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Fearless is a series of teen novels written by Francine Pascal, creator of the Sweet Valley High franchise.

[edit] Gaia's tragic childhood history

Before Gaia was born there was a love triangle between Tom Moore (Gaia's father), Katia Moore (Gaia's mother) and Oliver Moore (Gaia's uncle). This love triangle resulted because Oliver and Tom (who are identical twins) both fell in love with Katia, and Katia fell in love with Tom. Oliver became so jealous that throughout several years he attempted several times to gain Katia's affection at the expense of his brother, but she ended up rejecting all his romantic advances. Before Gaia is born, Oliver ends up raping Katia; from this event, he later believes Gaia is his child and attempts throughout the series to seek her approval (When he learns that she is not his child, he continues to seek Gaia's approval because she looks like Katia and he feels emotionally compelled to love her). After Gaia is born, Oliver secretly (he is wanted by the CIA for becoming a terrorist) attempts to gain Gaia's affection as a child by teaching her deadly martial arts, and tricking her into believing that he is her father. Gaia rejects him as a child and Oliver goes into hiding (He continues to seek Gaia's affection and approval throughout the series, and she continuously rejects him until the last few books of the series). During those few years of his hiding, Gaia is taught martial arts and various intellectual studies (such as reading advanced English literature, calculus, chemistry and philosophy) by her father and lives in the Berkshires with both her parents. Gaia spends the next few years feeling happy with her mother and father and a gray field mouse (called Jonathan) that she keeps as a pet. When Gaia is twelve, Oliver arrives at the Berkshires and attempts to assassinate Tom, but instead accidentally kills Katia. After this tragic event, Tom realizes that Oliver will try to get revenge on him. To keep the young Gaia from harms way, he leaves her without notice. He never explains this to Gaia (although Gaia eventually finds out years later and forgives him), and as a result Gaia, as a child, is given the impression that her father doesn't care about her or her dead mother. This (and seeing her mother being murdered) leaves Gaia feeling angry at her father and makes her emotionally cold and antisocial. In the next few years (up to the start of the book series) Gaia lives in several foster homes and moves around the country from family to family. These terrible childhood experiences haunt Gaia throughout the first half of the book series and leave her bitter and anguished. Most of this family history is learned in Special Edition 1, "Before Gaia" and is seen through flashbacks, and journals or postcards. Some of the information is also back story that is revealed as the book series progresses.

[edit] Story Plot

The main plot of the series is largely the relationships and interactions that Gaia has with people, her search for the origins of her fearless nature, and her struggle to feel like a normal teenager. In all the books, somebody is always trying to manipulate or capture Gaia. There are three main story arcs in the book series which all have primary antagonists for each arc. The first story arc is Gaia's struggle to live a normal life and her fight against Loki and his organization. The second story arc deals with her past history and have Natasha, Tatiana and Yuri (pseudonym Dmitri) as the primary antagonists. And the third story arc deals with the termination of Gaia's problems and has the Rodke Corporation as the primary antagonists. Throughout all the story arcs there are minor antagonists and problems for each book.

[edit] First story arc

In the first story arc of the series, Oliver (pseudonym Loki), Gaia's uncle, is trying to win Gaia back and make her trust him. It is later understood that he does this because he believes that she is his daughter. He uses extreme methods to get close to her and sends professional agents from his terrorist organization to track her throughout the book series. Loki also kills her friends and people whom he believes are close to her, because he selfishly wants her for himself only. After he realizes Gaia will never trust him, and Tom (Gaia's father) arrives back in Gaia's life, Oliver decides to replicate Gaia in a cloning experiment and try to replicate her fearlessness as well. This finishes the first story arc and leads into the second.

[edit] Major events of 1st story arc

Gaia falls in love with Sam, ends up saving Sam's life, and dates Sam only to break up with him. Heather (Gaia's school rival and enemy) breaks up with Sam and starts to date Ed (Gaia's paraplegic friend), Heather's older sister Phoebe goes to rehab for bulimia and Heather breaks up with Ed. Gaia sees Mary (her best friend) and Ella (her foster mom) get killed. George Niven (Gaia's Foster dad, and long time friend of Tom Moore) ends up working for Loki (Oliver Moore) and gets killed by Loki. Ed undergoes a surgery and is no longer paraplegic, he can walk. Ed and Gaia begin to date and have sex, Ed is almost killed by an assassin and they both become distant from each other. They eventually get back together. Josh (Sam's dormitory RA) is introduced to the story and starts to date Heather. Josh "kills" Sam. Loki contacts Gaia and attempts to go to Europe with her, but he is caught by Tom Moore (Gaia's dad) and the police. Loki is sent to jail but he soon escapes. Tom Moore moves in with Gaia. Josh is revealed to work for Loki and is actually one clone out of four Josh's. Josh gives Heather a formula to make her fearless but the side effects eventually backfires and Heather becomes blind, she is sent off to a blind school. Heather befriends Gaia after Gaia saves her from murder, and the two become strong friends, Heather leaves for the majority of the series after this part. Natasha (Tom Moore's love interest) and Tatiana (Natasha's daughter) are introduced and move in to live with Gaia and Tom. Loki takes his own fearless serum and falls into a coma after a showdown with Josh, Gaia and Tom. Afterwords Gaia and Ed (Gaia's official boyfriend), Tom, Natasha and Tatiana have a feast for good luck and tranquility forever. Tom falls into a coma shortly after eating and is kidnapped while at the hospital recovering. This leads into the second story arc

