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* PlayingWithSyringes: Was victim of this in prison, where the Burgue army were performing tests to see if they could trigger and control his lycanthropy to use him as a weapon. As a result, while his Marrok form is still [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntary]], it's triggered by pain (specifically, anything piercing his skin) rather than just the moon (but it is indicated that during full moons, he transforms), and while he's gained enough control over this to use his Marrok form to protect those he cares about, he still can't completely control it and is scared of spreading it to others.

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* PlayingWithSyringes: Was He was a victim of this in prison, where the Burgue army were performing tests to see if they could trigger and control his lycanthropy to use him as a weapon. As a result, while his Marrok form is still [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntary]], it's triggered by pain (specifically, anything piercing his skin) rather than just the moon (but it is indicated that during full moons, he transforms), and while he's gained enough control over this to use his Marrok form to protect those he cares about, he still can't completely control it and is scared of spreading it to others.
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* PlayingWithSyringes: Was victim of this in prison, where the Burgue army were performing tests to see if they could trigger and control his lycanthropy to use him as a weapon. As a result, while he still his Marrok form is still a InvoluntaryTransformation, its triggered by pain (specifically, anything piercing his skin) rather than just the moon (but it is indicated that during full moons, he transforms), and while he's gained enough control over this to use his Marrok form to protect those he cares about, he still can't completely control it and is scared of spreading it to others.

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* PlayingWithSyringes: Was victim of this in prison, where the Burgue army were performing tests to see if they could trigger and control his lycanthropy to use him as a weapon. As a result, while he still his Marrok form is still a InvoluntaryTransformation, its [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntary]], it's triggered by pain (specifically, anything piercing his skin) rather than just the moon (but it is indicated that during full moons, he transforms), and while he's gained enough control over this to use his Marrok form to protect those he cares about, he still can't completely control it and is scared of spreading it to others.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: In season 2, she becomes this with Darius. The two become very close very quickly, and in fact it even seems like the series playing PairTheSpares, and much of their relationship seems very coded for a romantic relationship. However, the two remain JustFriends, and their mutual affection and protectiveness of one-another never crosses into romance.

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* PlatonicLifePartners: In season 2, she becomes this with Darius. The two become very close very quickly, and in fact it even seems like the series playing PairTheSpares, and much of their relationship seems very coded for a romantic relationship. However, the two remain JustFriends, and their mutual affection and protectiveness of one-another never crosses into romance. She does at one point ask him if he ''thinks'' there's something between them when trying to get him to leave so he doesn't get killed protecting her, but he shoots it down since he already knows she's in love with Vignette.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: In season 2, she becomes this with Darius. The two become very close very quickly, and in fact it even seems like the series playing PairTheSpares, and much of their relationship seems very coded for a romantic relationship. However, the two remain JustFriends, and their mutual affection and protectiveness of one-another never crosses into romance.


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* PlayingWithSyringes: Was victim of this in prison, where the Burgue army were performing tests to see if they could trigger and control his lycanthropy to use him as a weapon. As a result, while he still his Marrok form is still a InvoluntaryTransformation, its triggered by pain (specifically, anything piercing his skin) rather than just the moon (but it is indicated that during full moons, he transforms), and while he's gained enough control over this to use his Marrok form to protect those he cares about, he still can't completely control it and is scared of spreading it to others.


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* FriendOnTheForce: In season 2, thanks to Philo being stripped of the badge. He remains not only a friend, but the only thing close to a genuinely ''good'' copper.


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* TokenHeroicOrc: Token Heroic ''Human''. He's pretty much the only human who not only has good intentions but never resorts to dirty tactics or become morally corrupted. It's not easy since he's still raised in the racist society of humans, but he makes an effort to temper his biases and assumptions and idolises Philo.

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* CommonalityConnection: She hides it behind feigned racism to play up to her party's politics, but she has deep empathy for the Fae, that's largely born from both her close relationship with her family's servants and her experiences with sexism and racism from her own father.



