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* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Squall works for President Wintersea, but he's not happy with the situation, and seems to ally with her because he knows it's [[PragmaticVillainy the best way to ensure his safety in the Republic]]. His own personal goal is to return to Nevermoor and take over; anything he does for her is incidental, and he'll try and run interference if her goals directly oppose his own]].
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* ImmuneToMindControl: Morrigan, probably thanks to being a Wundersmith, is the only person who's almost completely immune to Cadences mesmerism. She ''does'' have a tendency to forget her name early on, but unlike pretty much anyone else she never forgets that Cadence exists, and is not affected by her JediMindTrick.
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* ImmuneToMindControl: Morrigan, probably thanks to being a Wundersmith, is the only person who's almost completely immune to Cadences Cadence's mesmerism. She ''does'' have a tendency to forget her name early on, but unlike pretty much anyone else she never forgets that Cadence exists, and is not affected by her JediMindTrick.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** Inspector Flintlock, at least when it comes to immigrants--he seems to view them as less than people, for the crime of... being born in another location and coming to Nevermoor to seek a better life.
** Squall is out purely for himself and his own self-interest, and repeatedly emphasizes that he has no real emotional connection to anyone. His VillainRespect for Morrigan is born mostly of seeing his own traits in her, and he wishes to shape her in his image with little to no regard for her feelings on the matter. [[spoiler:He also says that while he did create the Hollowpox to exterminate Wunimals, he also didn't do it because he hates them--he did it because President Wintersea asked him to, and when the most powerful person in the world gives you an order, you do what you're told, and you don't half-ass it. He has no moral objection to the Wunimal population being wiped out, but he also doesn't actively hate them enough to ''want'' to see it happen. He just simply ''does not care'' one way or another.]]
** [[spoiler:Mildmay ''must'' be severely lacking in the empathy department to be able to work closely with a group of children for a whole year, caring for them and teaching them and having them look up to him, only to be able to sell some of them to the Ghastly Market without blinking.]]
** Inspector Flintlock, at least when it comes to immigrants--he seems to view them as less than people, for the crime of... being born in another location and coming to Nevermoor to seek a better life.
** Squall is out purely for himself and his own self-interest, and repeatedly emphasizes that he has no real emotional connection to anyone. His VillainRespect for Morrigan is born mostly of seeing his own traits in her, and he wishes to shape her in his image with little to no regard for her feelings on the matter. [[spoiler:He also says that while he did create the Hollowpox to exterminate Wunimals, he also didn't do it because he hates them--he did it because President Wintersea asked him to, and when the most powerful person in the world gives you an order, you do what you're told, and you don't half-ass it. He has no moral objection to the Wunimal population being wiped out, but he also doesn't actively hate them enough to ''want'' to see it happen. He just simply ''does not care'' one way or another.]]
** [[spoiler:Mildmay ''must'' be severely lacking in the empathy department to be able to work closely with a group of children for a whole year, caring for them and teaching them and having them look up to him, only to be able to sell some of them to the Ghastly Market without blinking.]]
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:In ''Hollowpox'', Squall asks Morrigan to help him stop Wintersea from crossing into the Free State, even though he could cross over with her. Since they both know he would do ''anything'' to be able to return to his beloved Nevermoor, Morrigan realizes he must really mean it, and Wintersea must be ''bad''.]]
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** Normally, Squall is perfectly calm, polite, and regards Morrigan's questions with annoyance or amusement, but he does usually answer them. [[spoiler:In ''Hollowpox'',Squall we see him lose his cool for the first time when Morrigan asks him why he killed his friends, people who trusted him. He doesn't actually answer, but visibly loses his temper, snarling, "Wundersmiths don't have friends." We don't know why yet, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion but it's obvious that this particular question really got to him]] for some reason.]]
** [[spoiler:In the same book, he asks Morrigan to help him stop Wintersea from crossing into the Free State, even though he could cross over with her. Since they both know he would do ''anything'' to be able to return to his beloved Nevermoor, Morrigan realizes he must really mean it, and Wintersea must be ''bad''.]]
** Normally, Squall is perfectly calm, polite, and regards Morrigan's questions with annoyance or amusement, but he does usually answer them. [[spoiler:In ''Hollowpox'',
** [[spoiler:In the same book, he asks Morrigan to help him stop Wintersea from crossing into the Free State, even though he could cross over with her. Since they both know he would do ''anything'' to be able to return to his beloved Nevermoor, Morrigan realizes he must really mean it, and Wintersea must be ''bad''.]]
* PersonaNonGrata: The Courage Square Massacre got Squall banned from the Free State, being physically unable to cross the border. He now resides in the Wintersea Republic, trying to find a way to cross back over.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** [[spoiler:Squall created the Hollowpox, but he also knows how to cure it. Not out of some sort of change of heart, but because he has enough common sense to not create a weapon he can't adequately combat, thus putting him in a tight spot he can't get out of. The cure for Hollowpox is also a ''very'' handy bargaining chip.]]
** [[spoiler:He works for Wintersea not out of loyalty to her or her party--he doesn't like her and is even afraid of her--but because she's the president, and if you're trying to establish yourself and flourish in a new country, pissing off the president isn't really the way to go about it.]]
** [[spoiler:On the flipside, he works with Morrigan to prevent Wintersea from entering Nevermoor, because he knows she wishes to take over the Free State. And if she takes over, how can ''he'' take over? (On a more serious note, he genuinely doesn't want to see Nevermoor destroyed, and he fully believes that's what will happen if Wintersea is allowed to enter the city.)]]
