The Mirror of Infinite Endings Characters

The central heroine who lives at the Hollow with Jacks after the battle at the Tree of Souls. She prepares the Hollow for its Grand Reopening and First Annual Happy Hollowfest, and she is deeply in love with Jacks while fearing the difference in their lifespans. Curious and hopeful, she enters the Mirror of Infinite Endings and must find her way back.

Arc: She begins happy but uneasy about Jacks's secrets and her mortality, then enters the mirror world as Luc's bride-to-be and learns about sacrifice and love. After returning to Jacks, she accepts the fairy's deal to stop aging and ultimately embraces infinite endings with Jacks.

• Jacks — the great love of her life; he rewrote history for her, saved her life, and they live together at the Hollow
• LaLa — her dearest friend, who pulls her into the Emporium of Else trip
• Luc Navarro — in the mirror world her fiancé and groom; she once believed he was her true love and feels responsible for what happened to him
• Marisol — her stepsister; Evangeline suspects she wants her dead after the wedding catastrophe
• Bruce — a little dragon she named and cares for
• Maximilian Fox — her father
• the fairy — the fae who tests her love and offers to bind her life to Jacks's
• Mistress Luck — a gambling-den woman who tells her she has found true love and warns her about the hourglass
• Donatella — a girl in the mirror world who lunges at her and claims to be Jacks's fiancée
• The Hollow — her animate magical home, which is irritable when she leaves and glad when she returns
• Apollo — picked out the dress for her previous wedding, which she calls a disaster

A Fate and the great love of Evangeline's life, living with her at the Hollow. He is protective, secretive, and capable of dangerous magic, and he receives a letter from Poison. He later makes a deal with a fairy to bind Evangeline's life to his so she will stop aging.

Arc: He hides his fears and his fae deal from Evangeline, watches her trapped in the Mirror of Infinite Endings, and is jealous of the mirror version of himself. After she returns, he confesses everything, binds their lives together, and proposes marriage.

• Evangeline — his lover; he calls her Little Fox and wants forever with her
• Chaos — his closest and oldest friend, though he does not like him near Evangeline
• LaLa — friend and ally; he distrusts some of her plans for Evangeline
• Bruce — a little dragon who is fond of him, though Jacks usually scowls at him
• Poison — sender of a green letter sealed with a goblet that Jacks burns
• the fairy — made a deal with her to stop Evangeline from aging
• Mirror Jacks — alternate version of himself whom he sees in the mirror and is jealous of

The alternate version of Jacks whom Evangeline meets in the mirror world. He is a Fate and Poisoner who ruins her wedding to Luc, freezes her loved ones, and runs Jacks's Gambling Den. He is fashionable and cruel, and warns Evangeline that he will be her ending.

Arc: He remains in the mirror world after Evangeline returns, though a Luckless Coin from him reaches the real Hollow. His existence makes the real Jacks jealous and determined to prove he is not the same.

• Evangeline — pulls her close in the mirror world and disrupts her wedding to Luc
• Jacks — alternate version of him; the real Jacks says 'That's not me' and is jealous
• Donatella — she claims to be his fiancée and says she both hates and needs him
• Marisol — she brought him as her date and begged him to ruin the wedding
• Luc Navarro — he calls Luc a fool and ruins his wedding to Evangeline

Evangeline's stepsister in the mirror world, who brings Jacks as her date to Evangeline's wedding to Luc and begs him to ruin it. She says she only wanted Jacks to kiss Evangeline, but she has cursed Luc and poisoned the wedding guests. Evangeline suspects she wants her dead.

Arc: She causes the wedding catastrophe, disappears afterward, and is suspected of running off with the Prince of Hearts.

• Evangeline — her stepsister, whom she appears to want dead
• Luc Navarro — she cursed him; he looks at her with terror
• Mirror Jacks — her date; she begged him to ruin Evangeline's wedding
• Maximilian Fox — her mother had been married to Evangeline's father before she died

Evangeline's dearest friend, a Fate with dragon fire tattoos and a long, complicated love life. She pulls Evangeline into the Emporium of Else trip and later watches the mirror world with Jacks. She carries a missingness and grief over her family, especially her brother Lyric.

