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* CombatHandFan: Bladed fans are one of the many weapons Mademoiselle Geraldine's trains its girls to use. Sophronia turns out to be a natural, and considers making it her WeaponOfChoice.
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* CombatHandFan: Bladed fans are one of the many weapons Mademoiselle Geraldine's trains its girls to use. Sophronia turns out to be a natural, and considers making it her WeaponOfChoice.preferred weapon.
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* DumbwaiterRide: In ''Etiquette & Espionage'', the 'incident' that gets Sophronia Temminnick sent to a finishing school by her mother involves her riding inside a dumbwaiter in an attempt to eavesdrop on a meeting between her molter and a very important guest.It ends with [[ItMakesSenseInContext her lying on the floor in her petticoats with India rubber wrapped around her feet and most of a trifle atop the head of the unfortunate Mrs Barnaclegoose]].
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* DumbwaiterRide: In ''Etiquette & Espionage'', the 'incident' that gets Sophronia Temminnick sent to a finishing school by her mother involves her riding inside a dumbwaiter in an attempt to eavesdrop on a meeting between her molter and a very important guest. It ends with [[ItMakesSenseInContext her lying on the floor in her petticoats with India rubber wrapped around her feet and most of a trifle atop the head of the unfortunate Mrs Barnaclegoose]].
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* DumbwaiterRide: In ''Etiquette & Espionage'', the 'incident' that gets Sophronia Temminnick sent to a finishing school by her mother involves her riding inside a dumbwaiter in an attempt to eavesdrop on a meeting between her molter and a very important guest.It ends with [[ItMakesSenseInContext her lying on the floor in her petticoats with India rubber wrapped around her feet and most of a trifle atop the head of the unfortunate Mrs Barnaclegoose]].
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* LethalLetterOpener: One of the many concealed weapons Geraldine's girls are trained in, since it's a lot easier to explain why a ProperLady is carrying a letter opener than a dagger.
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* EndOfAnAge: In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:after Geraldine's goes down in flames, the teachers admit that fewer and fewer girls have been applying and quietly disband the finishing school entirely. In addition, the Picklemen have been exposed and all mechanicals are being disbanded.]]
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* EndOfAnAge: In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:after Geraldine's goes down in flames, the teachers admit that fewer and fewer girls have been applying and quietly disband the finishing school entirely. In addition, the Picklemen have been exposed and all mechanicals are being disbanded.destroyed.]]
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* CardCarryingVillain: Bunson's trains ''evil'' geniuses, and ranks their students by how evil they are. [[spoiler:Pillover is even ''promoted'' for betraying them, as treachery is a rather strong form of evil.]]
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* EndOfAnAge: In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:after Geraldine's goes down in flames, the teachers admit that fewer and fewer girls have been applying and quietly disband the finishing school entirely. In addition, the Picklemen have been exposed and all mechanicals are being disbanded.]]
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* LuddWasRight: [[spoiler:The Picklemen plot involves reprogramming the bulk of Britain's mechanicals, causing them to turn against their masters. When the plot is thwarted, instead of coming up with proper safeguards the British just destroy all their mechanicals and refuse to use the technology.]]
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* LuddWasRight: [[spoiler:The Picklemen plot involves reprogramming the bulk of Britain's mechanicals, causing them to turn against their masters. When the plot is thwarted, instead of coming up with proper safeguards the British just destroy all their mechanicals and refuse to use the technology.technology, as the patents have become too politically charged to be given to any one side without the balance of power shifting. Vieve never forgives them for it.]]
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: [[spoiler:After four books of the supernatural community and the Picklemen fighting over mechanical technology, all mechanicals are outlawed and the patents move outside everyone's influence. The dewan is furious, but Sophronia sees the balance as necessary.]]
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* UptownGirl: Soap, aka Phineas B. Crow the sootie, has an intense attraction to Sophronia, who is the daughter of landed gentry.
