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* WeatherManipulation: An involuntary power of Seth. The weather responds to his emotions, particularly when he is extremely upset, angry, or [[spoiler: caught up in sexual passion, much to his chagrin]]. He generally doesn't intentionally manipulate whether conditions but will sometimes intentionally create cloud cover to protect his younger Immortals if being outside is mandatory.
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* WeatherManipulation: An involuntary power of Seth. The weather responds to his emotions, particularly when he is extremely upset, angry, or [[spoiler: caught up in sexual passion, much to his chagrin]]. He generally doesn't intentionally manipulate whether weather conditions but will sometimes intentionally create cloud cover to protect his younger Immortals from the sun if being outside is mandatory.
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* WeatherManipulation: An involuntary power of Seth. The weather responds to his emotions, particularly when he is extremely upset, angry, or [[spoiler: caught up in sexual passion, much to his chagrin]]. He generally doesn't intentionally manipulate whether conditions but will sometimes intentionally create cloud cover to protect his younger Immortals if being outside is mandatory.
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* BadassDriver: Ami can drive at incredibly high speeds and maneuver with hairpin accuracy.
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* KindaBusyHere: It's not uncommon for an Immortal to call Seth and hear a full fledged battle taking place on his end of the line. However, Seth very rarely asks the caller to call back later. He will, however, ask them to hold for a moment. The caller will then hear him to dispatch his assailants before he calmly resumes the call.
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* TheNoseKnows: Cliff inadvertently exposes Whetsman's treachery when he attacks the man after smelling traces of Linda's blood on him.
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* TheOlderImmortal: While most of the Immortals are at least a few hundred years old, Seth and David are so old, they don't even bother trying to quantify their age any more. The general rule in the group is that anyone that isn't at least a thousand years old is basically a newbie.
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* TheOlderImmortal: While most of the Immortals are at least a few hundred years old, Seth and David are so old, they don't even bother trying to quantify their age any more. The general rule in the group is that anyone that isn't at least a thousand years old is basically a newbie.
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* TouchedByVorlons: Seth's father gifts Leah with immortality as both a reward for Seth's millennia of good deeds and a wedding present to the couple.
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* TaughtByExperience: Seth will often emphasize that the protocols he has put in place are based on lessons learned the hard way. The importance of routinely replenishing blood, having a second, pairing Immortals for companionships, all of it is learned from Seth's millennia of leadership for which there was no manual.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: When Stanislav is caught in an explosion that would be nearly impossible to survive, most of the Guardians assume that he had to have died. However, because they never found the remains of Stan's body and Seth can't sense Stan's disembodied spirit, Seth holds out hope that Stan is still alive and continues to search for him. Eventually, Seth's faith is rewarded.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: David mentions that he hasn't been on a military base since World War I but never explains why he was on the base. Given that Seth says that war and famine attracts vampires, it makes you wonder if vampires had infiltrated the Great War trenches.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: David mentions that he hasn't been on a military base since World War I but never explains why he was on the base. Given that Seth says that war and famine attracts vampires, it makes you wonder if vampires had infiltrated the Great War trenches.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: David mentions that he hasn't been on a military base since World War I but never explains why he was on the base. Given that Seth says that war and famine attracts vampires, it makes you wonder if vampires had infiltrated the Great War trenches.
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* PowerIncontinence: After suffering blood loss, KissOfTheVampire, and exhaustion, Heather has trouble not broadcasting her naughty thoughts about Ethan, much to chagrin of Aiden, the powerful telepath that is guarding the couple on Seth's orders.
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* EroticDream: When Heather learns that Jared is the reason she was having repeated dreams about fighting vampires with Ethan, she asks him why he would plant the erotic dreams she also keeps having about Ethan. Jared insists he did no such thing. Realizing what's going on, Seth intervenes and demurely explains that after having dreamed about someone she's drawn to over and over again, Heather's mind eventually fabricated it's own dreams about Ethan all on its own. Even funnier when you realize that as an Other who lived in complete isolation from human and their culture, Jared is a virgin who knows almost nothing about sex and probably got an eyeful when he glimpsed Heather's mind to see what she was talking about!
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* EroticDream: When Heather learns that Jared is the reason she was having repeated dreams about fighting vampires with Ethan, she asks him why he would plant the erotic dreams she also keeps having about Ethan.dreams. Jared insists he did no such thing. Realizing what's going on, happened, Seth intervenes and demurely explains that after having dreamed about someone she's drawn to over and over again, Heather's mind eventually fabricated it's own dreams about Ethan all on its own. [[note]] Even funnier when you realize that as an Other who lived in complete isolation from human and their culture, Jared is a virgin who knows almost nothing about sex and probably got an eyeful when he glimpsed Heather's mind to see what she was talking about!about! [[/note]]
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* UnusualEuphemism: Heather is talking with Ethan while still under the Effects of KisOfTheVampire. She talks about how Ethan brought her coffee to share. Seth points out that Ethan hates coffee.