[edit] Second story arc

After this, there is a short arc in the major storyline, in which Sam seemingly arrives back from the "dead"; in reality he was being held hostage for several months in prison cell in Loki's previously occupied terrorist compound. Gaia and Sam go to the compound to see if they can find anything to help them locate Gaia's father. They find nothing, but they rescue a man named Dmitri who was also in a prison cell. Throughout their journey from Loki's compound and back, several attempts on Gaia's life are made. Gaia becomes suspicious and wonders if Sam was brainwashed to become her enemy. Soon after, it is revealed that Natasha and Tatiana work for an organization that is outside of Loki's control. They try to murder Gaia several times, because unbeknownst to her she is the heir to this organization. This leads Gaia to search and hunt the two (which have gone missing) down. After this happens it is revealed that Dmitri, the old man that Gaia and Sam rescued from Loki's terrorist compound is actually Yuri, the organization's ruthless and evil terrorist leader that is Katia's father and Gaia's grandfather. Gaia and Jake (who was introduced earlier on in the series) leave for Siberia with Oliver Moore (who has awakened from his coma and gained a benevolent persona) to rescue Gaia's father from the compound. They succeed and then the four regroup to hunt down Yuri. They eventually manage to capture him. This success leads Gaia to accept Jake's romantic advances and also lets Gaia accept that her feelings for Sam are gone. Sam is left out of Gaia's life for the majority of the series from this point on, and Jake becomes Gaia's official boyfriend. Gaia feels that with the end of Yuri's organization and the benevolent Oliver, her troubles will finally be over.

[edit] Major events of the second story arc

Sam escapes from Loki's hostage compound. Jake is introduced into the story. Sam finds out that Gaia is dating Ed, he is hurt. Ed finds out about Sam and becomes hurt and suspicious, he breaks up with Gaia. Gaia finds out there is another organization other than Loki's. Gaia and Sam save Dmitri. Natasha and Tatiana attempt to murder Gaia several times. Natasha is caught by the FBI in a trap set up by Gaia. Tatiana is caught with help of Jake and also by Gaia. Oliver wakes from his coma. Jake and Oliver help Gaia rescue Tom Moore. Tom, Gaia, Oliver and Jake capture Yuri. Jake and Gaia become a couple. This leads into the third arc.

