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* SuicidalPacifism: The elders in Paige's coven are so frightened of the idea that a member of the coven might use magic to hurt someone, they outlaw any spells that would be useful for self defense, even non-violent ones like one that magically keeps a door locked under the grounds that it could be used to imprison someone. It's implied that the only reason they're still alive is because the rest of the supernatural community considers them such a joke that they're completely ignored.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: In ''Stolen'', [[spoiler:Sondra Bauer injects herself with Elena's saliva to turn herself into a werewolf.]]

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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: In ''Stolen'', [[spoiler:Sondra Bauer injects herself with Elena's saliva to turn herself into a werewolf. Unfortunately, she didn't listen to Elena's warnings ''at all'' and flies into an UnstoppableRage, during which she murders one of her friends. [[NeverMyFault Naturally, she blames it all on Elena]]. ]]
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* HybridPower: A witch or sorcerer who's got ancestry from some other supernatural entity tends to be a more powerful spellcaster than one who's got a human for their other parent, even if they can't access any other supernatural abilities from that side of their lineage.
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* ElderlyBlueHairedLady: It's a cliche of Paige's coven in ''Dime Store Magic''. Paige laments that there are far too many members of the coven that conform to said stereotype.
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** Savannah, half-witch, half-sorcerer.
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* FantasticRomance: Werewolves don't consciously choose who they take as a lifemate; the inner wolf does, and the werewolf just has to go along. On the other hand, the werewolf's non-wolf partner ''has'' a choice; at one point it's made clear that while Karl is driven to near-MateOrDie madness by being away from Hope, he'll go away if she tells him to.
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# ''Thirteen'' (July 2012)

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# ''Thirteen'' (July 2012)''Thirteen''
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* ArbitraryScepticism: In ''Personal Demon'' the main character, who is an empathic half-demon, whose mentor is a werewolf and is currently working for a sorceror doesn't believe in goblins. Note however that the race of the guy who she says looks and acts like a goblin would if they existed is never specified. He might be another type of half-demon of which there are many.

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* ArbitraryScepticism: In ''Personal Demon'' the main character, who is an empathic half-demon, whose mentor is a werewolf and is currently working for a sorceror sorcerer doesn't believe in goblins. Note however that the race of the guy who she says looks and acts like a goblin would if they existed is never specified. He might be another type of half-demon of which there are many.
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A television adaption, ''{{Series/Bitten}}'', was commissioned by the Canadian channel Space and stars Creator/LauraVandervoort as Elena. Internationally, it airs on SyFy in the United States.

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A television adaption, ''{{Series/Bitten}}'', was commissioned by the Canadian channel Space and stars Creator/LauraVandervoort as Elena. Internationally, it airs on SyFy Creator/{{Syfy}} in the United States.
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A 13-episode series called ''{{Series/Bitten}}'' based on her work has been commissioned by SPACE and stars Creator/LauraVandervoort as Elena. It is now in its second season and airs on SyFy in the United States.

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A 13-episode series called ''{{Series/Bitten}}'' based on her work has been television adaption, ''{{Series/Bitten}}'', was commissioned by SPACE the Canadian channel Space and stars Creator/LauraVandervoort as Elena. It is now in its second season and Internationally, it airs on SyFy in the United States.
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A 13-episode series called ''{{Series/Bitten}}'' based on her work has been commissioned by SPACE and stars Laura Vandervoort as Elena. It is now in its second season and airs on SyFy in the United States.

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A 13-episode series called ''{{Series/Bitten}}'' based on her work has been commissioned by SPACE and stars Laura Vandervoort Creator/LauraVandervoort as Elena. It is now in its second season and airs on SyFy in the United States.
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** Played with. Clay has a genius-level IQ (and the doctorate in anthropology to prove it. . . at the bottom of his sock drawer) and certainly knows how to blend in with humans. He just genuinely doesn't see the point 90% of the time, and typically only does so for Elena's sake. As he puts it, he absolutely ''has'' social skills, he just ''chooses'' not to use them most of the time.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Paige adopts 13-year-old Savannah when she's 23 or so. This works out surprisingly well, as Paige is close enough in age to remember pulling exactly the same crap Savannah was pulling, and treats her with a light rein.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: AdoptivePeerParent: Paige adopts 13-year-old Savannah when she's 23 or so. This works out surprisingly well, as Paige is close enough in age to remember pulling exactly the same crap Savannah was pulling, and treats her with a light rein.

