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* ProperLady: Wealthy Lillian presents herself as demure and elegant (in [[{{Foil}} direct contrast]] to foul-mouthed, working-class Cordelia).
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* ProperLady: Wealthy Lillian presents herself as demure is graceful and elegant (in [[{{Foil}} direct contrast]] to foul-mouthed, working-class Cordelia).
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*ProperLady: Wealthy Lillian presents herself as demure and elegant (in [[{{Foil}} direct contrast]] to foul-mouthed, working-class Cordelia).
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* BiTheWay: Aristide enjoys the company of men and women.
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* DrinkOrder: Cyril is fairly attached to his rye and soda.
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* BittersweetEnding: In ''Armistice'', it turns out that [[spoiler: the Catwalk is in trouble, but not as much as the Ospie reporters like to say; Lillian, Jinadh, and Stephen are successfully reunited; and Aristide and Daoud are off to find Cyril, who may actually be dead this time but more likely faked it again.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Jinadh is this for Stephan, though not by choice. His society and Lillians own ambitions means he has never been allowed to claim Stephen as his, and in fact has only met him once.
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* DisappearedDad: Jinadh is this for Stephan, though not by choice. His society (as a man and Lillians a widower, he's basically supposed to be celibate forever) and Lillian's own ambitions means he has never been allowed to claim Stephen as his, and in fact has only met him once.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Gedda is much like Germany, while Porchais is reminiscent of Morocco, Liso takes on elements of other parts of North Africa as well as France, and the Hellican Islands have elements of Britain.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Gedda is much like Germany, while Porchais Porachis is reminiscent of Morocco, Morocco with a Bollywoodesque film industry, Liso takes on elements of other parts of North Africa as well as France, and the Hellican Islands have elements of Britain.
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** Dastya is a port city caught as the central prize in a war between two of Gedda's states.
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** Aristide started life as the son of a poor northern farmer, running to way to Amberlough when he was still very young. We're not told the full details of how he got where he did, but its implied he had to murder, blackmail, and sleep his way to where he is. There are definitely some dark skeletons in his past.
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* BlackSite: The warehouses around the docks become this for the Ospies during the take over of Amberlough. Cordelia is tortured in one, and Cyril is [[spoilers: taken to be executed in one in the finale]].
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* BlackSite: The warehouses around the docks become this for the Ospies during the take over of Amberlough. Cordelia is tortured in one, and Cyril is [[spoilers: [[spoiler: taken to be executed in one in the finale]].
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* TheBeard: Once Cyril is [[spoiler: blackmailed into helping the Ospies, who are, among other things, homophobic]], he needs a fake girlfriend to keep their goodwill. Ari helps him out by asking Cordelia to be his fake mistress, though she figures out the "fake" part pretty quickly.
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* Matriarchy: Porachis (and possibly Liso) are firm gender flipped versions of midcentury western gender standards. The woman are the heads of households and state, and the men are caregivers who are sidelined as 'pretty ornamentation'.
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* Matriarchy: MalignedMixedMarriage: [[spoiler: Sofie Keeler's]] mother is ''not'' happy to discover that her daughter is married to a foreign man and a Chuli woman (whose own parents aren't too happy she married outside the Chuli, for that matter). In fact, she's so unhappy she frames it as a kidnapping when they run away together, which causes some trouble for the young triad.
* {{Matriarchy}}: Porachis (and possibly Liso) are firm gender flipped versions of midcentury western gender standards. The woman are the heads of households and state, and the men are caregivers who are sidelined as 'pretty ornamentation'.
* {{Matriarchy}}: Porachis (and possibly Liso) are firm gender flipped versions of midcentury western gender standards. The woman are the heads of households and state, and the men are caregivers who are sidelined as 'pretty ornamentation'.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The rhetoric and rise of the Ospies are clearly modelled after the Nazi Party.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The rhetoric and rise of the Ospies are clearly modelled modeled after the Nazi Party.Party, from their hatred of the ethnic minority the Chuli to their suspicion of "foreigners" to their homophobia.
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* {{Polyamory}}: A subplot in the first book revolves around helping a rich Ospie's free-thinking daughter escape Gedda with her husband ''and'' wife.
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* BeneathNotice: As Pulans secretary, and as a man in Porachis, Daoud is this in spades. Cordelia even notes at one point that he probably has the most knowledge of the goings on in Hadharati of all of them.
** Jinadh falls into this category too, as a Porachin man and a reporter. He even uses this to his benefit to [[spoiler: spy for Lillian]].
** Jinadh falls into this category too, as a Porachin man and a reporter. He even uses this to his benefit to [[spoiler: spy for Lillian]].
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* BlackSite: The warehouses around the docks become this for the Ospies during the take over of Amberlough. Cordelia is tortured in one, and Cyril is [[spoilers: taken to be executed in one in the finale]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Finn has shades of this. First introduced as just as coworker of Cyril's that he uses as cover to get around the city, as [[spoiler: Aristide escapes and Cyril is arrested, Cyril quickly realises that Finn is the one person who has enough knowledge to lead the Ospies to Aristide. Finns presence and death is a lynchpin of the whole finale]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Finn has shades of this. First introduced as just as coworker of Cyril's that he uses as cover to get around the city, as [[spoiler: Aristide escapes and Cyril is arrested, Cyril quickly realises that Finn is the one person who has enough knowledge to lead the Ospies to Aristide. Finns presence and death is a lynchpin of the whole finale]].
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* DisappearedDad: Jinadh is this for Stephan, though not by choice. His society and Lillians own ambitions means he has never been allowed to claim Stephen as his, and in fact has only met him once.
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* SexySecretary: Daoud is Pulan's secretary and is often described as being very effeminately pretty, which he really doesn't like.
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* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler: Aristide has become this by the second book]]
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* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler: After the events of Amberlough and Cyril's supposed death, Aristide has spent the last 3 years drinking his pain away]].
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* LawOfInversePaternity: Played with by Lillian in-universe. [[spoiler: As a member of the royal family of a matriarchal society, Jinadh being revealed as Stephans father would cause a lot of problems, so Lillian quickly sleeps with a college and claims he is the father.]]
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: We never find out what name Aristide used to conduct his criminal business, but when he whispers it in another characters ear to prove he is more than the pampered drunk he appears to be, said character reacts with a pretty healthy amount of fear.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: For both of Cyril's 'deaths'. First he is pulled out to sea and written off as deceased, and then when we next get wind of him next, he has been working as a spy for Liso, but is again suspected dead after he disappeared and his home is found abandoned]].
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* WhosYourDaddy: To protect her career and [[spoiler: Jinadh's standing with his family, Lillian spends the first 8 years of Stephens life keeping his true parentage a secret]].
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoilers: In Armistice, Memmediv starts working against the Ospies and with the main characters. Its less of a true turn, and more of an 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoilers: [[spoiler: In Armistice, Memmediv starts working against the Ospies and with the main characters. Its less of a true turn, and more of an 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The first book ends with Cyril apparently dead, Aristide having fled the country as a refuge, and Cordelia left in the now completely overtaken Amberlough City.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The first book ends with Cyril apparently dead, Aristide having fled the country as a refuge, refugee, and Cordelia left in the now completely overtaken Amberlough City.]]