[edit] Third Story Arc

In the last story arc, the Rodke family moves into New York city. The Rodke Family are a wealthy and famous family that own the industrial and worldwide company Rodke pharmaceuticals. There are Four members of the Rodke family; Chris Rodke (younger sibling), Liz Rodke (Twin to Chris), Skylar Rodke (older sibling of the two, who is in college) and Their father, the company owner. Gaia becomes friends with the two younger children of the Rodke family; Liz and Chris Rodke, when they arrive at the Village High school. During this time in the book series the amount of drug usage and crime in the streets of New York are rising. A new drug dealer has appeared on the streets under the pseudonym "God" who wears gray wraparound glasses and has a blue Mohawk. This drug dealer sells a new drug that appears to give temporary effects of fearlessness to the user. The drug is called "Invince" because it makes the user feel invincible and fearless, this drug was created from the original fearless serum that Loki created. But Invince has more terrible side effects than the original serum and makes its users extremely aggressive, it was not created by Loki. Eventually, Oliver and Jake work together to discover the threat behind the series of attacks on Gaia. Throughout this, Gaia meets with a world renowned geneticist, Dr. Ulrich, who works for the Rodke Pharmaceutical company and she reveals that she is fearless, in hopes of finding a cure. Dr. Ulrich tells her that he can get rid of her fearlessness forever if Gaia undergoes a surgery, and she agrees. She undergoes a surgery and her fearlessness is removed completely. Later, during the night a bunch of droogs (The name given to the people who used Invince) try to assault Gaia while she walks home. In her usual state of fearlessness, Gaia would have stayed and fought them off, but after the surgery she decides to run away in fear. The next day she finds out that Ed and his girl friend Kai are in critical condition due to an attack by those droogs. Although Ed and Kai eventually recover, they have a huge scar on their back from the assault. A week passes with Gaia in this condition of fearfulness, this leads her to seek safety, which she finds in the form of Skylar Rodke. In the finale of the book series, Gaia decides to skip going to Prom with Jake and stays at skylar Rodke's apartment after being emotionally manipulated to stay with him for several days. Jake becomes upset and concerned at Gaia's disappearance and discovers that Chris Rodke is the drug dealer "God" by tracking him, but chris sees him and puts an assassination hit out on Jake. Jake is almost beaten to death because of this by a group of Droogs a few hours later, but he barely survives after Oliver Moore and his agents intercept the attack. Throughout all of this, Chris Rodke manages to sabotage the plan that the Rodke company had by telling the military (who were going to buy the Invince drug) the truth. Chris shows how dangerous and violent the drug makes the users, convincing the military and having them cancel the multi-billion dollar contract with the Rodke family. The reason Chris does this is because he feels resentful after being shunned by his father for being gay and for being the second son. After staying with Skylar for hours, Gaia finds the effects of the surgery wearing off and finds herself fearless once again. She overhears that the Rodkes are going to try to kill her in order to use her DNA to find the source of her fearlessness. In order to foil their plan she records their plans on a tape cassette and confronts Skylar Rodke. Skylar attempts to lethally sedate her with ten bodyguards but she easily outmaneuvers and wins against all of them. In the end, she faints due to her blackout episodes and is captured by Skylar Rodke. When Gaia awakes, she is strapped into a hospital bed with leather cuffs and is seconds from being lethally injected with poison. After failing to escape Gaia accepts her impending death calmly, but the euthanasia processes is interrupted by Jake, Oliver Moore and Tom Moore. Chris Rodke also appears and tells Skylar that the police are on their way. In a rage, Skylar Rodke realizes that Chris Rodke sabotaged the plan on purpose, out of jealousy of his fathers affection towards Skylar Rodke. After getting in an fierce argument the two Rodke brothers try to kill each other, Chris grabs a gun from Oliver and starts shooting wildly. Two shots are aimed at Gaia and Jake throws himself in front of them to save Gaia's life. Jake bleeds to death from the gunshot wounds, while Chris and Skylar Rodke are taken into custody. Gaia is completely traumatized by the experience and feels completely broken due to the strong emotional bond she has with Jake. Gaia runs from the crime scene in tears and stops by Prom to give Ed a hug before she leaves from New York forever.

[edit] Protagonists

Gaia Moore: Gaia Moore is a seventeen year old girl with extreme physical prowess, is heavily trained in various martial arts, has an intelligence that is considered slightly above genius, and a defective physiology because she can't feel fear. At the start of the series she has no friends and has just moved to New York city, where she is living with her foster parents George (old friend of Tom Moore) and Ella Niven. She is a freshmen at the beginning of the novel and is 15 (this changes later in the series, and canonically it is considered that she is seventeen and a senior). Initially Gaia is lonely and bitter, and feels ostracized from her fellow classmates (whom she considers inferior and intellectually lacking) and frequently skips school to play chess at the park or to walk around the city sightseeing. She is extremely educated and has a post graduate college level understanding on all her school subjects. At night she wanders around dangerous areas of the city and spends her time fighting criminals and helping people from robbers, murderers, rapists, etc. using her amazing martial arts skills. After she uses her skills, or overtly exerts herself in any way, she experiences a blackout episode where she becomes unconscious for a short period of time. This is due to the enormous amount of stress that she puts on her body from using her unmatched physical skills. In order to compensate for her lack of fear, nature seems to have given Gaia's physical strength, reflexes, and stamina an enormous boost. Her lack of fear also means she has no restrictions placed on her muscles or on her endurance; she can tighten her muscles so much that her bones will break or easily lift up a car with her strength. As well as being in top physical condition, she has been trained for eight years in a variety of martial arts by her father who is part of the CIA. Strangely, Gaia's favorite foods and meals consist of sugary sweets and junk food with many calories. As the series progresses Gaia learns much about her past and develops emotionally to be much more open to people. At the beginning of the series her tragic past has left her scarred and vulnerable to the point that she has completely isolated herself from others. Throughout the series Gaia has a very negative and bitter personality, is constantly in a bad mood and can get angry very easily. She has experienced many hardships and is prone to have this negative and brutish personality and outlook because she is incapable of feeling fear and therefore has no sense of respect for others to make her act humble or well mannered. She also has low self esteem and is constantly unsatisfied with how she looks and is overtly critical of herself.She is said to have a toned and well muscled body, has light blond hair, and deep blue eyes,is around 5'10" and is considered exceptionally beautiful by everyone who sees her.