** [[spoiler:Squall created the Hollowpox, but he also knows how to cure it. Not out of some sort of change of heart, but because he has enough common sense to not create a weapon he can't adequately combat, thus putting him in a tight spot he can't get out of. The cure for Hollowpox is also a ''very'' handy bargaining chip.]]
** [[spoiler:He works for Wintersea not out of loyalty to her or her party--he doesn't like her and is even afraid of her--but because she's the president, and if you're trying to establish yourself and flourish in a new country, pissing off the president isn't really the way to go about it.]]
** [[spoiler:On the flipside, he works with Morrigan to prevent Wintersea from entering Nevermoor, because he knows she wishes to take over the Free State. And if she takes over, how can ''he'' take over? (On a more serious note, he genuinely doesn't want to see Nevermoor destroyed, and he fully believes that's what will happen if Wintersea is allowed to enter the city.)]]
* SeriousBusiness: The Yule Queen vs. St. Nick battle every Hollowmas. Everyone takes the matter of who they support ''very'' seriously, even though the "battle" is all for show, and ends with a truce every year anyway.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Ezra Squall is banished from the Free State, which angers him because he considers it, specifically Nevermoor, to be his home. He'd give anything to return, and has been visiting on the Gossamer for years.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Ezra Squall is banished from the Free State, which angers him because he considers it, specifically Nevermoor, to be his home. He'd give anything to return, and has been visiting on the Gossamer for years.
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* IronicNurseryTune: "Little crowling, little crowling, with button-black eyes..." In the second book, Squall reveals one calls Wunder by singing to it--he prefers to sing a charming little nursery rhyme about rabbits hiding from crows on the hunt. The rhyme, while already pretty morbid, is apparently a common children's song--Morrigan remembers it from nursery school, and Squall probably learned it around the same age--but it becomes downright creepy when he sings it.
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* CombatClairvoyance: Lambeth can sometimes use her knack this way, using her knowledge of what will happen in five seconds to tell people when they need to move, or what they can do to better their chances. (For example, in the second book, [[spoiler:she sees a vision of fire and a flood, clueing Morrigan in to what's about to go down in the Ghastly Market, and what they need to do to escape]].)
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: Inspector Flintlock is a StarterVillain for the first book, and represents a problem in Nevermoorian law enforcement and society as a whole: institutional, legally-backed bigotry.
* PoliceAreUseless:
** Inspector Flintlock is doing his job and enforcing the law by stamping out illegal immigrants, because he's a complete bigot who doesn't see that the law is unjust. He's outright gleeful at the idea of deporting Morrigan, a ''child'', refusing to listen when Jupiter points out that she had to come to Nevermoor for her safety.
** It goes beyond Flintlock; [[RealityEnsues it's an institutional problem, because prejudice in a society goes all the way up and down]]. Many Nevermoorians dislike and distrust the police force for this reason, avoiding calling them when possible and referring to them as "the Stink." Wunsoc's personal law enforcement, the Smoke, is only marginally better.
** Inspector Flintlock is doing his job and enforcing the law by stamping out illegal immigrants, because he's a complete bigot who doesn't see that the law is unjust. He's outright gleeful at the idea of deporting Morrigan, a ''child'', refusing to listen when Jupiter points out that she had to come to Nevermoor for her safety.
** It goes beyond Flintlock; [[RealityEnsues it's an institutional problem, because prejudice in a society goes all the way up and down]]. Many Nevermoorians dislike and distrust the police force for this reason, avoiding calling them when possible and referring to them as "the Stink." Wunsoc's personal law enforcement, the Smoke, is only marginally better.
** Miss Cheery is a kind and open-minded young woman who does all she can to protect Unit 919, Morrigan included. She also gets over the shock of Morrigan being a Wundersmith rather quickly.
** Miss Murgatroyd plays with this, in that she's a spiteful SadistTeacher, but she also realizes Morrigan needs to be educated on her abilities, and that treating her like a threat will only make it more likely she'll ''actually'' become one.
** Miss Murgatroyd plays with this, in that she's a spiteful SadistTeacher, but she also realizes Morrigan needs to be educated on her abilities, and that treating her like a threat will only make it more likely she'll ''actually'' become one.
** [[spoiler:Mr. Mildmay is a subversion, at first seeming like a CoolTeacher before revealing himself to be anything ''but''.]]
* TranquilFury: Jupiter doesn't lose his temper and fly off the handle, but if he gives you a DeathGlare and begins talking very calmly and quietly, ''run''.
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* UnnervinglyHeartwarming: The BigBad genuinely wants Morrigan to be his apprentice, and expresses admiration for her abilities multiple times. He even helps her out of a bind a few times. However, all this is undermined by the fact that he's a complete sociopath who (incorrectly) believes that Morrigan is, deep down, just as bad as he is, and constantly tries to lead her down a dark path, meaning that even his already-limited Pet the Dog moments are ruined by all the manipulation and headgames. Consequentially, whenever he compliments her or offers his help, Morrigan is creeped the hell out, and seems to dislike his positive attention even more than she dislikes him openly threatening her.
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* UnnervinglyHeartwarming: The BigBad genuinely wants Morrigan to be his apprentice, and expresses admiration for her abilities multiple times. He even helps her out of a bind a few times. However, all this is undermined by the fact that he's a complete sociopath who (incorrectly) believes that Morrigan is, deep down, just as bad as he is, and constantly tries to lead her down a dark path, meaning that even his already-limited Pet the Dog PetTheDog moments are ruined by all the manipulation and headgames. Consequentially, whenever he compliments her or offers his help, Morrigan is creeped the hell out, and seems to dislike his positive attention even more than she dislikes him openly threatening her.
