The Spiderwick Chronicles - Characters - Humans

Humans

The Spiderwick Chronicles:

• Jared Evan Grace – The main character, a 9-year-old boy, from whose point of view the books are written. Jared is a brave and resourceful natural leader, shown to be good at creating plans. Jared also has some anger management issues (which reflect on Thimbletack's change between brownie and boggart form). While at the beginning of the story he shows no hobbies or love subjects (like Simon's love for animals and Mallory's fencing), towards the ends he is often said to be going to fill Arthur Spiderwick's steps, showing skills at drawing and revealing to know a great deal about faerie lore in Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles.
• Simon Everett Grace – Jared's identical twin brother. He is calm and caring and apparently a pacifist; he particularly loves animals, having many pets such as mice, cats, goldfish and eventually a griffin.
• Mallory Evan Grace – Jared and Simon's 13-year-old sister. She is an avid fencer who takes part in many fencing competitions. This skill comes in handy when defending herself against goblins. She enters her brothers' adventures in the faerie world very reluctantly at first, but is shown in the second installment to have grown to be more adventurous and risk-taking.
• Arthur Spiderwick – The author of Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. He worked as a publicity artist and spent many years researching faeries by doing field work and by contacting other researchers (for example, for his entries on dragons and giants). His Field Guide eventually made him be seen as a threat by the elves, who ordered him to destroy it and imprisoned him for 80 years when he refused. Much like the Irish hero Oisín, who spent hundreds of years in the faerie world, Spiderwick also dies when he steps on the ground after being kept alive for more years than he was supposed to live.
• Lucinda Spiderwick – The daughter of Arthur Spiderwick and the cousin of Helen Grace's mother, making her the Grace children's great aunt. She was abandoned by her father after he was kidnapped by the elves, never knowing where he'd gone and being raised by the Grace children's grandmother. In adulthood, she was attacked by Mulgarath's army and subsequently put in a clinic for the insane. Because she tasted the food of the faeries, she can no longer eat regular food, only being kept alive by the fruits given to her by the sprites she played with as a child.
• Helen Grace – The mother of Jared, Simon, and Mallory.
• Richard Grace – Helen Grace's ex-husband and the father of the Grace children.

Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles:

• Nicholas Vargas - The main character, who has "stopped bothering" since his mother died and doesn't get along well with anyone. Like Jared, he also shows skills in outwitting the faeries and tricking them just as they trick humans. He's said not to be good at sports, but is able to kill a giant and the Wyrm King almost by himself.
• Laurie Vargas - Nick's step sister, who truly believes in faeries, and first introduced Nick to the idea through a published copy of the Field Guide. She is disappointed when she finds that the faerie world is actually more dangerous and more real than she thought.
• Noseeum Jack - An old giant hunter (named after Jack the Giant Killer) and the son of a giant-expert friend of Arthur Spiderwick's. He had the Sight, but is now almost blind, going to live with his son and daughter-in-law after getting hurt by a fighting giant. He lived in an old house protected by will-o'-the-wisps, having captured Taloa and two of her sisters and keeping them in a swimming pool.
• Julian(Jules) Vargas - Nick's older "annoying brother", who spends all day surfing, stays out of his dad's way, and treats Nick like a kid. He eventually gets the Sight as well and helps the younger kids whenever driving is needed.
• Paul Vargas - Nick and Jules' dad, owns a housing development and doesn't understand his kids, having re-married probably too soon, in Nick's opinion.
• Charlene Vargas - Laurie's mom and stepmother of Nick and Jules, an "okay" person to Nick, although he wishes she wasn't around all the time. She suggests a break-up when the children start to act strange, but agrees to go back to Nick's dad in the end.
• Cindy - Jules' girlfriend who also likes surfing. She is friendly and helps the kids after Jules is kidnapped by the mermaids. She gets grounded after she helps Nick and Laurie steal a fish from her father's aquarium.