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* DisownedParent: Implied. When Alexander and Enid left the Covenant and crossed the ocean to America, they left their children Charles and Ada behind, most likely because they had already been indoctrinated too deeply with the Covenant's VanHelsingHateCrimes ideals. Presumably, Charles and Ada considered their parents traitors, as did the rest of the Covenant.
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* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: In the short story "Snakes and Ladders", a child is abducted to be sacrificed to what the cult believes is a god. He turns out not to be. The little girl, after being very freaked out, ends up making friends with the would-be god, teaches him a few human customs, and presses him into playing tea party. When her mother finally finds her, she recognizes the would-be god's expression as one her husband often wears when their daughter presses ''him'' into playing tea party against his will.
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* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: In the short story "Snakes and Ladders", a child 6-year-old Alice is abducted to be sacrificed to what the cult believes is a god. He turns out not to be. The little girl, after being very freaked out, ends up making friends with the would-be god, teaches him a few human customs, and presses him into playing tea party. When her mother finally finds her, she recognizes the would-be god's expression as one her husband often wears when their daughter presses ''him'' into playing tea party against his will.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Jinks, namely Uncle Al and Cylia.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: Jinks, Jinks have this power, namely Uncle Al and Cylia.
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* TheBeard: When Gwendolyn Brandt comes to Buckley and announces to Thomas her intention to marry and have a child with him, [[CuteGhostGirl Mary]] pretends to be his wife to get her to leave. Unfortunately, Alice comes along just as they're kissing to prove their "love" to Gwendolyn, and doesn't realize it's pretend. Thomas can't tell her it's NotWhatItLooksLike, since he has to maintain the ruse in front of Gwendolyn. [[spoiler:It takes a full year before Mary has a chance to tell Alice the truth.]]
* FakeRelationship: When Gwendolyn Brandt comes to Buckley and announces to Thomas her intention to marry and have a child with him, [[CuteGhostGirl Mary]] pretends to be his wife to get her to leave. Unfortunately, Alice comes along just as they're kissing to prove their "love" to Gwendolyn, and doesn't realize it's pretend. Thomas can't tell her it's NotWhatItLooksLike, since he has to maintain the ruse in front of Gwendolyn. [[spoiler:It takes a full year before Mary has a chance to tell Alice the truth.]]
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* TwoTimingWithTheBestie: {{Subverted}} in the Alice and Thomas prequel shorts. Alice has a crush on Thomas but walks in to find her best friend [[CuteGhostGirl Mary]] kissing him in front of another woman. It turns out the other woman is [[AbhorrentAdmirer Gwendolyn Brandt]], Thomas's betrothed, and Mary was [[TheBeard pretending to be his wife]] so Gwendolyn will leave. Unfortunately, Thomas can't tell Alice it's NotWhatItLooksLike without revealing the ruse, so she runs away in tears.
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* TwoTimingWithTheBestie: {{Subverted}} in the Alice and Thomas prequel shorts. Alice has a crush on Thomas but walks in to find her best friend [[CuteGhostGirl Mary]] kissing him in front of another woman. It turns out the other woman is [[AbhorrentAdmirer Gwendolyn Brandt]], Thomas's betrothed, and Mary was [[TheBeard pretending to be his wife]] wife so Gwendolyn will leave. Unfortunately, Thomas can't tell Alice it's NotWhatItLooksLike without revealing the ruse, so she runs away in tears.
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** Novella: ''Dreaming of You in Freefall'': available in the back of ''Aftermarket Afterlife''. Verity deals with the aftermath of that novel's events.
* CrusadingWidow: After [[spoiler:her husband Dominic]] is killed by the Covenant, [[spoiler:Verity Price]] slaughters the entire team of Covenant agents there, and a day or two later kills half a dozen more while rescuing someone they've kidnapped.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Jonathan and Fran's son Daniel is murdered at age three in the short story ''The First Fall''. Fran makes Jonathan promise she won't have to bury any more of their children.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: OutlivingOnesOffspring:
** Jonathan and Fran's son Daniel is murdered at age three in the short story ''The First Fall''. Fran makes Jonathan promise she won't have to bury any more of theirchildren.children.