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* UnnervinglyHeartwarming: The BigBad genuinely wants Morrigan to be his apprentice, and expresses admiration for her abilities multiple times. He even helps her out of a bind a few times. However, all this is undermined by the fact that he's a complete sociopath who (incorrectly) believes that Morrigan is, deep down, just as bad as he is, and constantly tries to lead her down a dark path, meaning that even his already-limited Pet the Dog moments are ruined by all the manipulation and headgames. Consequentially, whenever he compliments her or offers his help, Morrigan is creeped the hell out, and seems to dislike his positive attention even more than she dislikes him openly threatening her.
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* PopularityCycle: Ezra Squall tells Morrigan that the Wundrous Society will do this, expecting her to show absolute loyalty to them and be a hero when they need one, but not hesitate to throw her under the bus and treat her like garbage when it suits them. Despite not being overly thrilled with Wunsoc politics by this point, she brushes him off since, well, it's [[ManipulativeBastard Ezra]] [[BigBad Squall]] saying it.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Crossed with PragmaticVillainy, but [[spoiler:Squall helps Morrigan prevent President Wintersea from entering the Free State not because he morally objects to her bigotry and power-hunger, but because he genuinely fears her actions will lead to Nevermoor's destruction. He wants to take over, and does genuinely see the city as his home, so he has personal reasons for wanting her to be thwarted.]]
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** "Ezra" means help/helper in Hebrew. Ezra Squall wants to help Morrigan (and himself) by making her his apprentice. [[spoiler:This doesn't entirely go away when it's revealed he's the BigBad, though there is definitely a dash of IronicName in there.]]
** You'll never guess what Miss Cheery's general disposition is.
** You'll never guess what Miss Cheery's general disposition is.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the questions during the Book Trial is, "What do you fear most?" The third Trial is the Fright Trial.
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* TheGift: A person's knack is this for them; something they can do that makes them special and different. Some knacks are physical traits, like being born with gills, while others are supernatural abilities, like Cadence's mesmerism. Others still are mundane skills that theoretically anyone can practice and develop, but some people just happen to be born extraordinarily, unfathomably profeciently at them--such as Anah being able to perform surgery and Arch being an expert pickpocket when they're only eleven. Knacks don't seem to be uncommon in the Free State, but only the most impressive, rare, and powerful knacks will get you into Wunsoc.
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* {{Seer}}: Lambeth's knack is that she can predict the future... but only a few seconds ahead, and she can't control when it happens. Still, it does worlds of good in action sequences, when knowing you need to ''get the heck out of the way'' three seconds in advance can be the difference between life and death. It also comes in handy when [[MundaneUtility warning your friends that a door's about to open and they'll hit their head if they don't move]].
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* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: The Fright Trial, in which candidates face off against ''extremely'' realistic simulations of their greatest fear... without being told it's a simulation. There's a reason Jupiter called it the Nervous Breakdown Trial.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:After she finds out the victims of the Courage Square Massacre were Squall's fellow Wundersmiths and former friends, Morrigan asks him a simple question: "Why?" He doesn't give her a straight answer, but it's the first thing she says that actually seems to get under his skin.]]
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* CardCarryingVillain: Squall makes no bones about the fact that he is a murderer, liar, and all-around bad guy.
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* PensieveFlashback: Ghostly Hours work like this. You can view a recorded memory--some are only a couple minutes long, some go on for hours, and it's like you're really there, except you can't interact with anyone.
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* VillainsNeverLie: A variant. Squall lies like ''crazy'', and he admits as much to Morrigan... but he insists he has never lied ''to her''.
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: Squall's entire plan seems to hinge on getting Morrigan to agree to be his apprentice and heir. ''Why'' he chose her, out of the dozens of Wundersmith children who have been born since his exile, is a mystery.
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* BloodKnight: Thaddea ''lives'' for fighting.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The politics of the Free State show what would likely be the reality of a magical, hidden world: an isolationist state with intense border control and widespread prejudice towards outsiders, forcing refugees to have to be smuggled in, because they're not even supposed to know the Free State ''exists'', let alone be able to seek asylum. And it comes back to bite the inhabitants of the hidden world; you can't ask another country for help if most of its citizens don't even know you're there, and you've spent decades refusing to work with the ones who do.
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** [[spoiler:President Wintersea successfully manipulates Morrigan, using the promise of a cure for Hollowpox to persuade her to help her get into Nevermoor. It's only when she realizes Wintersea is aligned with ''Squall Industries'' that she realizes her mistake--and Squall himself has to help her out of it.]]
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:In ''Hollowpox'', Squall asks Morrigan to help him stop Wintersea from crossing into the Free State, even though he could cross over with her. Since they both know he would do ''anything'' to be able to return to his beloved Nevermoor, Morrigan realizes he must really mean it, and Wintersea must be ''bad''.]]
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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:When Morrigan meets President Wintersea, she insists on being called by her first name, Maud, and encourages Morrigan to speak openly and not apologize so much. She even seems willing to help Nevermoor with its Hollowpox problem, making her a President Personable... except no, she's PresidentEvil.]]
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* PocketDimension: The Gobleian Library is an alternate dimension that is a near-perfect copy of the city of Nevermoor... [[MundaneUtility and it is currently be used to house millions upon millions of books]].
