History Literature / Graceling

** Being a human monster. ''Especially'' if you're a woman. Everyone objectifies you for your beauty, and you constantly have to watch for people who want to (sexually) assault you. Oh, and monster animals hunger for your flesh.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Brocker and Roan]]. Averted with Fire and Archer, as Fire knows that Archer sleeps around and doesn't think much of it, beyond frustration for the broken hearts he leaves in his wake.

* SkunkStripe: Queen Roan.

** When Katsa and Po are staying at an inn in ''Graceling'', Katsa notices a man leering at the inn-keeper's daughter. When they speak to him later that night, he mumbles a comment about locked doors.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The Lienid practically worship their princes, and especially Po. Heck, the quote on the trope page is about them!

* AscendedExtra: Giddon. In ''Graceling'', he only appeared in the first third of the book; here, he's one of Bitterblue's closest friends, and we not only find out he's left-handed, [[spoiler: but also that he had a younger twin brother who died falling off Giddon's horse.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Archer's real name is Arklin (which is mentioned exactly ''once'', but no one calls him that, not even the other Lords and Princes.

* BeautifulDreamer: Katsa admires Po this way at least once. Of course, after making sure he's ''really'' asleep of course.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Archer's real name is Arklin, but no one calls him that.

* AscendedExtra: Giddon. In ''Graceling'', he only appeared in the first third of the book; here, he's one of Bitterblue's closest friends, and we not only find out he's left-handed, [[spoiler: but also that he had a younger twin brother who died falling of Giddon's horse.]]

* {{MedicalHorror}}/{{MedicalRapeAndImpregnate}}: One of Leck's great passions was his "hospital" where he would perform surgical experiments. He even raped women for the purpose of having pregnant subjects. His impulse control problems often caused his subjects to die too quickly as he would perform multiple simultaneous experiments on a single person.

* InfoDump: The first few chapters serve mostly to explain the political climate of the Dells, characters' pasts, and their relationships with each other.

** Hannah grows up to be one. We never see it, but it's mentioned in ''Bitterblue'' that she's an army commander.

** It's more apparent in Fire, when we have a mix of names like Brigan and Nash mixed with names like Clara and Hannah.

* CoolHorse: Subverted when Fire chooses a plain, but good-natured gelding instead of the showy mare Cansrel picked for her. Played straight with the river horse that "adopts" her after [[spoiler: her escape from Leck's hideout]].

* DeathByChildbirth: Hannah's mother.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. It's brought up how inconvient it is for Fire, as monsters are drawn to the smell of her blood and she can't go anywhere without a guard.

* {{MedicalHorror}}/{{MedicalRapeAndImpregnate}}: One of Lecks great passions was his "hospital" where he would perfom surgical experiments. He even raped women for the purpose of having pregnant subjects. His impulse control problems often caused his subjects to die too quickly as he would perform multiple simultaneous experiments on a single person.

The Graceling Realm, or The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, is a YoungAdult fantasy trilogy by Kristin Cashore. It is set between the Seven Kingdoms, where people born with exceptional skills are known as [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual "Gracelings"]] and feared, and the Dells, a land filled with [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife deadly and beautiful beings]] refered to as "monsters".

''Fire'', the second book, a prequel set nearly forty years prior, is about the titular Fire, the last human monster in existence. With her monster status comes [[SoBeautifulItsACurse impossible beauty]] and the abilty to read and control minds, as well as the legacy of her father, a true monster who nearly tore the Dells apart. Aware of her power, [[BlessedWithSuck and afraid of it]], Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people and temptation. Until the day comes when she is needed by her king, and Fire soon finds herself more entangled in the Dells political struggle than she could ever have imagined.

** It's more apparent in Fire, when we have a mix of names like Briggan and Nash mixed with names like Clara and Hannah.

** Randa agrees to find a wife for desperate borderlord from a neighbouring kingdom, provided he gets the dowry.

* LaResistance: The Council is a mild version of this. At first they're not interested in taking down any kings, merely just off-setting the damadge they do, but by ''Bitterblue'' they're supporting one kingdom overthrowing their king and replacing him with a democracy.

