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* LoveRedeems: Slightly downplayed. Rat's love for Alice is certainly ''the'' thing that cements his HeelFaceTurn, but he makes it clear in ''The Choice of a Group'' that his first attempts to leave the life of crime happened long before a romance with Alice was even a possibility.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In ''Starship on a Grill'', when Alex has vanished without a trace [[spoiler:in a parallel world with high volcanic activity and seemingly no sapient life]], Rat thinks that him losing his child is a delayed punishment [[ItsAllMyFault for his own crimes]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Alex is found safe and sound]].
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In ''Starship on a Grill'', when When Alex has vanished without a trace [[spoiler:in a parallel world with high volcanic activity and seemingly no sapient life]], Rat thinks that him losing his child is a delayed punishment [[ItsAllMyFault for his own crimes]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Alex is found safe and sound]].
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Rat and Alice are only briefly surprised when they realize [[spoiler:they are in a parallel world]], and even then most of the surprise is caused by [[spoiler:the fact that they were dragged into it thanks to an irresponsible group of kids]] – that's because both of them have already [[spoiler:been to parallel worlds, including at the same time in ''Ghosts Don't Exist'']]. Cnarbr, who is unaware of their history, is astonished at their FantasticallyIndifferent reaction.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Almost everyone in the galaxy is shocked that Alice, a LovedByAll heroine, decides to marry space pirate Rat. Many are convinced the reason is NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Almost everyone in the galaxy is shocked that Alice, a LovedByAll heroine, decides to marry space pirate Rat. Many are convinced the reason is ThereIsNoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.
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** ''The Little White Crows'' are a SliceOfLife oneshot, about the different paths of Yulia and Polina.
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** ''The Little White Crows'' are is a SliceOfLife oneshot, about the different paths of Yulia and Polina.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Almost everyone in the galaxy is shocked that Alice, a LovedByAll heroine, decides to marry space pirate Rat. Many are convinced the reason is TheresNoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.ThereIsNoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.
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* SiblingRivalry: Discussed. Alice is worried that there would be resentment between her twin daughters since Yulia is a shapeshifter but Polina isn't; however, the sisters are thick as thieves, and Yulia doesn't really enjoy shapeshifting anyway.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Almost everyone in the galaxy is shocked that Alice, a LovedByAll heroine, decides to marry space pirate Rat. Many are convinced the reason is TheresNoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Rat recalls how he "quit piracy several times before quitting it for good".
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* ByTheBookCop: Zzzzh is very insistent about following the rules during investigation and questioning.
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* JackOfAllTrades: Alice is an elite Intergalactic Police agent and has a doctorate in biology.
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** ''The Little White Crows'' are a SliceOfLife oneshot, about the different paths of Yulia and Polina.
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* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Rat, disguised as Michael Vernon, and Alice pretend to have an affair so that Volsen doesn't grow suspicious about them spending too much time together. However, it turns into an actual romance very quickly.
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* FireForgedFriends: While calling it a full-flegded friendship is probably a stretch, Ffff and Zzzzh noticeably warm up to Rat as they investigate Alice's disappearance together.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Soon after returning from Betelgeuse, Rat and Alice are assigned a new case. In the epilogue, Milodar orders them to leave for Palaputra on the following day.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cherry jam for Alice. In ''A Stitch of Time'', it becomes a minor plot point when she buys the last cherry pie in stock at the railway station's cafe, leading to the bartender remembering her when Rat comes to search for her two days later.
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** Brastak, apart from the central region, is a sparsely-populated planet, so when Zzzzh learns Alice in 1976 is probably in Leningrad (actually Rat was EntertaininglyWrong in figuring it out), he happily says it's all for the better since it's not the capital and there would be few people. He is astonished when Richard tells him that even in 1976, Leningrad's population was around four million.
** Although Rat is somewhat acquainted with the Moscow of 1976 thanks to the events of ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead'', he knows very little about the Soviet Union's history in general. In particular, he doesn't realize that St.-Petersburg wasn't the only city to go under a different name at that time, so he wastes hours searching for a railway station called Kalinin before finding out it's really the Soviet name for the major town of Tver.
** Brastak, apart from the central region, is a sparsely-populated planet, so when Zzzzh learns Alice in 1976 is probably in Leningrad (actually Rat was EntertaininglyWrong in figuring it out), he happily says it's all for the better since it's not the capital and there would be few people. He is astonished when Richard tells him that even in 1976, Leningrad's population was around four million.
** Although Rat is somewhat acquainted with the Moscow of 1976 thanks to the events of ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead'', he knows very little about the Soviet Union's history in general. In particular, he doesn't realize that St.-Petersburg wasn't the only city to go under a different name at that time, so he wastes hours searching for a railway station called Kalinin before finding out it's really the Soviet name for the major town of Tver.
