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* NoBiologicalSex: Armstrong is a character with an ambiguous sexual identity. He could be a feminine man. She could be a masculine woman. She never identifies as either and he can pass for either. His hair is cut short, she wears wigs, and long-necked clothing eliminates the possibility of seeing an adam's apple.
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* NoGender: Armstrong is a character with an ambiguous sexual identity. He could be a feminine man. She could be a masculine woman. She never identifies as either and he can pass for either. His hair is cut short, she wears wigs, and long-necked clothing eliminates the possibility of seeing an adam's apple.
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* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: When Margo first shows up she claims to be eighteen. Halfway through the first book she celebrates her ''seventeenth'' birthday.
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* TheArcher: Khynan prefers a Welsh longbow, being a Welsh longbowman. Skeeter prefers the Mongolian recurve of his youth.
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* DropTheHammer: Khynan Rhys Gower prefers a maul for close quarters combat.
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* TheGunslinger: Every time scout more or less by definition. Kit, Malcolm, Margo, and Ann all [[ShowDontTell demonstrate this]].
* Handguns: It's considered poor practice for a time scout not to be proficient with handguns.
* Handguns: It's considered poor practice for a time scout not to be proficient with handguns.
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* ProngsOfPoseidon: Skeeter's given a trident in ''Wagers of Sin''.
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Given that most gates lead to times before automatic and semiautomatic weapons, this just plain sense. Why carry anything but a revolver when nothing but revolvers exist?
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Suberted. It's acknowledged that they have good stopping power at close range, but aren't any good beyond that, unless you're hunting birds. Skeeter's given a shotgun not because it's better, but because he's worse.
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* SufferTheSlings: Corydon, the Greek Hoplite, favors a sling, to great effect.
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* ATasteOfTheLash: Skeeter's training in the Roman arena.
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* TheWildWest: The Denver tour gate. 1885.
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* IdleRich: Prince Albert Victor, AKA "Eddie". This is also Malcolm's cover when he goes to VictorianLondon; he's a landholder in the British Caribbean. It explains his long absences, his idiot friends from America, and the occasional wobble in his accent.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Prince Albert Victor, AKA "Eddie". This is also Malcolm's cover when he goes to VictorianLondon; he's a landholder in the British Caribbean. It explains his long absences, his idiot friends from America, and the occasional wobble in his accent.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Prince Albert Victor, AKA "Eddie""Eddie". This is also Malcolm's cover when he goes to VictorianLondon; he's a landholder in the British Caribbean. It explains his long absences, his idiot friends from America, and the occasional wobble in his accent.
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** {{Precognition}}: Ianira gets visions of the future, usually bad. "It is from uptime the danger comes." Sometimes she falls into involuntary prophetic trances.
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** {{Precognition}}: Ianira gets visions of the future, usually bad. "It is from uptime the danger comes." "
*** FaintingSeer: Sometimes she falls into involuntary prophetictrances.trances that leave her weak, even unconscious.
*** FaintingSeer: Sometimes she falls into involuntary prophetic
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* HeelFaceTurn: Skeeter.
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* MagicAntidote: Lots of SnakeOilSalesmen sell these on Shangri La. Skeeter starts such a scam but gets interrupted. Ianira may just make the real thing. Skeeter's scheme was based on a SacredPool believed to have such properties near Marcus's childhood home.
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* MagicAntidote: Lots of SnakeOilSalesmen [[SnakeOilSalesman Snake Oil Salesmen]] sell these on Shangri La. Skeeter starts such a scam but gets interrupted. Ianira may just make the real thing. Skeeter's scheme was based on a SacredPool believed to have such properties near Marcus's childhood home.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: Poor Prince Eddy.
* BrainWashedAndCrazy: Poor James.
* BrainWashedAndCrazy: Poor James.
* CompellingVoice: One of the magic powers of JackTheRipper, and his primary tool on the path to power.
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* MindControl: One of the magic powers of Jack the Ripper, and his primary tool on the path to power.
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Time advances at equal rates through all gates, so action happening on Shangri La Station is contemporaneous with that happening in "the present".
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* PortalToThePastPortalToThePast: The portals are exactly and explicitly linked. The station schedule for each gate lists three times for each, station time, present time, and past time. Except Primary, which links only the station and the present.
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* SanDimasTime: The portals are exactly and explicitly linked. The station schedule for each gate lists three times for each, station time, present time, and past time. Except Primary, which links only the station and the present.
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** While investigating JackTheRipper's occult connections, the Ripper Watch Team runs into Malcolm's favorite poet, WilliamButlerYeats. He can barely restrain from soiling himself.