* GoodAllAlong: Not quite exactly, but it turns out she actually has pretty noble intentions for her political ambitions, namely to protect the Puck family who acted as her family's servants, and were the only kind people to her as a child. But to do so, she needs to put on a strong (or rather, sociopathic) front to gain the dominance of her father's party and become Chancellor, which means playing into their FantasticRacism and [[TheScapegoat scapegoating]] of the Fae.

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* GoodAllAlong: Not quite exactly, but it turns out she actually has pretty noble intentions for her political ambitions, namely to protect the Puck family who acted as her family's servants, and were the only kind people to her as a child. But to do so, she needs to put on a strong (or rather, sociopathic) front to gain the dominance of her father's party and become Chancellor, which means playing into their FantasticRacism and [[TheScapegoat scapegoating]] of the Fae. She still has ''some'' self-serving intentions, but it's clear by the time [[spoiler:of her death]] that her main motivation was a largely sympathetic desire to help those she cares about and others who've experienced the same sexism she has.



* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ultimately, she had good intentions for her political scheming, but unfortunately when its outed, Jonah [[spoiler:has her executed for it.]]



* AmbiguousSituation: Ezra accuses Imogen of having been a manipulative AlphaBitch in their youth to prevent him from marrying away, and that was why she was still unmarried by the time Agreus met her. While Imogen's RichBitch characterisation pre-CharacterDevelopment could certainly match this accusation, she denies having spread rumours about Ezra to chase away his potential suitors and [[DomesticAbuser the things he claims she told them]] hardly seem out of character for him. She seems to admit some truth to the claims after when apologising to Agreus for her past, but its unclear how much is truly how she acted and how much of her apology is more apologising for her brother.



* SignificantWardrobeShift: She starts season one in plenty of pastel colours and lace, conforming to Burgue high society and fashion; her outfits get darker as her relationship with Agreus deepens, particularly since he sends her a new outfit as a gift, and she ends the season in deep reds.

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* SignificantWardrobeShift: She starts season one in plenty of pastel colours and lace, conforming to Burgue high society and fashion; her outfits get darker as her relationship with Agreus deepens, particularly since he sends her a new outfit as a gift, and she ends the season in deep reds. Season 2 sees this again, as her fine pink dress becomes ragged, loses layers, and gains stains from the hard work in the New Dawn weapons factory and later stresses from travel. [[spoiler:When she returns to the Burgue, she's dressed in New Dawn's signature dark greens.]]



* AmbiguousSituation: Ezra accuses Imogen of having been a manipulative AlphaBitch in their youth to prevent him from marrying away, and that was why she was still unmarried by the time Agreus met her. While Imogen's RichBitch characterisation pre-CharacterDevelopment could certainly match this accusation, she denies having spread rumours about Ezra to chase away his potential suitors and [[DomesticAbuser the things he claims she told them]] hardly seem out of character for him. She seems to admit some truth to the claims after when apologising to Agreus for her past, but its unclear how much is truly how she acted and how much of her apology is more apologising for her brother.



* JerkWithAHeartOfAJerk: Briefly in Season 2, it looks like the BreakTheHaughty experience has gotten to him and he's willing to admit the truth about Imogen and Agreus, and claims he just wants to reunite with his sister rather than continue driving her away with his racism. Then he kills Fergus, the man who told him where his sister was, because he, a ''human'', was willing to be employed by a Critch.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfAJerk: Briefly in Season 2, it looks like the BreakTheHaughty experience has gotten to him and he's willing to admit the truth about Imogen and Agreus, and claims he just wants to reunite with his sister rather than continue driving her away with his racism. Then he kills Fergus, the man who told him where his sister was, because he, a ''human'', was willing to be employed by a Critch. Later still, when forced to rely on one-another to escape the New Dawn and the Pact, [[spoiler:he tries to betray them all to the Pact under the selfish belief they'll spare him, resulting in his own death and ultimately causing his sister and Agreus to get recaptured.]]