Tom Moore: Tom Moore is Gaia and D's father and the twin of Oliver Moore (who goes by the alias "Loki"). Tom Moore was a CIA field agent who was so good at his job that he was one of the top agents of the country. His codename was Enigma, and he was very methodical and proficit. As a child Tom Moore was gifted intellectually and this later showed in his work; his razor sharp wits and intuition saved him from death many times. Tom was usually able to outwit his enemies or think of the one and only solution that could save him in a life or death situation. He lived his life in constant fear due to the amount of enemies he had, and usually had many missions around the world. Despite his skills and intelligence, Tom was always one step behind Loki, and he always barely managed to survive Loki's death traps. He cared about Gaia so much he would write her a letter every single day, telling her how his day went, and how much he loved her, but would never mail them because he was scared Loki would try and attack Gaia to get to him, so he would keep all the letters in an envelope. Tom was also deeply in love with his wife Katia and would remember her for one day out of the year, those days were the only times he would let himself cry. His hand to hand skills were not as good as Gaia's but they were good enough that hardly anybody could stand up to him except Loki. Before becoming a CIA officer, Tom was a green beret. Tom was always considered a womanizer and the life of the party, was social, friendly, funny and smart. After his wife Katia's death, Tom became withdrawn and felt emotionally numb. The only time he acted otherwise was when he was introduced to Natasha, who had an uncanny resemblance to Katia. His only meaning in life was Gaia and he became fiercely protective of her. Tom has always felt sad that his brother betrayed him and became a monster. Tom always respected his older brother and remembered their childhood friendship. Because of this, there are times when Tom is reluctant to attack or hurt Loki. He had blue eyes and blond hair, was around 6 feet tall.

Katia Moore: Katia Moore is Gaia's mother, she is the primary reason for Loki (Oliver Moore) to become a terrorist and the start of the series. She was killed when Gaia was twelve by Loki in an accidental assassination.

D Moore:

  D (David) is Gaia's younger brother. He was introduced in the second super edition. He has the ability to see auras. His parents were told he had died in childbirth when he had actually been kidnapped, probably to see if he also had the fearless gene.

Mary: Mary was introduced in the fourth book of the series and was saved by Gaia after being assaulted from her drug dealer Skizz. Mary had a carefree personality, was open minded and caring, had red hair and green eyes and was very thin. She was somewhat of a prankster, sarcastic and felt that Gaia is her sister in someways. Mary came from a rich background and had a very supportive family. She made Gaia feel less isolated and alone in New York. She was Gaia's best friend for a short while. Mary was eventually killed by Loki(Oliver Moore) after he decided that Mary was becoming too close to Gaia and making Gaia become too carefree and happy. Loki tried to make Gaia feel isolated and alone from everyone else, in order to make her susceptible to his eventual introduction to her life. Loki set up Mary's crime scene as if it was a drug assassination from her drug dealer Skizz. Loki shot Mary in front of Gaia, and Mary died in Gaia's arm, right before Loki and Gaia fought each other.

Ed Fargo: Gaia's first friend in New York . He was romantically attracted to Gaia when he met her on the first day at school because he saw her as the only person who didn't pamper him for being paraplegic. After countless times of helping each other out, Gaia and Ed become very close friends. They have late Friday night phone conversations that become practically a ritual. Ed never realizes that Gaia is fearless, he just believes her to be very brave. From the very start of the books Ed realizes that he likes Gaia as something more than a friend. Later on in the book series, Gaia and Ed become romantically involved. However, this relationship comes to an end. After this, an odd tension is left between them. Ed's personality is usually very amiable and friendly. He is funny and has many jokes and one liners that he uses to the great amusement of Gaia often lifting Gaia out of her negative moods, yet unbeknownst to her, he primarily uses his comedy to hide his discomfort, fears, and insecurities. He often follows Gaia around on his wheel chair, and they usually banter with each other and talk about everything. One reason why Gaia doesn't initially leave Ed is because Ed found out that Gaia is an accomplished martial artist. At first she forces herself to talk and stay around him in order to make sure he doesn't talk to others about this, and later she becomes his friend and enjoys his cheerful company. Ed eventually undergoes a surgery and becomes able to walk again. He also dates Heather, who he used to date before his skateboarding accident, and eventually dates Gaia as well. By the end of the Series, Ed is disillusioned with Gaia and her unstable and dangerous lifestyle, and has found another girl who he considers his best friend and potential girlfriend, Kai.