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* {{Masquerade}}: All supernatural races have to hide themselves or face dire consequences. In Stolen we see some humans capturing supernaturals to study them and to play with their abilities.

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* {{Masquerade}}: {{Masquerade}}:
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All supernatural races have to hide themselves or face dire consequences. In Stolen we see some humans capturing supernaturals to study them and to play with their abilities.abilities.
** Paige's coven goes so far as intentionally keeping their magical powers as weak as possible to aid in keeping their heads down (and forcing their members to do the same). Paige and Savannah are exiled for making too much noise.
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* MenstrualMenace: A witch's mother should perform a particular ceremony after her first menstruation, to ensure [[PubertySuperpower the witch's power throughout her life]]. However, Paige's coven uses a fake version to limit the power of its members.
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* HandOfGlory: In ''Dime Store Magic'', Kristof Nast tries to get custody of Savannah and plants a Hand of Glory on Paige's property to pressure her into giving in to him. When Savannah wants to use the Hand to sneak out of house, Cortez says that the claims of turning a person {{invisible}} are just a myth and that all that it can do is prevent sleeping people from waking.

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* HandOfGlory: In ''Dime Store Magic'', Kristof Nast tries to get custody of Savannah and plants a Hand of Glory on Paige's property to pressure her into giving in to him. When Savannah wants to use the Hand to sneak out of house, Cortez says that the claims of turning a person {{invisible}} are just a myth and that all that it can do is prevent sleeping people from waking.waking (and weakly at that).
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* HandOfGlory:In the ''Dime Store Magic'', Kristof Nast tries to get custody of Savannah and plants a Hand of Glory on Paige's property to pressure her into giving in to him. When Savannah wants to use the Hand to sneak out of house, Cortez says that the claims of turning a person {{invisible}} are just a myth and that all that it can do is prevent sleeping people from waking.

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* HandOfGlory:In the HandOfGlory: In ''Dime Store Magic'', Kristof Nast tries to get custody of Savannah and plants a Hand of Glory on Paige's property to pressure her into giving in to him. When Savannah wants to use the Hand to sneak out of house, Cortez says that the claims of turning a person {{invisible}} are just a myth and that all that it can do is prevent sleeping people from waking.
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* HandOfGlory:In the ''Dime Store Magic'', Kristof Nast tries to get custody of Savannah and plants a Hand of Glory on Paige's property to pressure her into giving in to him. When Savannah wants to use the Hand to sneak out of house, Cortez says that the claims of turning a person {{invisible}} are just a myth and that all that it can do is prevent sleeping people from waking.
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: a specialty of Clay and Elena's.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Indicative of demonic possession. The color indicates which level of demon is doing the possessing.

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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Indicative of demonic possession.DemonicPossession. The color indicates which level of demon is doing the possessing.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Indicative of demonic possession. The color indicates which level of demon is doing the possessing.
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A 13-episode series called ''{{Series/Bitten}}'' based on her work has been commissioned by SPACE and stars Laura Vandervoort as Elena.

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A 13-episode series called ''{{Series/Bitten}}'' based on her work has been commissioned by SPACE and stars Laura Vandervoort as Elena.
Elena. It is now in its second season and airs on SyFy in the United States.

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Savannah has been in love with Adam since the age of twelve. [[spoiler:Obvious to everyone including Adam, at least until she turned sixteen and got better at hiding it.]]
** Jaime with Jeremy for four years. [[spoiler:Jeremy catches on and reciprocates...eventually.]] Jaime sometimes detours into EatingTheEyeCandy as well.

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Savannah has been in love with Adam since EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: This seems to be the age case for all of twelve. [[spoiler:Obvious to everyone including Adam, at least until she turned sixteen the narrators and got better at hiding it.]]
** Jaime with Jeremy for four years. [[spoiler:Jeremy catches on and reciprocates...eventually.]] Jaime sometimes detours into EatingTheEyeCandy as well.
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** Jaime and Jeremy as well, once they get together.



