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* WhamChapter: When Shefali and Shizuka fight their first demon together.
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* InMediasRes: The novel opens with Shizuka as empress, and Shizuka and Shefali already separated. Shefali's epistolary flashbacks tell the story of how this happened.
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* ShoutOut: To AvatarTheLastAirbender. Shizuka references a popular Qian-Lai song called "Four Seasons, Four Loves."
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* ShoutOut: To AvatarTheLastAirbender.WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender. Shizuka references a popular Qian-Lai song called "Four Seasons, Four Loves."
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* InMediasRex: The novel opens with Shizuka as empress, and Shizuka and Shefali already separated. Shefali's epistolary flashbacks tell the story of how this happened.
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* InMediasRex: InMediasRes: The novel opens with Shizuka as empress, and Shizuka and Shefali already separated. Shefali's epistolary flashbacks tell the story of how this happened.
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* TheExile: Shefali between ''The Tiger's Daughter'' and ''The Phoenix Empress''.
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* TheVirus: The blackblood. If a demon or infected's blood mixes with yours, you die in horrible agony over the course of three days, being tormented by demons, and rise as a deformed monster. [[spoiler: unless you are yourself a god. Then it takes a few years.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Shefali can turn into a wolf. Apparently, this is due to her divine nature, not her affliction.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Shefali can turn into a wolf. Apparently, this is due to her divine nature, not her affliction.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: O-Shizuka is the Royal Niece, and later Empress, of Hokkaro, while Shefali is next in line to be Kharsa (warlord) of the Qorin.
* RulingCouple: Shizuka and Shefali, Empress Phoenix and Empress Wolf.
* ScarsAreForever: Shizuka gets one in a duel for her hand in marriage.
* SecondHandStorytelling: Much of the books are flashbacks from Shefali's or Shizuka's perspective, narrated to the other.
* SecretRelationship: Shizuka and Shefali for much of their teenage years, until they marry to prevent Shizuka's uncle from executing Shefali.
* ShoutOut: To AvatarTheLastAirbender. Shizuka references a popular Qian-Lai song called "Four Seasons, Four Loves."
* SingleTargetSexuality: Shefali towards Shizuka.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Young Shizuka.
* StandardRoyalCourt: Complete with conniving nobility.
* TookALevelInBadass: Shefali was already badass, [[spoiler: and then she got the blackblood]].
* [[TurnOutLikeHIsFather Turn Out Like Her Mother]]: Shefali: quiet, badass warrior, Minami-fixated lesbian.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Every single man who goes up against Shizuka in a duel.
* TheVirus: The blackblood. If a demon or infected's blood mixes with yours, you die in horrible agony over the course of three days, being tormented by demons, and rise as a deformed monster. [[spoiler:unless Unless you are yourself a god. Then it takes a few years.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Shefali can turn into a wolf. Apparently, this is due to her divine nature, not heraffliction.affliction.
* WhamChapter: When Shefali and Shizuka fight their first demon together.
* RulingCouple: Shizuka and Shefali, Empress Phoenix and Empress Wolf.
* ScarsAreForever: Shizuka gets one in a duel for her hand in marriage.
* SecondHandStorytelling: Much of the books are flashbacks from Shefali's or Shizuka's perspective, narrated to the other.
* SecretRelationship: Shizuka and Shefali for much of their teenage years, until they marry to prevent Shizuka's uncle from executing Shefali.
* ShoutOut: To AvatarTheLastAirbender. Shizuka references a popular Qian-Lai song called "Four Seasons, Four Loves."
* SingleTargetSexuality: Shefali towards Shizuka.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Young Shizuka.
* StandardRoyalCourt: Complete with conniving nobility.
* TookALevelInBadass: Shefali was already badass, [[spoiler: and then she got the blackblood]].
* [[TurnOutLikeHIsFather Turn Out Like Her Mother]]: Shefali: quiet, badass warrior, Minami-fixated lesbian.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Every single man who goes up against Shizuka in a duel.
* TheVirus: The blackblood. If a demon or infected's blood mixes with yours, you die in horrible agony over the course of three days, being tormented by demons, and rise as a deformed monster. [[spoiler:
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Shefali can turn into a wolf. Apparently, this is due to her divine nature, not her
* WhamChapter: When Shefali and Shizuka fight their first demon together.