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* UptownGirl: Soap, aka Phineas B. Crow the sootie, has an intense attraction to Sophronia, who is the daughter of landed gentry. [[spoiler:Even after Soap becomes a werewolf and gains social status, they acknowledge that their union will never be blessed by society. Luckily, they're fine with being lovers in the shadows]].
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The afterword for ''Manners & Mutiny''. [[spoiler:The mechanical uprising led to the technology being banned and the patents passing out of everyone's hands. Bumbersnoot was given an exemption and declared Royal Alarm Dog to warn the Queen if they rise again. The teachers of the school all went on to new things, with Lady Linette going into theater, Mademoiselle Geraldine patronizing the education of underprivileged boys, Professor Braithwope becoming a hermit and local legend, and Sister Mattie going into herbalism. Vieve never forgave England and moved on to France to finish her education as Gaspar Lefoux. And Soap and Sophronia have decided to become lovers and spies in the dewan's service, with Sophronia going off to become Alexia's protector.]]
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* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler:The finale of ''Manners & Mutiny'' has Sophronia and Monique destroying the school itself to stop the Picklemen from using it to take over England.]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: Late in ''Waistcoats & Weaponry'', the dewan does this for [[spoiler:Sidheag and Captain Niall, although they're still only engaged,]] because by society's standards a young, unmarried woman cannot live with [[spoiler:a werewolf pack, with no blood relatives around anymore]].
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* ArrangedMarriage: Late in ''Waistcoats & Weaponry'', the dewan does this for [[spoiler:Sidheag and Captain Niall, although they're still only engaged,]] because by society's standards a young, unmarried woman cannot live with [[spoiler:a werewolf pack, with no blood relatives around anymore]].anymore.]] Since [[spoiler:Sidheag]] is not of age yet, the dewan makes clear he expects a ''long'' engagement.
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In ''Manners & Mutiny'', [[spoiler:the Picklemen succeed in stealing the school itself, intending to use it as their base to take control of all of London's mechanicals. Sophronia, the sooties, Mademoiselle Geraldine, and Professor Braithwope have to [[DieHardOnAnX sabotage it from the inside]] to stop them.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The fake food that Mademoiselle Geraldine is so fond of [[spoiler:are actually explosives]], and see some use in the final book.
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* DramaticDislocation: Near the climax of ''Manners & Mutiny'', Sophronia's shoulder is pulled out of joint. They put it back in, but she has to finish the mission with one good arm.
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* HeroicSacrifice: In the final book, [[spoiler:Madame Spetuna is found out by the Picklemen, who are close to discovering Sophronia as well, so she detonates an explosive while still in the room.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sophronia in ''Curtsies & Conspiracies''. Vieve wants to go to Bunson's and convinces her to drive away a professor that might recognize her there. [[spoiler:Sophronia chooses to make him think that Professor Braithewope is draining him in his sleep, to exploit his anti-vampire beliefs and provoke him into hysteria. In turn, the Professor sabotages Braithewope's aetherosphere suit, causes him to fall overboard and snap his tether, leaving him permanently insane.]] Sophronia is wracked with guilt afterward.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Dimity and Pillover are this, much to the disappointment of their evil parents. Dimity just wants to be a ProperLady (with maybe a smidgen more training than she should have) and Pillover just wants to invent things.
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* AlphaBitch: Monique de Pelouse, full stop.
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* BlackWidow: Preshea desperately wants to become one. She's already plotting how to best kill her first husband.
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* BlackWidow: Preshea desperately wants to become one. She's already plotting how to best kill her first husband. [[spoiler:The novel ''Poison and Protect'' set in the future indicates she was successful with four men before she fell InLoveWithTheMark.]]
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* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: Of a sort. The girls of Geraldine's are trained in spying, assassination, and all manner of intelligence work, while the boys of Bunson's learn how to be evil geniuses.
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* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Lady Linette warns Sophronia that while seduction can lead a man away for a while, she can't fundamentally change another person's nature. Sophronia tries to do this to Felix and then Soap, before eventually coming to terms with the fact that she can't.