Arc: She moves from distress over Prince Dane and secrecy about Chaos to being tempted by the Mirror of Second Chances in the epilogue, hoping to save her family and see Lyric again.

• Evangeline — her dearest friend, for whom she would do anything
• Jacks — friend and ally; she tells him what she knows about Evangeline in the mirror
• Chaos — they bicker and she fears him; she denies feelings for him but blushes when asked
• Prince Dane — she has loved him for centuries and has dragon fire tattoos because of him
• Lyric — her brother, whom she wishes to see once more
• Robin Slaughterwood — she was supposed to marry him in a great scandal
• Castor Valor — she is tempted by the Mirror of Second Chances partly to save him

Jacks's closest and oldest friend, a dangerous vampire and Prince Dane's brother. He visits the Hollow, wants to murder Dane over his plan to propose to LaLa, and is bound by a vow not to tell LaLa the truth. He still longs for his former humanity.

Arc: He remains a menacing but loyal friend to Jacks, warns LaLa never to look into his eyes in the epilogue, and vanishes.

• Jacks — his closest and oldest friend
• Prince Dane — his brother, whom he wants to murder because Dane plans to propose to LaLa
• LaLa — he watches her with intensity; she fears him and avoids his eyes
• Evangeline — Jacks does not like him near her
• Castor Valor — his former human self, when he had forest-green eyes
• The Hollow — the Hollow dislikes his vampire presence

In the mirror world, Evangeline's fiancé and groom, whom she believes is true love. He climbs through her window before the wedding, abandons her when Jacks freezes the guests, but later returns to ask if she will still marry him. In Evangeline's real-world memories, she feels responsible for him being cursed by Marisol, mauled by a wolf, and turned into a vampire.

Arc: He panics and leaves Evangeline at the wedding, then returns apologetic and eager to marry. He remains uncertain as Evangeline chooses the mirror.

• Evangeline — her fiancé and groom in the mirror world; she feels responsible for what happened to him
• Marisol — she cursed him
• Mirror Jacks — disrupts his wedding and calls him a fool
• Maximilian Fox — gave Luc his blessing to marry Evangeline

Evangeline's father, who appears in the mirror world to walk her down the aisle and give Luc his blessing. He is kind and proud, speaks of different kinds of love, and wishes for Evangeline to find a North Star love. In the real world he is mentioned as having run a curiosity shop.

Arc: He supports Evangeline's wedding but also tells her she does not have to marry Luc, offering her freedom.

• Evangeline — his daughter
• Luc Navarro — he gave Luc his blessing
• Marisol — her mother had been married to him before she died

A shape-shifting fae or fairy who appears as a child, a willowy woman with a crown of twigs, and the young man from the Emporium of Else. She arranges tests of love for Evangeline and Jacks and offers to bind their lives so Evangeline stops aging. She warns that failure has a consequence and that loves which go untested are not very strong.

Arc: She sets the tests, forbids Jacks to speak of them, judges both Evangeline and Jacks as having passed, gives them broken-heart cookies, and later explains the mirrors to LaLa.

• Jacks — made a deal with him and bound him to silence about the tests
• Evangeline — tested her love and gave her the immortal cookie
• LaLa — explains the Mirror of Second Chances to her
• Poison — Jacks believed Poison contacted the fae and expected Jacks to pay the full price

An offstage figure who sends Jacks a green letter sealed with a goblet. Jacks identifies the childlike fae as Poison's visitor and believes Poison expected Jacks to pay the fae's full price. Jacks burns the letter and later confesses it to Evangeline.

Arc: Remains offstage; the letter and fae visit set the tests in motion.

• Jacks — sent him a letter that Jacks burned

A disheveled, tearful girl from Jacks's past in the mirror world, also the honey-blond and windswept girl seen near the ruins. She claims to be Jacks's fiancée, lunges at Evangeline, and says she both hates and needs Jacks, calling him a monster.

Arc: She confronts Jacks in the gambling den, is told they are done, and leaves. Evangeline later says seeing Jacks talk to her killed her.

• Mirror Jacks — she claims to be his fiancée and says she both hates and needs him
• Evangeline — she sees her as a rival and lunges at her

A woman in the mirror world's gambling den who approaches Evangeline and says luck pours off her. She insists Evangeline has found true love and warns her not to let the hourglass sand run out. She disappears when confetti blinds Evangeline.

