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* BiTheWay: Villanelle.
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* MasqueradeBall: Villanelle's life, pretty much. Her job at a masquerade casino (in Venice, obviously) is used to reflect this, and Venice itself is also created as effectively a masquerade ballroom, to positive and negative results.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Napoleon invading Russia? You mean Henri and Villanelle falling about in snow.
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Villanelle herself is a bisexual androgynous young woman from Venice who works at a casino, but is the child of a boatman, with both identities causing her to perform various masquerades, sometimes literally. Her undercover escapades find her becoming obsessed with an older woman -- known as the Queen of Hearts -- who frequents the casino and whom she watches from behind her different identities, eventually starting a brief affair despite the older woman being married. However, Villanelle also ends up being married off to an overweight cook and from him being sold to the French soldiers as a service girl. She begins to love Henri, but is explicitly not in love with him and never will be.
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Villanelle herself is a bisexual androgynous young woman from Venice who works at a casino, but is the child of a boatman, with both identities causing her to perform various masquerades, sometimes literally. Her undercover escapades find her becoming obsessed with an older woman -- known as the Queen of Hearts Spades -- who frequents the casino and whom she watches from behind her different identities, eventually starting a brief affair despite the older woman being married. However, Villanelle also ends up being married off to an overweight cook and from him being sold to the French soldiers as a service girl. She begins to love Henri, but is explicitly not in love with him and never will be.
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* EvilIsVisceral: The Queen of Hearts has been stitching a tapestry with Villanelle's actual heart (somehow) at the centre; Henri carves out the cook's heart, though whether this is marking him or the cook (or both) as evil to different extents is up to interpretation, but it's definitely the madness turning point for Henri and proves the heartlessness of the cook.
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* DisappearedDad: Henri's abandoned his family, Villanelle's is dead. This has some symbolic meanings for the book, but also directly affects their interpersonal relationships with father and lover figures in their lives.
* EvilIsVisceral: The Queen ofHearts Spades has been stitching a tapestry with Villanelle's actual heart (somehow) at the centre; Henri carves out the cook's heart, though whether this is marking him or the cook (or both) as evil to different extents is up to interpretation, but it's definitely the madness turning point for Henri and proves the heartlessness of the cook.
* EvilIsVisceral: The Queen of
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* PunnyName: The Queen of Hearts, whom Villanelle meets through a card game and who both literally and figuratively takes Villanelle's heart
* SexEqualsLove: For Henri, yes, as he gives his virginity to Villanelle and promptly falls in love. For Villanelle, though she does have a sexual relationship and child with Henri, does not love him romantically. The erotic moments between Villanelle and the Queen of Hearts are also very chaste and romantic, rather than sexually explicit.
* WickedHeartSymbol: The two characters most associated with hearts are the Queen of Hearts and the flabby cook, who are both at least dubiously evil, with the cook being particularly awful.
* SexEqualsLove: For Henri, yes, as he gives his virginity to Villanelle and promptly falls in love. For Villanelle, though she does have a sexual relationship and child with Henri, does not love him romantically. The erotic moments between Villanelle and the Queen of Hearts are also very chaste and romantic, rather than sexually explicit.
* WickedHeartSymbol: The two characters most associated with hearts are the Queen of Hearts and the flabby cook, who are both at least dubiously evil, with the cook being particularly awful.
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* PunnyName: The Queen of Hearts, Spades, whom Villanelle meets through a card game and who both literally and figuratively takes Villanelle's heart
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* SexEqualsLove: For Henri, yes, as he gives his virginity to Villanelle and promptly falls in love. For Villanelle, though she does have a sexual relationship and child with Henri, does not love him romantically. The erotic moments between Villanelle and the Queen ofHearts Spades are also very chaste and romantic, rather than sexually explicit.
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: There are elements of historical fantasy, the entire representation of Venice, and it is also in this magical Venice where the free bisexuality and gender-bending of Villanelle and her lovers is confined. Notably, outside of Venice she sticks to heteronormativity.
* WickedHeartSymbol: The two characters most associated with hearts are the Queen ofHearts Spades and the flabby cook, who are both at least dubiously evil, with the cook being particularly awful.
* SexEqualsLove: For Henri, yes, as he gives his virginity to Villanelle and promptly falls in love. For Villanelle, though she does have a sexual relationship and child with Henri, does not love him romantically. The erotic moments between Villanelle and the Queen of
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: There are elements of historical fantasy, the entire representation of Venice, and it is also in this magical Venice where the free bisexuality and gender-bending of Villanelle and her lovers is confined. Notably, outside of Venice she sticks to heteronormativity.
* WickedHeartSymbol: The two characters most associated with hearts are the Queen of
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Henri is a young soldier from rural France who enlists to UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon}}'s army thanks to an obsession with the war hero from folk stories and patriotism. He was raised in the church, but only physically, as his priest's lessons were barely religious except in how it applied to life and love. As scrawny and sarcastic, he is made Napoleon's personal kitchen boy, eventually becoming disillusioned with his hero in favour of an obsession with Villanelle, a dangerous seductress spanning Europe. He murders a mutual enemy of theirs and develops serious mental illness.
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Henri is a young soldier from rural France who enlists to UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon}}'s [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoléon]]'s army thanks to an obsession with the war hero from folk stories and patriotism. He was raised in the church, but only physically, as his priest's lessons were barely religious except in how it applied to life and love. As scrawny and sarcastic, he is made Napoleon's personal kitchen boy, eventually becoming disillusioned with his hero in favour of an obsession with Villanelle, a dangerous seductress spanning Europe. He murders a mutual enemy of theirs and develops serious mental illness.