Sam Moon: Sam Moon is Gaia's first romantic love interest in the book. From the instant Gaia saw Sam, she felt strongly attracted to him. Sam is older than Gaia, around 23 years old, at the beginning of the series. He goes to the New York University and is infatuated with Gaia; Gaia is also infatuated with him, although neither realize it. At first, they believe that the other hates them, so they have cold attitudes towards each other. Eventually, Sam breaks up with his girlfriend Heather and starts to seek ways to romance Gaia. Through a misunderstanding, he believes that Gaia hates him and in an act of drunken pity has an affair with Ella Niven, Gaia's foster mother. Eventually Sam ends up dating Gaia for a happy period of time. This period of time is cut short by Loki threatening Sam. After a strained relationship due to Loki's interference Gaia breaks up with Sam, and Sam is eventually caught in an ambush where he is shot at by Josh (his dormitory RA, who works for Loki), and presumably dies. A few books later, Gaia realizes that Sam is not dead, but was taken hostage and put in a prison camp. She saves him, but by that time, she and Ed are dating. Sam thinks he still can get back with Gaia, and is crushed by the reality of the truth. Gaia keeps Sam hidden in her house in order to protect him from Loki. He is discovered by Tatiana and she tells Ed about this. When Ed finds out about Sam and thinks Gaia has been lying to him about Sam's death, he is overwhelmed by jealously and insecurity. They have a big fight, and break up. Sam helps Gaia after her father is abducted from the hospital, but after this he stays out of Gaia's life for most of the book series. Sam ends up being Heather's date to prom. Sam is very intellectual and smart, he is also very well mannered and is very handsome. Sam used to be a big "dork" when he was younger but he decided to change, and began to buy expensive clothes and look after his appearance. Sam, tends to be somewhat of a coward and gets stressed out easily, this is probably due to his ability to over think things. He is usually depicted as very beautiful and has green or brown eyes and black or brown hair depending on the book. At the end of the book series Sam starts to date Heather again.

Heather Gannis: Heather is considered to be the most popular girl at the high school, and thinks she is the one that everybody envies and takes pride that her friends envy her college boyfriend. The first time Gaia meets Heather, she accidentally spills coffee all over her. This is the beginning of their rivalry and relationship. Throughout the series Heather tries to ruin Gaia's reputation and tries to make Gaia feel bad whenever she can. Heather has a group of friends that Gaia terms the "FOH" which is an acronym for "friends of Heather". The "FOH"'s follow Heather's lead and make Gaia feel miserable. Heather is depicted as very shallow and stupid in the beginning of the book series. Heather and Ed used to date, but they broke up after Ed's accident caused him to be in a wheelchair. One of the reasons that Heather always tries to humiliate Gaia is because of the fact that Gaia is not intimidated by her, and also, Gaia is considered by everyone (especially males) to be beautiful. Heather is actually very humble and amiable on the inside, which is why she dated and was drawn to someone as friendly and nice as Ed, but her fears of rejection and failure make her put on an act of toughness at school and act self-centered to boost her morale. Eventually Loki manipulates Heather's rivalry with Gaia and goads her into trying the fearless drug he created. This drug makes Heather fearless for a little while, but the side effects eventually kick in and she becomes blind in the long run. After this, she and Gaia become close friends, when Gaia saves her from an assassination attempt by Loki. After she becomes blind, Heather leaves for a large part of the book series until the very end, when she returns fully recovered from blindness. Even though Heather starts out as a minor antagonist to Gaia, she eventually turns into a strong protagonist and good friend.

Jake Montone: Jake is Gaia's third romantic interest, after Ed. Jake, like Gaia, was well trained in martial arts. Jake is introduced in the second half of the major story arc as a new student at the high school who quickly becomes popular but is not very intellectual. At first Gaia believes him to be an assassin, because he tends to follow Gaia and is extremely trained in martial arts. He eventually becomes Gaia's boyfriend despite being the complete opposite of Gaia's personality. Jake is very arrogant, egotistical and loud. He loves attention and drama. Jake is also very strong as he is a body builder. He is always optimistic and likes challenges, is very confident in his abilities and is extremely competitive. He has tan skin, black hair and green eyes.. He is always trying to prove that he is manly and the best at everything. He gets Gaia to join the school karate team that he creates after promising to buy her donuts. Gaia is irritated by Jake at first, even though she has romantic feeling for him. Jake eventually wins Gaia's heart over after helping her rescue her father in a rescue attempt from Serbia. He also saves Gaia's life by jumping in front of a bullet that was meant for Gaia (Tatiana's assassination attempt on Gaia). Gaia begins to see that Jake has a strong character and is very affectionate towards her. Jake has strong feelings of affection for Gaia and is very protective of her. They begin to date in the last part of the series; unfortunately the strong bond that develops between Gaia and Jake is broken when Jake is shot and killed by Chris Rodke in the final book. Jake's death leaves Gaia traumatized for years to come and makes her feel nauseated at the sight or sound of a gun. He is also the main reason that Gaia decides to leave New York forever.