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* UngratefulBastard: If it wasn't bad enough that in season 1 he tried to exploit Agreus for his money only to try and kill him for daring to become romantically attracted to his sister, in season 2 Agreus repeatedly saves his life from the New Dawn and convinces Imogen to allow him to join their escape attempt, and protects them from the Pact soldiers during their attack. Ezra repays this by verbally abusing his sister while they're journeying to freedom, spends the whole journey waiting for an opportunity to kill Agreus, and eventually tries to turn on them to surrender to the Pact. [[spoiler:Imogen has to kill him to keep him silent.]]

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** Inverted politically, as while he inherits his father's seat and party, his father was a progressive reformist who wanted to help the Fae whereas he quickly proves to be a conservative fascist who scapegoats them. As a result, the party seat he inherited is planning to oust him partly because his policies are harming the Burgue, but also because they just don't line up with the party he leads.



** This is reinforced in the Season 2 premiere, when he has the [[spoiler: Faun cultists executed for the murders of his father and mother. While they certainly were murderers and really did plot (and actually tried) to kill Absalom, they were still technically innocent of both crimes.]]

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** This is reinforced in the Season 2 premiere, when he has the [[spoiler: Faun cultists executed for the murders of his father and mother. While they certainly were murderers and really did plot (and actually tried) to kill Absalom, they were still technically innocent of both crimes.]]]] It's also deconstructed, as his use of the Fae and their subsequent exile and oppression greatly hurts the Burgue economically, both because they're ''not'' the cause of society's problems and because without them, the workforce needed to sustain the upper class' lifestyle is greatly diminished, both ensuring the problems already present within the Burge remain and fester while new problems emerge. As such, his party are planning to oust him as soon as they're free to elect a new Chancellor.



* AbusiveParents: He's kept his daughter locked away supposedly for her own protection, provides her with no company but himself and refuses to support her desire to travel and study. The emotional abuse seems to have turned her into a sociopath as a result.

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* AbusiveParents: He's kept his daughter locked away supposedly for her own protection, provides her with no company but himself and refuses to support her desire to travel and study. The emotional abuse seems to have turned her into a sociopath as a result. Season 2 also confirms he was physically abusive, and would also beat the servant's children (her only company her own age) in front of her as a particularly cruel form of psychological abuse.



* GoodAllAlong: Not quite exactly, but it turns out she actually has pretty noble intentions for her political ambitions, namely to protect the Puck family who acted as her family's servants, and were the only kind people to her as a child. But to do so, she needs to put on a strong (or rather, sociopathic) front to gain the dominance of her father's party and become Chancellor, which means playing into their FantasticRacism and [[TheScapegoat scapegoating]] of the Fae.



** [[spoiler:Season 2 reveals she also has a man behind her, the daughter of her maid and her OnlyFriend, who coaches her through the political scheming to gain power.]]



* TheScapegoat: She pretends to be as bigoted about the Fae as her father's party in order to keep them on her side. She actually doesn't even like the word Critch, finding it demeaning, and is quite friendly with her Fae maid.
* TheSociopath: She effortlessly lies, manipulates, and orchestrates events that result in many deaths, [[spoiler:including her own father]]. She has no line she won't cross since she sees all lines as rules that should be broken, and does so without any remorse.

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* TheScapegoat: She pretends to be as bigoted about the Fae as her father's party in order to keep them on her side. She actually doesn't even like the word Critch, finding it demeaning, and is quite friendly with her Fae maid.
maid. It also turns out her best friend is the daughter of her Fae maid, and a lot of her scheming is to get the power needed to actually protect them, but to do so she needs to play into the bigotry of her father's party.
* TheSociopath: She effortlessly lies, manipulates, and orchestrates events that result in many deaths, [[spoiler:including her own father]]. She has no line she won't cross since she sees all lines as rules that should be broken, and does so without any remorse. [[SubvertedTrope Or at least, that's how she presents herself to Jonah]]. Season 2 reveals she actually has a great deal of empathy, but because of the way she was raised, she represses it behind the act of being a sociopathic racist to gather the power needed to help the ones she cares about. Maintaining this facade proves to be ''very'' painful for her, and she cracks briefly when presented with a dying fae child.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfAJerk: Briefly in Season 2, it looks like the BreakTheHaughty experience has gotten to him and he's willing to admit the truth about Imogen and Agreus, and claims he just wants to reunite with his sister rather than continue driving her away with his racism. Then he kills Fergus, the man who told him where his sister was, because he, a ''human'', was willing to be employed by a Critch.