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Another SliceOfLife oneshot, this time focusing on Alex's little sisters, twins Yulia and Polina.
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* LikeParentUnlikeChild: Meanwhile, twins Yulia and Polina are quiet, shy bookworms, and everyone is surprised that such children could ever be born to Rat and Alice.
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* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: What the sisters grow up to be. Polina is a sweet, bubbly blonde who prefers frilly dresses and adores jewels. Yulia is pale, serene to the point of often being EmotionlessGirl, and prefers blouses and narrow skirts.
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* CreepyChild: A BlackComedy example in Yulia, who is fond of destructive experiments such as testing gemstones' reactions to various acids and is inspired to pursue a career in law by ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. Luckily for everyone, she has a firm moral compass to go with all that.
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* CreepyChild: A downplayed BlackComedy example in Yulia, who is fond of destructive experiments such as testing gemstones' reactions to various acids and is inspired to pursue a career in law by ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. Luckily for everyone, she has a firm moral compass to go with all that.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: [[invoked]] Polina reads an Aldebaranian book called ''The Adventures of a Lazy Zigl'', a beloved children's classic on Earth that had a ChillyReception in the system of Aldebaran.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time when little Yulia and Polina aren't TheDividual is when they are brought diamond bracelets as gifts from the pirate queen. Polina loves how bright her diamond is, and Yulia begins to think of finding out just ''how'' diamond and coal are made of the same thing.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Polina, similarly to the pirate queen, absolutely loves jewelry and has assembled, according to Yulia, an impressive collection of jewels from all over the galaxy.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Polina, similarly to the pirate queen, absolutely loves jewelry and has assembled, according to Yulia, an impressive collection of jewels from all over the galaxy.
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* JacobAndEsau: Downplayed, since Yulia and Polina are very different from their parents in general, but Yulia resembles Rat and inherits the shapeshifting gene (and some penchant for destruction that she thankfully keeps firmly in check) while Polina favors Alice in looks, isn't a shapeshifter, and becomes a historian (history is Alice's next favorite subject after biology).
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* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Inverted. Alice is an ActionGirl with BoyishShortHair who almost never wears dresses, while Yulia and Polina both wear their hair long and prefer skirts and dresses to trousers.
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[[folder:''The Little White Crows'']]
Another SliceOfLife oneshot, this time focusing on Alex's little sisters, twins Yulia and Polina.
* CreepyChild: A BlackComedy example in Yulia, who is fond of destructive experiments such as testing gemstones' reactions to various acids and is inspired to pursue a career in law by ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. Luckily for everyone, she has a firm moral compass to go with all that.
* GrandparentFavoritism: The pirate queen is much more loving towards her grandchildren than she ever was towards her son, even [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness giving her jewels to her granddaughters]].
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Inverted. Alice is an ActionGirl with BoyishShortHair who almost never wears dresses, while Yulia and Polina both wear their hair long and prefer skirts and dresses to trousers.
[[folder:''The Little White Crows'']]
Another SliceOfLife oneshot, this time focusing on Alex's little sisters, twins Yulia and Polina.
* CreepyChild: A BlackComedy example in Yulia, who is fond of destructive experiments such as testing gemstones' reactions to various acids and is inspired to pursue a career in law by ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. Luckily for everyone, she has a firm moral compass to go with all that.
* GrandparentFavoritism: The pirate queen is much more loving towards her grandchildren than she ever was towards her son, even [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness giving her jewels to her granddaughters]].
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Inverted. Alice is an ActionGirl with BoyishShortHair who almost never wears dresses, while Yulia and Polina both wear their hair long and prefer skirts and dresses to trousers.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: After seeing that Alice has followed him to the mysterious planet where the star-eaters seem to come from, Rat bursts into a long angry tirade in several languages.
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* MythologyGag: Rat is an excellent chess player, a reference to a deleted scene from ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture''.
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* {{Interquel}}: Takes place between the last chapter and the epilogue of ''Murders in Ursa Minor''.
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* {{Interquel}}: Takes place between the last chapter and the epilogue of ''Murders in Ursa Minor''.Minor'', and the epilogue is set between the epilogue of ''Murders'' and the start of ''Starship on a Grill''.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Of all people, [[spoiler:Alex at ''barely four weeks gestation'']] plays the crucial part in foiling Perenn's plans. [[spoiler:Due to krokrys embryos changing shape reflexively in danger, he begins shapeshifting in the time machine. Since the machine is programmed to remember the shapes and sizes of its passengers, it goes haywire and disintegrates in April 1976, still more than two thousand years away from Perenn's goal]].