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* UnusualEuphemism: Heather is talking with Ethan while still under the Effects of KisOfTheVampire.KissOfTheVampire. She talks about how Ethan brought her coffee to share. Seth points out that Ethan hates coffee.
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* HumanShield: Heather is so determined to keep Ethan safe, she tries to convince him to use ''her'' as a human shield when he's held at gunpoint. Of course, Ethan is both unamused and unwilling. Afterwards, they have a very spirited conversation where he emphatically reminds her that he is ''im''mortal and she is very, ''very mortal.''
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* HumanShield: Heather is so determined to keep Ethan safe, she tries to convince him to use ''her'' as a human shield when he's held at gunpoint. Of course, Ethan is both unamused and unwilling. Afterwards, they have a very spirited conversation where he emphatically reminds her that he is ''im''mortal and she is very, ''very mortal.''
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-->'''Ethan:''' "You sacrificed yourself to save me! What were you thinking? I'm immortal. ''You're'' mortal. ''Incredibly, incredibly'' mortal. You would've ''died'' if Seth hadn't gotten to you in time!"
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* UnusualEuphemism: Heather is talking with Ethan while still under the Effects of KisOfTheVampire. She talks about how Ethan brought her coffee to share. Seth points out that Ethan hates coffee.
-->'''Seth:''' "I thought you hated coffee."
-->'''Heather:''' "He does. But he wanted to come around the hedges."
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-->'''Melanie:''' "If that's a sexual metaphor, please don't explain it to me."
-->'''Seth:''' "I thought you hated coffee."
-->'''Heather:''' "He does. But he wanted to come around the hedges."
-->''[silence]''
-->'''Melanie:''' "If that's a sexual metaphor, please don't explain it to me."
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* GoThroughMe: Heather physically puts herself between Ethan and her father and his men.
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* HumanShield: Heather is so determined to keep Ethan safe, she tries to convince him to use ''her'' as a human shield when he's held at gunpoint. Of course, Ethan is both unamused and unwilling. Afterwards, they have a very spirited conversation where he emphatically reminds her that he is ''im''mortal and she is very, ''very mortal.''
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* SelfDeprecation: After being severely wounded in a vampire attack, Heather loses consciousness. When she wakes, she's groggy and the only thing that she can focus on is the fact that she panicked and threw her gun at the vamps. Seth assures Ethan that it's just the side effects of KissOfTheVampire and she'll be be more lucid later.
* TakingTheBullet: Heather literally jumps in between Ethan and the vampire who is attempting to decapitate him, taking a wound herself that would have been fatal if not for Seth.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: When Jared lets down his mental barriers to let Seth read his mind, Heather uses her telepathy to look as well. She quickly becomes overwhelmed by the vast number of memories of the millennia old immortal. Zach has to physically jolt to break her connection and he warns her against trying again, as Jared has information forbidden to all but the Others that Seth would have to erase from her memories.
* YouAreNotReady: Heather's first instinct upon meeting Zach is to read his mind. Powerful enough to sense her attempt, Zach warns her against, telling she ''really'' doesn't want to see what's in his mind.
* TakingTheBullet: Heather literally jumps in between Ethan and the vampire who is attempting to decapitate him, taking a wound herself that would have been fatal if not for Seth.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: When Jared lets down his mental barriers to let Seth read his mind, Heather uses her telepathy to look as well. She quickly becomes overwhelmed by the vast number of memories of the millennia old immortal. Zach has to physically jolt to break her connection and he warns her against trying again, as Jared has information forbidden to all but the Others that Seth would have to erase from her memories.
* YouAreNotReady: Heather's first instinct upon meeting Zach is to read his mind. Powerful enough to sense her attempt, Zach warns her against, telling she ''really'' doesn't want to see what's in his mind.
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* BatmanGambit: Gershom targets Ami and Adira because he remembers how badly Seth reacted when his wife and children were slain. Gershom is hoping to trigger a repeat performance in either Seth or Marcus. However, he doesn't count on Jared having a vision and putting the pieces together in time to intervene.
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* BadFuture: Jared gets visions of a future [[ TheBadGuyWins so bad]] that it convinces him to break his lifelong, multi-millennia old prohibition against interfering with human development.
* DreamWeaver: Jared plants prophetic dreams in Heather's mind to aid Seth and the Immortal Guardians without alerting Gershom or the Others to his defection.
* TemporalImmutability: When Jared initially sends prophetic dreams to Heather, he's unsure he can even influence the future. However, when one of the dreams results in Heather being grievously wounded instead of Ethan being killed, Jared realized he in fact can prevent the BadFuture he's foreseen.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Heather's dreams are the key to the ongoing mystery.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Heather's Heather repeatedly experiences prophetic dreams that are the key to the ongoing mystery.mystery.
