History Literature / TowerAndTheHive

* MayDecemberRomance: Damia and Afra.

* TimeSkip: Between ''To Ride Pegasus'' and ''Pegasus In Flight''. Dorotea Horvath, who was about five years old at the end of the former, is now at least eighty years old and a grandmother, and we also meet the children of other characters, like Daffyd's granddaughter Rhyssa, Bruce and Amalda's (probably) grand-daughter, who's named after her grand-mother, and Boris and Sascha Roznine, who are the (probably) grandsons of Vsevolod Roznine (the book never says exactly what the twins' relationship to Vsevolod is, nor Amalda junior's relationship to Bruce and Amalda senior).

* MutantDraftBoard: The Center and FT&T don't generally ''force'' anyone to join them, but they do apply a significant amount of pressure, bribery, and in rare cases coercion to attract and keep Talents, and both have legal jurisdiction over ''all'' Talented individuals.

** This becomes a case of controversy in the final books, as it's pointed out that this means the Raven-Lyon clan essentially owns the FT&T organization because 90% of all Prime Talents are related to that family. It's treated as a big deal that one of the neophyte Primes from ''The Tower And The Hive'' ''isn't'' part of that family (She's David of Betelgeuse's granddaughter). However, it's also evident that, prior to Jeff Raven's and the Rowan's rise to prominence, many Prime talents, such as Siglen and Capella, deliberately isolated themselves from social interaction to a great degree, and the comparative lack of Prime-level talent at the beginning of ''The Rowan'' was due to the fact that high-level talents simply weren't having children (with the Reidenger family as the notable exception).

* IfICantHaveYou[=/=]TakingYouWithMe: Sodan, the psychic entity trying to seduce Damia[[note]]in order to find out about the human system's defenses and weaken their most powerful one - her[[/note]] used the last of his strength to try and kill Afra after he'd picked up on Damia's feelings for him. It should be noted that Afra, Damia's parents and Damia's brother Larak were trying to destroy him at the time. [[spoiler: He ended up killing Larak.]]

* IfICantHaveYou[=/=]TakingYouWithMe: Sodan, the psychic entity trying to seduce Damia[[note]]in order to find out about the human system's defenses and weaken their most powerful one - her[[/note]] used the last of his strength to try and kill Afra after he'd picked up on Damia's feelings for him. It should be noted that Afra, Damia's parents and Damia's brother Larak were currently trying to destroy him at the time. [[spoiler: He ended up killing Larak.]]

* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Laria and Kinkaid hooking up due to their Mrdini companions "encouraging" it.

* GenerationalSaga: Sort of. ''Pegasus In Flight'' takes place about eighty years after ''To Ride Pegasus'', with ''Pegasus In Space'' taking place maybe a few months afterwards. ''The Rowan'', however, takes place at least fifty years later, maybe even a century.

* IfICantHaveYou[=/=]TakingYouWithMe: Sodan, the psychic entity trying to seduce Damia[[note]]in order to find out about the human system's defenses and weaken their most powerful one - her[[/note]] used the last of his strength to try and kill Damia after he'd picked up on Afra's feelings for her. It should be noted that Afra, Damia's parents and Damia's brother Larak were currently trying to destroy him at the time. [[spoiler: He ended up killing Larak.]]
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Gay Kinkaid sleeping with his straight best friend, Laria, because they were both lonely and hurting over bad breakups. Turns out their Mrdini companions mentally "[[AliensMadeThemDoIt nudged]]" them towards each other. They didn't really mind.

* RomanticRunnerUp: Afra and the Rowan are shipped. He's the first T2 to last longer than a few months, the Rowan genuinely likes him and they become good friends… and then Jeff Raven turns up, and Afra immediately realises that he's lost.

* DiplomaticImpunity: invoked by the BigBad of ''Pegasus In Flight''. Unfortunately for him, his boss got the whole story and pulled the rug out from under him.

* CoolPet: the Barque Cats and the Coonies (genetically altered and domesticated raccoons).

* ''Pegasus In Flight'' and ''Pegasus In Space'': Direct sequels to ''To Ride Pegasus'' meant to officially [[CanonWelding merge]] the Pegasus storyline with that of the Talents.

* BrokenPedestal: A minor example, but still depressing: while they're searching for Tirla, Carmen starts to build up an idea of her as a strong, smart and talented runaway, but who is also an innocent who needs their help. When they meet, Tirla's callousness about the horrible situation makes Carmen quite dismayed.

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Subverted -- ''No one'' thinks giving The Rowan to Siglen to be trained as a Prime is the best idea -- Siglen is a great Prime but an otherwise horrible person. But there's no one else on the planet qualified to teach her and sending her elsewhere would do more harm than good, thanks to Travel Sickness.