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Eful Perenn kidnaps Alice when nobody of her relatives except Rat is in the vicinity. He is certain that the latter only married Alice to get a pardon for his crimes, and is flabbergasted when he learns that Rat raised an alarm immediately after she disappeared. [[spoiler:Ironically, despite wanting to ally himself with the tyrant from ''Literature/AMillionAdventures'', Perenn thus ends up making the exact same mistake]].
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Rat notes that he used to be just as power-hungry as Perenn, which probably contributes to [[spoiler:Rat being the one to correctly figure out his chief motivation]].
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* PragmaticVillainy: Discussed. Zzzzh and Richard suspect that Perenn might be planning a TimeCrash. However, Rat points out that Perenn doesn't look like an OmnicidalManiac – he values power, wealth and influence too much to just destroy it all. [[spoiler:It turns out he was right – Perenn's goal in traveling to the past was to achieve even more power]].
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* SuperSenses: The [[spoiler:Valapas grass snake]] has an extraordinary sense of echolocation, far superior to the bats of Earth. It can detect small objects which are an hour's walking time away.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Alex is named after [[spoiler:Alexander "Alik" Borisovich and Alexandra "Shurochka", Alice's friends from the 20th century — making it a weird overlap with NearAndDearBabyNaming]].
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* ''[[https://ficbook.net/readfic/12249549 A Stitch of Time]]'' ([[AnachronicOrder ongoing]])
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* SaveTheVillain: Downplayed, since the character in question is a DirtyCoward {{Jerkass}} rather than an active villain. Alice rescues Ishutin from past!Rat.
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: The resident of the planet Samora who kidnaps Alice is revealed to be the winner of "Do You Know the Solar System?" quiz game mentioned in passing in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfAlice''.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Eful Perenn who kidnaps Alice is outwardly a thoroughly respectable citizen of the Galaxy.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Rat mentions that there are a book and movies about "the mielophone case".
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* StableTimeLoop: Alice persuades [[spoiler:Alik Borisovich and Shurochka]] not to do anything about [[spoiler:her attempted kidnapping from the hospital]] – because they didn't do anything about it in ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead''... because her 23-year-old self persuaded them not to.
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** Alice persuades [[spoiler:Alik Borisovich and Shurochka]] not to do anything about [[spoiler:her attempted kidnapping from the hospital]] – because they didn't do anything about it in ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead''... because her 23-year-old self persuaded them notto.to.
** Alice steals [[spoiler:past!Rat's grass snake]] while the pirates are busy eavedropping by a fence near the school – because she recalls her husband telling her that it went missing on that very day.
** Alice persuades [[spoiler:Alik Borisovich and Shurochka]] not to do anything about [[spoiler:her attempted kidnapping from the hospital]] – because they didn't do anything about it in ''Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead''... because her 23-year-old self persuaded them not
** Alice steals [[spoiler:past!Rat's grass snake]] while the pirates are busy eavedropping by a fence near the school – because she recalls her husband telling her that it went missing on that very day.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Alice tells [[spoiler:Alik Borisovich]] that 1) her younger self will soon get almost kidnapped from the hospital by two criminals, one of whom is a shapeshifter 2) [[spoiler:he and Shurochka]] mustn't go to the police about it 3) one of the criminals will later make a HeelFaceTurn and marry her. [[spoiler:Alik Borisovich and Shurochka]] need several cups of coffee to calm down, and the former remarks he would have drunk something stronger if he hadn't had work the next day.
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* ToThePain: When past!Rat thinks Alice is spying on the pirates and holds her captive for interrogation, he decides to start by threatening her with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_horse_(device) wooden horse]], asking if she knows what it is. Fortunately for her, she [[spoiler:knows it very well since she and his present self use a milder version of it in more SafeSaneAndConsensual activities]], and she says as much, shocking him enough for her to free herself.
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* ToThePain: When past!Rat thinks Alice is spying on the pirates and holds her captive for interrogation, he decides to start by threatening her with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_horse_(device) wooden horse]], asking if she knows what it is. Fortunately for her, she [[spoiler:knows it very well since she and his present self use a milder version of it in more SafeSaneAndConsensual activities]], activities, and she says as much, shocking sending him into a long enough stupor for her to free herself.herself]].
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* TemporalParadox: During her encounter with past!Rat, Alice [[spoiler:gives him her wedding ring]] to convince him to let her go unharmed. Past!Rat, after getting back to the 21st century, [[spoiler:trades it]] for a spaceboat, and his accomplices in turn [[spoiler:sell it to a museum to a small planet]], where it is discovered thirteen years later.
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* TemporalParadox: During her encounter with past!Rat, Alice [[spoiler:gives him her wedding ring]] to convince him to let her go unharmed. Past!Rat, after getting back to the 21st century, [[spoiler:trades it]] for a spaceboat, and his accomplices in turn [[spoiler:sell it to a museum to a small planet]], where it is discovered thirteen twelve years later.
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