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* InMediasRex: The novel opens with Shizuka as empress, and Shizuka and Shefali already separated. Shefali's epistolary flashbacks tell the story of how this happened.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shizuka has shades of this.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Shizuka, who at eight years old is already declaring herself a god destined to go beyond the Wall of Flowers and kill the Traitor God.
* KidsAreCruel: A four-year-old Shefali gets thoroughly beaten by her cousins, who resent her for being half-Hokkaran.
* LittleMissBadass: Both Shizuka and Shefali by age eight.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Shizuka, who at eight years old is already declaring herself a god destined to go beyond the Wall of Flowers and kill the Traitor God.
* KidsAreCruel: A four-year-old Shefali gets thoroughly beaten by her cousins, who resent her for being half-Hokkaran.
* LittleMissBadass: Both Shizuka and Shefali by age eight.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Heavily implied for both Shefali and Shizuka.
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* OfficialCouple: Barsalai Shefali and Minami Shizuka.
* PalsWithJesus: Shefali and Shizuka are literally gods, so everyone who is friends with them is friends with a god.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Shizuka is noted to be very small, and ''very'' good with a sword.
* PalsWithJesus: Shefali and Shizuka are literally gods, so everyone who is friends with them is friends with a god.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Shizuka is noted to be very small, and ''very'' good with a sword.
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* PointOfView: Uncommon in that much of the first book and a good half of the second are written in second person. The first book is largely a letter from Shefali to Shizuka, retelling their past, interspersed with moments set in the present from an adult Shizuka's perspective as she reads the letter. In the second book, Shefali and Shizuka take turns narrating the present-day portions, while the flashbacks are again second person, from Shizuka's perspective as she tells Shefali what transpired during their years apart.
* PraetorianGuard: The Dragon Guard and the Phoenix Guard. Which serve as bodyguards to the throne and which serve throughout the greater empire depends on whether an emperor or empress holds the throne.
* ReligionIsMagic: All notable magic powers seem to belong specifically and exclusively to those born as gods every few generations (e.g., Shizuka is immune to heat and fire and can make plants grow, Shefali can shapeshift into a wolf and generate cold, the Traitor [[spoiler:has mind control powers]]).
* PraetorianGuard: The Dragon Guard and the Phoenix Guard. Which serve as bodyguards to the throne and which serve throughout the greater empire depends on whether an emperor or empress holds the throne.
* ReligionIsMagic: All notable magic powers seem to belong specifically and exclusively to those born as gods every few generations (e.g., Shizuka is immune to heat and fire and can make plants grow, Shefali can shapeshift into a wolf and generate cold, the Traitor [[spoiler:has mind control powers]]).
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* AnimalMotif: Shefali with wolves.
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* AnimalMotif: Shefali with wolves.wolves [[labelnote:Spoiler]]Qorin myth claims humans and wolves are related; she can shapeshift into a wolf, is named Empress Wolf by Shizuka (who doesn't know about the shapeshifting), and gains several wolf-like features in her human form, such as claws, pointed teeth, and an excellent sense of smell.[[/labelnote]]. Foxes around Shizuka [[labelnote: Spoilers]]Her ancestor, Minami Shiori, saved the first emperor from a Fox Woman, an ancestral ghost (probably of Minami Shiori) appears to her in a fox mask, and her wife uses a fox-faced war mask to conceal her affliction.[[/labelnote]].
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* ObliviousToLove: Mutually, between Shizuka and Shefali. Shizuka doesn't put two and two together about Shefali taking Shizuka riding on her horse, despite that being something only married couples do in Qorin culture, even after years living with the Qorin; Shefali doesn't notice the significance of Shizuka, who has powers that let her heat things and start fires at will, constantly claiming she's cold in order to snuggle with Shefali.
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* ObliviousToLove: Mutually, between Shizuka and Shefali. Shizuka doesn't put two and two together about Shefali taking Shizuka riding on her horse, despite that being something only married couples do in Qorin culture, even after years living with the Qorin; Shefali doesn't notice the significance of Shizuka, who has powers that let her heat things and start fires at will, constantly claiming she's cold in order to snuggle with Shefali. [[TheyDo They work it out eventually.]]
