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5Jacky Faber is a tough, resourceful urchin on the streets of London, capable of really anything you can imagine. Although Jacky's life as a member of Rooster Charlie's Gang is all right considering the circumstances, it's not enough--the sea calls with promises of fortune and high adventure, and Jacky has always wanted to see the Bombay Rat, the Cathay Cat, and the Kangaroo.
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7There's only one problem: Jacky's a girl.
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9When an unexpected tragedy forces her to leave her old gang, Mary Faber dons boys' clothes, takes the name "Jack," and joins the Royal Navy as a ship's boy. It's risky, but it certainly beats the bleak prospects of an orphan girl on the streets of London in 1803. From there, she goes on numerous adventures all over Europe, America, and the open sea, makes unlikely friends, and falls in love... but even when everything seems perfect, trouble always manages to find her.
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11''Bloody Jack'' is a series of twelve young adult novels by L.A. Meyer. They are as follows:
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13* ''Bloody Jack''
14* ''Curse of the Blue Tattoo''
15* ''Under the Jolly Roger''
16* ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound''
17* ''Mississippi Jack''
18* ''My Bonny Light Horseman''
19* ''Rapture of the Deep''
20* ''The Wake of the Lorelei Lee''
21* ''The Mark of the Golden Dragon''
22* ''Viva Jacquelina!''
23* ''Boston Jacky''
24* ''Wild Rover No More''
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26The series is a must-read for anyone who likes historical fiction, adventure, pirates, and genuine plucky heroines. The story is fast-paced and fun to read, but not simplistic in the least--to fully describe the plot would make this page longer than SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. But feel free to break the cast down by trope with the [[Characters/BloodyJack Character Sheet]].
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28[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not related to]] ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' in any way, shape, or form.
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30!!This series provides examples of:
31* AccidentalHero: Jacky "leads" a cavalry charge screaming in terror on a runaway horse in ''My Bonny Light Horseman''.
32* ActionGirl: Jacky, of course. Also, all of the Lawson Peabody girls become {{Action Girl}}s out of necessity when [[spoiler: they are taken aboard the ''Bloodhound'' to be sold into slavery.]]
33* AdoptivePeerParent: Jacky takes quite a number of orphans under her wing. However this is only made official in regards to Joannie and Ravi.
34%%* TheAlcoholic: Gully.
35* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler: Jacky]] in book 2, after which [[spoiler: she swears never to touch spirits again]]
36* AmbiguouslyGay:
37** Higgins' sexuality is heavily implied.
38** Mam'selle Claudelle ''day'' Bourbon seems to dote mightily on Jacky.
39** The dangerous female pirate Cheng Shih seems to take a shine to Jacky. Jacky is subsequently vague and dreamy about her position as Cheng Shih's "pet."
40** Actors Mr. Fennel and Mr. Bean give this impression in the audiobook as well, though not in the printed novels.
41* ArtisticLicenceHistory:
42** There are quite a few details that do not ring true to those familiar with daily life in this time. Jacky herself has some anachronistic notions, but that can be explained by her dual role.
43** Some characters use or refer to cocaine. Cocaine was first extracted from coca leaves in 1850s, about five decades after the books are set.
44* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
45** When Jacky (clearly a minor) is arrested no attempt is made to contact her guardian.
46*** This can be summed up by Constable Wiggins being a corrupt and incompetent police officer
47*** He is also known to be a ready and willing beater of women and children, so the chance to whip Jacky for her "crimes" would give him great joy.
48** A girl who is considered a minor is able to have a ward and an adopted son?
49*** She's 19 by the time she return to America with Ravi and Joanie
50** The court room scenes in general seem to make very little sense.
51*** These can largely be chalked-up to being corrupt and/or incompetent KangarooCourt or they have been manipulated by political connections to attack Jacky or her allies
52** During the period the books are set, even someone much younger than Jacky could be arrested and sent to prison In the first book, in fact, young Jacky is traumatized by the hanging of a thief the same age as she and fears she will suffer the same fate if she doesn't find a way off the streets. It wasn't until around the 1850s when a movement arose to send children under 16 to reformatories in hopes of rehabilitating them.