* StayInTheKitchen: As you'd expect from a medieval fantasy world, but for once it's acually adressed rather than just accepted. Katsa points how ridiculous it is that women are supposed to rely on men to protect them, when chances are it'll be men that want to harm them as well.
** The Delians, being the more advanced and forward-thinking country, have allowed women to become full members of the army. Only recently, but still way better than the Seven Kingdoms.

* DecoyProtagonist: King Randa of the Decoy Villan variety.

* EmbarrassingFirstName: Po's real name is ''Greening Gandemallion''.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone, from Po to Randa, was aware of Giddeon being in love with Katsa. Oh, and that Katsa and Po liked each other.

* RunningGag: Katsa "abusing" her horses from overwork. Probably also qualifies as Somewhere an Equestrian is Crying. Seriously, she rides her horses full tilt at night for hours because its "only" five or six more leagues until they get home and she's too impatient to wait for morning. One of the other characters asks if she is still ruining the horses.

* VitrolicBestBuds: Katsa nad Po, to some extent.

* HeroicBSOD: Fire had one after [[spoiler:she kille her father]]. And another when [[spoiler:she finds Archer's body]].

* LukeIAmYourFather: For three seperate characters.

* DreamworsFace: Po at the end of Chapter Six.

* DreamworsFace:
po at the end of Chapter Six.

* MismatchedEyes: The tell-tale sign of a Graceling.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Death, The Royal Librarian of Monsea's name is pronounced like "teeth." Bitterblue gets it wrong just to annoy him sometimes.

* ShutUpHannibal: Randa gives Katsa a HannibalLecture when she refuses to obey him. She responds by telling him exactly how she could kill every guard in the throne room and himself, before leaving.

-->''"Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?"''

The Graceling Realm, or The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, is a YoungAdult fantasy trilogy by Kristin Cashore. It is set between the Seven Kingdoms, where people born exceptional skills are known as [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual "Gracelings"]] and feared, and the Dells, a land filled with [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife deadly and beautiful beings]] refered to as "monsters".

The first book, ''Graceling'', focuses on [[ActionGirl Katsa]], who is [[CursedWithAwesome Graced in killing]] and is forced to [[ProfessionalKiller utilize her gift]] for her uncle King Randa's dirty work. She long ago accepted she'd always be Randa's savage dog, hated and feared. But when she crosses paths with fellow Graceling Po she begins to reconsider that, and together they unravel a mystery that puts all seven kingdoms at risk.

''Fire'', the second book, a prequel set nearly forty years prior, is about the titular Fire, the last human monster in existence. With her monster status comes [[SoBeautifulItsACurse impossible beauty]] and the abilty to read and control minds, as well as the legacy of her father, a true monster who nearly tore the Dells apart. Aware of her power, [[BlessedWithSuck and afraid of it]], Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people and temptation. Until the day comes when she is needed by her king, and Fire soon finds herself more entangled in the Dells political struggle than she'd ever have imagined.

The last in the trilogy, ''Bitterblue'', returns to the Seven Kingdoms, follows Bitterblue from the second half of ''Graceling''. Thirty-five years under the thumb of her cruel father and his terrifying Grace have left Monsea in shambles, and now Queen Bitterblue has to pick up the pieces. Her advisers believe they should pardon all of those who committed terrible acts during Leck's reign and to forget every dark event that ever happened in that time. Monsea's past has become shrouded in mystery, and it's only when Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her castle to walk the streets of her own city, that she realizes the true state of her country. Her kingdom has been under the spell of a madman for thirty five years, and now their only chance to move forward is to revisit the past.

** Randa agrees to find a desperate borderlord from a neighbouring kingdom a wife, provided he gets the dowry.

** [[spoiler: Po's ability to read minds and sense people really does suck, since no one would trust him. For good reason.]]

* LaResistance: The Council is a mild version of this. At first they're not interested in taking down any kings, merely just off-setting the damadge they do, but by Bitterblue they're supporting one kingdom overthrowing their king and replacing him with a democracy.