Arc: She delivers a cryptic warning and vanishes; Evangeline later thinks she may have misunderstood her.

• Evangeline — warns her about the hourglass and says she has found true love
• Luc Navarro — Evangeline later thinks Mistress Luck must have been talking about him

A little blue-and-violet dragon at the Hollow who heats Jacks's tea with sparks and is fond of Jacks. He accidentally burns Poison's letter, follows Evangeline to the Emporium, and later carries the Emporium page back to Jacks. Evangeline named him and cares for him.

Arc: He remains a loyal little dragon, moving between Jacks and Evangeline and helping reveal the beginning of the tests.

• Evangeline — she named him and rushes to help when the letter burns
• Jacks — particularly fond of him, though Jacks does not return the sentiment

The animate, magical home where Evangeline and Jacks live. It produces food when the clock strikes a meal, rattles cupboards to signal unfinished work, and dislikes vampires. It is irritable when Evangeline leaves and glad when she returns.

Arc: It shifts from warning and restlessness to being decorated and full of guests for the reopening, feeling like home again.

• Evangeline — gets irritable when she leaves and is glad when she is home
• Jacks — the place where he lives; its mood affects him
• Chaos — dislikes his vampire presence

Chaos's brother and the prince LaLa has loved for centuries; she has dragon fire tattoos because of him. He can shift into a dragon and plans to propose to LaLa, which makes Chaos want to murder him. He appears in a scandal sheet with the headline 'OOH LA LA!'

Arc: He plans to propose to LaLa and later returns; LaLa struggles to return his love.

• LaLa — she has loved him for centuries and he plans to propose to her
• Chaos — his brother, who wants to murder him

Evangeline's previous husband in the real-world memories. He picked out a gold-and-white wedding dress with massive feather wings for her previous wedding, which she calls a disaster.

Arc: He appears only in memory; he does not change across the story.

• Evangeline — picked out the dress for her previous wedding

Mentioned as the person LaLa was supposed to marry in a great scandal. The young man at the Emporium asks LaLa if he knows her, and she mentions her canceled marriage to Robin Slaughterwood.

Arc: No change; he is a backstory mention.

• LaLa — she was supposed to marry him, causing a great scandal

LaLa's brother, who appears in the Mirror of Infinite Endings laughing with LaLa on a rooftop in the Hollow. LaLa wishes she had stepped into the mirror to see her brother once more.

Arc: He appears only in reflection or memory, motivating LaLa's temptation.

• LaLa — her brother

A guest at the Hollow's reopening who traveled there and tells Evangeline she couldn't be prouder. She used to buy pots of disappearing ink from Evangeline's father's curiosity shop and shows Evangeline the Whisper Gazette scandal sheet.

Arc: She attends the reopening and praises Evangeline.

• Evangeline — former customer of her father's curiosity shop and proud of her
• Kutlass Knightlinger — has his scandal sheet and shows it to Evangeline

A guest who travels from the south to the reopened Hollow and brings her grandson Samuel. Evangeline recognizes her as a former customer of her father's curiosity shop who bought maps of fictional places.

Arc: She attends the reopening after reading about it in the paper.

• Samuel — her grandson
• Evangeline — former customer of her father's curiosity shop

Ms. Mallory's grandson, who accompanies her to the Hollow. He is named but does little else in the notes.

Arc: None; he is a minor guest.

• Ms. Mallory — her grandson

A scandal-sheet author who appears at the Hollow carrying a feathered pen. He wrote the Whisper Gazette scandal sheet about the Hollow's reopening and Evangeline, and says Jacks wrote him a letter.

Arc: He attends the reopening and likely wants an interview.

• Evangeline — wrote about her in the Whisper Gazette and winks at her
• Jacks — Jacks wrote him a letter about the Hollow

Chaos's former human self, when he had forest-green eyes. LaLa is tempted by the Mirror of Second Chances partly to save Castor Valor.

Arc: Mentioned only as a lost past self; he does not act in the present story.

• Chaos — his former human identity
• LaLa — she is tempted to save him