[edit] Antagonists

Loki: Loki is the main antagonist throughout most of the series. Loki is a pseudonym created by Oliver Moore, Gaia's uncle (and her fathers twin brother). As a child Oliver Moore was usually sick and weakly, he was susceptible to illnesses and contracted a rare disease. He undertook a risky treatment at a young age to help fight this rare disease (which would have killed him). The treatment may have altered his psychological state of mind and led to his eventual aggressiveness and madness later on in his adult life. The treatment also left him sterile, and incapable of having children. From a young age the two twins (Oliver and Tom) were gifted with extraordinary intelligence and reasoning. As the two identical twins matured, Oliver and Tom both gained physical endurance, strength and a mastery over the Martial arts (Oliver was always the best out of the two in hand to hand combat). As a young adult Oliver worked for the CIA, (after catching the eye of a CIA official with a brilliant thesis paper). He later defected from his CIA position to an underground organization lead by Yuri (A terrorist leader who is Katia's father, and Gaia's grandfather)after feeling that the CIA organization was exploitative (Oliver was reassigned to a lower division and Tom took his place for solving a code) and losing his chance at romancing Katia (due to the fact that Tom proposed to marry her). This leads to Oliver working with Yuri, trying to gain Katias trust. This does not work and in frustration and selfishness Oliver eventually incapacitates Tom with sedatives and takes sexual advantage of Katia by posing as Tom, on the night of Tom and Katia's wedding. After Katia is raped, Oliver manages to escape the building but is caught by Yuri, up to this point it was not revealed that Yuri is Katia's father. Oliver is not heard from again for a couple of years and it is strongly implied that he is taken as a hostage and is tortured at a terrorist camp. During this time his mental state may have become unraveled and he may have learned methods to become a terrorist leader. Eventually Oliver (going by the name Loki, by assuming that his "perfect" brother is Apollo) gains control of Yuri's terrorist organization. Through this organization he terrorizes the lives of civilians and becomes a ruthless tyrant, killing and committing illegal and inhuman atrocities to expand his underground organization. It is implied several times throughout the series that while Oliver Moore and Loki refer to the same person, the two are separate identities, with Oliver being meek, weakly, petite, and polite; while Loki is aggressive, ruthless, conceited, abusive towards others and extremely dangerous and emotionally unstable. Loki is an identical twin to his brother so they look exactly the same (except for a slight change of the chin); 6 feet tall, blond and blue eyed. In hand to hand combat Loki is not as good as Gaia, and has fled from her in order to survive. But his skills against other people are unsurpassed. Loki is more capable than Tom at martial arts and is able to incapacitate and kill four grown FBI men within seconds. His fighting style is ruthless and causes extensive irreversible damage to the victim. Loki shows extreme paranoia and has the ability to be very charming when he wants to. He is also a master at lying and can make any story sound believable, he is also extremely intelligent. Throughout the book series, Loki is depicted as having many agents and far reaching connections that he uses at his disposal, his organization is global and he is in command of all. He is immoral and will kill anybody who stands in his way, he also views people as disposable waste and tends to do as he wills. The books strongly imply that this is a result of low self esteem, and a feeling of helplessness as a child and young adult (also a risky medical treatment as a child) that led him to create an all powerful and fearful persona as an adult. At the end of the series, Loki realizes that he needs to turn himself in to a mental hospital in order to not harm any other people. This realization comes after Loki sees part of himself in Chris Rodke and realizes that only tragedy comes from insecurity and selfishness.

David Twain: David Twain is the metaphoric brother of Gaia. Physiologically, he is the same as Gaia Moore; he is incapable of feeling fear. He also grew up on a farm as a young child and was found and trained by Loki. He is introduced in the fourth book of the series. Due to the training he receives from Loki, David becomes insane. David was trained by Loki's organization to believe that Gaia was his superior. Because of this, he develops an intense rivalry with Gaia, unbeknownst to her. Although David is not trained in martial arts like Gaia, his fearless nature gives him similar advantages that Gaia has: super strength, agility, stamina, suppression of pain and complete fearlessness. He becomes obsessed with Gaia to the point that he escapes from the organization and begins to search for Gaia, killing people who look similar to her along the way. He eventually reaches New York and begins to kill people, this is where the book begins. Throughout the book Gaia is actively trying to track him down, as he is a famous serial killer throughout many states. Eventually he tracks Gaia down and enrolls into her school posing as a new student. He kills a girl who looks similar to Gaia: Cassie Green, and almost attacks Mary and Gaia at the park. He sets up a lunch date with Gaia the next day, pretending to have a crush on her. During the lunch date Gaia figures out who he is, and brings him over to the park. She is attacked by him in the park. She barely manages to win in the fight against him (due to the help of Ed) and with the help of Tom Moore, who manages to shoot David with his silenced pistol, after David had incapacitated Gaia. Gaia and Ed leave him there, thinking the police will get to him. David is then killed by Loki, who was observing the fight. Davids part in the story was to serve as a test for Gaia, Loki wanted to find out if Gaia was capable of winning against another genetically fearless person. Because she passed, Loki decided to go ahead with his plans.