* OnePersonOnePower: Each Graceling has one Grace, although it is possible to elaborate on it.
* StayInTheKitchen: As you'd expect from a medieval fantasy world, but for once it's acually adressed rather than just accepted. Katsa points how ridiculous it is that women are supposed to rely on men to protect them, when chances are it'll be men that want to harm them.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Monsters can come in all shades. Cansrel, Fire's father, had blue-silver hair.
** Raffin makes a medicine you rub into your scalp to cure a headache, and temporarily turns your hair blue.

* AttemptedRape: Katsa might've been raped by her older cousin when she was younger if she didn't, y'know, accidently kill him out of self-protection. Also this might've happened to ''Bitterblue'' if her mother didn't protect her from her psycho dad.

* BerserkButton: Do NOT imply that Po is Katsa's "sensible keeper". Or anything of that sort.

* CrapsackWorld: Downplayed As long as you don't offend any of the kings and live as isolated as possible, you should be all right. Usually.
* CursedWithAwesome: Katsa's [[spoiler:real]] Grace: [[spoiler:Survival]]. [[spoiler:King Leck's Grace also qualifies, but he has no moral qualms about utilizing this.]]

* HairTriggerTemper: Katsa, though she [[CharacterDevelopment improves as the novel progresses]].

* PromotionToLoveInterest: Happens to Po about halfway through the book.
* RomanticFalseLead: Poor, poor Giddon.

* {{Telepathy}}: [[spoiler:Po's real grace.]] Note that it works only when people's thoughts are specifically focused on him.
* TheSmartGuy: Raffin
* ThouShaltNotKill: Katsa has this attitude in mind, though she's had to kill plenty of people under her uncle's bidding.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Bitterblue becomes this. Guessing from what WordOfGod says about the Bitterblue-focused sequel, this will bite her in the ass later.

* BodyHorror: Brocker's legs were shattered. Not broken, shattered. By eight men taking turns with mallets.
* BlessedWithSuck: Defines Fire's entire life.

* CrapsackWorld: Very much so, though the royal family are trying to make it less of one.
* DeathByChildbirth: Archer's mother and Hanna's mother.

* EnfantTerrible: Leck. Isn't it nice to know that [[spoiler: torturing animals and killing people]] has been going on his whole life?
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Fire loves animals and they love her.

* HeroicBSOD: Fire has one after [[spoiler:she kills her father]]. And another, years later, when [[spoiler:she finds Archer's body]].

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:See SelfMadeOrphan]].
* {ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Brigan's mind is so disciplined that he can block Fire's powers, which unsettles her, but is also a part of what makes her fall for him.

* IllGirl: Garan is an Ill Man.
* InverseLawOfFertility: A variation. Fire, as mentioned, wants children, and she's physically capable of having them [[spoiler:at least until she utilizes a permanent form of FantasyBirthControl]] but she doesn't dare, because she doesn't want to give birth to someone who could become another Cansrel.

* LadykillerInLove: Archer is a slut, but he does love Fire.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Hoooooo boy. [[spoiler:Fire I Am Your Grandmother, Archer I Am Your Real Father (semi-subverted since Archer always knew he wasn't really Brocker's son), and Brigan I Am Your Father.]]
* MoralityPet: In a rare instance, TheProtagonist ''is'' the pet; Fire was this to Cansrel. Hanna to Brigan, too, although he's not mean, just cold.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. The blood draws even ''more'' predators to Fire.

''Fire'', the second book, a prequel set nearly forty years prior, is about the titular Fire, the last human monster in existence. With her monster status comes [[SoBeautifulItsACurse impossible beauty]] and the abilty to read and control minds, as well as the legacy of her father, a [[CompleteMonster true monster]] who nearly tore the Dells apart. Aware of her power, [[BlessedWithSuck and afraid of it]], Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people and temptation. Until the day comes when she is needed by her king, and Fire soon finds herself more entangled in the Dells political struggle than she'd ever have imagined.

The Graceling Series, or The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, is a YoungAdult fantasy trilogy by Kristin Cashore. It is set between the Seven Kingdoms, where people born exceptional skills are known as [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual "Gracelings"]] and feared, and the Dells, a land filled with [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife deadly and beautiful beings]] refered to as "monsters".