** In ''Aftermarket Afterlife'', [[spoiler:Jane Harrington-Price]] is killed by the Covenant, while [[spoiler:her parents Alice and Thomas]] are still alive. Making it worse is that [[spoiler:Thomas went missing before Jane was even born, and Alice was barely there for most of her life, and they were just starting to reconcile. Thomas didn't even know her more than a day!]]
** Jonathan and Fran's son Daniel is murdered at age three in the short story ''The First Fall''. Fran makes Jonathan promise she won't have to bury any more of their
** In ''Aftermarket Afterlife'', [[spoiler:Jane Harrington-Price]] is killed by the Covenant, while [[spoiler:her parents Alice and Thomas]] are still alive. Making it worse is that [[spoiler:Thomas went missing before Jane was even born, and Alice was barely there for most of her life, and they were just starting to reconcile. Thomas didn't even know her more than a day!]]
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* GladYouThoughtOfIt: In ''Aftermarket Afterlife'', Sarah implants the idea that [[spoiler:Penton Hall's caretakers want to take the children out for a midnight walk]] so they'll be out of the building when it blows up.
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** [[https://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/498203.html McGuire has stated]] that some humanoid cryptids tried to hide in plain sight by ''[[HunterOfTheirOwnKind joining the Covenant]]''.
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** [[https://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/498203.html McGuire has stated]] that some humanoid cryptids tried to hide in plain sight by ''[[HunterOfTheirOwnKind joining the Covenant]]''. And some magic-users ''openly'' work for the Covenant, hoping to save their own skins.
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* PsychicRadar: Johrlac like Sarah are all telepathic, so naturally they're able to sense one another (and stay far away, since as a rule they hate being near others of their own species). Johrlac also naturally emit a particular psychic hum, and people who have spent significant time around one are able to sense that, even to the point of being able to tell apart different Johrlac (who are all virtually identical).
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* HiddenElfVillage: Some cryptids have their own communities, though it's rare for them to be ''entirely'' cut off from the wider world.
** The gorgon community of Ohio has set up a small village of trailers, able to pick up and leave in case of discovery by humans. The Fringe is a faction who have built more permanent houses, as a statement that they're not going anywhere.
** Bogeymen have their own hidden communities, usually underneath human cities.
** Dragons have communal "nests" in major cities, where they raise their young and hide male dragons, who can't go out in public like females (who look just like humans).
** The gorgon community of Ohio has set up a small village of trailers, able to pick up and leave in case of discovery by humans. The Fringe is a faction who have built more permanent houses, as a statement that they're not going anywhere.
** Bogeymen have their own hidden communities, usually underneath human cities.
** Dragons have communal "nests" in major cities, where they raise their young and hide male dragons, who can't go out in public like females (who look just like humans).
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* CastHerd: The books have {{Rotating Protagonist}}s, so the characters tend to cluster around one of the viewpoint characters, especially since they're geographically spread out. So Verity's group is mostly characters in New York, Alex's group is in Ohio, and Antimony's group travels with her, losing and gaining members as they go (while she's infiltrating the Covenant, when she's with the carnival, when she's at Lowryland, and in New Gravesend). The cast herds are really shown in ''Aftermarket Afterlife'', Mary's first POV book, since she can teleport between groups, so we have her interacting with different herds in Portland, New York, and Ohio.
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* TeleportationWithDrawbacks:
** Mary can teleport anywhere, whether it's somewhere the Crossroads is sending her or she's going to one of the Price-Healy family. She can also take objects with her, but living things always come out dead on the other end.
** [[spoiler:Sarah]] can teleport with living things, but it requires a lot of mental energy, which increases with the number of people she's taking, and she can't keep going between the same two places without giving the fabric of spacetime a chance to heal.
** Mary can teleport anywhere, whether it's somewhere the Crossroads is sending her or she's going to one of the Price-Healy family. She can also take objects with her, but living things always come out dead on the other end.
** [[spoiler:Sarah]] can teleport with living things, but it requires a lot of mental energy, which increases with the number of people she's taking, and she can't keep going between the same two places without giving the fabric of spacetime a chance to heal.