53* AttemptedRape: Pretty much once a book, at the very least.
54* AuthorAppeal:
55** History and ships.
56** The author is an artist and owns an art gallery with his wife. Thus, Jacky is a skilled artist and much detail goes into the techniques she uses.
57** The author appears to be interested in period clothing, as he expends much detail on Jackie's various outfits and disguises and each novel gives her at least one extended dressing scene.
58** Folk songs and sea chanteys. Jacky's repertoire is extensive and historically accurate. Jackie herself was inspired by the song "Jackaroe", though in-story it's the other way around.
59* AuthorAvatar: Jacky is arguably this. Her skills and interests mirror those of the author so much so that Meyer would make posts to the official forum in character, even when talking about real-world issues such as book covers and release dates.
60* BadassBookworm: Amy.
61* TheBeard: [[spoiler: Jacky and Higgins get married in ''The Wake Of The Lorelei Lee'' to keep the rest of the ship from speculating about their relationship (and Higgins' sexuality)]]. Leads to SexlessMarriage and AmicablyDivorced.
62* BerserkButton: Jacky flies into a rage when anyone criticizes her mother. The reaction is predictable enough that Clarissa uses it in an attempt to get her expelled from the Lawson Peabody in ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound'', and would have succeeded had it not been for Higgins’s last-second intervention.
63* BetaCouple: Several throughout the series, but among the most notable being Amy and Ezra ([[WillTheyOrWontThey though she is not yet ready]] [[CatchPhrase for that sort of thing]]), Jim Tanner and [[spoiler: Clementine Jukes]], and Mairead and Ian. Joanie and Daniel.
64* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Deconstructed. The Lawson Peabody School For Young Girls is reasonably strict and regimented, but not abusive, and the Headmistress seems to be a bit of a tough-but-fair MamaBear about her students.
65* BreakingTheFourthWall:
66** Jacky frequently makes asides justifying her actions to the reader."I wasn't raised proper" being the most frequent, but there are others.
67** In the last book excerpts from Amy's journal are explicitly addressed to "dear reader".
68** In scenes where Jacky is telling someone about her past adventures, she frequently quotes previous books word for word.
69* BrickJoke: "Eat Nettles first."
70* CatchPhrase:
71** Jacky: "I'm a good girl...mostly." and "Men, I swear." and "I wasn't raise proper."
72** Amy: "I'm not ready for that kind of thing."
73** Mike Fink: "I'm a ringtailed roarer!"
74* ChekhovsGun [[spoiler: Cordelia Dress]] Introduced in book 2 and fired in book 12.
75* ChivalrousPervert: Randall and Richard Allen.
76* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Jacky and Jaimy.
77** Implied for Joanie and Daniel in ''Rapture of the Deep.''
78* CliffHanger: So far, all of the books, in one way or another, but most notably ''Under the Jolly Roger'' and ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound''.
79* ClothingDamage: Seems to be the main attraction in Jacky's [[ShowWithinAShow playlet]] "''The Villain Pursues Constant Maiden: Or, Fair Virtue in Peril''"Ro
80* CoolBoat: Jackie's beloved flagship, the ''Nancy B. Alsop''. A Baltimore schooner, she's fast enough to outrun a Royal Navy frigate, big enough to cross the Pacific but small enough to be handled by two or three hands in an emergency, and named after her mother.
81* CouldntFindALighter: Lord Richard Allen uses the burning fuse of a bomb to light his cigar in ''Rapture of the Deep''.
82* CowardlyLion: Jacky, and she's not afraid to admit it.
83* CrazyPrepared: Jacky and the items in her sea bag. She also has her shiv on her at all times, and it miraculously never gets lost.
