YMMV / Shades of Magic

• Designated Hero: Stealing is the least of Delilah Bard's crimes. Over the course of the first two books, she steals anything she can get her hands on despite having been offered honest work, holds a dangerous artifact hostage to force Kell to take her out of her own dimension because she wants an adventure, cheats her way into a tournament by first seriously injuring and then wrongfully imprisoning someone with whom she had no personal quarrel and who'd actually gotten in on merit (unaware of the massive damage this could bring to her Found Family, because her captain is a competitor too), murders several people for having caught her cheating and kidnapping her, and repeatedly abuses magic she barely understands without any regard for the potential consequences to herself or others. She never suffers any consequences beyond an occasional light scolding for actions that are severely punished when committed by any other character, and is consistently treated as a hero throughout.

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