History Literature / TearmoonEmpire

* ChekhovsGun: The horse shampoo Abel gifted Mia, introduced as just a gag where Mia mistakes it for shampoo meant for ''her'' hair. However, [[spoiler:it ends up saving her life when she's held hostage by Jem, as it begins to leak and Anne realizes its unique properties can be used to help Mia escape]].

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Mia proposes sending the renegade spies of White Crow to the Holy Lady Rafina to receive a sermon from her every day. Most of the White Crows don't get it and interpret it as a joke and so go along with it being indifferent at worst, but Jem, the man who instigated them and laughed at the idea of torture, goes AnythingButThat [[spoiler:His reason for reacting so badly is due to him being a zealous adherent to a ReligionOfEvil]].

** No matter what Mia does, the predicted future of her death by wolves won't change, so she decides to everything she can to satisfy herself in the meantime. One of her final acts is to apologize to Tiona for [[WhatYouAreInTheDark something the victim not only couldn't possibly remember, but wasn't even really bothered by anyway.]] Because it's the right thing to do, even if only to clear her own conscience. This ends up being the final trigger to saving her life mere days later when Tiona ends up with WistfulAmnesia and ends up coming to her rescue.

*** Mia considers that she's boldly StealingTheCredit for one of the acts that made Tiona a beloved figure during the original timeline's revolution by asking him to freely distribute his grain reserves to the commoners if there is ever a bad harvest year, on the condition that he makes it clear that she's the one who asked him to do it. Mia doesn't know that Count Rudolvon had independently considered distributing his grain reserves during previous bad harvest years, only to be told by other nobles that doing so would get seen as an act of rebellion towards the Imperial family. As a result, he's actually grateful to obligated to use Mia's name, as it will keep the other nobles from claiming he shouldn't be doing it.

** Timeline E: Mia meets Miabel, who comes back from the future via a magical copy of Mia's autobiography, which replaces her diary. In this timeline, [[spoiler: a mass poisoning at Saint-Noel Academy drives Rafina insane, leading her to create a religious empire to wage a holy war against the Chaos Serpents.]] This timeline is diverted when [[spoiler: Mia becomes the student counsel president.]]

* RestrainedRevenge: A case where Mia does this by accident. She at some point has the perfect acceptable excuse to do a public MyFistForgivesYou to Sion and decides to have it double as her revenge for Sion odering her beheading in the original timeline. However, even her best effort hits so lightly that Sion mistakes the MyFistForgivesYou to be just for show, with Mia intending for only the two of them to know that she held back. Sion mistakes the whole thing for Mia giving him a lesson on how to be a true ReasonableAuthorityFigure and thanks her profusely, while Mia is internally baffled and starts wondering if Sion ''likes'' getting hit by her.

* RestrainedRevenge: A case where Mia does this by accident. She at some point has the perfect acceptable excuse to do a public MyFistForgivesYou to Sion and decides have it double as her revenge for Sion odering her beheading in the original timeline. However, even her best effort hits so lightly that Sion mistakes the MyFistForgivesYou to be just for show, with Mia intending for only the two of them to know that she held back. Sion mistakes the whole thing for Mia giving him a lesson on how to be true ReasonableAuthorityFigure and thanks her profusely, while Mia is internally baffled and starts wondering if Sion ''likes'' getting hit by her.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: In the original timeline, Abel was part of a Card/Gambling club, and that resulted in him becoming a less than savory person and alleinating his real friends such as Lin Malong. However, Mia’s influence in the current timeline causes him to avoid befriending those people and instead join the horseman club, and reforging his bond with Lin Malong along with developing a romantic relationship with Mia.