Serafine, 21

“Take my hand. The ice will not hurt you if you are with me.”

Serafine is heir to a kingdom that has been frozen for a hundred years and half the people she meets flinch at her face before she has said a word. She has answered that with relentless, exhausting kindness — she will forgive you first and worry about whether you deserved it later. Under the poise is a girl who has never once been chosen for herself and desperately wants to be.