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: What the blackblood eventually does to people (well, if they count as people after the blackblood's got to them). [[spoiler: Shefali also struggles with avoiding this]]
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* [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordswoman]]: Shizuka. Also her mother. And their legendary ancestor, Minami Shiori.
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* ArcherArchetype: Shefali is so good with a bow that she never misses if she doesn't want to. Even in the dark. Even ''blindfolded''
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* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Shizuka can cut or dodge arrows out of the air by book 2 despite not seeing the archer or knowing anyone was going to shoot at her. Apparently training with someone with ImprobableAimingSkills pays off.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Shefali is so good with a bow that she never misses if she doesn't want to. Even in the dark. Even ''blindfolded''. Being a god helps.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Shefali is so good with a bow that she never misses if she doesn't want to. Even in the dark. Even ''blindfolded''. Being a god helps.
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* Ain'tNoRule: That says a marriage between two women isn't valid in Hokkaro. Specifically, such marriages are valid and legal (although non-practiced) in Xian-Lai, and no-one ever bothered to make them illegal throughout the rest of the Empire. [[spoiler: this means that Shizuka and Shefali's marriage is completely legal, and thus Shefali is a member of the Imperial Family and cannot be executed]]
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* LoopholeAbuse: There's no law says a marriage between two women isn't valid in Hokkaro. Specifically, such marriages are valid and legal (although non-practiced) in Xian-Lai, and no-one ever bothered to make them illegal throughout the rest of the Empire. [[spoiler: this means that Shizuka and Shefali's marriage is completely legal, and thus Shefali is a member of the Imperial Family and cannot be executed]]
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* Ain'tNoLaw: That says a marriage between two women isn't valid in Hokkaro. Specifically, such marriages are valid and legal (although non-practiced) in Xian-Lai, and no-one ever bothered to make them illegal throughout the rest of the Empire. [[spoiler: this means that Shizuka and Shefali's marriage is completely legal, and thus Shefali is a member of the Imperial Family and cannot be executed]]
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* Ain'tNoLaw: Ain'tNoRule: That says a marriage between two women isn't valid in Hokkaro. Specifically, such marriages are valid and legal (although non-practiced) in Xian-Lai, and no-one ever bothered to make them illegal throughout the rest of the Empire. [[spoiler: this means that Shizuka and Shefali's marriage is completely legal, and thus Shefali is a member of the Imperial Family and cannot be executed]]
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* Ain'tNoLaw: That says a marriage between two women isn't valid in Hokkaro. Specifically, such marriages are valid and legal (although non-practiced) in Xian-Lai, and no-one ever bothered to make them illegal throughout the rest of the Empire. [[spoiler: this means that Shizuka and Shefali's marriage is completely legal, and thus Shefali is a member of the Imperial Family and cannot be executed]]
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Everything about Minami Shizuru and Tumenbayar is true, to an extent. [[spoiler: Even what's contradictory is true, because what's true is that Minami Shizuru and Tumenbayar were real women, and their godhood eclipsed their real lives.]]
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Everything about Minami Shizuru Shiori and Tumenbayar is true, to an extent. [[spoiler: Even what's contradictory is true, because what's true is that Minami Shizuru Shiori and Tumenbayar were real women, and their godhood eclipsed their real lives.]]
* AnIcePerson: Shefali apparently has these powers [[spoiler: in addition to her shapeshifting and the blackblood]]
* ArcherArchetype: Shefali is so good with a bow that she never misses if she doesn't want to. Even in the dark. Even ''blindfolded''
* ArcherArchetype: Shefali is so good with a bow that she never misses if she doesn't want to. Even in the dark. Even ''blindfolded''
* BadassGay: Shizuka, Shefali, [[spoiler: Burqila Alshara, possibly Dorbentei Otgar as well]].
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Hokkaro at large is Japan, Hanjeon is Korea, Qian Lai is Han China, and Qorin is Mongolia.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Hokkaro at large is Japan, Hanjeon is Korea, Qian Lai Xian-Lai is Han China, and Qorin is Mongolia.
