History DarthWiki / Ludlin

** Wojciech and Agatka Tarczowscy are more-or-less the same characters; however, they were originally ''husband and wife'', not sister and brother, and Agatka gave birth to Stanislaw, Michal's illegitmate son. The current timeline removes that incident altogether as part of the BleachedUnderpants reworking of Michal. Wojtek's sweetheart, Justynka Kosowna, is another former girlfriend of the randier Michal and in the original stories ran off with his local rival Lucjan Czarniecki - who will reappear later on.

* StockholmSyndrome - Michal has a bad case of it by the end of the book. In Michal's case [[spoiler:the kindnesses shown by Seymour are an evening off and a guilder for a pub dinner. Twice]].

* AnythingThatMoves - Ellis and Mad Tsib are the workhouse perverts, at Lowe Road and Pendlebury respectively.

* DepravedHomosexual - [[AnythingThatMoves Ellis]], for a bag of tea.

* ADateWithRosiePalms - Ellis. Incessantly. Michal mentions that it is considered a sign of madness, and doesn't want to do it too much himself in case people question his mental health any further; he does it reluctantly when [[spoiler:Hilda rejects him]]. Hilda almost accomplishes it while removing the bedpan, however; [[spoiler:and following the botched exorcism he is too numb to feel anything when a convent nurse is giving him a bedbath - cleaning his bottom and genitals]]. Later on, Mad Tsib gets in on the act, inadvertently [[spoiler:causing Wojtek's death through his accompanying taunts at him]].

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown - Wojtek on admission to Pendlebury. The way he handles the receiving orderly, however, gives him ideas of going into professional bare-knuckle fighting as a route out of his own private incarceration and wins him certain favour with the trusties, making his stay at a spike more pleasant than Michal's [[spoiler:until the end. The trope is played straight with the ultimate ending.]].

* TwoLinesDifferentTimes - There is some alternative chronology in the middle of the book in the section dealing with the burning down of the Hytherton house. We alternate between Michal's discovery, reaction and realisations about Seymour's role in everything, and the process by which [[spoiler:Alyosha, Frinton, Vainyte and]] Seymour contrive to edit Michal out of official existence.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture - There is some alternative chronology in the middle of the book in the section dealing with the burning down of the Hytherton house. We alternate between Michal's discovery, reaction and realisations about Seymour's role in everything, and the process by which [[spoiler:Alyosha, Frinton, Vainyte and]] Seymour contrive to edit Michal out of official existence.

* AnOfficerAndAGentleman - Seymour, on the surface, fits the evil version of the trope. His experiences during the war are known, and he used TheUriahGambit once, if not more, to be able to plunder the effects of his fellow soldiers who never made it back. He transferred the tactic to Lockley once he left the army and took over at Lowe Road.

** Michal's nose in the early cartoons (up until 200-something and his appearance in ''DarthWiki/TheLiberalCuckoo'') was drawn comically large (think ''CyranoDeBergerac'', though in the context of the artwork style, it wasn't entirely out of proportion). It's still recognisably aquiline [[spoiler:to Alyosha when he sees him in Lowe Road]] but no longer of ridiculous proportions.