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Even after she regains her memories and remembers her real name[[note]]Angharad Gwyn[[/note]], most people refer to The Rowan as "The Rowan". Reidinger, however, made a point of calling her by her birth name, once he knew it.

* BabiesEverAfter: Every story arc of the series has ended with the main female character pregnant (The Rowan was pregnant with her second at the end of ''The Rowan''.)

* TheGhost: Damia's youngest sibling, Erzo.

* PopulationControl: Used in ''Pegasus in Flight'', and an issue since the protagonist child talent was illegally born.

* ''Pegasus In Flight'' and ''Pegasus In Space'': Direct sequels to ''To Ride Pegasus'' meant to officially [[ArcWelding merge]] the Pegasus storyline with that of the Talents.

** The ''Pegasus'' trilogy has two major aversions. Amariyah Bantam isn't shown hooking up with anyone, and it's implied that Dorotea Horvath never married, but had children out of wedlock instead. (Her grandson shares her last name.)

* IfICantHaveYou[=/=]TakingYouWithMe: Sodan, the psychic entity trying to seduce Damia[[hottip:*:in order to find out about the human system's defenses and weaken their most powerful one - her]] used the last of his strength to try and kill Damia after he'd picked up on Afra's feelings for her. It should be noted that Afra, Damia's parents and Damia's brother Larak were currently trying to destroy him at the time. [[spoiler: He ended up killing Larak.]]

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Even after she regains her memories and remembers her real name[[hottip:*:Angharad Gwyn]], most people refer to The Rowan as "The Rowan". Reidinger, however, made a point of calling her by her birth name, once he knew it.

** As the Coonies were at times referred to as "Coonie cats", and McCaffrey was known to have owned several Maine Coon cats over the course of her life, many fans believe that Main Coons were at least a partial basis for the Coonies (despite the cover artist for ''Damia'' taking "coonie" at face value and placing a raccoon with the title character).

* MandatoryMotherhood: By the end of the series, the list of adult women who aren't mothers or expectant mothers is far far shorter than the list of those that are.

* MyGreatestFailure: For Damia it was [[spoiler:accidentally burning out the mind of her first lover,]] partially from inexperience, and partially because she ignored Afra's advice to "be careful" out of spite (she assumed he meant [[spoiler:"birth control"]]; he meant [[spoiler:"keep your mental shields up or you'll fry the boy."]])

** This becomes a case of controversy in the final books, as it's pointed out that this means the Raven-Lyon clan essentially owns the FT&T organization because 90% of all Prime Talents are related to that family. It's treated as a big deal that one of the neophyte Primes from ''The Tower And The Hive'' ''isn't'' part of that family (She's David of Betelgeuse's granddaughter).

* FasterThanLightTravel: The Talents make this possible.

* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Subverted -- ''No one'' thinks giving The Rowan to Siglen to be trained as a Prime is the best idea -- Siglen is a great Prime but horrible person. But there's no one else on the planet qualified to teach her and sending her elsewhere would do more harm than good, thanks to Travel Sickness.

* HumanityIsSuperior: The Mrdini have been fighting the Hivers for generations. Humanity swats them down within one (during which the Hivers were only briefly a real threat).

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Even after she regains her memories and learns her real name[[hottip:*:Angharad Gwyn]], most people refer to The Rowan as "The Rowan". Reidinger, however, made it a point of calling her by her given name, once it was known.

* MyGreatestFailure: For Damia it was [[spoiler:accidentally burning out the mind of her first lover,]] partially from inexperience, and partially because she ignored Afra's advice to "be careful" out of spite (she assumed he meant "birth control"; he meant [[spoiler:"keep your mental shields up or you'll fry the boy."]])

** This becomes a case of controversy in the final books, as it's pointed out that this means the Raven-Lyon clan essentially owns the FT&T organization because 90% of all Prime Talents are related to that family.

* ''The Tower and The Hive'': The wrap-up to the threat of the Hivers (and probably the series, itself after [[AuthorExistenceFailure McCaffery's death]])

* LovableRogue - Jeff Raven, before he gets KickedUpstairs in the later books.

* YourMindMakesItReal: The Prime's travel sickness was actually Siglen mentally imprinting her own condition on every other Prime of the time (at the time four others). Because it had to be simply "the cost of power" and not something as mundane as an inner-ear condition.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Stock in trade for precognitive Talents.

* MindOverManners: An essential part of the Talents' culture. The Mrdini aren't as careful about it.

* OneWorldOrder: Develops through a layer of international institutions during the ''Pegasus'' trilogy.

** The ''Pegasus'' trilogy has ''one'' major aversion in Amariyah Bantam, who isn't shown hooking up with anyone.