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* TheHighQueen: Yui Minami O-Shizuka
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* TheHighQueen: Yui Minami O-ShizukaO-Shizuka
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: What the blackblood eventually does to people (well, if they count as people after the blackblood's got to them). [[spoiler: Shefali also struggles with avoiding this]]
* PlayingWithFire: Shizuka never gets cold, doesn't ever need to worry about being burned, can start fires, and can [[FlamingSword set her blade on fire]]
* TheVirus: The blackblood. If a demon or infected's blood mixes with yours, you die in horrible agony over the course of three days, being tormented by demons, and rise as a deformed monster. [[spoiler: unless you are yourself a god. Then it takes a few years.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Shefali can turn into a wolf. Apparently, this is due to her divine nature, not her affliction.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: What the blackblood eventually does to people (well, if they count as people after the blackblood's got to them). [[spoiler: Shefali also struggles with avoiding this]]
* PlayingWithFire: Shizuka never gets cold, doesn't ever need to worry about being burned, can start fires, and can [[FlamingSword set her blade on fire]]
* TheVirus: The blackblood. If a demon or infected's blood mixes with yours, you die in horrible agony over the course of three days, being tormented by demons, and rise as a deformed monster. [[spoiler: unless you are yourself a god. Then it takes a few years.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Shefali can turn into a wolf. Apparently, this is due to her divine nature, not her affliction.
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* AuthorAppeal: K Arsenault Rivera is an admitted huge fan of east Asian culture and Japanese anime in particular, and RevolutionaryGirlUtena was a huge inspiration for her.
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* AuthorAppeal: K Arsenault Rivera is an admitted huge fan of east Asian culture and Japanese anime in particular, and RevolutionaryGirlUtena Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena was a huge inspiration for her.
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* BunnyEarsLawer: Sakura is a former prostitute of noble lineage who wanted to learn how to read.....and goes on to become one of the most scholarly characters of the series. But she can never make her robes match because she doesn't care about what the rules of fashion are.
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* BunnyEarsLawer: BunnyEarsLawyer: Sakura is a former prostitute of noble lineage who wanted to learn how to read.....and goes on to become one of the most scholarly characters of the series. But she can never make her robes match because she doesn't care about what the rules of fashion are.
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* FantasyPantheon: An interesting case in that even the main characters claim to me gods. [[spoiler: The deities appear to all be mortals with godly souls. It's speculated by the characters that the world's past gods were all deified mortals who sought some sort of claim over their powers, and that all of the gods in the past were people just like them.]]
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* FantasyPantheon: An interesting case in that even the main characters claim to me be gods. [[spoiler: The deities appear to all be mortals with godly souls. It's speculated by the characters that the world's past gods were all deified mortals who sought some sort of claim over their powers, and that all of the gods in the past were people just like them.]]
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]]
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: There's an undercurrent of this to Shizuka's reign before [[spoiler: she reunites with Shefali]]. She's not a bad queen, but her servants fear her.
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: There's an undercurrent of this to Shizuka's reign before [[spoiler: she reunites with Shefali]]. She's not a bad queen, but her servants fear her.her.
* HappilyMarried: Shefali and Shizuka.
* TheHighQueen: Yui Minami O-Shizuka
* HappilyMarried: Shefali and Shizuka.
* TheHighQueen: Yui Minami O-Shizuka
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* FantasyPantheon: An interesting case in that even the main characters claim to me gods. [[spoiler: The deities appear to all be mortals with godly souls. It's speculated by the characters that the world's past gods were all deified mortals who sought some sort of claim over their powers, and that all of the gods in the past were people just like them.]]
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* FantasyPantheon: An interesting case in that even the main characters claim to me gods. [[spoiler: The deities appear to all be mortals with godly souls. It's speculated by the characters that the world's past gods were all deified mortals who sought some sort of claim over their powers, and that all of the gods in the past were people just like them.]]]]
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The very beginning of ''The Tiger's Daughter'' reveals that Shizuka is the empress, long before we learn how she even came to the throne.
* FourStarBadass: Burqila Alshara and Minami Shizuru both.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: There's an undercurrent of this to Shizuka's reign before [[spoiler: she reunites with Shefali]]. She's not a bad queen, but her servants fear her.
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The very beginning of ''The Tiger's Daughter'' reveals that Shizuka is the empress, long before we learn how she even came to the throne.
* FourStarBadass: Burqila Alshara and Minami Shizuru both.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: There's an undercurrent of this to Shizuka's reign before [[spoiler: she reunites with Shefali]]. She's not a bad queen, but her servants fear her.