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* FantasticSlurs: "A notorious ''intersexual''".
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Reading stars like a clock is portrayed as much more difficult and complex than it actually is.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Occasionally. Particularly glaring is the presence of Aleister Crowley in Victorian London as a Satanist. He was alive, yes, but he was only nine years old.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: AuthorAppeal distorts the depiction of martial arts.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Occasionally. Particularly glaring is the presence of Aleister Crowley in Victorian London as a Satanist. He was alive, yes, but he was only nine years old.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: AuthorAppeal distorts the depiction of martial arts.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: Occasionally. For example, reading stars like a clock is portrayed as much more difficult and complex than it actually is. Some historical facts are mangled, and some personal beliefs about martial arts or guns don't quite play.
** Particularly glaring is the presence of Aleister Crowley in Victorian London as a Satanist. He was alive, yes, but he was only nine years old.
** Particularly glaring is the presence of Aleister Crowley in Victorian London as a Satanist. He was alive, yes, but he was only nine years old.
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* CodeName: It's doubtful that his parents named him Lupus Mortiferus. The book translates it as "The Death Wolf". It's closer to "The Wolf KILLING", which is also appropriate.
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* StageName: It's doubtful that his parents named him Lupus Mortiferus. The book translates it as "The Death Wolf". It's closer to "The Wolf KILLING", which is also appropriate.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Congratulations, Skeeter! You just stood up to a bully! A bully with massive wealth, criminal connections, government power, and a vindictive nature. And you've a checkered past he won't have ''any'' trouble using against you.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Congratulations, Skeeter! You just stood up to a bully! A bully with massive wealth, criminal connections, government power, and a vindictive nature. And you've a checkered past he won't have ''any'' trouble using against you.
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*** Jack the Ripper: [[spoiler:DeadlyDoctor]][[hottip:**:John, not James]], CulturedBadass, CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, LikeABadassOutOfHell[[hottip:**: for a given level of hell. He goes a little crazy... a little '''more''' crazy in Shangri La, comparing it to hell.]], SubmissiveBadass [[hottip:**:James, not John.]]
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*** Jack the Ripper: [[spoiler:DeadlyDoctor]][[hottip:**:John, not James]], CulturedBadass, CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, LikeABadassOutOfHell[[hottip:**: for a given level of hell. He [[LikeABadassOutOfHell Like A Badass Out Of Temporal Water]][[hottip:**:He goes a little crazy... a little '''more''' crazy in Shangri La, comparing it to hell.]], SubmissiveBadass [[hottip:**:James, not John.]]
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* SadisticChoice: Here's your choice, assassin, you can stay here in downtime London where they'll lop your damaged hands off, or you can come home with us and receive the best of modern care and tell us all about your criminal bosses.
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* DamselInDistress: Margo in the first book, Birgitta in the third, Ianira in the third and fourth.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: A time scout prefers to be armed, but he'll use what he can get his hands on. Skeeter and the downtimers aren't afraid to improvise, either, though they have their preferred weapons when they can get their hands on them.
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*** Margo Smith: LittleMissBadass, ActionGirl, HotAmazon, BoobsOfSteel, ActionGirlfriend, DistressedDamsel, TookALevelInBadass, DareToBeBadass
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*** Margo Smith: LittleMissBadass, ActionGirl, HotAmazon, BoobsOfSteel, ActionGirlfriend, DistressedDamsel, TookALevelInBadass, DareToBeBadass
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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Malcolm is occasionally impressed by Margo's ferocity.
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-->But when hunter meets with husband\\
each confirms the other's tale\\
the female of the species\\
is more deadly than the male.
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-->But when hunter meets with husband\\
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the female of the species\\
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Malcolm often has trouble focusing around Margo.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Malcolm often has trouble focusing around Margo. She also tends to cause minor pedestrian traffic jams.
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* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Their first two bouts go to Malcolm. The last two go to Margo. That he, an experienced guide twice her age got manhandled convinces him he hasn't been spending enough time at the gym. That she, too, is spending time there is [[MsFanservice just a bonus]].
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* MsFanservice: Margo loves tight clothes and has BoobsOfSteel.
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* DrowningHisSorrows: Margo eventually muses that his may be part of her father's problem; she has a DeadLittleBrother.
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* EpilepticTrees: Some of the theories about Bloody Jack are really far out there.
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* KarmaHoudini: Jack half gets away with it.
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* VictorianLondon: Many downtime plots take place there. Then. Whatever.