''Fire'', the second book, a prequel set nearly forty years prior, is about the titular Fire, the last human monster in existence. With her monster status comes [[SoBeautifulItsACurse impossible beauty]] and the abilty to read and control minds, as well as the legacy of her father, a [[CompleteMonster true monster]] who nearly tore the Dells apart. Aware of her power, [[BlesseWithSuck and afraid of it]], Fire lives in a corner of the world away from people and temptation. Until the day comes when she is needed by her king, and Fire soon finds herself more entangled in the Dells political struggle than she'd ever have imagined.

''Graceling'' is a fantasy YoungAdult novel by first-time author Kristin Cashore. The heroine, [[ActionGirl Katsa]], is "Graced" with [[CursedWithAwesome the power to kill with her bare hands]] and is forced to [[ProfessionalKiller utilize her Grace]] for her uncle King Randa's dirty work. Scorned and feared because of her Grace, Katsa remains relatively friendless and accepts the fact that people won't ever be comfortable or brave enough to look into her [[MismatchedEyes blue-and-green eyes]]. When she encounters a Graceling prince on one of her missions, Katsa has no idea how her life will begin to change...

It also has a SpinOff, ''Fire'' (examples listed on its own, further down the page), taking place in the Dells, east of the original setting. The only character who shows up from ''Graceling'' is Leck. In the Dells, there are no Gracelings; instead, there are 'monsters', animals with oddly-colored fur, all of which are mind-bogglingly beautiful and can fuzz people's minds. Furthermore, predator monsters are particularly fond of other monsters.
Yes, human monsters exist - or one still does: the titular Fire. Aside from getting hit hard with AMindIsATerribleThingToRead and SoBeautifulItsACurse, and attracting predator monsters like nobody's business, she has an extra, nasty burden - her father Cansrel's legacy. Cansrel was a monster in more than the literal sense and ruled the kingdom through the old king. He also brought it to ruin. Fire is therefore hated and distrusted by AllOfTheOtherReindeer, and her only friends are her horse, Small; her surrogate father Brocker; and her lover, Brocker's adoptive son, Archer. When Prince Brigan, brother of the current king, calls her to the capital to help the government (her monsterness gives her mind-control powers that she hates to use), Fire has a pretty good idea her life is going to change.

The trilogy has been rounded off now with the third book ''Bitterblue''. Though a direct sequel to the first book, examples are also listed separately as they will contain spoilers to Graceling.

!! ''Fire'', provides examples of:

!!''Bitterblue'', provides examples of:

!!Provides examples of:

* ActionGirl: Katsa. Bitterblue is slowly heading towards this direction.
* AerithAndBob: Most of the characters, including royalty, have Medieval-sounding one or two syllable names: Katsa, Raffin, Faun, Leck, Oll, Skye, Helda, Randa, Ashen. But then there's Bitterblue and Greening Grandemalion (who goes by Po, but still)...

* ArrangedMarriage: King Randa is trying to get Katsa into one of these to be rid of her. His son Prince Raffin is dreading this.

* BattleCouple: Katsa and Po, eventually.
* {{Badass}}: Katsa and Po, considering how they use their Graces in combat.

* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: Po's ability to read minds and sense people really does suck since no one would trust him. For good reason.]]
** If you're lucky and your Grace is useful to the king of whatever country you live in, you'll be kept at court. If you're unlucky, then you get sent home, where you'll most likely be ridiculed for your useless Grace. If you're ''really'' lucky, you live in Lienid, where the Gracelings are free and treated with something like respect.

* DeadpanSnarker: Katsa has traces of this earlier in the novel.

* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: The Gracelings.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone except Katsa knew that Giddon had a crush on Katsa. Oh, and that Katsa and Po liked each other.

* ImportantHairCut: Strangely enough Bitterblue's haircut and not Katsa's. Bitterblue's haircut symbolizes she's no longer a pampered, sheltered princess. Katsa just found long hair annoying.
* KissingCousins: See Childhood Marriage Promise up above.

* LaResistance: Katsa's Council is a mild version of this.

