![]() Bookworm: He reads a lot, helped by his photographic memory.In the books, his parents are both still alive. Adaptational Backstory Change: In the television series, he moved to live with his aunt and uncle after his parents died and it was they who abused him financially.Abusive Parents: His parents start out financially abusive, but they later change their ways after he runs away.Younger Than They Look: She's three but looks a few years older.This is due to her being a toddler, and therefore needing more sleep than the others. Sleepyhead: Sleeps excessively in the first book, including during class and in meetings of the Society. ![]() The Runaway: She ran away from her orphanage to avoid the Ten Men.Rhymes on a Dime: She likes to rhyme a lot.Punny Name: Constance Contraire is, fittingly enough, constantly contrary.Benedict's ad - "Are you a gifted child seeking special opportunities?" This continues for several months before she finally leaves in response to Mr. She also manages to find the key to the vending machine, but again is careful not to take too much. When they start leaving mousetraps, she springs the traps and eats the cheese. By day she comes out rarely, only coming out when the library is busy, so that any casual observers assume that she's with someone, i.e., "the young woman over in nonfiction might be her mother." She survives on snacks scavenged from the library breakroom, but is careful never to take too much, both out of fear of being noticed and as a kindness to the staff. She then spends months hiding there, sleeping there at night and having the run of the library. She then takes a bus to a public library as far away from there as the lines go and discovers an unlocked storage room with a stack of dusty boxes labeled "To be processed when funding is approved" that look like they haven't been touched in years. Non-Residential Residence: Her backstory is that she flees from an orphanage before she can be taken away from it by the Ten Men, known at the time as Recruiters.She appears to be older in the show, presumably due to the impracticalities of casting an actual 3-year-old.Improbable Age: She looks and acts like a 6-8 year old but only turns 3 at the end of the first book.Embarrassing Nickname: "Connie-girl", by Kate.Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Hates being felt sorry for in the initial trilogy due to her independent nature.Alliterative Name: Her given name and surname both begin with "con-".So while on the one hand Constance wanted to be pleasant, courteous and helpful, on the other she was inclined to be argumentative and grumpy, and indeed this was the sort of behavior that came most naturally to her. She might be a budding genius, but her emotions were still as complicated and ungovernable as those of any child her age. However, he doesn't get caught because, as Kate explains. He was of average size, of an average pale complexion, his brown hair was of average length, and he wore average clothes." Later in the same book, he and Kate are spying on activities in the gym at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened when he is suddenly spotted by S.Q. The Nondescript: Towards the beginning of the first book, he is described as being ".the least noticeable of boys.In the show, however, he is played by the mixed-race (Chinese and white) Mystic Inscho, who also has a noticeably tan complexion. ![]()
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