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* ComingOfAgeStory: The first book for Shizuka and Shefali.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Demons and blackbloods. [[spoiler: They are this way because the Traitor's control over their minds wills them to be what he wants.]]
* ChillyReception: Shefali receives one any time she's among the Hokkarans.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The demons all refer to Shefali by the name "Steel-Eye" even from a young age. It's made apparent much later what that means.
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* LIsForDyslexia: Shefali is heavily implied to have some form of Dyslexia, being unable to read Hokkaran/Xianese characters and having some trouble writing Qorin ones. Her cousin Otgar has to read and transcribe her childhood correspondence with Shizuka for her. Later, she and Shizuka work out how to write Hokkaran phonetically using the Qorin alphabet, which means she can actually write. This makes fact that she took the time and difficulty to write Shizuka the letter that makes up much of the first book all the more affecting.
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* LIsForDyslexia: Shefali is heavily implied to have some form of Dyslexia, dyslexia, being unable to read Hokkaran/Xianese characters and having some trouble writing Qorin ones. Her cousin Otgar has to read and transcribe her childhood correspondence with Shizuka for her. Later, she and Shizuka work out how to write Hokkaran phonetically using the Qorin alphabet, which means she can actually write. This makes fact that she took the time and difficulty to write Shizuka the letter that makes up much of the first book all the more affecting.
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* [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba And I'm The Queen Of Sheba]]: Shizuka is prone to this when anyone insults Shefali or the Qorin. She doesn't need to state her title most times, as most people already know who she is, but when some traveling guards don't recognize her and don't take her oath of honor that the Qorin won't harm anyone at face value, she puts them soundly in their place.
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** Lai Baozhai is a more conventional example, even before she actually gets the title of Queen.
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* OneHeadTaller: UpToEleven; Shefali is, according to WordOfGod, at least a ''foot'' taller than Shizuka. Shizuka states at one point that Shefali can, when Shizuka's in the saddle of her horse, kiss her without taking a foot off the ground.
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* SuperStrength: [[spoiler: The Blackblood]] gives Shefali this. It's enough to [[spoiler: tear humans and demons apart]] or pick Shizuka up with one hand.
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* AwesomeEgo: Shizuka. Even ''her wife'' describes her as amazingly arrogant. She gets less arrogant [[TheWoobie (and more troubled)]] by the present timeline, but she's still very cocky in public.
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* ComfortingTheWidow: How [[spoiler: Otgar and Alshara's relationship is implied to have started. PlayedWith in that Alshara wasn't actually Shizuru's widow, but ''was'' deeply in love with her, and that Otgar didn't know Shizuru at all. Also, [[{{Squick}} Otgar is Alshara's niece.]] ]]
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* TragicKeepsake: Burqila Alshara keeps a hank of Minami Shizuru (Shizuka's mother)'s hair inside her deel. Alshara was in love with Shizuru, who married the prince of Hokkaro, and keeps the hair even after Shizuru dies. Qorin believe that someone's soul is carried in their scent, so Alshara keeps a piece of Shizuru's soul with her.
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* IncestIsRelative: Midway through ''The tiger's Daughter'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: Burqila Alshara is sleeping with her niece, Dorbentei Otgar. Otgar is the same age as Alshara's son, and it's implied this relationship has been going on for three years or so. Shefali, Alshara's daughter and Otgar's cousin, is majorly squicked out, especially since [[SecretRelationship they don't appear to have told anyone]]. ]]
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* TheDreaded: Burqila Alshara is explicitly named the most dreaded woman in all Hokkaro. Many, even among her own people, call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Destroyer]]
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* HighClassCallGirl: Ren is a [[UnusualEuphemism Singing Girl]], noted to have the nicest house in her village. Once she moves to Fujino she runs an entire establishment of these.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Ren, although her heart of gold is only really towards Shefali.
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* TheDreaded: Burqila Alshara is explicitly named the most dreaded woman in all Hokkaro. Many, even among her own people, call her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Destroyer]]
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* IKnowYourTrueName: You must speak a Demon's name and then cut off its head to kill it permanently. If you don't speak the name, it will rise again later. Luckily, Shefali and Shizuka's divine nature gives them knowledge of demon's names: Shefali just knows, and Shizuka sees their name in glowing characters in the air around them.
