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* {{Expy}}: Caliban and Brenner from the ''Clocktaur War'' duology are dead-on homages to Casavir and Bishop from ''Videogame/NeverwinterNights2''--a broody paladin separated from his order who thinks he can't be with the woman he loves and an unscrupulous killer only along on the trip because he has to be. [[spoiler: Brenner even turns on the group at a crucial moment, just like Bishop, although in Brenner's case it's not his fault, or at least not entirely (an earlier reckless decision re: a demon comes back to bite him).]]
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* BoringButPractical: In ''Nettle and Bone'', Marra's fairy godmother Agnes gave her and her two older sisters the gift of health. Being healthy is pretty much always useful, and doesn't have nasty side effects or unintended consequences. By contrast, the far more grand and exciting-sounding blessing the godmother of the Northern Kingdom gives [[spoiler: is actually a curse and is the reason all its kings die young.]]
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* BecauseYouCanCope: In "Godmother", a FairyGodmother is confronted by a young princess who has just survived a harrowing adventure without any magical assistance, and demands to know why she didn't get any when other princesses in less dire circumstances did. The Godmother answers that she can't help everyone, so she helps the ones who are the least tough.
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* BecauseYouCanCope: In "Godmother", a FairyGodmother is confronted by a young princess who has just survived a harrowing adventure without any magical assistance, and demands to know why she didn't get any when other princesses in less dire circumstances did. The Godmother answers that she can't help everyone, so she helps the ones who are the least tough. [[spoiler:She's lying--or, at least, not telling the whole truth.]]
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Ursula Vernon (born May 28, 1977) is a [[UsefulNotes/HugoAward Hugo]] and Hugo]], [[UsefulNotes/NebulaAward Nebula]] and Lodestar award-winning American fantasy/sci-fi artist and writer. Creator of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pos_3694.jpg Biting Pear of Salamanca]]. She has a fairly considerable Internet following, and has created a number of webcomics, including the very notable ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}''. Her artwork can be seen [[http://www.redwombatstudio.com here]]. She is also on Tumblr ([[http://tkingfisher.tumblr.com personal]], [[http://ursula-vernon.tumblr.com kid-friendly]]) and [[https://twitter.com/UrsulaV Twitter]].
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* WesternRattlers: "Jackalope Wives", a story set in the WeirdWest, after the protagonist's grandson accidentally maims a jackalope, the main character goes into the desert to seek help from the Painted People. The Patterned People are giant rattlesnakes who can take the shape of humans and whose bites have supernatural effects, but who sometimes [[EquivalentExchange ask for a life in return for their help]].
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** Books set in the World of the Whote Rat her (specifically the ''Clocktaur Wars'' duology and ''Swordheart'') are very clear on the consequences of having to ride a horse all day when you have no prior horse-riding experience. Namely: ''ouch''.
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** Books set in her Clocktaur verse (so far, the ''Clocktaur Wars'' duology and ''Swordheart'') are very clear on the consequences of having to ride a horse all day when you have no prior horse-riding experience. Namely: ''ouch''.
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* WackyWaysideTribe: The wackiest. They feature prominently in her art, and crop up frequently in her writing as well. They're usually treated seriously, on their own odd terms.
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** Her paladin romance novels all occur at in an as-yet-unnamed 'verse, containing the political superpower Anuket City, the paladins of the Dreaming God, and the civic-minded priests of the Rat. Halla's lawyer-priest Zale and their boss Bishop Beartongue from ''Swordheart'' show up again in ''Paladin's Grace''.
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** Her paladin romance novels all occur at in an as-yet-unnamed 'verse, containing the political superpower Anuket City, the paladins of the Dreaming God, and the civic-minded priests of the Rat. Halla's lawyer-priest Zale and their boss Bishop Beartongue from ''Swordheart'' show up again in ''Paladin's Grace''. The ''Clocktaur Wars'' duology also takes place in that 'verse.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: A dramatic example in ''Swordheart''. After Sarkis rescues Halla from some attackers but loses track of her in the fray, he asks a nearby sex worker if she's seen her. The sex worker repeatedly tells him she hasn't seen anybody, and he keeps asking...until he realizes that a large, armed man covered in blood who wants to find a lone woman comes off as exactly the kind of person that woman should be getting ''away'' from. The sex worker is lying to help Halla get away. He apologizes and goes to look on his own.
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* GenreDeconstruction: In general it can be assumed that [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality the characters are driving the plot rather than the narrative]] and a ContrivedCoincidence actually ''was'' contrived by someone. Characters even occasionally bemoan the fact that ThisIsReality because it would be so much simpler otherwise.