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* StrawHypocrite: In Season 2, he claims that Agreus kidnapped his sister and infers that Agreus is raping her, as a means to inspire racist disgust from others in his circle and garner sympathy. This is despite he himself being an AttemptedRapist. Furthermore, he utterly spirals at the thought of a Fae being attracted to his human sister and finds it a personal violation, but he himself demonstrated twisted attraction to a Fae woman (Vignette) with his aforementioned AttemptedRape.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's completely absent from Season 2 with not even a mention as to his whereabouts. Instead, Dombey acts as the highest visible authority within the Burgue Constabulary for the season.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's completely absent from Season 2 with not even a mention as to his whereabouts. Instead, Dombey acts fills his place as the highest visible authority within the Burgue Constabulary for the season.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's completely absent from Season 2 with not even a mention as to his whereabouts. Instead, Dombey acts as the highest visible authority within the Burgue Constabulary for the season.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: She uses her last words, moments before Jonah has her executed, to demand that he doesn't look away when it happens.

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* BisexualLoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Philo and Tourmaline during Season Two and ultimately chooses the latter, and in the series finale both she and Tourmaline return to Tirnanoc and eventually marry.

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* BisexualLoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Philo and Tourmaline during Season Two and ultimately chooses the [[spoiler:the latter, and in the series finale both she and Tourmaline return to Tirnanoc and eventually marry.]]



* DidNotGetTheGirl: Vignette chooses Tourmaline over him in their LoveTriangle by the second half of Season Two.

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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Vignette [[spoiler:Vignette chooses Tourmaline over him in their LoveTriangle by the second half of Season Two.]]



* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Vignette and Tourmaline during Season Two. He DidNotGetTheGirl, though his feelings for Vignette continue to be as strong as ever throughout the rest of the series.
* OfferedTheCrown: Is honoured when the Burguish Parliament offers him the Chancellorship as the son of Absolom Breakspear, though he notes that he was offered the position because they could not see the scars on his back where his wings used to be, which made him acceptable in their eyes. Philo turns down the Chancellorship in favour of a candidate with horns -- or wings.

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* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Vignette and Tourmaline during Season Two. He [[spoiler:He DidNotGetTheGirl, though his feelings for Vignette continue to be as strong as ever throughout the rest of the series.
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* OfferedTheCrown: Is [[spoiler:Is honoured when the Burguish Parliament offers him the Chancellorship as the son of Absolom Breakspear, though he notes that he was offered the position because they could not see the scars on his back where his wings used to be, which made him acceptable in their eyes. Philo turns down the Chancellorship in favour of a candidate with horns -- or wings.]]



* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
** She loves Vignette and was once involved with her, but repeatedly asserts that even given their history, she values Vignette's friendship, and doesn't begrudge her new love interest.
** She and Vignette resume their prior relationship during Season Two, with the pair eventually returning to Tirnanoc and marrying.

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IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She loves Vignette and was once involved with her, but repeatedly asserts that even given their history, she values Vignette's friendship, and doesn't begrudge her new love interest.
** She and Vignette resume their prior relationship during Season Two, with the pair eventually returning to Tirnanoc and marrying.
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* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Vignette and Philo during Season Two, with the former choosing her over the latter and eventually becoming her wife by the series finale.

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* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Vignette and Philo during Season Two, with [[spoiler:with the former choosing her over the latter and eventually becoming her wife by the series finale.]]



* YourDaysAreNumbered: Receives a vision of what she assumes was her death at the hands of the Sparas and spends much of Season Two worried about that eventuality. Ultimately averted, as it turns out that while the Sparas ''did'' come to kill her for stopping it from killing Philo and the Burguish Parliament, it was the Sparas that would be killed.