Ella Niven: Ella Niven is the wife of George Niven (Tom Moore's old CIA friend). Through the beginning of the Fearless series they act as Guardians to Gaia Moore. Ella is somewhat short, has red hair, green eyes and is vain. She tries to wear revealing and seductive clothes and frequently cheats on George Niven. Gaia does not like Ella Niven at all, Ella is always sarcastic, demoralizing and rude to Gaia. Ella acts in a very caustic way to Gaia because she secretly works for Loki as a sleeper agent, and is seeking Loki's affection. Because Loki is always preoccupied with Gaia, Ella feels replaced (in an emotional way) by Gaia. Ella always acts spiteful and mean towards Gaia because of this and will blatantly lie, steal, and harm Gaia in any way possible. Ella was trained by Loki and knows martial arts, although not as good as Loki or Gaia, she manages to attack Gaia in a surprise attack and hurt her. When Ella learns that Loki plans to move to Europe with Gaia, she becomes enraged and orders an assassination on Gaia. Before the assassination is carried out, she eventually realizes that she and Gaia are both being manipulated by Loki and makes a truce with Gaia, right before she gets killed by the very assassin she hired. Ella is very promiscuous and vain. She also doesn't like her husband, she has killed many people and is neurotic. She is infatuated with Loki and has had affairs with him, she is also deeply scared of Loki. Ella does not believe Loki when she is told that Gaia is fearless.

George Niven: Although initially a good person, and Gaia Moore's guardian at the beginning of the book series. George Niven (Tom Moore's old CIA friend) eventually defects to Loki's side in an attempt to keep better track of Gaia. He is not trusted by Loki, because he is Tom Moore's friend and has spent many years trying to track Loki down. George Niven is eventually killed by Loki, after Loki decides George has nothing else to offer. George Niven is depicted as a kind and gentle person who is very naive to the point of being pathetic. He is blind to his wife's affairs and the contempt his wife has for him. After his wife's death he becomes more and more disillusioned with himself. George is usually described by Gaia as someone who is nice but completely out of it. George Niven is described as having blue watery eyes, having gray and white hair and being chubby.

Josh Kendall: Josh Kendall is another of Loki's henchmen, he is a prototype of the experiment Loki wanted to create. Loki eventually wanted to create an army of Gaia's by genetically cloning them. Josh is his first attempt at cloning. All of the Josh's are tall, muscular, and blue eyed with black hair. There are four Josh clones. Josh 1 poses as Sam's dormitory RA and eventually shoots Sam with a gun in the back, after Sam tells Gaia that Loki is looking for her. Josh 1 also falls in love with Heather, who he was originally meant to test Loki's fearless serum on. After Heather becomes fearless, Josh 1 is killed. Josh 2 is instructed by the first one to protect Heather. During the brief time when Gaia takes Loki's fearless serum the four Josh's try to kill her. Eventually all four Josh's are killed by Loki.

Timmy: Timmy, nicknamed Sideburns Tim by Gaia, was a classmate in Gaia's class. He is introduced in the fifth book. He wore shades, had sideburns and was one of the "cool kids" in Gaia's school. Sideburns Tim invites Gaia to a party. At the party Tim tries to Rape Gaia. He is defeated and is sent to jail. Tim has a journal in which he names himself "Romeo", he clearly states that he is a rapist and makes a list of all the girls he has raped. He also starts a game with other guys in which they get points for having sex with certain girls. He is not heard from after his arrest. Gaia states that she was starting to like him, until she found out he was a sexual predator.

CJ, Marco, and Malcolm: CJ is the first antagonist in the book series, he was in books 1 and 2. He is referenced in the last book of the series as well. CJ is a skinhead, or Neo Nazi. He is part of a white supremacy gang and tries to attack Gaia several times. In the first book he tries to kill Gaia several times, but is shot by Tom Moore, who was secretly tailing both of them.

Marco is another gang member who is tasked with killing Gaia. He ends up with many failed assassination attempts on Gaia, and eventually has sex with Ella Niven. He is killed by Ella Niven as well.

Malcolm is the cousin of CJ. He accidentally sees Gaia at a club and tries to get vengeance by attacking her with a knife. Gaia disarms him and kicks him in the head, knocking him unconscious. Malcolm is described as six feet tall and has many earrings and piercings covering his body.