** Books set in her Clocktaur verse (so far, the ''Clocktaur Wars'' duology and ''Swordheart'') are very clear on the consequences of having to ride a horse all day when you have no prior horse-riding experience. Namely: ''ouch''.
** Books set in her Clocktaur verse (so far, the ''Clocktaur Wars'' duology and ''Swordheart'') are very clear on the consequences of having to ride a horse all day when you have no prior horse-riding experience. Namely: ''ouch''.
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** Books set in her Clocktaur verse (so far, the ''Clocktaur Wars'' duology and ''Swordheart'') are very clear on the consequences of having to ride a horse all day when you have no prior horse-riding experience. Namely: ''ouch''.
** Books set in her Clocktaur verse (so far, the ''Clocktaur Wars'' duology and ''Swordheart'') are very clear on the consequences of having to ride a horse all day when you have no prior horse-riding experience. Namely: ''ouch''.
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* SignatureStyle: Women (or occasionally men) [[ClassicalAntihero with very little knowledge of the supernatural or fighting]] (but some knowledge of gardening) get in far over their head but power through it with good sense and practicality. Expect [[RealityEnsues reality to ensue]], realistic outcomes, [[PlayingWithATrope tropes to be played with]], [[OurMonstersAreWeird and some really weird and evocatively designed critters]] to be scattered about. There is a high likelihood of encountering a SeldomSeenSpecies.
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* ''Literature/TheSaintOfSteel'' series
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* SouthernGothic: Her horror novels, which use the south to the same effect that Stephen King and Lovecraft use New England.
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* TwiceToldTale: ''The Seventh Bride'' (Literature/{{Bluebeard}}), ''Bryony and Roses'' (Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast), and ''The Raven and the Reindeer'' (Literature/TheSnowQueen) as well as most of the stories in ''Toad Words''. In the ''Jackalope Wives'' collection, "Razorback" is based on "Rawhead and Bloody Bones", "The Dryad's Shoes" is based on the version of Literature/{{Cinderella}} with a magic tree instead of a fairy godmother, and "Let Pass the Horses Black" is based on "Literature/TamLin".
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* TwiceToldTale: Quite often. ''The Seventh Bride'' (Literature/{{Bluebeard}}), ''Bryony and Roses'' (Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast), and ''The Raven and the Reindeer'' (Literature/TheSnowQueen) as well as most of the stories in ''Toad Words''. In the ''Jackalope Wives'' collection, "Razorback" is based on "Rawhead and Bloody Bones", "The Dryad's Shoes" is based on the version of Literature/{{Cinderella}} with a magic tree instead of a fairy godmother, and "Let Pass the Horses Black" is based on "Literature/TamLin"."Literature/TamLin".
** She has also written two novels as reinterpretations of classic horror stories, TheTwistedOnes and TheHollowPlaces
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* ''[[http://www.redwombatstudio.com/portfolio/summer-in-orcus/ Summer in Orcus]]''
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* DomesticAbuse: In the "Literature/TamLin" retelling "Let Pass the Horses Black", Janet is a domestic abuse survivor, which means she has experience taking pain unflinchingly that stands her in good stead in the Elf Queen's trials. [[spoiler:Specifically, she suffered abuse at the hands of the Tam Lin character--it turns out at the end that she's only rescuing him as a necessary step toward achieving her real desire.]] This is also a major part of Literature/TheTwistedOnes.
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** In the "Literature/TamLin" retelling "Let Pass the Horses Black", Janet is a domestic abuse survivor, which means she has experience taking pain unflinchingly that stands her in good stead in the Elf Queen's trials. [[spoiler:Specifically, she suffered abuse at the hands of the Tam Lin character--it turns out at the end that she's only rescuing him as a necessary step toward achieving her real desire.]] ]]
** This is also a major part of Literature/TheTwistedOnes.
** In the "Literature/TamLin" retelling "Let Pass the Horses Black", Janet is a domestic abuse survivor, which means she has experience taking pain unflinchingly that stands her in good stead in the Elf Queen's trials. [[spoiler:Specifically, she suffered abuse at the hands of the Tam Lin character--it turns out at the end that she's only rescuing him as a necessary step toward achieving her real desire.
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* OmnidisciplinaryLawyer: Averted in ''Paladin's Grace''. Zale is very clear that they are a ''property'' lawyer, not a criminal lawyer, and they only end up representing Grace [[spoiler: at her murder trial]] because it's an emergency. They do a pretty good job anyway, but their main tactics are to delay and try to get a mistrial declared. Luckily for Grace, [[spoiler: her supposed poisoning victim isn't actually dead, and comes out of hiding the second he realizes an innocent woman is being prosecuted for his "murder".]]