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The second book, ''The Phoenix Empress'', picks up where ''The Tiger's Daughter'' left off, reuniting Shefali and O-Shizuka, and diving into O-Shizuka's story of what happened to her while they were separated while also progressing the present-day narrative of Shizuka's fight against her affliction.
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The second book, ''The Phoenix Empress'', picks up where ''The Tiger's Daughter'' left off, reuniting Shefali and O-Shizuka, and diving into O-Shizuka's story of what happened to her while they were separated while also progressing the present-day narrative of Shizuka's Shefali's fight against her affliction.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shizuka trying to strangle Shefali.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shizuka trying to strangle Shefali.Shefali certainly establishes Shizuka as being uncontrollable.
* EveryoneIsRelated: [[spoiler: The Traitor is the first Emperor, Shizuka's ancestor.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After ascending to the throne, Shizuka begins wearing more traditional attire, including how she wears her hair and how she shapes her eyebrows.
* FantasticSlurs: Ricetongue, for Hokkarans.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Hokkaro at large is Japan, Hanjeon is Korea, Qian Lai is Han China, and Qorin is Mongolia.
* FantasyPantheon: An interesting case in that even the main characters claim to me gods. [[spoiler: The deities appear to all be mortals with godly souls. It's speculated by the characters that the world's past gods were all deified mortals who sought some sort of claim over their powers, and that all of the gods in the past were people just like them.]]
* EveryoneIsRelated: [[spoiler: The Traitor is the first Emperor, Shizuka's ancestor.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After ascending to the throne, Shizuka begins wearing more traditional attire, including how she wears her hair and how she shapes her eyebrows.
* FantasticSlurs: Ricetongue, for Hokkarans.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Hokkaro at large is Japan, Hanjeon is Korea, Qian Lai is Han China, and Qorin is Mongolia.
* FantasyPantheon: An interesting case in that even the main characters claim to me gods. [[spoiler: The deities appear to all be mortals with godly souls. It's speculated by the characters that the world's past gods were all deified mortals who sought some sort of claim over their powers, and that all of the gods in the past were people just like them.]]
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]].
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]].Airbender]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Read the first two books and try to convince yourself the third is going to be okay. This series is depressing. The only thing we have going for us is that it's a queer author who hopefully wants to subvert BuryYourGays.
* EasilyForgiven: Shizuka tried to strangle Shefali as a child and no one seems to care so long as she apologizes.
* TheEmpire: Hokkaro and Her Children.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shizuka trying to strangle Shefali.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Read the first two books and try to convince yourself the third is going to be okay. This series is depressing. The only thing we have going for us is that it's a queer author who hopefully wants to subvert BuryYourGays.
* EasilyForgiven: Shizuka tried to strangle Shefali as a child and no one seems to care so long as she apologizes.
* TheEmpire: Hokkaro and Her Children.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Shizuka trying to strangle Shefali.
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender]].
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender]].[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last Airbender]].
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to [[Animation/AvatarTheLastAirbender]].
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to [[Animation/AvatarTheLastAirbender]].[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender]].
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to AvatarTheLastAirbender.
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* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to AvatarTheLastAirbender.[[Animation/AvatarTheLastAirbender]].
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* BrokenBird: Shizuka, in ''The Phoenix Empress''.
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* BrokenBird: Shizuka, in ''The Phoenix Empress''.Empress''.
* BunnyEarsLawer: Sakura is a former prostitute of noble lineage who wanted to learn how to read.....and goes on to become one of the most scholarly characters of the series. But she can never make her robes match because she doesn't care about what the rules of fashion are.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Shizuka ascending the Phoenix Throne.
* CosmicPlaything: It's very subtly hinted that many gods are yanking at Shefali's leads.
* CourtlyLove: O-Itsuki wrote to O-Shizuru in his famous style before she agreed to marry him.
* CultureClash: Shizuka, raised pampered among the Hokkarans, must learn to look after herself among the Qorin.
* DanceOfRomance: In ''The Phoenix Empress''. Apparently Shizuka is a terrible dancer, but Shefali loves dancing with her anyway.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Shizuka comes off to the reader this way, during ''The Tiger's Daughter''. Initially a haughty empress, reading Shefali's letters slowly deconstructs Shizuka for the reader, so she becomes less the frosty empress and more a woman alone.