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* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism:
** Wunimals sit at various spots of the scale, depending on what species they are, and whether they're a Wunimal Major or Minor. Wunimal Minors are usually LittleBitBeastly or [[BeastMan Beast Men]], some verging into Borderline Beast Man territory--they have animal traits such as ears, claws, whiskers, tails, wings, or other such things, but have a decidedly more humanlike appearence. Wunimal Majors are {{Civilized Animal}}s; they look purely animal, except they walk on two legs and can speak. Wunimal Majors are mentioned to wear lots of clothes and jewelry to make it clear that they are Wunimals and not unimals (who are just ordinary beasts).
** Dragons appear to be {{Nearly Normal Animal}}s; they can be trained and kept by humans, but they have their own culture and language (which humans can learn, though it's noted to be very difficult).
** Magnificats are {{Talking Animal}}s who also happen to be ''huge''. There are some Magnifcats in the Wintersea Republic, but they're docile and obedient, and don't speak--which, as Morrigan finds out, is because they had their ''tongues cut out at birth''.
** "Unimals" is the catch-all term for plain old animals.
* SmallSecludedWorld: The Free State isn't exactly "small," but it's completely cut off from the rest of the world, to the point where only high-ranking government officials in the Wintersea Republic even know it exists.
** Wunimals sit at various spots of the scale, depending on what species they are, and whether they're a Wunimal Major or Minor. Wunimal Minors are usually LittleBitBeastly or [[BeastMan Beast Men]], some verging into Borderline Beast Man territory--they have animal traits such as ears, claws, whiskers, tails, wings, or other such things, but have a decidedly more humanlike appearence. Wunimal Majors are {{Civilized Animal}}s; they look purely animal, except they walk on two legs and can speak. Wunimal Majors are mentioned to wear lots of clothes and jewelry to make it clear that they are Wunimals and not unimals (who are just ordinary beasts).
** Dragons appear to be {{Nearly Normal Animal}}s; they can be trained and kept by humans, but they have their own culture and language (which humans can learn, though it's noted to be very difficult).
** Magnificats are {{Talking Animal}}s who also happen to be ''huge''. There are some Magnifcats in the Wintersea Republic, but they're docile and obedient, and don't speak--which, as Morrigan finds out, is because they had their ''tongues cut out at birth''.
** "Unimals" is the catch-all term for plain old animals.
* SmallSecludedWorld: The Free State isn't exactly "small," but it's completely cut off from the rest of the world, to the point where only high-ranking government officials in the Wintersea Republic even know it exists.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Nan, Hawthorne's patron, lost one of her legs to a dragon, forcing her into an early retirement. She now has a prosthetic, and doesn't seem too bothered by it.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Jupiter North is jovial, cheerful, a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to the staff at the Hotel Deucalion, and a caring patron to Morrigan... and he will ''not'' stand for anyone threatening those under his care.
** Anah is a sweet girl who was raised by nuns, to the point that swiping a box of rubber gloves from the infirmary almost makes her sick with guilt. Then she threatens to surgically remove a bully's organs, and makes it clear that she ''could''.
** Jupiter North is jovial, cheerful, a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to the staff at the Hotel Deucalion, and a caring patron to Morrigan... and he will ''not'' stand for anyone threatening those under his care.
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* PetTheDog: Cadence gets a lot of them towards Morrigan. It's thanks to her interference that Flintlock is unable to deport Morrigan at the end of the first book, and in the third book, she "borrows" a puppy and brings it with her when she visits Morrigan in the hospital, since she thought she would like it.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Baz Charlton and Inspector Flintlock, two of the most despicable characters, openly dislike and are prejudiced against immigrants, especially those that crossed the border illegally. (Never mind if they were forced to do so, or if it was a life-or-death situation.)
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* TormentByAnnoyance: The entire staff of the Deucalion does this to Onstald when Morrigan is temporarily banned from Wunsoc, forcing him to come teach her at home. Having heard how badly he treats her, they all pitch in to make his days just as miserable as he's been making her. Martha gives him cold food on purpose, Frank repeatedly interrupts with party planning and a full choir practice, and Fenestra... sits there and [[DeathGlare stares at him]]. It works wonders; Morrigan's back at Wunsoc within a week.
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* ArcNumber: Nine is shaping up to be one. Wunsoc accepts nine new students each year, Morrigan is in Unit 919, [[spoiler:there are nine Wundrous Arts, only nine Wundersmiths can be alive at a time]]... Jessica Townsend has also said she has plots for nine books, though whether this'll come to pass remains to be seen.
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* ArcNumber: Nine is shaping up to be one. Wunsoc accepts nine new students each year, Morrigan is in Unit 919, Jupiter had to get nine people to sign her safeguard, [[spoiler:there are nine Wundrous Arts, only nine Wundersmiths can be alive at a time]]... Jessica Townsend has also said she has plots for nine books, though whether this'll come to pass remains to be seen.
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* MindHive: Dearborn and Murgatroyd, the Scholar Headmistresses of the Schools of the Mundane and Arcane, respectively, are, essentially, two people sharing a body. [[spoier:In [[spoiler:In the third book, we meet Rook, who is the Scholar Headmistress of the School of the Wundrous. She admits even they don't really know how it works--she's never even "met" Dearborn, who doesn't seem to know she exists yet--but implies there are potentially others lurking inside them.]]
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Baz Charlton is disliked by everyone in Wunsoc, save for a few of his patrons, for being an obnoxious, bigoted, loudmouthed boor. He's the only person Jupiter is openly rude to, and even his latest patron, Cadence, utterly despises him.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Baz Charlton is disliked by everyone in Wunsoc, save for a few of his patrons, candidates, for being an obnoxious, bigoted, loudmouthed boor. He's the only person Jupiter is openly rude to, and even his latest patron, candidate, Cadence, utterly despises him.