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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Receives a vision of what she assumes was her death at the hands of the Sparas and spends much of Season Two worried about that eventuality. Ultimately [[spoiler:Ultimately averted, as it turns out that while the Sparas ''did'' come to kill her for stopping it from killing Philo and the Burguish Parliament, it was the Sparas that would be killed.
killed.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: Dies saving Tourmaline from the Sparas when it comes to kill her for stopping it from killing Philo and the Burguish Parliament.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Dies [[spoiler:Dies saving Tourmaline from the Sparas when it comes to kill her for stopping it from killing Philo and the Burguish Parliament.]]



* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Slits her own throat when held at gunpoint by Agreus, likely so that the Burgue wouldn't get the satisfaction of executing her themselves.

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Slits [[spoiler:Slits her own throat when held at gunpoint by Agreus, likely so that the Burgue wouldn't get the satisfaction of executing her themselves.]]



* DirtyCommunists: It is eventually revealed that the Sparas is a member of the New Dawn, working as a kind of agent provocateur by killing humans and Fae in order to exacerbate the already poor relations between the two and make the Burgue ripe for revolution.
* LastOfHisKind: Is implied to either be this or at least one of the last Sparases in existence, owing to the Burguish shelling of their home during the war against the Pact. It is also theorised that the murders in the Burgue at its hands were revenge killings, though it is later revealed that the Sparas was actually working for the New Dawn.

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* DirtyCommunists: It [[spoiler:It is eventually revealed that the Sparas is a member of the New Dawn, working as a kind of agent provocateur by killing humans and Fae in order to exacerbate the already poor relations between the two and make the Burgue ripe for revolution.
revolution.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Is implied to either be this or at least one of the last Sparases in existence, owing to the Burguish shelling of their home during the war against the Pact. It is also theorised that the murders in the Burgue at its hands were revenge killings, though [[spoiler:though it is later revealed that the Sparas was actually working for the New Dawn.]]



* AttemptedRape: Tries to rape Vignette when she'd forced to become his servant, prompting her to run away.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Even he doesn't agree with the horrific actions of Constable Hatch and his group of racist Choppers, who storm the row and begin butchering innocent Fae left and right.]]
* HateSink: He's enthusiastically on the wrong side of just about every issue, making him easily one of the most hateable characters in the show.
* HeelFaceTurn: He becomes a lot less hostile toward the Fae [[spoiler: after Philo and Darius (who are a half-breed and a Marrok respectively) save his life. This is best seen when Constable Hatch and his thugs attempt to massacre the Fae living on the row, and Dombey leads the police in stopping them. By the end of the series, he's been promoted to inspector and seems to have left his life of bigotry behind him.]]

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Even he doesn't agree with the horrific actions of Constable Hatch Thatch and his group of racist Choppers, who storm the row and begin butchering innocent Fae left and right.]]
* HateSink: He's enthusiastically on the wrong side of just about every issue, making him easily one of the most hateable characters in the show.
show. [[spoiler:Subverted over the course of season two as he gradually becomes more sympathetic to the Fae]].
* HeelFaceTurn: He becomes a lot less hostile toward the Fae [[spoiler: after Philo and Darius (who are a half-breed and a Marrok respectively) save his life. This is best seen when Constable Hatch Thatch and his thugs attempt to massacre the Fae living on the row, and Dombey leads the police in stopping them. By the end of the series, he's been promoted to inspector and seems to have left his life of bigotry behind him.]]


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* KarmaHoudini: Never faces retribution for [[spoiler:keeping Philo locked up even after discovering that he's innocent because he's half-Fae]].
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No, Piety slept with her father but wasn't her mother. The fact she's visibly biracial and thus couldn't have a white mother is kinda indictive of that. Piety telling Jonah that Sophie is his sister is because she cheated on her husband with Sophie's father, not that she's Sophie's mother.


* DeathByChildbirth: Her mother died giving birth to her. This made her father overprotective of her as a result. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it turns out her mother is Piety Breakspear.]]