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* TheAce: Sophronia is the first covert recruit in six years and got the best score on the six-month test in the history of the school (although that might have been inflated as a test). Lady Linette often worries that she'll surpass her teachers.
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* TeenSuperspy: Sophronia is well in her way to become one.
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* TeenSuperspy: All of the girls are meant to be this, but Sophronia already is well one, as she starts investigating everything practically the moment she arrives, loves gadgets, and solves plots on her own, all in her way to become one.teenage years.
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* DamselInDistress: Dimity in the second book, several times.
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* DamselInDistress: Dimity in the second book, several times. [[spoiler:Since her parents are manufacturing the crystalline valves, the Westminster Hive tries to kidnap her and her brother as leverage. Sophronia rescues her every time.]]
* HeldBackInSchool: Monique steals a prototype during her final exam, which leads to her getting bumped all the way down from senior to debut.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Monique's FatalFlaw as an intelligencer, which leads to her failing her final exam and eventually [[spoiler:not graduating at all]]. She's competent enough at fooling others, but utterly terrible when someone uses those techniques on her.
* TheLadette: Sidheag likes fighting, especially dirty fighting, barely does her hair, is bored by femininine pursuits and even dresses in men's clothes on occasion. Several characters note that she's lucky she's a Lady and thus such eccentricities are tolerated, otherwise she'd have a much rougher time.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mademoiselle Geraldine has no idea that her own school is a training ground for spies and assassins, [[InvokedTrope and keeping it that way is part of the curriculum]]. [[spoiler:Except that Book 4 reveals that she was in on it the whole time, and is herself a fully capable intelligencer.]]
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** Mademoiselle Geraldine has no idea that her own school is a training ground for spies and assassins, [[InvokedTrope and keeping it that way is part of the curriculum]]. [[spoiler:Except that Book 4 reveals that she was in on it the whole time, and is herself a fully capable intelligencer.]]]]
** Part of testing "covert recruits" is to see how long it takes them to pick up on what sort of school they've joined. It took Sophronia less than a day.
** Mademoiselle Geraldine has no idea that her own school is a training ground for spies and assassins, [[InvokedTrope and keeping it that way is part of the curriculum]]. [[spoiler:Except that Book 4 reveals that she was in on it the whole time, and is herself a fully capable intelligencer.
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* MasterPoisoner: Sister Mattie, who teaches the girls to be the same.
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* ProperLady: What Dimity and Agatha would rather be. Alas, family legacy demands otherwise. Sophronia's sisters and mother.
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* ProperLady: What Dimity and Agatha would rather be. Alas, family legacy demands otherwise. Sophronia's sisters and mother.mother also qualify, on their better days, although they're often too stupid or frivolous to qualify.
* ProperlyParanoid: What makes Sophronia such a magnificent intelligencer is that she sees a plot in everything and is relentlessly curious and suspicious, allowing her to ferret out conspiracies and secret tests. In the second book, she goes through a test including a tea party where she deduces that at least two of the pastries are poisoned, and then makes sure to only eat vegetables afterward in case luncheon is a follow-up test.
* ProperlyParanoid: What makes Sophronia such a magnificent intelligencer is that she sees a plot in everything and is relentlessly curious and suspicious, allowing her to ferret out conspiracies and secret tests. In the second book, she goes through a test including a tea party where she deduces that at least two of the pastries are poisoned, and then makes sure to only eat vegetables afterward in case luncheon is a follow-up test.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: While most of the girls are there because their patrons sponsor the school, Monique is the one who really tries to exploit it, stealing a prototype to try and blackmail the teachers into giving her better grades and repeatedly referring to her "special friend" to try and gain special privileges. The teachers eventually get sick of it [[spoiler:and send her out to be married with no covert assignments, effectively failing her]].
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* WhenSheSmiles: Sophronia has quite a lovelysmile.smile, and the narration notes that she underestimates its affect on the boys around her.