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: [[spoiler:Despite what Professor Onstald (and many denizens of Nevermoor) would have you believe, Wundersmiths are ''not'' inherently bad people. While the most famous Wundersmith of all -- the one known as "''the'' Wundersmith" -- actually ''is'' unquestionably evil, there were also plenty of goodhearted and kind, or even just netural Wundersmiths, meaning it's not so much a whole class of evil people as it is one evil guy making a bad name for everybody else. It doesn't help that these days, everyone believes the horror stories about Wundersmiths, many of which are exaggerated or misconstrued at best, and outright propaganda at worst.]]
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: [[spoiler:Despite Despite what Professor Onstald (and many denizens of Nevermoor) would have you believe, Wundersmiths are ''not'' inherently bad people. While the most famous Wundersmith of all -- the one known as "''the'' Wundersmith" -- actually ''is'' unquestionably evil, there were also plenty of goodhearted and kind, or even just netural Wundersmiths, meaning it's not so much a whole class of evil people as it is one evil guy making a bad name for everybody else. It doesn't help that these days, everyone believes the horror stories about Wundersmiths, many of which are exaggerated or misconstrued at best, and outright propaganda at worst.]]
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* DareToBeBadass: [[spoiler:''Ezra Squall'' of all people gives a speech to this effect to Morrigan at the climax of the third book.]]
-->''[[spoiler:Now is not the time to be small! Where is the Morrigan Crow who reignited the dead fireblossoms? The girl who brought down the Ghastly Market, who conducted a glorious symphony of death in the Museum of Stolen Moments? Where is'' that'' Morrigan Crow? Bring her back!]]''
-->''[[spoiler:Now is not the time to be small! Where is the Morrigan Crow who reignited the dead fireblossoms? The girl who brought down the Ghastly Market, who conducted a glorious symphony of death in the Museum of Stolen Moments? Where is'' that'' Morrigan Crow? Bring her back!]]''
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* EvilMentor: Ezra Squall wants to be this to Morrigan, but she's not on board. [[spoiler:Hollowpox complicates this dynamic a bit; Squall doesn't want Morrigan to ''resign'' herself to working with him, he wants her to ''want'' to. And some part of her ''does'' want to. Evil or not, Ezra is by far the most useful and qualified of the mentors she's got to teach her anything about Wunder.]]
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Morrigan reluctantly teams up with Ezra at the climax of the third book, because he's the only one who can help her cure Hollowpox, and he doesn't want President Wintersea to have access to the Free State.]]
* EvilMentor: Ezra Squall wants to be this to Morrigan, but she's not on board.[[spoiler:Hollowpox [[spoiler:''Hollowpox'' complicates this dynamic a bit; Squall doesn't want Morrigan to ''resign'' herself to working with him, he wants her to ''want'' to. And some part of her ''does'' want to. Evil or not, Ezra is by far the most useful and qualified of the mentors she's got to teach her anything about Wunder.]]
* EvilMentor: Ezra Squall wants to be this to Morrigan, but she's not on board.
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* FantasticRacism: There's some prejudice against Wunimals, as they only became full citizens a few generations ago. Some of the more conservative residents of the Free State believe they should be kept as pets or locked up in zoos. [[spoiler:It's ''even worse'' in Wintersea; most people there don't even know Wunimals exist, because most have been wiped out and the rest have been forced into hiding. Fen is part of a secret smuggling ring that helps rescue Wunimals and bring them over the border into the Free State. And it turns out the Hollowpox doesn't only affect Wunimals by accident; it's by design, because the pox was created as a means to exterminate them.]]
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* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Squall created the Hollowpox, just as Morrigan expected, but it wasn't his idea; he was hired to do so by President Wintersea as an attempted genocide against Wunimals.]]
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** [[spoiler:President Wintersea is a subversion. She's very polite, seems to like Morrigan, and is willing to negotiate a peace in order to share a cure for the Hollowpox with the Free State... except she's behind the creation of the Hollowpox in the first place, and only wishes to exploit the situation to be allowed to cross into the Free State and take over.]]
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* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:The only thing Morrigan misses from her old life at Crow Manor is her toy bunny, Emmett, who she's had since she's a baby. It turns out that it used to belong to her mother, too. Jupiter gets it back for her.]]
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* VillainRespect: Squall seems genuinely pleased whenever Morrigan displays control over Wunder or does something impressive, mostly because he sees a reflection of himself in her.
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* AffectionateNickname: Jupiter, who [[TheNicknamer is fond of giving people these]], calls Morrigan "Mog." She doesn't really like it, but ultimately accepts it as the sign of affection it is.
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** Jupiter, who [[TheNicknamer is fond of giving people these]], calls Morrigan "Mog." She doesn't really like it, but ultimately accepts it as the sign of affection it is.
** Miss Cheery's name is Marina, but Roshni calls her "Maz." [[spoiler:Might be an early hint that they're dating.]]
** Jupiter, who [[TheNicknamer is fond of giving people these]], calls Morrigan "Mog." She doesn't really like it, but ultimately accepts it as the sign of affection it is.
** Miss Cheery's name is Marina, but Roshni calls her "Maz." [[spoiler:Might be an early hint that they're dating.]]
* ArcNumber: Nine is shaping up to be one. Wunsoc accepts nine new students each year, Morrigan is in Unit 919, [[spoiler:there are nine Wundrous Arts, only nine Wundersmiths can be alive at a time]]... Jessica Townsend has also said she has plots for nine books, though whether this'll come to pass remains to be seen.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler:Onstald didn't always loathe Wundersmiths. He used to ''love'' them, and be desperate to learn about and preserve the Wundrous Arts. Even his former friends on Sub-Nine don't know what happened to make him do a complete 180, but Sofia figures it must have been something terrible.]]
