Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview…. Eliot is a student at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, where he excels at learning magic despite never seeming to work for it. Growing up, he was bullied for being gay, and he takes Brakebills as an opportunity to be the person he always wanted to be. That is, he takes advantage of the finer things in life, is open about his sexuality, and doesn’t work harder than he has to. Despite this, he has an instinctive understanding for complex magic.
Personality…. witty, charming, but melancholic. On the surface, Eliot is carefree, cracking jokes and dressing to nines. But that hides a loneliness and insecurity that bleeds through at the edges. He has a fondness for fine wines, but drinks too much, and occasionally his jokes cut a little more than would be strictly funny. However, he’s the unspoken leader of his group of friends, due to his charm and intelligence.
Get to Know him in...
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Growing up, Quentin Coldwater was obsessed with the children's book series Fillory and Further: a Narnia-like adventure about travel to a magical land. And now Quintin is fulfilling his dream of studying magic as a secret school called Brakebills. Magic is dangerous, though, and there may be bigger things looming in his future than just passing the next exam.
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Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined.