* {{Determinator}}: Shefali
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Whatever affliction Shefali is suffering is usually referred to as "[the/my/her] affliction". It has no correspondence to any actual disease.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The Emperor hates his niece. [[spoiler: So he conspires with a Demon General to have her killed and has her raise an army of peasants and sends her off to war.]]
* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to AvatarTheLastAirbender.
* BunnyEarsLawer: Sakura is a former prostitute of noble lineage who wanted to learn how to read.....and goes on to become one of the most scholarly characters of the series. But she can never make her robes match because she doesn't care about what the rules of fashion are.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Shizuka ascending the Phoenix Throne.
* CosmicPlaything: It's very subtly hinted that many gods are yanking at Shefali's leads.
* CourtlyLove: O-Itsuki wrote to O-Shizuru in his famous style before she agreed to marry him.
* CultureClash: Shizuka, raised pampered among the Hokkarans, must learn to look after herself among the Qorin.
* DanceOfRomance: In ''The Phoenix Empress''. Apparently Shizuka is a terrible dancer, but Shefali loves dancing with her anyway.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Shizuka comes off to the reader this way, during ''The Tiger's Daughter''. Initially a haughty empress, reading Shefali's letters slowly deconstructs Shizuka for the reader, so she becomes less the frosty empress and more a woman alone.
* {{Determinator}}: Shefali
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Whatever affliction Shefali is suffering is usually referred to as "[the/my/her] affliction". It has no correspondence to any actual disease.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The Emperor hates his niece. [[spoiler: So he conspires with a Demon General to have her killed and has her raise an army of peasants and sends her off to war.]]
* EarWorm: A classic Qian-Lai song is "Four Seasons, Four Loves," which is also coincidentally a ShoutOut to AvatarTheLastAirbender.
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* TheAlcoholic: After everything Shizuka endured, between losing her wife and suffering through war, she's developed an addiction.
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* TheAlcoholic: After everything Shizuka endured, between losing her wife and suffering through war, she's developed an addiction.addiction.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Everything about Minami Shizuru and Tumenbayar is true, to an extent. [[spoiler: Even what's contradictory is true, because what's true is that Minami Shizuru and Tumenbayar were real women, and their godhood eclipsed their real lives.]]
* AnimalMotif: Shefali with wolves.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Shefali loses her eye to the demons.]]
* AuthorAppeal: K Arsenault Rivera is an admitted huge fan of east Asian culture and Japanese anime in particular, and RevolutionaryGirlUtena was a huge inspiration for her.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler: Unfortunately Shizuka is drunk for most of it]].
* BadassArmy: The Bronze Army and the peasant army of Xian-lai.
* BadassBoast: Thy name is Minami Shizuka.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Whatever is going on with the Traitor's lands is decidedly this.
* BlueBlood: Shefali is the daughter of the Kharsa, or horselord, of the Qorin people, and O-Shizuka is heir to the emperor's throne.
* BodyMotifs: Eyes, in ''The Tiger's Daughter''.
* BornInTheSaddle: Shefali is a daughter of the Qorin, a nomadic horse tribe, and has known how to ride a horse since she could walk.
* BreakTheCutie: What Shefali and Shizuka go through is absolutely anguishing.
* BrokenBird: Shizuka, in ''The Phoenix Empress''.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Everything about Minami Shizuru and Tumenbayar is true, to an extent. [[spoiler: Even what's contradictory is true, because what's true is that Minami Shizuru and Tumenbayar were real women, and their godhood eclipsed their real lives.]]
* AnimalMotif: Shefali with wolves.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Shefali loses her eye to the demons.]]
* AuthorAppeal: K Arsenault Rivera is an admitted huge fan of east Asian culture and Japanese anime in particular, and RevolutionaryGirlUtena was a huge inspiration for her.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler: Unfortunately Shizuka is drunk for most of it]].
* BadassArmy: The Bronze Army and the peasant army of Xian-lai.
* BadassBoast: Thy name is Minami Shizuka.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Whatever is going on with the Traitor's lands is decidedly this.
* BlueBlood: Shefali is the daughter of the Kharsa, or horselord, of the Qorin people, and O-Shizuka is heir to the emperor's throne.
* BodyMotifs: Eyes, in ''The Tiger's Daughter''.