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* AttackpatternAlpha: Most military formations in both Hokkaran and Xianese forces have names; learning which ones are best for which situations is a big part of Shizuka's growth as a commander.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Burqila Alshara was already the daughter of a clan chief, but she became Kharsa by beating everyone who challenged her.
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* TheExile: Poor Shefali is exiled ''twice''. First when [[spoiler: she loses control and tears a group of bandits apart]], her mother exiles her from her clan and the Qorin people (a fate usually reserved for horrible criminals and kinslayers) and again when [[spoiler: she kills a demon in front of the Emperor with her bare hands]]. This second one is a step down from [[spoiler: the execution that would otherwise have happened]], but it's still on the condition that Shefali [[TheQuest retrieve a Phoenix feather]], which takes her the fill time between ''The Tiger's Daughter'' then and ''The Phoenix Empress''.the 'present' timeline.
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* TheGreatWall: The series has ''two'': the Wall of Stone, based on the Chinese Great Wall, between Hokkaro and the steppes where the Qorin live in the east, and the Wall of Flowers in the North, raised by a goddess to keep demons and blackbloods out. [[spoiler: The Wall of Flowers slowly fails across the series, but Shizuka raises a new one]]
* GreenThumb: The other major part of Shizuka's powers. She can grow whichever plants she wants wherever she wants, with flowers, herbs, and plum trees all being seen. [[spoiler: it's due to being a reincarnation of whichever living god raised the first Wall of Flowers, a feat she replicates in ''The Phoenix Empress''.]]
* HappilyMarried: Shefali andShizuka.Shizuka have their disagreements and difficulties, but they're very much in love and happy to be married.
* GreenThumb: The other major part of Shizuka's powers. She can grow whichever plants she wants wherever she wants, with flowers, herbs, and plum trees all being seen. [[spoiler: it's due to being a reincarnation of whichever living god raised the first Wall of Flowers, a feat she replicates in ''The Phoenix Empress''.]]
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* MeaningfulRename: When Shefali [[spoiler: is exiled due to the blackblood]], her mother renames her Barsalyya Shefali Alshar. Barsalyya is contrasted with her previous name: where Barsalai means 'Tiger-Striped', Barsalyya means [[TitleDrop 'The Tiger's Daughter']]. This is especially hurtful, since the 'yya' prefix is a matronymic, meaning Shefali has been stripped of the right to formally be called Alshara's daughter, and thus essentially disowned.
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* MeaningfulRename: When Shefali [[spoiler: is exiled due to the blackblood]], her mother renames her Barsalyya Shefali Alshar. Barsalyya is contrasted with her previous name: where Barsalai means 'Tiger-Striped', Barsalyya means [[TitleDrop 'The Tiger's Daughter']]. This is especially hurtful, since the 'yya' prefix is a matronymic, meaning Shefali has been stripped of the right to formally be called Alshara's daughter, and thus essentially disowned. [[spoiler: when she returns, she gets a MeaningfulRename ''back'' to Barsalai Shefali Alsharyya]]
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Poor Shefali has her left eye torn out by a demon. She gets it replaced by a steel one, but still]]
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* MeaningfulName: Qorin are given a second name when they become adults and it usually reflects their deeds or personality; Shefali's is Barsalai, meaning 'tiger-striped', because she slew a tiger at age eight. Shizuka also has one; it's Barsatoq, meaning 'Tiger-Thief', because the Qorin consider she [[KillSteal stole Shefali's kill]].
* MeaningfulRename: When Shefali [[spoiler: is exiled due to the blackblood]], her mother renames her Barsalyya Shefali Alshar. Barsalyya is contrasted with her previous name: where Barsalai means 'Tiger-Striped', Barsalyya means [[TitleDrop 'The Tiger's Daughter']]. This is especially hurtful, since the 'yya' prefix is a matronymic, meaning Shefali has been stripped of the right to formally be called Alshara's daughter, and thus essentially disowned.
* MeaningfulRename: When Shefali [[spoiler: is exiled due to the blackblood]], her mother renames her Barsalyya Shefali Alshar. Barsalyya is contrasted with her previous name: where Barsalai means 'Tiger-Striped', Barsalyya means [[TitleDrop 'The Tiger's Daughter']]. This is especially hurtful, since the 'yya' prefix is a matronymic, meaning Shefali has been stripped of the right to formally be called Alshara's daughter, and thus essentially disowned.