* EroticDream: When Heather learns that Jared is the reason she was having repeated dreams about fighting vampires with Ethan, she asks him why he would plant the erotic dreams she also keeps having about Ethan. Jared insists he did no such thing. Realizing what's going on, Seth intervenes and demurely explains that after having dreamed about someone she's drawn to over and over again, Heather's mind eventually fabricated it's own dreams about Ethan all on its own. Even funnier when you realize that as an Other who lived in complete isolation from human and their culture, Jared is a virgin who knows almost nothing about sex and probably got an eyeful when he glimpsed Heather's mind to see what she was talking about!
* EroticDream: When Heather learns that Jared is the reason she was having repeated dreams about fighting vampires with Ethan, she asks him why he would plant the erotic dreams she also keeps having about Ethan. Jared insists he did no such thing. Realizing what's going on, Seth intervenes and demurely explains that after having dreamed about someone she's drawn to over and over again, Heather's mind eventually fabricated it's own dreams about Ethan all on its own. Even funnier when you realize that as an Other who lived in complete isolation from human and their culture, Jared is a virgin who knows almost nothing about sex and probably got an eyeful when he glimpsed Heather's mind to see what she was talking about!
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* DeathByOriginStory: Seth's wife and children were murdered by superstitious villagers. That and his subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge very heavily influence Seth's past and present behaviors.
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* DeathByOriginStory: The murder of Bastien's pregnant sister is the trigger to his series' arc.
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* MovingBeyondBereavement: Tessa is struggling with this particularly having personally witnessed her brother's brutal murder and then being tricked by his murderer into waging a campaign of terror against the Immortal Guardians. She struggles with crippling depression and survivor's guilt.
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* NoInfantileAmnesia: Ethan can recall the day of his birth, including what the midwife who delivered him looked like and was wearing.
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* ReflexiveResponse: Susan gives Stanislav her phone and tells him to focus on calling for help. She then builds up a hypothetical situation where they are in imminent danger of death, continually repeating that he needs to call for help. Finally, she yells at him to call for help and he reflexively types in the digits for Alexei, his Second.
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* IntrovertedCatPerson: When Marcus is struggling with depression, his main companion is Slim, his cat. He even refers to Slim as his Second. Slim is a semi-feral black cat that enjoys picking fights way outside of his weight class and he has the scars to show it.
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* IntrovertedCatPerson: Roland has a cat named Nietzsche that he accidentally turned immortal. Nietzsche has been Roland's main companion for about forty years.
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* CanineCompanion: Susan has a beagle named Jax.
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* HideYourOtherness: Seth very rarely lets anyone know that he has wings because it leads to additional questions about why he has them when no other Immortal does. Seth eventually explains that he has always hidden them because whenever the truth of what he truly is comes to light, bloodshed ''always'' follows. Later, when Zach and then Jared join and don't hide their wings, Seth lets the Immortals believe that it's part of their shapeshifting abilities. This story goes on until Seth is ready to share his true origin.
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* SittingOnTheRoof: Zach's initial contact with the Immortals is simply sitting on David's roof and listening to the comings and goings. Eventually, Ami realizes he's there and joins him. They don't talk but she shares lollipops with him. Eventually, Sarah, Roland, and Lisette realize he and Ami are meeting and that leads to the confrontation that draws Zach to the center stage.
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* BreakingTheBonds: Once his patience with Roland's JackBauerInterrogationTechnique runs out, Zach easily breaks the chains that were used to bind him, startling his captors who thought him thoroughly secured.
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* PlayAlongPrisoner: Although he's powerful enough to evade their attempts, Zach allows Roland, Sarah, and Lisette to subdue and restrain him simply because he wants to spend time up close with Lisette, for whom he is developing an infatuation. When Roland punches him one time too many during his "interrogation", Zach rips apart the chains that had been binding him and warns Roland that the consequences of another punch will be fatal. This trope is later invoked by Seth when he asks why Zach even let the trio get the jump on him.
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* GasLeakCoverUp: Chris uses this more than once in the series to explain a building or complex that got leveled by Immortal activity.
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* BlackSite: General Lane first becomes aware of Seth and David when they show up at a highly confidential black site that is being monitored via surveillance cameras round the clock. Later, once he establishes that Seth, David, and the Immortals are the good guys, he helps them access other black sites that are being used by [[spoiler: Gershom]] in his ploy to [[spoiler: kick off the apocalypse]].
* FakeKidnapping: When General Lane is unwilling to listen to their initial approach, Seth and David pretend to have kidnapped Heather and are "holding her hostage" until Lane meets their demands. Of course, Seth and David are not actual bad guys so their demand is a face to face meet where Lane is forced to listen to their explanation of what's going on.
* FakeKidnapping: When General Lane is unwilling to listen to their initial approach, Seth and David pretend to have kidnapped Heather and are "holding her hostage" until Lane meets their demands. Of course, Seth and David are not actual bad guys so their demand is a face to face meet where Lane is forced to listen to their explanation of what's going on.