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* DeathByChildbirth: Her mother died giving birth to her. This made her father overprotective of her as a result. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it turns out her mother is Piety Breakspear.]]
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* AffectionateNickname: Vignette's friends and loved ones often call her "Vini".


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* LipstickLesbian: Tourmaline is a female GirlyGirl fairy who previously had been with her female best friend Vignette. [[spoiler:They later get back together and marry.]]

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* BisexualLoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Philo and Tourmaline during Season Two and ultimately chooses the latter, and in the series finale both she and Tourmaline return to Tirnanoc and eventually marry.



* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Philo and Tourmaline during Season Two and ultimately chooses the latter, and in the series finale both she and Tourmaline return to Tirnanoc and eventually marry.



* HiddenDepths: She is good a drawing and secretly draws all her johns when they are asleep.

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She is good a drawing and secretly draws all her johns when they are asleep.



* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She loves Vignette and was once involved with her, but repeatedly asserts that even given their history, she values Vignette's friendship, and doesn't begrudge her new love interest.

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* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Philo and Tourmaline during Season Two and ultimately chooses the latter, and in the series finale both she and Tourmaline return to Tirnanoc and eventually marry.



* DidNotGetTheGirl: Vignette chooses Tourmaline over him in their LoveTriangle by the second half of Season Two.



* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Vignette and Tourmaline during Season Two. He DidNotGetTheGirl, though his feelings for Vignette continue to be as strong as ever throughout the rest of the series.
* OfferedTheCrown: Is honoured when the Burguish Parliament offers him the Chancellorship as the son of Absolom Breakspear, though he notes that he was offered the position because they could not see the scars on his back where his wings used to be, which made him acceptable in their eyes. Philo turns down the Chancellorship in favour of a candidate with horns -- or wings.



* BadPowersGoodPeople: Inherits the powers of the Haruspex when she died, powers that Tourmaline was warned were pure evil and that no good would come of their use, yet she continues to be the same sweet and friendly Tourmaline who would do anything to help her friends.



** She and Vignette resume their prior relationship during Season Two, with the pair eventually returning to Tirnanoc and marrying.
* LoveTriangle: Is in one of these with Vignette and Philo during Season Two, with the former choosing her over the latter and eventually becoming her wife by the series finale.



* TrueCompanions: She has this with Vignette and Philo to some extent.

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* TrueCompanions: She has this with Vignette and Philo to some extent. This eventually extends to Darius in Season Two.




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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Receives a vision of what she assumes was her death at the hands of the Sparas and spends much of Season Two worried about that eventuality. Ultimately averted, as it turns out that while the Sparas ''did'' come to kill her for stopping it from killing Philo and the Burguish Parliament, it was the Sparas that would be killed.






* HeroicSacrifice: Dies saving Tourmaline from the Sparas when it comes to kill her for stopping it from killing Philo and the Burguish Parliament.



* RightForTheWrongReasons: When still coming down from his lychan transformation, he says that Philo reeks of Fae, believing its because he's fallen so deep for Vignette that he smells of her, rather than because [[spoiler:of Philo's true lineage.]] He either realises the truth or was lying, though, as he later reveals he was a SecretSecretKeeper.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: When still coming down from his lychan lycan transformation, he says that Philo reeks of Fae, believing its because he's fallen so deep for Vignette that he smells of her, rather than because [[spoiler:of Philo's true lineage.]] He either realises the truth or was lying, though, as he later reveals he was a SecretSecretKeeper.