* BornInTheSaddle: Shefali is a daughter of the Qorin, a nomadic horse tribe, and has known how to ride a horse since she could walk.
* BreakTheCutie: What Shefali and Shizuka go through is absolutely anguishing.
* BrokenBird: Shizuka, in ''The Phoenix Empress''.
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''Their Bright Ascendancy'' is a series by newcomer K Aresenault Rivera set in a fictional fantasy world [[FantasyCounterpartCulture inspired by East Asia]]. O-Shizuka is empress of Hokkaro, and as a child she was bound by fate to Shefali, the daughter of the leader of the nomadic Qorin people. Both of them were bound with two pine needles marking their brows, and both of them are destined to be gods.
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''Their Bright Ascendancy'' is a series by newcomer K Aresenault Rivera set in a fictional fantasy world [[FantasyCounterpartCulture inspired by East Asia]]. O-Shizuka is the privileged empress of Hokkaro, and as a child she was bound by fate to Shefali, the quiet daughter of the leader of the nomadic Qorin people. Both of them were bound born with two pine needles marking their brows, and both of them are destined to be gods.gods. North of Hokkaro is the Wall of Flowers, the only thing keeping the Traitor God from invading into the land of the living, and whatever else happens, it is Shizuka and Shefali's fate to go north and face him. While it is a fantasy epic, it is primarily a love story between the two women.
The first book, ''The Tiger's Daughter'', is a hybrid-epistolary novel that tells the story of how Shefali and O-Shizula met and became friends and, eventually, lovers, told through a letter written by Shefali to Shizuka, now Empress many years after they last parted.
The second book, ''The Phoenix Empress'', picks up where ''The Tiger's Daughter'' left off, reuniting Shefali and O-Shizuka, and diving into O-Shizuka's story of what happened to her while they were separated while also progressing the present-day narrative of Shizuka's fight against her affliction.
The two main books in the series are
* ''The Tiger's Daughter''
* ''The Phoenix Empress''
A short story was published along with ''The Tiger's Daughter'', and more short stories are forthcoming
* ''An Excerpt from the Poet Prince, O-Itsuki's Unfinished Memoir''
* ''The Warrior Moon'' (forthcoming)
* ''Sixteen Swords'' (forthcoming)
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* AgentPeacock: Shizuka's childhood imperial nickname is the "Peacock Princess".
* TheAlcoholic: After everything Shizuka endured, between losing her wife and suffering through war, she's developed an addiction.
The first book, ''The Tiger's Daughter'', is a hybrid-epistolary novel that tells the story of how Shefali and O-Shizula met and became friends and, eventually, lovers, told through a letter written by Shefali to Shizuka, now Empress many years after they last parted.
The second book, ''The Phoenix Empress'', picks up where ''The Tiger's Daughter'' left off, reuniting Shefali and O-Shizuka, and diving into O-Shizuka's story of what happened to her while they were separated while also progressing the present-day narrative of Shizuka's fight against her affliction.
The two main books in the series are
* ''The Tiger's Daughter''
* ''The Phoenix Empress''
A short story was published along with ''The Tiger's Daughter'', and more short stories are forthcoming
* ''An Excerpt from the Poet Prince, O-Itsuki's Unfinished Memoir''
* ''The Warrior Moon'' (forthcoming)
* ''Sixteen Swords'' (forthcoming)
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* AgentPeacock: Shizuka's childhood imperial nickname is the "Peacock Princess".
* TheAlcoholic: After everything Shizuka endured, between losing her wife and suffering through war, she's developed an addiction.
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''Their Bright Ascendancy'' is a series by newcomer K Aresenault Rivera set in a fictional fantasy world [[FantasyCounterpartCulture inspired by East Asia]]. O-Shizuka is empress of Hokkaro, and as a child she was bound by fate to Shefali, the daughter of the leader of the nomadic Qorin people. Both of them were bound with two pine needles marking their brows, and both of them are destined to be gods.
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''Their Bright Ascendancy'' is a series by newcomer K Aresenault Rivera set in a fictional fantasy world [[FantasyCounterpartCulture inspired by East Asia]]. O-Shizuka is empress of Hokkaro, and as a child she was bound by fate to Shefali, the daughter of the leader of the nomadic Qorin people. Both of them were bound with two pine needles marking their brows, and both of them are destined to be gods.
