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* BulletTime: [[spoiler:Why Po is so good at fighting]].
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* BadPowersBadPeople: This is the general public's perception of Katsa and what she fears about herself. In reality, though, she hates being forced to use her powers for evil, and when given the option she's more an example of GoodIsNotNice. Then again, [[spoilers: it turns out her powers aren't so evil, possibly playing the trope straight.]] The BigBad of ''Graceling'' plays this trope to the hilt. Fire also suffers from this perception to a lesser extent.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: This is the general public's perception of Katsa and what she fears about herself. In reality, though, she hates being forced to use her powers for evil, and when given the option she's more an example of GoodIsNotNice. Then again, [[spoilers: [[spoiler: it turns out her powers aren't so evil, possibly playing the trope straight.]] The BigBad of ''Graceling'' plays this trope to the hilt. Fire also suffers from this perception to a lesser extent.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: This is the general public's perception of Katsa and what she fears about herself. In reality, though, she hates being forced to use her powers for evil, and when given the option she's more an example of GoodIsNotNice. Then again, [[spoilers: it turns out her powers aren't so evil, possibly playing the trope straight.]] The BigBad of ''Graceling'' plays this trope to the hilt. Fire also suffers from this perception to a lesser extent.
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* LineageComesFromTheFather: Fire obviously takes after her father, having inherited being a monster from him. Partway through the book, however, she realizes that she's neglected to ever think about what she might have inherited from her mother--including her mother's family.
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* NasalTrauma: Katsa recounts the story of how she discovered her Killing Grace: she panicked as a child when an older, royal man seemed to be taking interest in her... and proceeded to smash his nose into his face so hard it killed him. She was just a child at the time.
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* StoryBreakerPower: [[spoiler: Leck's Grace of lying, especially since it's contagious.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler: Leck's Grace of lying. Anything he tells you, no matter how absurd, you will believe. Even if you know this is his Grace, it's still almost impossible to resist in person. And it even works (though thankfully to a lesser degree) when it's someone else who's repeating Leck's lies. There is no way to be sure how much he has already used this Grace to mess with your head.]]
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** Before leaving Randa's court, Katsa laments that if she ''did'' kill him, his son Raffin would succeed him, and that his first act as king would be to punish her for the crime. Later, during the climax, she manages to kill [[spoiler: King Leck, in front of a crowd of brainwashed witnesses; his daughter Bitterblue subsequently uses her power as the new queen of Monsea to pardon her for the crime.]]
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* SharedUnusualTrait: The tell-tale sign of a Graceling is their different colored eyes.
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** The tell-tale sign of a Graceling is their different coloredeyes.eyes.
** Monsters can be told apart from regular members of their species because of their extreme beauty and YouGottaHaveBlueHair.
** The tell-tale sign of a Graceling is their different colored
** Monsters can be told apart from regular members of their species because of their extreme beauty and YouGottaHaveBlueHair.
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* SuperpowerLottery: Graces can be anything from being good at climbing trees to mind reading.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Monsters have strangely-colored hair. Cansrel, Fire's father, had blue-silver hair.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Monsters have strangely-colored hair. Cansrel, Fire's father, had blue-silver hair.
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* SuperpowerLottery: Graces A Grace is basically 'incredible to the point of being supernatural skill at one thing'. That one thing can be anything from being good at climbing trees to mind reading.
something useless like 'tree-climbing' or 'licking one's elbows', something useful-but-limited like 'math' or 'cooking', or something ''very'' useful like 'mind-reading', 'killing', 'lying', or 'survival'.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Monsters have strangely-colored hair. Cansrel, Fire's father, had blue-silver hair. Fire herself has fire-colored hair (she was named because of that).
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Monsters have strangely-colored hair. Cansrel, Fire's father, had blue-silver hair. Fire herself has fire-colored hair (she was named because of that).
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* BlindSeer: [[spoiler: Po is blinded after being seriously injured towards the end of ''Graceling'', after which, he uses his grace of perception to see.]]
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*BlindSeer: [[spoiler: Po is blinded after being seriously injured towards the end of ''Graceling'', after which, he uses his grace of perception to see.]]
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* FightingFromTheInside: Po and Bitterblue are pretty good at this. Katsa, not so much.
