History Literature / Doppelganger

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* AlliterativeTitle: '''''W'arrior and '''W'''itch''.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler: Satomi]] in ''Witch''. She lies, cheats, generally manipulates the hell out of people, and trusts no one with the whole truth of anything, yet her motivations are ultimately for the good. To her, the ends justify the means.

* BloodOath: Mirage and Eclipse take one at the beginning of ''Warrior''. At the beginning of ''Witch'', [[spoiler: Eclipse is forced to take another one to kill Mirei. He'd never actually do it, of course, and Mirei spends a large portion of the rest of the book trying to figure out how to get him out of it before he dies himself.]]

* CantLiveWithoutYou: Inverted. [[spoiler: Unless one kills the other, neither a witch nor her doppelganger can die if the other is still alive.]]

* ElementalPowers: Magic is based on the four elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire. There is a fifth element, Void, which is important in other aspects of religion and society but has no magic associated with it. [[spoiler: Or so they think.]]
* EvilRedHead: Shimi, [[spoiler: Arinei]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Arinei]], but you saw it coming a mile away.

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: Satomi]] after her HeelFaceTurn. Probably Mirage too--she's definitely not someone you'd want to run into in a dark alley.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Satomi after she learned the truth about Doppelgangers. Also Kekkai after Satomi tells her that the Primes had her predecessor killed.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Miryo, after [[spoiler: killing the Cousins to escape the house where she was being imprisoned]]. Also [[spoiler: Mirei]] temporarily, when Satomi tells her that [[spoiler: Eikyo has supposedly become a Cousin]]. Even later, Indera has one after she [[spoiler: kills Sharyo]].

** Ashin is prepared to do this when she and [[spoiler: Mirei]] go to rescue Kekkai. [[spoiler: She does.]]

* HeroWorshipper: Deconstructed/subverted/''something'' with Indera, who first wants to be just like Mirage and thinks she can do no wrong. But after she finds out about [[spoiler: Mirei being a witch and the fact that Mirage as such no longer exists]], she feels that Mirage has betrayed her and refuses to stay in her presence. This causes more than a few problems.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Tajio]] in ''Witch''.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Satomi in ''Warrior'', when she realizes what [[spoiler: Mirei's]] very existence means about her past actions. In ''Witch'', Indera after [[spoiler: being brainwashed into killing Sharyo]].

* RedOniBlueOni: Arguably, Mirage and Eclipse, or even Mirage and Miryo (because everyone's blue compared to Mirage). Later, and less ambiguously, [[spoiler: Mirei]] is red to Satomi's blue.

* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler: Mirei tries to do this to keep Eclipse's falsely sworn oath from killing him. In a miracle of DivineIntervention, this ends up saving them both.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: the Primes]] in the first book, Shimi and Arinei in the second.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: It is stated that Mirage and Eclipse feel this way about each other. At the end of ''Witch'', however, it is implied that [[spoiler: Mirei and Eclipse]] aren't inhibited by such things.

* PowerOfTheVoid: [[spoiler: Mirei discovers that the Void does have magic, which can only be accessed by witches who have recombined with their Doppelgangers. This makes her extra special since she's the only one in the story who can use it.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: There is a ''reason'' [[spoiler: Mirei's name]] is spoiler-tagged throughout this entry. It's pretty easy to infer [[spoiler: the main resolution of the first book's plot]] just from seeing it. This isn't helped by the fact that it's just thrown around casually by the second book's jacket summary. *facepalm*

* {{Badass}}: Mirage and Eclipse. Later also Satomi, Ashin, and [[spoiler: Mirei]]. Amas, Lehant, and Indera are badasses-in-training.

* RedheadedHero: All the main protagonists except Eclipse. It comes with the in-story demographic.

* TheBechdelTest: This series contains exactly two male characters of any importance, one of whom appears in only a handful of scenes. Needless to say, it passes with flying colors. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find an incidence of it passing a ''reverse'' Bechdel Test, given that Eclipse and Jaguar spend most of their scenes together talking about Mirage, the witches, or [[spoiler: Mirei]].

* BlondeGuysAreEvil: Eclipse averts this trope hardcore.

* TookALevelInBadass: Ashin in ''Witch''.

* FantasticHonorifics: Sixteen of them, based on [[FantasticRankSytem rank]].

* BigGood: [[spoiler: Satomi]] in ''Witch''...for some value of "good".