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler:Onstald didn't always loathe Wundersmiths. He used to ''love'' them, and be desperate to learn about and preserve the Wundrous Arts. Even his former friends on Sub-Nine don't know what happened to make him do a complete 180, but Sofia figures it must have been something terrible.]]
* EvilMentor: Ezra Squall wants to be this to Morrigan, but she's not on board. [[spoiler:Hollowpox complicates this dynamic a bit; Squall doesn't want Morrigan to ''resign'' herself to working with him, he wants her to ''want'' to. And some part of her ''does'' want to. Evil or not, Ezra is by far the most useful and qualified of the mentors she's got to teach her anything about Wunder.]]
* FlipPersonality: It's not always clear ''when'' Dearborn/Murgatroyd will change into the other, but it's always obvious once it happens.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Baz Charlton is disliked by everyone in Wunsoc, save for a few of his patrons, for being an obnoxious, bigoted, loudmouthed boor. He's the only person Jupiter is openly rude to, and even his latest patron, Cadence, utterly despises him.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Baz Charlton is disliked by everyone in Wunsoc, save for a few of his patrons, for being an obnoxious, bigoted, loudmouthed boor. He's the only person Jupiter is openly rude to, and even his latest patron, Cadence, utterly despises him.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Morrigan's father, Corvus, has no clue she's alive, or that the Free State even exists. Given that he treated her like dirt the entire time she lived with him, she doesn't lose too much sleep over it.
* TheMedic: Anah's knack is great medical knowledge, to the point that she can safely remove someone's appendix and put it back at the age of ''eleven''. Much of her time at Wunsoc is spent helping out around the infirmary.
* MindHive: Dearborn and Murgatroyd, the Scholar Headmistresses of the Schools of the Mundane and Arcane, respectively, are, essentially, two people sharing a body. [[spoier:In the third book, we meet Rook, who is the Scholar Headmistress of the School of the Wundrous. She admits even they don't really know how it works--she's never even "met" Dearborn, who doesn't seem to know she exists yet--but implies there are potentially others lurking inside them.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played with all over the place. If a character seems like this, there's about a fifty/fifty chance they're secretly corrupt.
** Jupiter is an entirely straight example, using his position of privilidge to protect those under his care, and fighting tooth and nail to make Nevermoor a better place for everyone.
** The Elders zig-zag like crazy. [[spoiler:The way Wunsoc has been run for centuries values the preservation of Wunsoc above all else, meaning they're ready and willing to throw Morrigan to the wolves if it'll benefit them. However, they ''individually'' don't seem like they're necessarily bad people.]]
** Jupiter is an entirely straight example, using his position of privilidge to protect those under his care, and fighting tooth and nail to make Nevermoor a better place for everyone.
** The Elders zig-zag like crazy. [[spoiler:The way Wunsoc has been run for centuries values the preservation of Wunsoc above all else, meaning they're ready and willing to throw Morrigan to the wolves if it'll benefit them. However, they ''individually'' don't seem like they're necessarily bad people.]]
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* SadistTeacher: Professor Onstald firmly believes all Wundersmiths are inherently evil, and makes sure Morrigan knows that she'll become evil, too. [[spoiler:Then you find out he was deliberately ''lying'' about many of the Wundersmiths' so-called evil acts, meaning he can't even claim ignorance for his horrible bigotry.]]
* SecretRelationship: Martha the maid and Charlie the chauffeur '' think'' they have one of these. Everyone else knows about it but play along.
* SecretRelationship: Martha the maid and Charlie the chauffeur '' think'' they have one of these. Everyone else knows about it but play along.
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** Professor Onstald firmly believes all Wundersmiths are inherently evil, and makes sure Morrigan knows that she'll become evil, too. [[spoiler:Then you find out he was deliberately ''lying'' about many of the Wundersmiths' so-called evil acts, meaning he can't even claim ignorance for his horrible bigotry.]]
** Murgatroyd has a reputation as this, and while all students are rightfully terrified of her, she's actually one of the more reasonable people at Wunsoc where Morrigan's education is concerned.
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** Martha the maid and Charlie the chauffeur '' think'' they have one of these. Everyone else knows about it but playalong. along.
** [[spoiler:Miss Cheery and Roshni, the school librarian, seem to be in one; Morrigan overhears them talking and sees them kiss at the end of ''Hollowpox''. However, it's unclear if it's entirely secret, or if they just keep it secret from students.]]
** Professor Onstald firmly believes all Wundersmiths are inherently evil, and makes sure Morrigan knows that she'll become evil, too. [[spoiler:Then you find out he was deliberately ''lying'' about many of the Wundersmiths' so-called evil acts, meaning he can't even claim ignorance for his horrible bigotry.]]
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** [[spoiler:Miss Cheery and Roshni, the school librarian, seem to be in one; Morrigan overhears them talking and sees them kiss at the end of ''Hollowpox''. However, it's unclear if it's entirely secret, or if they just keep it secret from students.]]
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* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:What Squall says to Morrigan about people not understanding Wundersmiths' gifts to the world is actually true--most of the "evil" acts Onstald told Morrigan about were actually benevolent (or neutral) upon further inspection. Not that Squall [[NotHelpingYourCase helps his own case much]]...]]