84* CrouchingScholarHiddenBadass: Higgins is shown repeatedly to be very adept at manipulation and persuasion, on top of being able to crunch numbers, crack complicated military codes, speak multiple languages, solve crime, and run a business. His sheer versatility results in him eventually being scouted by the British government as an intelligence agent. That said, he carries dual-wielding percussion cap pistols and is not above using physical force to protect Jacky when diplomacy fails. [[CulturedBadass Politely, of course.]]
85* Depraved Homosexual and DepravedBisexual
86** Bill Sloat, a crewman on the Dolphin in ''Bloody Jack'', is an enemy of Jacky's sea-dad Liam and has a rather apparent sexual interest in Jacky. When he attempts to rape Jacky, he finds out she's actually a girl and expr, though thankfully Jacky manages to stab him with her shiv and he then falls off the ship.
87** Captain Blodgett from ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound'', he never expresses interest in either the white Lawson Peabody girls or in African slave women he transports, and the crew of the Bloodhound is regularly confused and make a point to look away whenever Nettles emerges from his cabin each morning.
88** Sammy Nettles, Captain Blodgett's "cabin boy", expresses quite vulgar sexual interests in the Lawson Peabody, particularly Jacky and Clarissa, and attempts to rape Jacky near the end of the book, but he sleeps in Captain Blodgett's cabin and Jacky tells him to go sit in the captain's lap as an insult.
89** Sargeant Napper and Corporal Vance, two marine guards onboard the "Cerberus" in ''The Wake of the Lorelei Lee'', decide to take out Daniel Conolly, a young and pretty Irish boy, to rape him and also express interest in Jaimy when he offers himself instead.
90* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Benjy, though Jacky closes his eyes later.]]
91* DisguisedInDrag: Jacky. All the time. More so in the earlier books, when she had a more boyish figure.
92** Used by the pirates in the beginning of ''My Bonny Light Horseman''.
93* DistractedByTheSexy: Used by Clarissa [[spoiler: when the girls escape the ''Bloodhound.'']] Also used on occasion by Jacky when in Saucy Wench mode.
94* DividedWeFall: In ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound'', Clarissa is far more concerned about calling Jacky out for her perceived bossiness [[spoiler: than she is working together with her to try to find a way for them all to escape a life of slavery.]] The petty schoolgirl rivalry in light of much more serious matters is so out of place that Jacky is more incredulous than angry throughout the confrontation.
95* DoubleStandard: Jackie is often crashing headlong into it. Sometimes she tries to play it to her advantage.
96* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Elspeth, after going catatonic for revealing that Jacky led the girls against their captors in Book 4, which resulted in Jacky getting punished.]]. And again in ''Wild Rover No More'' when [[spoiler: Amy tries to commit suicide after Jacky's execution. Fortunately, Randall sabotaged her pistol]]
97* DrunkenMaster: Played with as [[spoiler: Randell is only pretending to be drunk]]
98* DudeWheresMyRespect: You'd think that after ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound'', Jacky would have friends in high places, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
99* EatingLunchAlone: Amy Trevelyne starts out this way in ''Curse of the Blue Tattoo'', though she tells Jacky that the exile is [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation self-imposed.]]
100* FakeOutMakeOut: Clarissa and Jacky on the ''Bloodhound'', which adds to the general feeling of...
101* FakingTheDead: Happens to Jacky twice.
102* FamedInStory: Jacky explicitly wants to be this, although it comes around to bite her when she learns her friend Amy has been publishing Jacky's life story and adventures in volumes, often leading to Jacky's enemies being all-too-informed of her exploits.
103* FryingPanOfDoom: Jemimah uses what is apparently the world's biggest frying pan to brain El Feo.
104* GenkiGirl: Jacky. Amy expresses her dismay at Jacky's tireless enthusiasm more than once.
105* GetItOverWith: Jacky says words to this effect many times when threatened with execution.
106* GenerationXerox: Jacky looks exactly like her mother. Her adopted urchin Joannie is very much a slightly younger version of Jacky.
