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** As possible GeniusBonus: [[spoiler:the name "Ashley" is more popular as a girl's name in the USA, but used more often as a boy's name in the UK, so it's a pretty suitable name for the child of a transatlantic couple whose gender came as a surprise to her mother.]]
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* WeaponOfChoice: In keeping with his "Fireman" persona, John Rookwood carries a Halligan bar as his signature weapon/tool. It comes back to bite him when it's used to frame him for [[spoiler:Father Storey's murder]].
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* FirefighterArsonist: A rare heroic example in the titular Fireman, John Rookwood. Infected with the incendiary Dragonscale spore, John disguises himself as a firefighter to help rescue other infected. He has mastered his own Dragonscale and become a full-fledged pyromancer, able to make fiery constructs and hurl fireballs while staying unburned.
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* CelebrityCasualty: Quite a few real celebrities are mentioned. Radio host Glenn Beck burns up during a broadcast and Creator/JKRowling is mentioned as being gunned down for using her wealth to give refuge to those afflicted with the plague. Martha Quinn (one of the original MTV VJ's) is heard over the Internet as a spokesperson for an island where Dragonscale victims can seek safety and medical treatment. [[spoiler:By the time Harper learns about the island, it's been shut down and Martha has been dead for some time.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: {{Averted}} - quite a few real celebrities are mentioned. Radio host Glenn Beck burns up during a broadcast and Creator/JKRowling is mentioned as being gunned down for using her wealth to give refuge to those afflicted with the plague. Martha Quinn (one of the original MTV VJ's) is heard over the Internet as a spokesperson for an island where Dragonscale victims can seek safety and medical treatment. [[spoiler:By the time Harper learns about the island, it's been shut down and Martha has been dead for some time.]]
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* SelfHarm: Jakob becomes obsessed with the notion he has the 'scale (even though he never catches it), and takes to scratching, cutting, or sanding any mark on his skin. By the end he's a roadmap of scars.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Ben's very last act is to run into a firefight and grab an unconscious Nick, carrying him back to safety even as he's torn apart by bullets. Even when one takes off the top of Ben's skull he makes sure Nick is safe before finally collapsing]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Ben's [[spoiler:Though he's fully complicit in Carol's cult of personality, Ben's very last act is to run into a firefight and grab an unconscious Nick, carrying him back to safety even as he's torn apart by bullets. Even when one takes off the top of Ben's skull he makes sure Nick is safe before finally collapsing]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Ben's very last act is to run into a firefight and grab an unconscious Nick, carrying him back to safety even as he's torn apart by bullets. Even when one takes off the top of Ben's skull he makes sure Nick is safe before finally collapsing]].
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** played straighter with Allie's aunt Carol, who also shaves her head (except for a small forelock on her forehead). Carol also has Dragonscale, but is often starving and overtired from trying to control the camp, leaving her looking more like a standard plague victim.
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** As possible GeniusBonus: [[spoiler:the name "Ashley" is more popular as a girl's name in the USA, but used more often as a boy's name in the UK, so it's a pretty suitable name for the child of a transatlantic couple whose gender came as a surprise to her mother.]]
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** As possible GeniusBonus: [[spoiler:the name "Ashley" is more popular as a girl's name in the USA, but used more often as a boy's name in the UK, so it's a pretty suitable name for the child of a transatlantic couple whose gender came as a surprise to her mother.]]