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* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:Morrigan's stunned when she visits various Ghostly Hours to learn the Wundrous Arts, and sees Ezra Squall as a student, just like her. She's even more stunned when his past self doesn't seem evil or angry at all; he just seems like a normal, happy kid. It gets very hard for her to think of Ezra, the boy and Squall, the monster, as the same person, even though she knows they are.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:What Squall says to Morrigan about people not understanding Wundersmiths' gifts to the world is actually true--most of the "evil" acts Onstald told Morrigan about were actually benevolent (or neutral) upon further inspection. Not that Squall [[NotHelpingYourCase helps his own case much]]...]] He also turns out to be dead-on when he says Wunsoc will throw Morrigan under the bus one moment and then expect her to be a hero the next, all depending on what's most useful at the time. As he puts it, "Wundersmiths get all of the blame and none of the credit."]]
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:What Squall says to Morrigan about people not understanding Wundersmiths' gifts to the world is actually true--most of the "evil" acts Onstald told Morrigan about were actually benevolent (or neutral) upon further inspection. Not that Squall [[NotHelpingYourCase helps his own case much]]...
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* ActionGirl: Thaddea Macleod, or "Thaddea No-Retreat of Clan Macleod, daughter of Mary the Heart-Eater and Malcolm the Mellow, granddaughter of Deirdre the Deathbringer, great-granddaughter of Eileen Never-Surrender, great-great-granddaughter of Ailsa the Tetchy, great-great-great granddaughter of Betty One-Kick," is a BraveScot version of this. If there's a fight going on and Thaddea isn't in the middle of it, you can bet she's doing everything she can to ''get'' in the middle of it.
* EccentricArtist: Frank, the hotel's party planner. If he wasn't a vampire, you might say he lived and breathed party planning -- as it is, he's just incredibly obsessed with his job. His parties are generally highly unconventional, incredibly expensive... and usually spectacular successes.
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* FireForgedFriends: The Wundrous Society try to make each unit this, by making them face trials and tribulations together. It doesn't ''always'' work. [[spoiler: It does seem to work at least slightly for Unit 919, though... over their first year of training they're sent blackmail notes threatening to expose "the Unit's secret" unless the members agree to certain demands. Since it's generally assumed that the "secret" is that Morrigan is a Wundersmith, most of the unit (except Hawthorne and Cadence) end up absolutely ''hating'' Morrigan for all the things they end up being forced to do... but they do comply with the blackmail so the secret is kept. And at the end of the term they find out that not only was the blackmail the Elders' trial to test their loyalty to each other; but the "secret" wasn't Morrigan's status as Wundersmith, it was that Lambeth is actually a foreign princess who is staying illegaly in Nevermoor. Judging by their reactions afterwards, this seems to have given them some new perspective on things, and they start to get along better.]]
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* FireForgedFriends: The Wundrous Society try to make each unit this, by making them face trials and tribulations together. It doesn't ''always'' work. [[spoiler: It does seem to work at least slightly for Unit 919, though... over their first year of training they're sent blackmail notes threatening to expose "the Unit's secret" unless the members agree to certain demands. Since it's generally assumed that the "secret" is that Morrigan is a Wundersmith, most of the unit (except Hawthorne and Cadence) end up absolutely ''hating'' Morrigan for all the things they end up being forced to do... but they do comply with the blackmail so the secret is kept. And at the end of the term they find out that not only was the blackmail the Elders' trial to test their loyalty to each other; but the "secret" wasn't Morrigan's status as Wundersmith, it was that Lambeth is actually a foreign princess who is staying illegaly illegally in Nevermoor. Judging by their reactions afterwards, this This seems to have given them some new perspective on things, and by the time of ''Hollowpox'' they start to get are all getting along better.pretty well.]]
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At the time of writing, two books in the Nevermoor series have been published, with the third one being announced for 2020.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: It's revealed in the second book that [[spoiler:Lambeth is actually a Princess from the Royal House of Ra, and comes from Far East Sang in the Wintersea Republic. She keeps her royal status hidden because as a citizen of the Republic she's not even supposed to ''know'' about Nevermoor, much less go to school there.]]
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* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: It's revealed in the second book that [[spoiler:Lambeth is actually a Princess from the Royal House of Ra, and comes from Far East Sang in the Wintersea Republic. She keeps her royal status hidden because as a citizen of the Republic she's not even supposed to ''know'' about Nevermoor, much less go to school there.]]
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** [[spoiler:It turns out that every member of the Wundrous Society is trained to be one of these, because the society exists to "contain and distract" people from the horrors that some wundersmiths made in the past.]]
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Henry Mildmay]] is a genial, friendly and {{Adorkable}} man who genuinely gets along with Unit 919. He's also secretly working for the bad guys.
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Henry Mildmay]] is a genial, friendly and {{Adorkable}} dorky man who genuinely gets along with Unit 919. He's also secretly working for the bad guys.
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* TheJinx: Everyone in the Wintersea Republic is ''convinced'' that this is the case with cursed children like Morrigan, who tend to get the blame for everything that goes wrong. Even early in the book, Morrigan expects that some of the things she's blamed for isn't actually her fault, it's just that people like having a convenient scapegoat. [[spoiler:Turns out ''none'' of it is her fault and cursed children aren't unlucky at all; it's all propaganda and fear mongering.]]
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** Hawthorne is a sweet, loyal friend who always has a kind word.
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** Hawthorne is a sweet, loyal friend who always has a kind word.word for Morrigan... or if he snarks at her it's good-natured.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: It's revealed in the second book that [[spoiler:Lambeth is actually a Princess from the Royal House of Ra, and comes from Far East Sang in the Wintersea Republic. She keeps her royal status hidden because as a citizen of the Republic she's not even supposed to ''know'' about Nevermoor, much less go to school there.]]
