History Literature / Ragnatela

** Salvatore and Leonardo. While they both carry themselves in a very different manner from the other, they are ultimately family men who fell in love with the same girl at some point, and are equally dangerous in different ways. [[WordOfGod Quieta]] also mentions that Salvatore likes Patience because of how her temper reminds him of his mother, which points at both of these men sharing an OedipusComplex, Salvatore to a lesser extent.

%%* CourtroomAntics: The last arc is a circus.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/7942924/chapters/18158137 Ragnatela]] is a work of historical fiction erotica by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Quieta/pseuds/Quieta Quieta]].

* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Leonardo is the gentleman and Salvatore is the scoundrel of the LoveTriangle.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: Patience pulls this one on Leonardo by killing Andrea, whom is the only being that Leonardo genuinely cares about.]]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Salvatore and Patience’s relationship is more complicated but they do have their moments despite how often they hurt each other.
** [[spoiler: In the final arc, when Salvatore finds out what Leonardo has done to Patience when he abducted her he ''rages'' and proceeds to pummel Leonardo in the face repeatedly. Another time is when Patience meets Salvatore in order to get him to plead guilty so that he’d receive a life sentence instead of an execution, and even admitting that it’s because she wants him to stay alive and he relents.]]

* TheNapoleon: Patience is 4’11 and filled with rage.

* AbusiveParents: EVERYONE. Including the protagonist.

* PrivateDetective: The main character--and per the start of the story, just barely getting by.

* AmoralAttorney: Leonardo's lawyer and consigliere, Charles Sawyer.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Patience and Salvatore share this dynamic, to the point that Salvatore himself points out how Patience nags him [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple as if they’re married]].

* CourtroomAntics: The last arc is a circus.

* FamilyValuesVillain: Leonardo puts on a front of being a benevolent family-friendly politician and lectures Patience multiple times about the benefits of a traditional family structure.

* CountryMouse: Flora and Candace, before they came to the big city.

* PlagueDoctor: Patience is chased by one in her RecurringDreams and even starts seeing it in real life--it turns out to be [[spoiler:Vittoria.]]

* BlackAndGreyMorality

* TheMafia: The main antagonists. During the 1950s, at the height of their power.

* MenAreTough: Not that strange since the story takes place during the 1950s, but a lot of the characters (even independent female characters) are firm believers of this and that WomenAreDelicate.

* SanitySlippage: Patience over the course of the story, resulting in a DespairEventHorizon.

* BilingualBonus: Tons, considering the Italian dialogue is untranslated, but a noteworthy one is Leonardo calling Patience "mia mignotta" early on... which instead of being one of his many terms of affection towards her, translates to "my whore".

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Leonardo is one to Patience.

* BeautyIsBad: Leonardo is extremely attractive and extremely despicable.

* WantedASonInstead: The reversal. Both Leonardo and Patience had hoped so much it’d be a girl that neither had even considered a boy name.

* PregnancyScare: Patience had one at the beginning of the work.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Leonardo doesn’t remember killing Patience’s parents, stating they were only one in a million of faces to him.

* VillainousCrush: Leonardo has a major one for Patience.

* BabyFactory: Leonardo would like to turn Patience into one.

* MadLove: Of the unhealthy and dark kind for Leonardo and Patience. [[StockholmSyndrome Though perhaps it’s not as one-sided as it seems..]]

* MaternityCrisis: Patience goes into labor while Leonardo was murdering a small child in an abandoned warehouse.

* AbstractApotheosis: Leonardo’s mother is so idealized in his head she’s not viewed as a real person.

* GoodIsNotNice: Patience can come off as rude, crass and bitter but her heart is in the right place and she genuinely wants to help people.

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: The more Patience pushes away Leonardo, the more obsessed he becomes.

* ImperiledInPregnancy: Patience multiple times throughout the story, most notably throughout the Italy arc.

* [[spoiler:ChildByRape]]: Andrea, and Leonardo himself.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Patience has been researching and following Leonardo for years before the story takes place.

* SheWhoFightsMonsters: Patience often uses justice as an excuse for why she’s planning Leonardo’s demise, but it’s plain as day that ItsPersonal for her, and although she is often willing to work with the law in bringing down Leonardo, she ends up making some unsettling decisions along the way that make her ''almost'' as bad as Leonardo himself in the end.

* PregnantBadass: Patience got out of a hostage situation amongst other things all while pregnant with her first child.

* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: Both Leonardo and Salvatore believe themselves to be the center of Patience’s love life. Truth be told, she can’t stand either of them, and for good reason.

* HarmfulToMinors

* NotSoDifferent: Salvatore and Leonardo. While they both carry themselves in a very different manner from the other, they are ultimately family men who fell in love with the same girl at some point, and are equally dangerous in different ways. [[WordOfGod Quieta]] also mentions that Salvatore likes Patience because of how her temper reminds him of his mother, which points at both of these men sharing an OedipusComplex, Salvatore to a lesser extent.

* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Leonardo is the gentlemen and Salvatore is the scoundrel in the LoveTriangle.

* {{TheGentlemenOrTheScoundrel}}: Leonardo is the gentlemen and Salvatore is the scoundrel in the LoveTriangle.

* TheGentlemenorTheScoundrel: Leonardo is the gentlemen and Salvatore is the scoundrel in the LoveTriangle.

* TheGentlemenOrTheScoundrel: Leonardo is the gentlemen and Salvatore is the scoundrel in the LoveTriangle.

* UnequalPairing: Both Leonardo and Salvatore are infamous mafia bosses who are big and intimidating while Patience is a small private detective.