Character Spotlight- Vivian from the Paranormalcy series by Kiersten White

 In this blog I want to highlight one of the characters I loved, Vivian. In the first book, Vivian is an antagonist. In the second and most of the third books she plays a helpful, supporting role. However, at the end of the third book, she is a hero.

Vivian is an Empty One. She is a child of a faerie (not the small kind with wings) left on earth and a human woman. She sucks up the souls of other paranormal creatures and uses their life force to survive. To the Empty Ones souls are like little balls of golden fire. Empty Ones have the power to see through the glamours, or masks of other paranormals.

In the first book, Paranormalcy, Vivian is referred to by Evelyn, another Empty One as Fire Girl. In Paranormalcy Vivian is the main antagonist, sucking out the souls of Evelyn's friends and other innocent paranormals.  Empty Ones need souls to survive because they don't have souls of their own. She even has her own prophecy, Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with things she does not know. Heaven above, and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.At the end of the book, Evelyn sucks all the souls out of Vivian and releases them, sending Vivian into a coma. 

In the second book, Supernaturally, Vivian fits into a role as Evelyn's sister who visits her in her dreams. Vivian starts to support Evelyn's decisions, gives her advice and comforts her. Vivian looks exactly like Evie, who is picture on the covers of all three books. 

In the third book, Endlessly, Vivi starts out in the same role she had before, but with less frequent appearances.  Towards, the end she shows up awoken from her coma because her soul has grown through Evie's love for her as a sister. She saves the world by sucking out the soul of the Dark Faerie Queen, filling her with an intense light. She doesn't want Evie to have to take someone's soul unwillingly, showing her love and loyalty for Evie. Working together, they create a gate so all the paranormal creatures can go home. There is a catch, someone has to go through to the other side to close the portal. Vivian takes just enough of Evelyn's boyfriend, Lend's, soul to make him mortal and goes to the other side to close the portal. She ends up having to live with the faeries, a fate she doesn't want, but would never force upon Evelyn, the only person who loves her.

 Over all Vivian is a dynamic, round character. She starts out as selfish only wanting the souls to make her immortal and Evelyn so she is not alone. At the end, however she is selfless and show true love for Evelyn. Vivian was my favorite character in the series, even though she was no the main protagonist.