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* LadyLooksLikeADude: Villanelle, in some of her costumes. However, there is also reason to believe she really is gender non-conforming in some way, because she has the webbed feet only sons do.
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* EvilIsVisceral: The Queen of Hearts has been stitching a tapestry with Villanelle's actual heart (somehow) at the centre; Henri carves out the cook's heart, though whether this is marking him or the cook (or both) as evil to different extents is up to interpretation, but it's definitely the madness turning point for Henri and proves the heartlessness of the cook.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Villanelle, in some of her costumes. However, there is also reason to believe she really isgender gender/sex non-conforming in some way, because she has the webbed feet only sons do.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Villanelle, in some of her costumes. However, there is also reason to believe she really is
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* BiTheWay: Villanelle.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Villanelle, in some of her costumes. However, there is also reason to believe she really is gender non-conforming in some way, because she has the webbed feet only sons do.
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* WickedHeartSymbol: The two characters most associated with hearts are the Queen of Hearts and the flabby cook, who are both at least dubiously evil, with the cook being particularly awful.
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Villanelle herself is a bisexual androgynous young woman from Venice who works at a casino, but is the child of a boatman, with both identities causing her to perform various masquerades, sometimes literally. Her undercover escapades find her becoming obsessed with an older woman -- known as the Queen of Hearts -- who frequents the casino and whom she watches from behind her different identities, eventually starting a brief affair despite the older woman being married. However, she also ends up being married off to an overweight cook and from him being sold to the French soldiers as a service girl. She begins to love Henri, but is explicitly not in love with him and never will be.
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Villanelle herself is a bisexual androgynous young woman from Venice who works at a casino, but is the child of a boatman, with both identities causing her to perform various masquerades, sometimes literally. Her undercover escapades find her becoming obsessed with an older woman -- known as the Queen of Hearts -- who frequents the casino and whom she watches from behind her different identities, eventually starting a brief affair despite the older woman being married. However, she Villanelle also ends up being married off to an overweight cook and from him being sold to the French soldiers as a service girl. She begins to love Henri, but is explicitly not in love with him and never will be.
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* CorruptChurch: Some representations of priests are corrupt, but more generally are just improper, like being course, sexual, and drinking.
* PunnyName: The Queen of Hearts, whom Villanelle meets through a card game and who both literally and figuratively takes Villanelle's heart
* SexEqualsLove: For Henri, yes, as he gives his virginity to Villanelle and promptly falls in love. For Villanelle, though she does have a sexual relationship and child with Henri, does not love him romantically. The erotic moments between Villanelle and the Queen of Hearts are also very chaste and romantic, rather than sexually explicit.
* PunnyName: The Queen of Hearts, whom Villanelle meets through a card game and who both literally and figuratively takes Villanelle's heart
* SexEqualsLove: For Henri, yes, as he gives his virginity to Villanelle and promptly falls in love. For Villanelle, though she does have a sexual relationship and child with Henri, does not love him romantically. The erotic moments between Villanelle and the Queen of Hearts are also very chaste and romantic, rather than sexually explicit.
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''The Passion'' is a 1987 novel by Creator/JeanetteWinterson (''Literature/WrittenOnTheBody'', ''Literature/SexingTheCherry'') told from the perspectives of {{deuteragonist}}s Henri and Villanelle, dealing with obsession as passion.
Henri is a young soldier from rural France who enlists to UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon}}'s army thanks to an obsession with the war hero from folk stories and patriotism. He was raised in the church, but only physically, as his priest's lessons were barely religious except in how it applied to life and love. As scrawny and sarcastic, he is made Napoleon's personal kitchen boy, eventually becoming disillusioned with his hero in favour of an obsession with Villanelle, a dangerous seductress spanning Europe. He murders a mutual enemy of theirs and develops serious mental illness.
Villanelle herself is a bisexual androgynous young woman from Venice who works at a casino, but is the child of a boatman, with both identities causing her to perform various masquerades, sometimes literally. Her undercover escapades find her becoming obsessed with an older woman -- known as the Queen of Hearts -- who frequents the casino and whom she watches from behind her different identities, eventually starting a brief affair despite the older woman being married. However, she also ends up being married off to an overweight cook and from him being sold to the French soldiers as a service girl. She begins to love Henri, but is explicitly not in love with him and never will be.
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''The Passion'' is a 1987 novel by Creator/JeanetteWinterson (''Literature/WrittenOnTheBody'', ''Literature/SexingTheCherry'') told from the perspectives of {{deuteragonist}}s Henri and Villanelle, dealing with obsession as passion.
Henri is a young soldier from rural France who enlists to UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon}}'s army thanks to an obsession with the war hero from folk stories and patriotism. He was raised in the church, but only physically, as his priest's lessons were barely religious except in how it applied to life and love. As scrawny and sarcastic, he is made Napoleon's personal kitchen boy, eventually becoming disillusioned with his hero in favour of an obsession with Villanelle, a dangerous seductress spanning Europe. He murders a mutual enemy of theirs and develops serious mental illness.
Villanelle herself is a bisexual androgynous young woman from Venice who works at a casino, but is the child of a boatman, with both identities causing her to perform various masquerades, sometimes literally. Her undercover escapades find her becoming obsessed with an older woman -- known as the Queen of Hearts -- who frequents the casino and whom she watches from behind her different identities, eventually starting a brief affair despite the older woman being married. However, she also ends up being married off to an overweight cook and from him being sold to the French soldiers as a service girl. She begins to love Henri, but is explicitly not in love with him and never will be.
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