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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Slits her own throat when held at gunpoint by Agreus, likely so that the Burgue wouldn't get the satisfaction of executing her themselves.
* DirtyCommunists: Although she portrays herself and the New Dawn as ChummyCommies she and they are ultimately this.
* InterspeciesRomance: Mentions having a human lover to Imogen, although it's a little fuzzy on how much of that is actually true and how much of it is Lenora manipulating Imogen into believing that the New Dawn is more progressive and accepting of her relationship with Agreus than the Burgue or the Pact.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilised: Is perfectly fine with resorting to terrorist tactics and large numbers of civilian casualties in the name of the Revolution. She also disappears entire families and left their bodies to rot in a swamp if they were anything less than fanatical in the cause.
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!!The Sparas[[spoiler:/Major Mikulas Vir]]
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* BodyHorror: Its true form resembles that of a flayed human with wings, claws and a giant fanged mouth where its torso should have been.
* DirtyCommunists: It is eventually revealed that the Sparas is a member of the New Dawn, working as a kind of agent provocateur by killing humans and Fae in order to exacerbate the already poor relations between the two and make the Burgue ripe for revolution.
* LastOfHisKind: Is implied to either be this or at least one of the last Sparases in existence, owing to the Burguish shelling of their home during the war against the Pact. It is also theorised that the murders in the Burgue at its hands were revenge killings, though it is later revealed that the Sparas was actually working for the New Dawn.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Sparas is a shapeshifter that can take a human form[[spoiler:, specifically that of Major Mikulas Vir, aide-de-camp of the Pactish ambassador]].

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* HeelFaceTurn: He becomes a lot less hostile toward the Fae [[after Philo and Darius (who are a half-breed and a Marrok respectively) save his life. This is best seen when Constable Hatch and his thugs attempt to massacre the Fae living on the row, and Dombey leads the police in stopping them. By the end of the series, he's been promoted to inspector and seems to have left his life of bigotry behind him.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward [[spoiler: Philo after the latter saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him. He then aids Philo in his mission to find and kill the Sparas.]] [[spoiler: He eventually returns the favour by fatally shooting Constable Hatch after he tries to kill Philo.]]

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* HeelFaceTurn: He becomes a lot less hostile toward the Fae [[after [[spoiler: after Philo and Darius (who are a half-breed and a Marrok respectively) save his life. This is best seen when Constable Hatch and his thugs attempt to massacre the Fae living on the row, and Dombey leads the police in stopping them. By the end of the series, he's been promoted to inspector and seems to have left his life of bigotry behind him.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward [[spoiler: Philo after the latter saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him. He then aids Philo in his mission to find and kill the Sparas.]] [[spoiler: He eventually returns the favour by fatally shooting Constable Hatch after he tries to kill Philo.]]

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* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward [[spoiler: Philo after the latter saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him. He then aids Philo in his mission to find and kill the Sparas.]]

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* HeelFaceTurn: He becomes a lot less hostile toward the Fae [[after Philo and Darius (who are a half-breed and a Marrok respectively) save his life. This is best seen when Constable Hatch and his thugs attempt to massacre the Fae living on the row, and Dombey leads the police in stopping them. By the end of the series, he's been promoted to inspector and seems to have left his life of bigotry behind him.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward [[spoiler: Philo after the latter saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him. He then aids Philo in his mission to find and kill the Sparas.]] [[spoiler: He eventually returns the favour by fatally shooting Constable Hatch after he tries to kill Philo.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Even he doesn't agree with the horrific actions of Constable Hatch and his group of racist Choppers, who storm the row and begin butchering innocent Fae left and right.]]
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* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward [[spoiler: Philo after the latter saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him.]]

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* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward [[spoiler: Philo after the latter saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him. He then aids Philo in his mission to find and kill the Sparas.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He's suffocated by Imogen after trying to give their position away to Pact soldiers, knowing they will likely kill Agreus. While his death at the hands of his own sister is portrayed as being incredibly tragic, Ezra being the controlling, racist, murdering prick that he was meant he definitely had it coming.]]


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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He's one of the few good cops in the Burgue, [[spoiler: which makes his gruesome death at the hands of the Sparas very undeserved, with the creature ripping his guts out and leaving him to die.]]
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* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward Philo after the latter [[spoiler: saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him.]]

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* IOweYouMyLife: He's still a prick, but he noticeably softens toward [[spoiler: Philo after the latter [[spoiler: saves his life when the Black Raven come to kill him.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's only called by his full name formally. Usually, everyone just refers to him as "Philo".

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