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* CheerfulChild: Lai Baoyi is ''very'' cheerful and ''very'' cute.
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* CunningLinguist: While Dorbentei is a capable warrior, this is her true value to the Burqila clan. Not only can she read and write both Qorin and Hokkaran by the age of ten, she can interpret Burqila Alshara's sign language (which even Alshara's daughter can't do), and can speak several other languages, including one that ''she's never met a speaker of''. Unlike many other Qorin warriors, who wear braids for their deeds in battle, Dorbentei wears a braid for each language she speaks.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Both oldest-child and youngest-child forms are present in Shefali and Kenshiro's family. The terms of the peace treaty that arranged the marriage between Alshara (their mother) and Oshiro Yuichi (their father) specified that the older child would be raised Hokkaran and inherit Oshiro province, while the younger would be raised Qorin and inherit the title of Kharsa (fantasy Khan, which Alshara renounced as part of the treaty). While neither parent seems to particularly dislike the child that isn't 'theirs', they both clearly favour one, and become estranged from the other. [[spoiler: Their father also comes to Shefali's aid at the end of ''The Tiger's Daughter'' by confirming that Shefali's marriage to Shizuka is legal and thus she can't be executed - while omitting the point that, since the marriage is unconsummated, the Emperor could have it voided]]
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* ParentalFavoritism: Both oldest-child and youngest-child forms are present in Shefali and Kenshiro's family. The terms of the peace treaty that arranged the marriage between Alshara (their mother) and Oshiro Yuichi (their father) specified that the older child would be raised Hokkaran and inherit Oshiro province, while the younger would be raised Qorin and inherit the title of Kharsa (fantasy Khan, which Alshara renounced as part of the treaty). While neither parent seems to particularly dislike the child that isn't 'theirs', they both clearly favour one, and become estranged from the other. [[spoiler: Their father also does comes to Shefali's aid at the end of ''The Tiger's Daughter'' by confirming that Shefali's marriage to Shizuka is legal and thus she can't be executed - while omitting the point that, since the marriage is unconsummated, the Emperor could have it voided]]voided.]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: Alshara arranges her own marriage as part of a peace treaty; her and her husband see each other for long enough to have two children and that's it. Shizuka spends much of her teenage years trying to avoid one.
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* TheStoic: Shefali's pretty stoic, being pretty quiet and reserved when she's not around Shizuka and not speaking much. Her mother takes it UpToEleven with a vow of silence that she's only broken a handful of times.
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* TheHighQueen: Yui Minami O-ShizukaO-Shizuka is an interesting aversion. She has almost all of the qualities of TheHighQueen, except the calm demeanor. She's attempted to cultivate it as an affect, but at her heart Empress Yui is hot-headed, tempestuous, and demanding. But her demeanor aside, Shizuka is good and bright, spreads hope to the people around her, connects to others easily, fights for everything that is good and right in the world, and generally otherwise fits the trope of The High Queen.
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* GenerationXerox: Barsalai Shefali, the silent and terrifying Qorin, so much like her mother, Burqila Alshara. Minami Shizuka, the hot-headed, impetuous lady warrior, so much like her mother, Minami Shizuru.
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* FamedInStory: Shefali notes people are retelling stories of the legendary Tumenabayar with Shefali as the protagonist.
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-->''"I am always sure."''
-->''"I am always sure."''
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* BreachingTheWall: Before the start of the series, Shefali's mother, Burqila Alshara, used Dragon's Fire explosives to blast holes in the Wall of Stone and invade Hokkaro.
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* BigEater: Shefali was one [[spoiler: until the blackblood]].
* TheBigDamnKiss: The first time Shefali and Shizuka kiss.
* BizarreAlienSenses: As a blackblood, [[spoiler: Shefali]] can smell people's histories and personal backgrounds.
* BigEater: Shefali was one [[spoiler: until the blackblood]].
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* BadassLongcoat: The Qorin, technically, if you want to get creative in how you describe what a deel is.
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Shefali towards Shizuka.
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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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