* MassHypnosis: [[spoiler:Not only Leck's Kingdom, but everyone who personally meets King Leck. In fact, anyone who hears King Leck, and then talks to other people, who then talk to ''other'' people, taking this SerialEscalation.]]
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Mind readers are very unhappy people.
* MismatchedEyes: This is the Graceling indicator.
* ObliviousToLove: Katsa, full stop. Not just to Po's love for her, but to her own love for Po.

* RunningGag: Katsa "abusing" her horses from overwork. Probably also qualifies as Somewhere an Equestrian is Crying. Seriously, she rides her horses full tilt at night for hours because its 'only' five or six more leagues until they get home and she's too impatient to wait for morning. One of the other characters asks if she is still ruining the horses.

* StayInTheKitchen: Society's opinion of women.
* SuperpowerLottery: Graces can be anything from being good at climbing trees to dancing to mind reading.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Katsa has this attitude in mind though she's forced to kill plenty of people under her uncle's bidding at first.
* TheirFirstTime: Katsa and Po, once again.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Bitterblue. She even realizes that "Po was in a position to see Katsa naked" at ''10 years old''.

* WithMyHandsTied: While Katsa doesn't actually get tied up, she trains in order to counter a situation like this.

!! The SpinOff, ''Fire'', provides examples of:

* [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Absurdly Youthful Father]]: [[spoiler:[[SpearCounterpart Brigan.]]]]
* ActionGirl: Fire's guard contains over five hundred of these thanks to Brigan. Hanna is confirmed. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of way, in the third book, Hanna is mentioned to have succeeded her father as army commander.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Ah, Fire.
* {{Amazing Technicolor Wildlife}}: Animal monsters.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Again.
* {{Bi The Way}}: Fire's first lover was a maid named Liddy, whom Cansrel sent away to end their relationship.

* BlessedWithSuck: Defines Fire's life.

* {{Closed Door Rapport}}: Fire insists on this with Nash at first, since seeing her face reduces him to a babbling idiot. Eventually he gets better.
* {{Cool Horse}}: Subverted when Fire chooses a plain, but good-natured gelding instead of the showy mare Cansrel picked for her. Played straight with the river horse that "adopts" her after [[spoiler: her escape from Leck's hideout]].

* {{Friend To All Living Things}}: Fire loves animals and they love her, especially since she can sense their minds.
* {{Friend To All Children}}: Fire again, which is why her resolution to remain the last of her kind is so difficult to keep. She compensates by taking care of her friends' children.
* {{Friends With Benefits}}: Fire and Archer. He wants to marry her, but the more he asks, the more it irritates her.
* {{Genius Ditz}}: Clara may seem silly at first meeting, but she's actually one of the Dells' highest-ranking spymasters.

* {{I Love You Because I Cant Control You}}: Brigan's mind is so disciplined that he can block Fire's powers, which unsettles her, but is also a part of what makes her fall for him.
* {{If You Die I Call Your Stuff}}: Just before a dangerous mission, Fire jokingly does this in order to get a sleepy Brigan to pay attention.
* {{Ill Girl}}: Garan is an Ill Man.

* LastOfHerKind: And Fire is damn well going to keep it that way.
* {{Like Parent Like Spouse}}: [[spoiler: No wonder Fire falls in love with gray-eyed, stoic, military genius Brigan. He's Brocker's son.]]

* {{Not So Different}}: The core message of [[spoiler: Leck's]] BreakingSpeech o Fire.
* {{Offing The Offspring}}: [[spoiler: Archer is shot by his biological father (see {{Rape As Backstory}}), though it's not known if either one knew about it.]]
* OnePersonOnePower: Each Graceling has one Grace, although it is possible to elaborate on it.

* {{Only Known By Their Nickname}}: Archer's real name is Arklin, but no one calls him that.
* {{Parental Substitute}}: Brocker to Fire, even while Cansrel was still alive.

* {{Sibling Love Triangle}}: Nash/Fire/Brigan.