107* GoodScarsEvilScars: Jacky ends up with two--one on her eyebrow and one on the outer edge of her opposite eye.
108* GreenEyedMonster: Jaimy frequently describes himself with variations of this. While he recognizes that it’s unfounded for the most part, his hair-trigger temper and jealousy have led to several incidents throughout the series [[spoiler: including but not limited to nearly drowning Robin Raeburne out of spite in ''Under the Jolly Roger'', racing off in a huff before Jacky can explain her tryst with Richard Allen in ''Mississippi Jack'', and – most recently – breaking up with her entirely when he discovers the nude portrait Amadeo Romero had done of her during her adventures in Spain.]]
109* GroinAttack: Marshall Hilaire de Groote's wife shoots him in the crotch when she catches him with Jacky (who was pretending to be a prostitute at the time).
110* HandsomeLech: Randall Trevelyne, Joseph Jared, etc...
111* HaveAGayOldTime:
112** Jacky's fellow ship's boys temporarily kick her out of their group because "they think [she's] queer," a line that, under the circumstances, could be (and is) interpreted all kinds of ways.
113** The ship boys refer to Jacky as a "bleedin' fairy," a thought to which Jacky concurs ("That I am, a right wee elf") although it's entirely possible Jacky doesn't fully understand the implications.
114* HelloSailor: Although, characters like this are almost always portrayed as [[DepravedHomosexual Depraved Homosexuals.]]
115* HiddenDepths: Clarissa in the fourth book
116* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Enough to populate a wiki of their own, including Napoleon, Tecumseh and Sacajawea, the [=LaFitte=] brothers, Lord Dundas, the Duke of Clarence, and [[PirateGirl Cheng Shih]]. Many other contemporary figures such as Marshal Ney, John Adams, Cotton Mathers, Lord Nelson and the romantic poets are discussed or make cameo appearances without rising to the level of true characters.
117** A number of the convicts on the Lorelei Lee are Historical characters, including Mary Wade. The ''Lorelei Lee'' itself is somewhat based on the ''Lady Juliana''.
118* HistoricalInJoke: Oodles and boodles worth
119* HoneyTrap: Jacky is forced to be one of these [[spoiler: by the British government as an alternative to being hanged for piracy. She keeps a stash of opium on hand to avoid being deflowered.]] It is specifically referred to by this name in the book.
120* HonorAmongThieves:
121** Despite the backstabbing, violence, and constant turf wars in Cheapside, it’s tacitly agreed among the urchins that involving the police in any way breaks the code of the streets.
122** Rooster Charlie was known for being scrupulously fair, dividing spoils evenly and refusing to eat until all the members of the gang were present.
123** Subverted with [[spoiler: Gully, who starts off professing to be an honorable con-artist and ends up nearly causing serious harm to Jacky whenever they cross paths.]]
124* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Mam'selle Claudelle ''day'' Bourbon, of the New Orleans day Bourbons
125* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Jacky is a little less than five feet as of ''The Wake Of The Lorelei Lee'', and her constant companion Higgins is only described as "large."
126* IdiotBall: In ''Boston Jacky,'' both Jacky and Jamie seem to suffer from this. In ''Wild Rover No More'', [[spoiler: when Jacky thinks it's a good idea to send letters to her friends and tell them where she is when she is supposed to on the run from her own execution,]] this really approaches TooDumbToLive territory.
127* ImprobableAge: In later books Jacky behaves and is treated like someone far older then she actually is.
128* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Jacky. By the final book, Literal Fanservice.
129* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: When Jacky tells Amy her story, the opening lines sound exactly like those of the first book. Later on, we find out that Amy has published Jacky's adventures--implied to be the very books we are reading.
130%%* IronLady: Mistress Pimm.
131* LargeHam: Jacky, Mike Fink, Captain Laughton. Jacky herself seems to write these roles...