Droogs: Droogs is the term used to describe the drug users of the Invince drug, in the final part of the series. The Droogs where gangsters or thugs that had taken the Invince drug that the Rodke family had developed. They temporarily became fearless like Gaia and developed the traits that Gaia had, such as super strength, reflexes, suppressed pain sensors and increased stamina. The aftereffects of the Invince drug were devastating, leaving them unconscious, in a coma or very ill. The Droogs were usually the neo nazi group from the beginning of the series; their compensation for the Invince Drug was to find Gaia and kill her. Although they failed in their assassination attempt they almost killed Jake and proved to be harder than usual to beat when Gaia fought them. Their suppressed pain sensors played a huge part in this, as Gaia would deliver devastating blows that broke their limbs, to no avail. Only when the droogs passed out or bled to unconsciousness would they stop attacking. The Invince Drug makes the Droogs hysterical, manic, and completely violent.

Doctor Ulrich Doctor Ulrich worked for the Rodke Family and did gene resequencing on Gaia to make her feel fear, at her request. However, her original genetic code reasserted self after a few weeks. In those few weeks, Gaia was fearful and scared all the time. She also ran from battles rather than fight as she usually did, and she started to cry when she saw a cockroach on her floor. Gaia eventually went back to her fearless nature. Doctor Ulrich eventually tried to kill Gaia in order to understand how to create a complete fearless serum. Gaia was saved before she was killed and Dr. Ulrich was shot to death by Chris Rodke.

Skizz: Skizz was Mary's drug dealer and had tried to rob Mary several times. He is obese and out of shape, he has a beard and was framed for Mary's death by Loki. He is introduced in the fourth book. Gaia eventually tries to gain revenge on Mary's death and tries to kill him but he is killed by Tom before she can get to him. When Gaia first met him she sends him to the hospital after she nearly beats him to death.

The plastic surgeon: The plastic surgeon used to work for Loki and is described as someone who has no soul. His eyes are emotionless and he never smiles. The plastic surgeon was contacted by Ella Niven early in the series, he was introduced in the sixth book. He is tall and has white hair, his eyes are a green and yellow color and are said to look like a cats eye. He is an assassin that also specializes in plastic surgery. Ella hires him to capture Gaia, sedate her and mutilate her face, she does this as the beginnings of her assassination attempt on Gaia. The surgeon mistakes Gaia for another person and ends up capturing someone else. After he is done Ella Niven gladly kills him with a micro bomb she had hidden in a phone booth.

Chris Rodke

Skylar Rodke

Mr.Rodke

Natasha

Tatiana

Yuri

[edit] Titles

Fearless
Sam
Run
Twisted
Kiss
Payback
Rebel
Heat
Blood
Liar
Trust
Killer
Bad
Missing
Tears
Naked
Flee
Love
Twins
UK title - Hurt. US title - Sex
Blind
Alone
Fear
Betrayed
Lost
Escape
Shock
Chase
Lust
Freak
Normal
Terror
Wired
Fake
Exposed
Gone

Super Editions

Before Gaia
Gaia Abducted
The Silent Hand
The Screaming Heart

Fearless FBI

Kill Game
Live Bait
Agent Out
Naked Eye
Naked Women with one eye

[edit] Television Show

A pilot loosely based on the series and given the same name starring Rachael Leigh Cook as Gaia was filmed for The WB. The show took place 5 years after the original Fearless series of books with Gaia now 23 working as an agent for the FBI. The show never made it to air due to casting and other concerns. Its time slot was later filled with One Tree Hill on the network's fall schedule, though it was later considered a serious contender for a mid-season replacement. The pilot was filmed a second time, but issues over the main character could not be resolved. Producers could not show a character without a fear gene showing emotion in a convincing fashion.

[edit] Spinoff

A continuation of the series, Fearless FBI, was introduced in June 2005. As of August 2006, four installments (Kill Game, Live Bait, Agent Out and Naked Eye, in order) have been published. It describes Gaia's post-college life where she takes on the decision to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) instead of the CIA, which her father thought she would join. Will Taylor, Catherine Sanders and Kim Lau are some main characters in the series other than Gaia.

As the series goes on, Gaia develops a romantic relationship with Will, and Catherine becomes her best friend.

[edit] Fans Online

The series was—and still is—widely loved online. Fans have created various extensive fansites, however most of these websites are now years old and no longer updated. Fans still however meet at the very popular site Fearless Forever (www.invisionfree.com/forums/fearless_forever/).

[edit] See also

Fearless (Proposed TV series.)
Fearless Website (The Hidden Bookcase)

Fearless Forever

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