** What looks to be upcoming is Savannah/[[spoiler: Adam]]: Witch/[[spoiler: Exustio Half-Demon]]

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** What looks to be upcoming is Savannah/[[spoiler: Adam]]: Witch/[[spoiler: Witch & Sorcerer/[[spoiler: Exustio Half-Demon]]


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* ObliviousToLove: Savannah has been in love with Adam since the age of twelve, which was obvious to everyone including Adam, and they have a LikeBrotherAndSister relationship. When Savannah turned sixteen and got better at hiding it (from Adam, at least), this trope kicked in.
** Jaime with Jeremy for four years. [[spoiler:Jeremy catches on and reciprocates...eventually.]] Jaime even detours into EatingTheEyeCandy sometimes as well.


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** [[spoiler:Hope]] to a somewhat lesser extent in ''Spellbound'' and ''Thirteen.''
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** Adam is a fire half-demon and when he gets turned on, he can heat things up with his partner...literally. Although this only seems to happen between him and [[spoiler:Savannah.]]

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** Adam is a an Exustio fire half-demon and when he gets turned on, he can heat things up with his partner...literally. Although this only seems to happen between him and [[spoiler:Savannah.]]



* RelationshipUpgrade: Often when TheyDo for the first time, with the exception of [[spoiler:Hope and Karl]]. Theirs occurs after they work things out and sleep together for the second time.

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* RelationshipUpgrade: Often when TheyDo (sleep together, that is) for the first time, with the exception of [[spoiler:Hope and Karl]]. Theirs occurs after they work things out and out, sleep together for the second time.(and third and...) time, and start officially dating.



* SingleTargetSexuality: Clay, with regards to Elena

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* SingleTargetSexuality: Clay, with regards to ElenaElena. As he's a very wolf-like werewolf and she's his mate, it makes sense. She's also the only woman he's ever slept with.



** Werewolves can do so as well and the Pack werewolves are encouraged to do so. Although it's painful and unpleasent to look at as mentioned above.

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** Werewolves can do so as well and the Pack werewolves are encouraged to do so. Although it's painful and unpleasent unpleasant to look at as mentioned above.
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** Adam is a fire half-demon and when he gets turned on, he can heat things up with his partner...literally. Although this only seems to happen between him and [[spoiler:Savannah.]]

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Savannah has been in love with Adam since the age of twelve, obvious to everyone including Adam. At least until [[spoiler:she turned sixteen and got better at hiding it.]]
** Jaime with Jeremy for four years. [[spoiler:Jeremy catches on and reciprocates...eventually.]]

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Savannah has been in love with Adam since the age of twelve, obvious twelve. [[spoiler:Obvious to everyone including Adam. At Adam, at least until [[spoiler:she she turned sixteen and got better at hiding it.]]
** Jaime with Jeremy for four years. [[spoiler:Jeremy catches on and reciprocates...eventually.]]]] Jaime sometimes detours into EatingTheEyeCandy as well.



* FemaleGaze: Notably Hope with Karl and Jaime with Jeremy, although it occurs with nearly all the female narrators to a greater or lesser extent.

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* FemaleGaze: Notably Hope with Karl and Jaime with Jeremy, although it occurs with nearly Nearly all the female narrators to a greater or lesser extent.are female. The series is called ''Women of the Otherworld'' after all.
** The sex scenes certainly qualify.
** Less pleasant, but also important are most of the narrators' experiences with predatory men, especially Elena's encounters with the Tesler brothers and Hope's later dealings with Jaz.
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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Savannah has been in love with Adam since the age of twelve, obvious to everyone including Adam. At least until [[spoiler:she turned sixteen and got better at hiding it.]]
** Jaime with Jeremy for four years. [[spoiler:Jeremy catches on and reciprocates...eventually.]]


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* FemaleGaze: Notably Hope with Karl and Jaime with Jeremy, although it occurs with nearly all the female narrators to a greater or lesser extent.


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* RelationshipUpgrade: Often when TheyDo for the first time, with the exception of [[spoiler:Hope and Karl]]. Theirs occurs after they work things out and sleep together for the second time.
** Jaime and Jeremy in ''No Humans Involved.''
** Savannah and [[spoiler:Adam]] in ''Thirteen.''
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** A particularly unpleasant example involving Malcolm Danvers. He dislikes and is disdainful of his son Jeremy not only for his un-werewolf-like disinterest in fighting and bookishness, but also because Jeremy's mother was Japanese and [[spoiler:a rare type of supernatural race which Malcolm deemed strange and unnatural.]]
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* TallDarkAndHandsome: Both Jeremy Danvers and Karl Marsten. Hope literally describes Karl that way during their first meeting, although he also qualifies as TallDarkAndSnarky.

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