132* LonelyRichKid: In ''Bloody Jack'', Jaimy is initially treated with suspicion by the other ship’s boys as he is the only one of them not fresh off the streets – namely, is from a wealthy family, is well-dressed, well-fed, and has his own mess kit. While that doesn’t last long, the isolation brought on by his financial privileges is a theme referenced frequently throughout the series, leading him to still doubt the tales that Jacky has told him about her former life.
133* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Almost in ''Under The Jolly Roger''.
134* MarriedAtSea: Most of the crew and passengers of the ''Lorelei Lee'', including [[spoiler: Jacky and Higgins, temporarily.]]
135* MistakenForGay: Jacky and the female crew of the ''Belle of the Golden West'' in ''Mississippi Jack''.
136* MushroomSamba: Ensues in ''Viva Jacquelina'' after Jacky, alone and starving in the Spanish countryside, eats a strange orange fungus, and culminates in a long conversation with a bullfrog.
137* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: "'Tis me, [=Arthur McBride=], who's killing you. I want you to know on your way to hell that it was me who sent you there, you worthless piece of British crap."
138* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Jacky, nearly once per book.
139* NoPeekingRequest: After Jacky is taken prisoner in "Under the Jolly Roger", a [[OfficerAndAGentleman Corporal]] gives her her clothes back and she asks him to turn around while she changes, and is mildly amused by his blushing as he does so.
140* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: In Book 6, Jacky's friends watch her get dragged out from their prison cell and guillotined--only it turns out they decapitated a girl who looked like her, instead. They don't find out till much later, though...]]
141* {{Official Couple}}s: Jacky and Jaimy, despite his and her recurring slip-ups; [[spoiler:Davy and Annie; Amy and Ezra; Mairead and Ian; and Katy and Lightfoot]] among others.
142* OffWithHisHead: Not surprising as the story is set not long after the French Revolution.
143* OutdoorBathPeeping: Richard Allen cheerfully spies on a naked Jacky in ''Mississippi Jack'' when she’s out enjoying a swim with the girls of the Shawnee tribe. He has exactly zero shame in being discovered.
144* OutWithABang: Pushed to the edge by illness, the threat of imminent mutiny, and cannonballs crashing overhead, [[spoiler: Captain Scroggs has a heart attack and dies before he's able to go through with his plan to rape Jacky.]]
145%%* PeacefulInDeath: [[spoiler: Hughie.]]
146* {{Pirates}}: The ''Dolphin,'' Jacky's first assignment, is a pirate hunter. Later, Jacky [[spoiler: becomes a privateer but is made a wanted criminal because her Letter of Marque was canceled.]]:
147%%* PirateGirl
148* PlatonicProstitution: As the protagonist is a SweetPollyOliver in her early teens who hasn't had any older female confidantes in the past few years, she winds up hiring a prostitute once she's on shore leave to fill her in on what is going on with her body (because of course, she can't ask the ship's surgeon).
149* PluckyMiddie: Jacky epitomizes this trope, even when she doesn't actually hold the rank.
150* {{Privateer}}: The ''Emerald,'' during the majority of ''Under the Jolly Roger''.
151* PublicDomainCharacter: Freely mixed with the historical characters, most notably Mike Fink and the crew of the [[Literature/MobyDick ''Pequod.'']]
152* [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Puritan School Girls Rule]]: Jackie eventually learns to use "the look" of a Lawson Peabody girl to her advantage.
153%%* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Katy Deere.]]
154* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler: Jacky ties to use her fame in ''The Mark of the Golden Dragon'', but the English sailors she talks to don't believe she is really Jacky Faber.]]
155* RenamedTheSame: When Jackie ends up working as spy undercover in a ballet in France and picks out a new name so the French don't figure out the legendary lady pirate Jackie Faber is within their boarders, she decides to go with Jacqueline... and her fellow dancers quickly shorten it to Jackie.
156%%* RichBitch: Clarissa
157* SailorsPonytail: Jacky initially cuts all of her hair off to pull off the SweetPollyOliver that gets the plot rolling, but is told by her captain to grow out her pigtail so that she will match the other ship's boys. Jacky complies, but frets that her long hair will make her look more girlish and thus betray her.
