Character Relationships

Character Relationships

So I think... I may have gone over board with my characters but honestly don't care. There is a link below to the characters page with them all listened and categorised, some may not have a page (just yet but I'm working on it).

I'd like to talk a little about the characters relationships in this post so here goes.

Most of the characters are linked through their job as spies whether it be because that person is a spy or because they know a spy most everyone is linked to each other through a spy of some kind.
The two main characters Amileah Costa Fontaine who is for a period of time known as Alana Lee due to her past and Laken Emory Steele or Lake are actually linked not just because they are spies themselves but because their parents were spies and partners.

Two other important relationships to Amileah or Ami are Vincent Cole or Vince and Lane Donavan or Lane. Lane was Ami's first partner within the agency and he quickly became the best friend filling in the gap (or massive hole) caused by her past, the two trust in each other completely and it's because of that trust that Ami was able to save Lane's life on the mission that lead to the start of the saga. Vince on the other hand became a knight in shining wellingtons first before he became her other best friend, Ami feels for a long time that she owes Vince a debt when he saves her life and I would say it's not until Christmas that she finds out that even without trying she's saved him to from himself.

Other people linked to these two include Ami's best friends Logan Vice Rivera and Meko Ling Winters who before this story took place believed Ami was in fact dead killed with her parents when the three of them were just teenagers. For Lake however his best friends are actually spies themselves having joined before or with him when he returned from military service.

Other relationships include siblings or children of the characters like the father of Kane Cross, Dillon Cross who is actually the partner to Ami and Lake's parents while Kane is Lake's best friend from childhood.

Even more interesting is the relationship Ami has with the respective antagonists of the series. Ami's parents having been murdered when Ami was a teenager saw their killers take Ami and hold her prisoner for a period of her life (I'll go into Ami's back story in another post) and because of this situation Ami developed a sort of push and pull relationship with certain characters in the bad guy category including Darren Ellis and Chandler Diaz the two of the main antagonists throughout the Fall series.

This relationship offers Ami and inside understanding into how they operate and what to expect from them, how to push their buttons and pull them in when needed especially when she knows they need her alive to get what they want from her. She uses that to save the group in book 4 of the series.

The relationships play a vital role in telling the story that's going on as the characters find themselves questioning their actions because of those relationships.

I tried to capture the underlying feelings the characters hold due to their relationships to one another especially with the Shadow Force and how romance blossoms between members of it and their reactions when they discover the fate of one of them. This is important because over the course of the series the Shadow Force became a sort of family to one another offering advice and support as well as having each others backs in the field and in their missions to at first bring Ami in and then later to help her get the true bag guys.

There are times however when characters have no relationships between each other and I tried to portray a different approach to those situations, an example would be when Ami and Vince are making a hotel managers life hell to get what they want from him.

Basically what I'm saying is the characters and their relationships are just as important as the action and fighting.

PS. I've added a flow chart for the characters in their series just to help you get a feel for who knows who, how and why they know them and anything else I missed.

PPS. like the first lines of this post say, I am very away there are a lot of characters stop hounding me.

Links
CHARACTERS... and lots of them
Character Relationship Flow Chart