Characters we all know and love

Let's take a moment to get to know the characters of the books and show, though I will stress the show and the books have actually pushed away from each other. So let's start with characters that we know are there.

Quentin Coldwater, the rather intellectual and very much unimpressed character who came into the world of Brakebills with no idea what his real skills lay in. He was otherwise seemingly untalented at first, until you get him alone with a deck of cards. He becomes thirsty for knowledge, but is unaware of how important his existence is.

Unlike most characters, Quentin is very much not willing to be the center of a lot of attention, he would rather be reading his Fillory and Further novels and sometimes is quick to act if he knows something might happen. Though he does come off as a worry wart, he can also be very friendly and does love his friends deeply.

Unlike Quentin, there is also Eliot who is an upper classman and kind of the show off, though it is more that he likes to show off that he can drink people under a table. Master of the slight of hand and other great talents, Eliot has at times stuck his neck out for people when he should have known better than to do so. 

In the show, he's openly bisexual and tends to experiment on men who he takes a quiet fancy too, though it is Margo who has to remind him that she will do whatever it takes to keep him out of trouble, even if it means casting a spell using a genie to make Eliot's boyfriend suck on a door knob. (That actually happened) 

Though in truth, Eliot has said he would be lost without Margo's help and sometimes he has come quietly to her side to make sure that Quentin and Alice stay out of trouble. He is like that annoying big brother who would rather be elsewhere than attempt anything. 

I might add Eliot does have a few addictive problems, one booze, and the other.....well...if you read the first book, he tends to smoke like a chimney. He does however give it up when he figures out that it isn't winning him points on some scales.

Alice, though she is the daughter of two very powerful Magicians, she hardly wanting to show it off at times. She at first out right hated the main cast because she thought of them as lazy and otherwise wouldn't know how to help her. She later finds out that Penny and his girlfriend are willing to help her because they are also interested in her story of finding out what happened to her older brother. (Sadly, I have never been a huge fan of her or Penny)

Penny, the punk who can travel, yeah, he's a punk at times, but also a man with a heart of gold who will go out of his way to figure out problems. Though he did tear into Quentin over a Tayler Swift song and had to mentally break down his friend from making a bad mistake. Did he ever say he hated someone? Actually a few times, but then realized that the one person he can't stand is the one person who can save people's lives.

Margo or Margret, let's see what can be said about the richest girl at Brakebills who doesn't throw her money around? That's right Margo actually hates the fact she's from a rich family in California that has no magical abilities at all. She is also the kind of person who will do anything for just about any friend considering that she does like using her bank for one thing, helping Alice out. She is quite fond of Alice because she's actually everything that she wants to be, but without all the flash and flare. Though a girl of means, she has hardly ever used it, she actually has only used her own stance in the school to get anywhere and has been severely under tail of Eliot who is like her brother not her lover, which she has keenly pointed out.

Margo on some cases has had her case of BAD BOYFRIENDS, one actually going so far as to build a rather stunning galum and attempted to patch up with her too. That didn't go well and the mention of having a threesome with her copy and him kind of grossed her out, only to have a rather drunk Eliot ask, "How does that even work?"

Julia, someone in Quentin's life that has been there since he was a child and also has about as much respect for him as her boyfriend has left him in the dust. She has never openly admitted her love for him because she didn't want to make her boyfriend jealous or angry. Then again, she is one of the most powerful under rated hedge witches out and this was after a witch caused her to go mad and be put in a mental hospital. 

Gaining what she lost, she actually went out of her way to avoid the entire magical concepts, only to find that she could learn this on her own with other magicians who were outcasts. Some of them that were skipped merely because of an exam that was set up to make them fail. That doesn't sound right does it? 

Margo and Eliot are otherwise jealous of the fact Julia is considered pretty powerful and though Fogg and the rest of the staff have overlooked her, it is more she has pushed past them and Quentin on more than one level or another. So don't be quick to judge the girl who is basically the picture On Demand. 

Yes...there are more characters I"m aware, but I decided to break it down to the current and then going into the past with Chatwin and a few spoilers....be aware if you find spoilers in there, they're pretty old news.