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* FireForgedFriends: The Wundrous Society try to make each unit this, by making them face trials and tribulations together. It doesn't ''always'' work. [[spoiler: It does seem to work at least slightly for Unit 919, though... over their first year of training they're sent blackmail notes threatening to expose Morrigan as a Wundersmith "the Unit's secret" unless the members agree to certain demands. While Since it's generally assumed that the "secret" is that Morrigan is a Wundersmith, most of the unit (except Harthorne Hawthorne and Cadence) end up absolutely ''hating'' Morrigan, Morrigan for all the things they end up being forced to do... but they do keep her secret... and comply with the blackmail so the secret is kept. And at the end of the term they find out that not only was the blackmail was the Elders' trial to test their loyalty to each other.other; but the "secret" wasn't Morrigan's status as Wundersmith, it was that Lambeth is actually a foreign princess who is staying illegaly in Nevermoor. Judging by their reactions afterwards, this seems to have given them some new perspective on things, and they start to get along better.]]
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* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:What Squall says to Morrigan about people not understanding Wundersmiths' gifts to the world is actually true--most of the "evil" acts Onstald told Morrigan about were actually benevolent (or neutral) upon further inspection. Not that Squall [[NotHelpingYourCase helps his own case much]]...]]
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: It's revealed about halfway through the first book that Ezra Squall, the person who showed interest in Morrigan in during Bid Day, is the dreaded Wundersmith. The end of the book reveals that Morrigan herself is also a Wundersmith, and that this is why he wanted her as his apprentice.
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: It's revealed about halfway through the first book that Ezra Squall, the person who showed interest in FamilyThemeNaming: Morrigan in during Bid Day, is the dreaded Wundersmith. The end of the book reveals that and Corvus Crow -- Morrigan herself was the name of an Irish goddess who turned into a crow, while "Corvus" is also a Wundersmith, the Latin word for ravens and that this is why he wanted her as his apprentice.crows.
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** Morrigan shares her name with an Irish goddess of war and death, who took the form of a ''crow''.
** "Squall" is a word for a sudden, violent gust of wind and rain, [[spoiler:hinting at Ezra Squall's true nature]].
** Morrigan shares her name with an Irish goddess of war and death, who took the form of a ''crow''.
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** Hawthorne is a sweet, loyal friend who always has a kind word.
** Morrigan herself is a kindhearted young lady, even through all her snark.
** Jupiter is a caring and protective mentor who gives Morrigan some much-needed support.
** Hawthorne is a sweet, loyal friend who always has a kind word.
** Morrigan herself is a kindhearted young lady, even through all her snark.
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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The BigBad of this series is known as ''The'' Wundersmith. He's so infamous and so powerful, he eclipses every other Wundersmith that ever lived -- unfortunately.
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* TheGadfly: Cadence, who often uses her hypnotic abilities to screw people over or have them make fools of themselves purely because she thinks it's funny.
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* TheWonka: Jupiter North, who has been described as "part [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and part [[Franchise/HarryPotter Arthur Weasley]]," is an EccentricMentor to the extreme, and he says and does so many nonsensical things that he comes across as a total lunatic... but he's one of Nevermoor's greatest heroes, he's a brilliant employer and authority figure to the staff of the Hotel Deucalion, and 95% of the time he's in total (or at least almost total) control of the situation. (The 5% of the time when he's ''not'' in control of the situation tends to be Wundersmith-related, because even Jupiter can't stand up to a Wundersmith... and unlike Morrigan he isn't ImmuneToMindControl).
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* TheWonka: Jupiter North, who has been described as "part [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and part [[Franchise/HarryPotter Arthur Weasley]]," is an EccentricMentor to the extreme, and he says and does so many nonsensical things that he comes across as a total lunatic... but he's one of Nevermoor's greatest heroes, he's a brilliant employer and authority figure to the staff of the Hotel Deucalion, and 95% of the time he's in total (or at least almost total) control of the situation. (The 5% of the time when he's ''not'' in control of the situation tends to be Wundersmith-related, because even Jupiter can't stand up to a Wundersmith... and unlike Morrigan he isn't ImmuneToMindControl).ImmuneToMindControl.)
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* TheWonka: Jupiter North, who has been described as "part [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactury Willy Wonka]] and part [[Franchise/HarryPotter Arthur Weasley]]," is an EccentricMentor to the extreme, and he says and does so many nonsensical things that he comes across as a total lunatic... but he's one of Nevermoor's greatest heroes, he's a brilliant employer and authority figure to the staff of the Hotel Deucalion, and 95% of the time he's in total (or at least almost total) control of the situation. (The 5% of the time when he's ''not'' in control of the situation tends to be Wundersmith-related, because even Jupiter can't stand up to a Wundersmith... and unlike Morrigan he isn't ImmuneToMindControl).
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* TheWonka: Jupiter North, who has been described as "part [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactury [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and part [[Franchise/HarryPotter Arthur Weasley]]," is an EccentricMentor to the extreme, and he says and does so many nonsensical things that he comes across as a total lunatic... but he's one of Nevermoor's greatest heroes, he's a brilliant employer and authority figure to the staff of the Hotel Deucalion, and 95% of the time he's in total (or at least almost total) control of the situation. (The 5% of the time when he's ''not'' in control of the situation tends to be Wundersmith-related, because even Jupiter can't stand up to a Wundersmith... and unlike Morrigan he isn't ImmuneToMindControl).
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* RedOniBlueOni: Morrigan is the quieter, more introspective blue to Hawthorne's rambunctious red, but she's the frank and passionate red to Cadence's aloof and soften cold blue.
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