158* ScoobyDooHoax: Jacky convinces the crew of the ''Bloodhound'' that the ship is haunted. She also uses a more serious version of this routine in ''Curse of the Blue Tattoo'' in order to [[spoiler: drive SinisterMinister/ Reverend Mathers to admit to murder.]]
159* ShoutOut:
160** The [[Literature/TreasureIsland Admiral Benbow Inn]] shows up on occasion.
161** Recurring character [[Music/TheMonkees David Jones]] (Or perhaps, to his locker...)
162** Recurring lecherous coward [[{{Literature/Flashman}} Flashby]].
163** [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick and Keefe]] in ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound''. Note the large lips, cockney accents, and leather-tanned skin.
164** In ''My Bonny Light Horseman''. Jacky and Jean-Paul go to a horse race where Jacky is mostly civil and ladylike until she [[Theatre/MyFairLady lapses back into her cockney accent cheering on a losing horse.]]
165*** She also uses Jackie Kennedy Onassis' maiden name "Jaqueline Bouvier" as her French pseudonym.
166** Ric's Café Americano is an obvious reference to Rick's Café Americain from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
167** Dr. Stephen Sebastian is [[Literature/AubreyMaturin an insect-collecting naval surgeon with ties to British intelligence.]]
168** In the third book, Jacky sails back to England on [[Literature/MobyDick a certain whaling ship with a Captain Ahab and a young man named Ishmael.]]
169** Apparently Rooster Charlie was [[Literature/OliverTwist “very tight with the Dodger”.]]
170** Jacky's friend Polly Von takes her name from an Irish ballad covered by, among others, Peter, Paul and Mary.
171** The ''Lorelei Lee'' is named after the heroine of ''Literature/GentlemenPreferBlondes'' (A lorelai is itself a mythical maiden, similar to a siren or mermaid, that proves dangerous to sailors.)
172** In the ninth book, the group travels by Baskerville and [[Literature/SherlockHolmes hears the baying of a hound.]]
173** Anyone familiar with the poem ''The Highwayman'' knows that Jacky doesn't need to worry about Jaimy’s affections for [[DoomedByCanon Bess]].
174** In ''Wild Rover No More,'' Jacky assumes the name Annabelle Leigh and ends up governess to a little boy named [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Edgar Allan Polk]].
175* ShowWithinAShow:
176** Jacky frequently retells events from previous books to entertain others.
177** She also writes a play in ''Mississippi Jack''
178** Brother Rabbit tales in ''The Rapture of the Deep''
179* SinisterMinister: Reverend Mather
180* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Subverted and Played Stright to make Joannie and Daniel a couple:
181** Joannie is said to be about twelve at the start of ''Under the Jolly Rodger'', and is still about twelve 2 years later in ''Rapture of The Deep''.
182** Daniel is eight or nine in ''Mississippi Jack'' and about twelve in ''Rapture of The Deep'', even thought less then six months have passed.
183* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy: Occurs frequently in every book, often functioning as the root of Jacky’s [[CrazyPrepared Crazy Preparedness.]] Jacky is particularly fond of mentioning lessons learned during her time in the Blackfriars Bridge gang, from the very useful (knowing how to cross the city unseen via the rooftops) to the seemingly pointless (knowing how to make baby footprints with the side of her fist).
184* StarCrossedLovers: …How many times now have Jacky and Jaimy come within hours of getting married, only to have their doorway to wedded bliss shut in their face, usually by Her Majesty's soldiers?
185* StreetUrchin: Jacky. A healthy number of side characters start out this way as well - Jim Tanner, Ravi, all but one of the ship's boys on the Dolphin, and Joannie, who is said to be very similar to Jacky in her Cheapside days.
186* SurvivalMantra: Ravi's "Happy puppy, happy puppy, happy puppy..."
187* SweetPollyOliver: How Jacky starts her adventures on the high seas.