* {{Sexy Shirt Switch}}: Archer finds this "impossibly sweet", oblivious to the fact that Fire's doing it to cover up some bruises.
* {{Shotacon}} and {{Lolicon}}: Nax and Cansrel are mentioned to have had children from the court 'to make a change from the women'.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: ''Heavily'' deconstructed with Fire. She gets an extra, even worse facet, though: The same beauty makes her a predator magnet of both the animal ''and'' human variety, to the point that she is assigned a permanent twenty-person guard and isn't even allowed to sleep alone -- two of her female guards must always be with her -- once she's at the palace, as there are too many people who might want to hurt her, or even just barge into her rooms for the sole purpose of staring at her or touching her hair.
** The book is very good at taking the idea of someone being 'impossibly beautiful' to the point of being nearly irresistible and showing ''just how awful that would be''. Even leaving aside all of the obvious drawbacks mentioned above, there are smaller, more emotion-based ones that would be just as psychologically hard to deal with. Much of human empathy comes from how people look; the crappier someone looks, the more likely a person is to feel sympathy/empathy for them and reach out with comfort and understanding. Even when beaten, bruised, sickly, and crying, Fire is still the most gorgeous creature in the Dells. How she looks will almost never reflect how she truly feels. Fire herself puts it best:
--->"I'm not how I look," [Fire] said suddenly, bursting into tears. "I look beautiful and placid and delightful, but that's not how I feel. I will be sad. I will be sad, and confused, and irritable, very often."

* SpinOff
* StayInTheKitchen: Brigan defies this on a wide scale. Thanks to her , women are now permitted to become full members of the army.
* {{Tall Dark And Handsome}}: Subverted with Brigan. He's got the tall and dark part down, but he is explicitly described as being quite plain in appearance, and certainly not handsome.
* {{They Call Him Sword}}: Archer
* TrueCompanions
* {{We Can Rule Together}}: [[spoiler: Leck wants Fire as his "partner". Her answer is to send him falling into some sharp rocks, explaining why he has an eyepatch in the later book.]]
* {{We Have Ways Of Making You Talk}}: Fire herself, albeit very reluctantly and after much persuasion, uses her monster powers to interrogate prisoners. Justified as she's working to prevent a three-way war.

* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Nax was the SpearCounterpart.]]
* {{Worthy Opponent}}: Fire has a certain respect for Murgda, one of the rebel leaders.
* {{Wrong Context Magic}}: Leck is a Graceling in a country that's never heard of them.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Monsters. Cansrel had literal blue hair.

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!! The final book in the Seven Kingdoms Trilogy, ''Bitterblue'', provides examples of:

* [[BiTheWay Bi The Way:]]: Saf.

* CompleteMonster: Leck. The story is about the Kingdom of Monsea recovering from his tyrannical rule, normally this trope falls into YMMV but the following tropes detailing his acts leave no doubt, and in-universe he's considered one as well.
** CompellingVoice > MassHypnosis > GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul allowing him to get away with...
*** MindRape: The short version of the above.
*** DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Averted. Sci-fi rape, yes. Double standard, no.
*** RapeAsBackstory: The backstory of the entire Kingdom is how Leck raped it, not just the many women he raped specifically. [[spoiler: towards the climax it is revealed that Leck used his powers to make others rape and torture for him.]]
*** MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: [[spoiler: Leck would rape women in order to perform medical experiments on pregnant women.]]
*** MedicalHorror: One of Lecks great passions was his "hospital" where he would perfom surgical experiments. His impulse control problems often caused his subjects to die too quickly as he would perform multiple simultaneous experiments on a single person.
*** [[spoiler: ChildByRape:]] [[spoiler: Hava is the daughter of Leck and his sculptor Bellamew. Her mother kept her safe from Leck by pretending she had died.]]
*** BrainwashedAndCrazy: Everyone he affected with his voice, forcing several to do horrible things to other human beings.

* {{It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY}}: Although this information is of questionable relevance to this record; Death, the Royal Librarian of Monsea , would merely like to remind everyone that his name is pronounced to rhyme with 'teeth'.
* [[LoliCon Lolicon]]: [[CompleteMonster Leck]], of course. ( [[ParentalIncest Even towards his own daughter.]]) [[NightmareFuel Because he wasn't disturbing enough yet!]]
* [[KingIncognito Queen Incognito]] The plot is mostly kicked off by Bitterblue doing this.
* [[RapeByProxy Rape by Proxy]]: Leck, again. Just to make it worse, he used [[spoiler:''other men'']] as the proxy.