Mary Wardwell: Dealing with terrible trauma that she's reliving every night, and the confounding three month memory loss, by reading classical literature. And still teaching. Still doing her job, and helping out her students. Mary, a human who, while interested in local mythology, has no personal knowledge of the occult realities.
Nicholas Scratch: A very highly learned warlock, with experience in conjugation of all types of being, and a binder second only to Edward Spellman, who also chose to take part in a crucial sacrifice for the sake of the whole world... Turns to violently lashing out to the people who care for him, becoming totally erratic, drinking, doing hard drugs, using sadomasochism as a coping mechanism, yelling All The Time... Because he had a really long sumo match.
RAS: And that, children, is called Balanced Storytelling. For you see...