* WhenSheSmiles: Sophronia has quite a lovely
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* ActionFashionista: The majority of Mademoiselle Geraldine's girls.
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* ActionFashionista: The majority of Mademoiselle Geraldine's girls.girls are just as into fashion as they are into crime. Sophronia gets in on it herself sometimes, much to her own horror.
* DeadlyEuphemism: It is a finishing school in the sense of learning how to finish anything and any''one''.
* DoWrongRight: When Sophronia is caught sneaking out, Lady Linette punishes her for a) being seen and b) not blackmailing her enemy to keep quiet beforehand. The actual punishment for sneaking out is more of an afterthought, and Lady Linette all but encourages her to keep trying.
* DoWrongRight: When Sophronia is caught sneaking out, Lady Linette punishes her for a) being seen and b) not blackmailing her enemy to keep quiet beforehand. The actual punishment for sneaking out is more of an afterthought, and Lady Linette all but encourages her to keep trying.
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* FilleFatale: Preshea. She hasn't even finished puberty yet and she's already planning on murdering her first husband.
* FilleFatale: Preshea. She hasn't even finished puberty yet and she's already planning on murdering her first husband.
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* LadyOfWar: What all the students aspire to become. Sidheag especially fits this trope.
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* MadScientist: Bunson and Lacroix's Boys' Polytechnique, the sister (or perhaps brother?) school to Mademoiselle Geraldine's, trains boys to cause mayhem and create sinister gadgetry. The ranking system goes from Mildly Rude Genius to Evil Genius.
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* TheNondescript: Agatha is normally a ShrinkingViolet who'd rather fade into the background. Her training helps her weaponize it to become almost totally invisible. [[spoiler:And of course, no one knew she was spying for Lord Akeldama.]]
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* GagBoobs: Whenever Mademoiselle Geraldine is mentioned, the narration will take a line or two to dwell on the spectacular size and volume of her "assets".
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The Finishing School series is set in the same world as ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'', only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to ... ''finish'' everything and everyone, as needed. There is steampunk etiquette! There is well-dressed espionage! There is Victorian fake food! There is a mechanical sausage dog named Bumbersnoot! The first book, ''Etiquette & Espionage'', released Feb 5, 2013, was an instant New York Times Bestseller.
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** At the end, Sophronia becomes Alexia Tarabotti's governess as her latest assignment, nodding to a mention in ''Blameless'' about a really fantastic governess she used to have as a child. It’s also implied that she’s the soon-to-be aunt of Alexia’s MuggleBestFriend Ivy.
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* FaintInShock:The girls get lessons on how to faint properly, gracefully and avoid injury while doing so. Dimity faints for real every time she sees blood.
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* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: A significant amount of their training is teaching the girls how to operate while wearing the finest Victorian ball gowns, using extremely decorative and secretly bladed fans or tiny daggers and pistols.
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** At the end, Sophronia becomes Alexia Tarabotti's governess as her latest assignment, nodding to a mention in ''Blameless'' about a really fantastic governess she used to have as a child.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When [[spoiler:Soap is shot and dying]] in ''Waistcoats & Weaponry'', Dimity does ''not'' faint despite there being someone bleeding, noting that the situation is too serious for fainting.
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** Those who've read the second book of ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'' and recognize the names of Sidheag and Captain Niall will not be surprised by the off-page events involving Lord Maccon that lead to their departure from the series in ''Waistcoats & Weaponry''.
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* FurAgainstFang: In the first book, there's a fight between the vampire Professor Braithwope and the werewolf Captain Niall.
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* FurAgainstFang: In the first book, there's a fight between the vampire Professor Braithwope and the werewolf Captain Niall. It's full moon, and Braithwope has to hold off the moonstruck Niall so that the students returning from seeing a play can get back onboard the school safely.
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* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Captain Niall uses his top hat for this purpose at the climax of ''Waistcoats & Weaponry'' when he realizes Sophronia is present during a confrontation with Picklemen.
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