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* FightingFromTheInside: Po and Po, Ashen, Bitterblue are pretty good at this. Katsa, not so much.much.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Leck]] is the only potential culprit for the plot-triggering kidnapping that is dismissed ''without'' a logical reason. [[spoiler: He did it, and he uses his Grace to make sure he's never considered suspicious.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Leck]] is the only potential culprit for the plot-triggering kidnapping that is dismissed ''without'' a logical reason. [[spoiler: He did it, and he uses his Grace to make sure he's never considered suspicious.]]
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* FridgeLogic: Po has an InUniverse moment of this when he hears about [[spoiler: Leck's supposed good deeds]], and notices the very obvious holes in the story.
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* {{Badass}}: Too many to count.
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''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 ability 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 could ever have imagined.
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''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 ability to read and control minds, as well as the legacy of her father, a [[CompleteMonster true monster]] 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.
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* CompellingVoice: Leck's power.
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* CompellingVoice: [[spoiler: Leck's power.Grace of lying pretty much amounts to this. Since everyone who hears one of his lies believes what he says over any logic and evidence (and it doesn't even have to be from him- you could have heard it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from Leck and still be caught), he can use it to make people do what he wants.]]
* NoSell: Po's Grace makes him entirely immune to [[spoiler: Leck's Grace.]]
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* SuperGullible: ''Everyone'' when confronted with [[spoiler: Leck's Grace for lying. No matter how ridiculous the lie or how far it is from the source, people will still believe him]]. Po is the only one who can see through it.
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''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 ability to read and control minds, as well as the legacy of her father, a [[CompleteMonster true monster 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.
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way (except for Po's Grace) to resist [[spoiler: Leck's]] Grace. Queen Ashen is able to resist it for Bitterblue, and [[spoiler: Katsa kills Leck at the end because she loves Po and he was about to reveal Po's secret.]]
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Cansrel, Fire's father, had blue-silver hair.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Monsters have strangely-colored hair. Cansrel, Fire's father, had blue-silver hair.
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** Leck too. [[spoiler: Though not through legitimate means...]]
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Everyone Leck affected with his voice, forcing several to do horrible things to other human beings.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Everyone Leck affected with his voice, forcing several to do horrible things to other human beings. [[spoiler:Seven years later, she's horrified to find they're ''still'' carrying out his work and covering it up.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: One of [[spoiler:Bitterblue's advisers after she arrests them both on charges of treason and conspiracy. The other one mentions he's considered it but has his family to worry about, so she grants him house arrest.]]
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Fox, who is actually the member of a proud family of thieves. She not only stole the crown but also a ring that belonged to Bitterblue's mother]]
* LogicalWeakness: Po mentions that despite his DisabilitySuperpower he can't see color; Bitterblue feels bad for getting annoyed with him about it after he explains it.
* {{MacGuffin}}: Bitterblue's crown for most of the book. [[spoiler:Eventually she pretends that a fake has been found, to get the thief off the hook.]]
* {{MacGuffin}}: Bitterblue's crown for most of the book. [[spoiler:Eventually she pretends that a fake has been found, to get the thief off the hook.]]
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* UnwittingPawn: Bitterblue is quite unhappy to find out that she has become this, with [[spoiler:her advisors obstructing education in the city, ordering the army to commit atrocities to cover up Leck's crimes, and leaving her in the dark about the real state of affairs]].
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* EvilTaintedThePlace: In the third book we discover that the former ruler of Monsea (who was blessed with an astounding ability to make people believe anything he wanted to), left a nasty taint on the kingdom for his daughter to deal with when she assumes the throne. The good old king in addition to being CursedWithAwesome, was a creepy sadist who had a favorite past time was to go a torturin' his subjects with his gifts. The fall out of having literally hundreds of people mentally tortured into believing things, leaves the new ruler with the problem of having the occasional person or two go completely nuts out of the blue. Needless to say, she tires of it real quick.
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** Bitterblue. [[spoiler: She and Death find confirmation in Leck's journal that Leck kept both Ashen and Bellamew for himself.]]
** Quite possibly at least some others. See MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.
** Quite possibly at least some others. See MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.
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* [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother Absurdly Youthful Father]]: [[SpearCounterpart Brigan.]]
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* NotWantingKidsIsWeird: Giddon flips out when Katsa refuses to marry him and says that one day she will grow to want children, despite her denial.
