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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Brynne often tries to project the image of herself being tough, cool, and a hero. This is shown to be a response to her mother ignoring her, as a way to make her mother notice her and love her.


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* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Nikita acts older than her age and puts forward a front of confidence and arrogance. It turns out she was forced to by circumstance, as her parents were deported when she was seven and she's had to look out for Sheela ever since.
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* AffablyEvil: Meenakshi is this, to Aru's surprise. She's kind to the girls and Aiden and gives them a chance to hear her story, although when they decide to fight her, she quickly turns into NiceIsNotGood, what with her shooting Aiden right off the bat.
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* WellDoneDaughterGal: She's obviously dismayed when she and Aru travel into the Underworld - which is her father's kingdom - and learn the Dharma Raja won't come to meet her.

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* WellDoneDaughterGal: She's obviously dismayed when she and Aru travel into the Underworld - which is her father's kingdom - and learn the Dharma Raja won't come to meet her. She's also this for her birth parents, to the point where she doesn't feel comfortable being around them due to the fact she thinks she'll let them down.
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* {{Clairvoyency}}: This is Sheela's power.

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* CasanovaWannabe: Albeit a younger example of this. Rudy often brags about being attractive to girls, but he reveals he's never actually kissed a girl (or presumably anyone else) before.

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* CasanovaWannabe: Albeit a younger example of this. Rudy often brags about being attractive to girls, but he reveals he's never actually kissed a girl (or presumably anyone else) before.before as his secret for the chakora birds.

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* Flanderization: What happens to Meenakshi, with her being painted as a one-note villain in the Ramayana.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: What Aru reasons with in her decision to fight Meenakshi and kill her. She decides that even though Meenakshi had an understandable reason for her anger, turning men all over the world into her slaves is not acceptable.

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* Flanderization: {{Flanderization}}: What happens to Meenakshi, with her being painted as a one-note villain in the Ramayana.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: What Aru reasons with in her decision to fight Meenakshi and kill her. She decides that even though Meenakshi had an understandable reason for her anger, turning men all over the world into her slaves is not acceptable.acceptable.
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* NotSoStoic: Noticeably bitter towards his former lover, [[spoiler:Aru's mother Kritika.]] He's visibly angry and upset when confronting an illusion of her.
* ScrewDestiny: He used to believe he could avert his fate as a bringer of the Apocalypse. He's quite desabused and resigned to it nowadays.

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* NotSoStoic: Noticeably bitter towards his former lover, [[spoiler:Aru's mother Kritika.Krithika.]] He's visibly angry and upset when confronting an illusion of her.
* ScrewDestiny: He used to believe he could avert his fate as a bringer of the Apocalypse. He's quite desabused disabused and resigned to it nowadays.



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* Flanderization: What happens to Meenakshi, with her being painted as a one-note villain in the Ramayana.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: What Aru reasons with in her decision to fight Meenakshi and kill her. She decides that even though Meenakshi had an understandable reason for her anger, turning men all over the world into her slaves is not acceptable.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All the groups of Pandavas start as this -- first Aru and Mini, then Aru and Mini and Brynne (and Aiden, although he's Pandava adjacent), then Aru and Mini and Brynne and [[spoiler:Nikita and Sheela]] (and [[spoiler:Rudy]]. Most of them have variously traumatic backstories and issues, and they don't get along with each other well at first.

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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All the groups of Pandavas start as this -- first Aru and Mini, then Aru and Mini and Brynne (and Aiden, although he's Pandava adjacent), then Aru and Mini and Brynne and [[spoiler:Nikita and Sheela]] (and [[spoiler:Rudy]].[[spoiler:Rudy]]). Most of them have variously traumatic backstories and issues, and they don't get along with each other well at first.
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* AmazonBrigade: All the Pandavas are amazing at fighting to some degree, and they're all girls this time around.
* BandOfBrothers: They are the Pandava brothers reincarnated and grow to appreciate each other through their various quests.
* DreamTeam: At least their previous incarnations were.


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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All the groups of Pandavas start as this -- first Aru and Mini, then Aru and Mini and Brynne (and Aiden, although he's Pandava adjacent), then Aru and Mini and Brynne and [[spoiler:Nikita and Sheela]] (and [[spoiler:Rudy]]. Most of them have variously traumatic backstories and issues, and they don't get along with each other well at first.


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* FriendlessBackground: All of them, to some degree.
* TheTeam: They're officially the team of all the main characters in the novel, excluding Nikita and Sheela.
* TrueCompanions: All of them eventually become this to one another.
* UnusuallyUninterestingName: They're named the Potatoes, for crying out loud.
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* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: [[spoiler:Aru was flabbergasted to learn Kritika actually dated the dude fated to bring the Apocalypse and still genuinely loves him.]]

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* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: [[spoiler:Aru was flabbergasted to learn Kritika Krithika actually dated the dude fated to bring the Apocalypse and still genuinely loves him.]]



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* MixedAncestry: Brynne is part Assura.

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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She first appears as a wolf before transforming herself into a girl then a bird. She has this ability due to being part Assura.

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* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:In his previous life, he was the Pandavas' bitterest foe, Duryodhana.]]

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* TalkingInYourDreams: How Nikita and Sheela communicate with the Potatoes on their quest to find the real Kalpavriksha in the grove of Aranyani -- since they're underage, they can't physically accompany the Potatoes, but they share their minds via dream.

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* PolarOppositeTwins: Nikita and Sheela are very different in terms of personality.

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* PolarOppositeTwins: Nikita and Sheela are very different in terms of personality. Nikita is more protective, guarded, cynical, and fashion-forward, while Sheela is dreamy, upbeat, and finds it difficult to process her emotions regarding her parents.
* Seers: This is Sheela's power.
* StepfordSmiler: Sheela comes off as one, with her being very cheerful and curious, but having gone through deep trauma which she's clearly not done processing as shown by the scene where her nightmares warp the DreamLand.
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* Chekov'sGunman: The cute snake boy who winked at Mini in Aru Shah and the End of Time comes back to save their lives, and then [[spoiler:join them on a quest]].

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* Chekov'sGunman: Chekov's Gunman: The cute snake boy who winked at Mini in Aru Shah and the End of Time comes back to save their lives, and then [[spoiler:join them on a quest]].
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!!Takshaka's Grandson [[Spoiler: Prince Rudra of Naga-Loka]]

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* ChekovsGunman: The cute snake boy who winked at Mini in Aru Shah and the End of Time comes back to save their lives, and then [[Spoiler: join them on a quest]].

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* ChekovsGunman: The cute snake boy who winked at Mini in Aru Shah and the End of Time comes back to save their lives, and then [[Spoiler: join them on a quest]].
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* BiTheWay: Brynne says that her type is "boys who can beat [her] in a wrestling match. Or girls."

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