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* HumanHardDrive: The Aeslin mice have a PhotographicMemory and remember anything one of them has witnessed (and told the rest), incorporating it into their [[AnimalReligion liturgy]]. The Price-Healy family, whom they revere as gods, use the mice are a perfect record of their family history, and when going on long, dangerous trips, they always carry a mouse or two with them in case they don't come back.
* PerilousMarriageProposal: They're not in active danger when [[spoiler:Sam proposes to Antimony]], but he's just found out she's agreed to go on an extremely dangerous mission into the heart of enemy territory. They both know that this won't stop her from going, or make her take him with her, but he'd been planning it for a while, so it's more like the proposal equivalent of a NowOrNeverKiss.
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* PsychicLink: Sarah has one with certain members of the family, Verity in particular.
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** Sarah has one with certain members of the family, Verity in particular.
** Sarah has one with certain members of the family, Verity in particular.
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* LoopholeAbuse: In "Chaos Choreography," the four top-scoring contestants from each of the last five years of a dancing show are invited back. AlphaBitch Jessica is included because she didn't compete in the top four (and everyone likes the girl who ''did'' compete better than her), but she did ''score'' in the top four before being sidelined by an injury.
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** In "Chaos Choreography," the four top-scoring contestants from each of the last five years of a dancing show are invited back. AlphaBitch Jessica is included because she didn't compete in the top four (and everyone likes the girl who ''did'' compete better than her), but she did ''score'' in the top four before being sidelined by aninjury. injury.
** As a babysitter ghost, Mary can find and teleport to any of her charges, anywhere they are. She exploits this to rescue Megan by having Megan's mother Dee formally "hire" her as a babysitter (even though Megan is an adult). [[spoiler:This attracts the attention of the Anima Mundi, which warns her against doing it again.]]
** In "Chaos Choreography," the four top-scoring contestants from each of the last five years of a dancing show are invited back. AlphaBitch Jessica is included because she didn't compete in the top four (and everyone likes the girl who ''did'' compete better than her), but she did ''score'' in the top four before being sidelined by an
** As a babysitter ghost, Mary can find and teleport to any of her charges, anywhere they are. She exploits this to rescue Megan by having Megan's mother Dee formally "hire" her as a babysitter (even though Megan is an adult). [[spoiler:This attracts the attention of the Anima Mundi, which warns her against doing it again.]]
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* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: In ''Aftermarket Afterlife'', [[spoiler:Mary, Sarah, and Annie use the first two's teleportation powers to set off a bomb in the Covenant's headquarters.]]
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** What happens to [[spoiler:Megan]] when the Covenant captures her. They torture her by [[spoiler:cutting off some of her snake hair]], which is excruciatingly painful and doesn't grow back.
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* PyrrhicVictory: A major plot point of ''Aftermarket Afterlife''. [[spoiler:The Prices and their allies realize they can't win the current war against the Covenant conventionally. The Covenant can keep taking the losses in the field and keep sending in cannon fodder while every loss the Prices and their allies takes turns the tide against them. If this continues, victory ''will'' go to the Covenant...which means the Prices' only play is to make that victory ''so'' expensive and costly that the Covenant can't continue the North America campaign. This is what leads to the idea to infiltrate and bomb Penton Hall and wipe out most of the Covenant leadership and their best people.]]
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** ''Aftermarket Afterlife''. [[spoiler:After skirmishes across the previous 12 books, the Covenant-Price Family Cold War finally turns hot. The Covenant launches a multi-pronged attack on the North American InCryptid community and its allies, resulting in the deaths of Jane and Dominic. In retaliation, the Prices (with Mary's aid), successfully bomb Penton Hall -- thereby taking out most of the Covenant leadership.]]
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** ''Aftermarket Afterlife''. [[spoiler:After skirmishes across the previous 12 books, the Covenant-Price Family Cold War finally turns hot. The Covenant launches a multi-pronged attack on the North American InCryptid Cryptid community and its allies, resulting in the deaths of Jane and Dominic. In retaliation, the Prices (with Mary's aid), successfully bomb Penton Hall -- thereby taking out most of the Covenant leadership.]]
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