietor of a shoe shop in Detritus Lane. Gives Kuro a free pair of shoes.

Graeae
"Graeae was a fairly weaselish cat. She was long and thin, and her frostbitten ears were stubby and round."A cat. Adopted by Kuro at the Church. Kuro's drawing of Graeae on the IOU notes is misinterpreted as a winking weasel.

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