188* SweetOnPollyOliver: Jaimy finds himself "unnaturally attracted" to one of his fellow ship's boys and is on the verge of leaving the Navy until said ship's boy reveals herself to be a girl.
189* TakeBackYourGift: In her typical dramatic fashion, Jacky hurls her promise ring at Jaimy’s feet at the beginning of ''Under the Jolly Roger'' when she discovers that he is cheating on her. [[spoiler: As it turns out, [[RelativeError the girl is only his cousin]], and all of the grief Jacky goes through over the next several months as a result of the incident could have been avoided if she’d just stopped to ask.]]
190* ATasteOfTheLash: Jacky's (second) worst nightmare as a ship's boy in ''Bloody Jack,'' as stripping for a lashing will reveal her true gender. [[spoiler: Both Jacky and Clarissa get lashes in Book 4 and Jaimy takes his licks in book 8.]]
191* TheSocialExpert: Jackie gradually becomes an expert at identifying key people and winning their sympathy. Put her aboard any ship, even in chains, and she'll soon have the whole lower decks rooting for her. She also learns when to play the DoubleStandard to her advantage.
192* TitleDrop: Amped up to eleven in ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound''. Made even more noticeable in the audiobook version, whether by design or accident, as Kellgren tends to slow down and give it weight whenever she runs across it.
193* TooDumbToLive: Jacky in the last book. [[spoiler: Not leaving the US while on the run from the US Government, and sending mail to her known associates telling them exactly where she is.]]
194* TookALevelInBadass:
195** Jacky. ''Definitely'' Jacky.
196** All of the girls of the Lawson Peabody in ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound'', [[spoiler: and in particular The Dianas, who took a blood oath to fight to the death rather than allow themselves to be sold into slavery.]]
197* UncleTomfoolery: "Jerome", [[spoiler: until he turns out to be a slaver. His antics were to fool the girls into thinking he was harmless.]]
198* UnwantedHarem: There are a ''lot'' of guys ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer and two women]]) romantically interested in Jacky (not even counting the creepers), but she only wants Jaimy. She refers to her other suitors as "friends."
199* VirginPower: Despite it all, Jackie has managed to retain her virginity, which proves an effective defense against those who try to cast aspersions against her character, particularly Flashby.
200* VirginTension: Nearly every book points out that Jacky still has her virginity--by having some attempt at taking it made. In the earlier books, this was usually AttemptedRape, but it can also be one of her many suitors (or even Jaimy) getting a little too frisky.
201* WaifFu: Subverted. Jacky is regularly overpowered by men who are just physically strong. And never does well in sword fight, despite training and practice.
202* WarIsGlorious: Randall seems to think so, until he finally experiences it.
203* WarIsHell: Jackie rarely escapes unscathed and always loses at least one person she cares about in every battle.
204* WeddingsForEveryone: The younger characters in the book pair up constantly, and there are many weddings throughout. The penultimate chapter in the last book hints at a triple wedding: [[spoiler: Jacky & Jamie, Amy & Ezra, Randell & Polly ]]
205* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the last few books Jacky's dependents don't even get a mention. This may be due to AuthorExistenceFailure: the author, knowing that his final illness was likely terminal, took the precaution of writing the last book in advance, but intended to write other books between that would have wrapped up the loose ends.
206** The last mention of Daniel Prescott is in 'Viva Jacquelina.''
207** Neither Ravi nor Joannie appear in ''Wild Rover No More.''
208* WideEyedIdealist: Elspeth [[spoiler: until her naivete results in her betraying Jacky and subsequently getting ostracized by the rest of the girls.]]
209* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Higgins used this to explain to Jacky why Singapore changed hands so many times, as opposed to anyone actually governing it for an extended period.
210* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: And one girl of pure brass!
211* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Luckily, that character disappeared quickly.
212* YoYoPlotPoint: Jackie's run-ins with the law, [[VirginTension assaults on her virtue]], and the WillTheyOrWontThey between her and Jaimy are re-hashed virtually every book.

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