History Literature / WindOnFire

* InLoveWithTheMark: Ortiz falls in love with Kestrel [[spoiler: and is ultimately ordered to kill her by the Master. He struggles against it, before Mumpo takes him out.]]
* LoveDodecahedron: In ''Slaves of the Mastery'' Pinto has a crush on Mumpo, who is pining for Kestrel. At the same time, Zohon is obsessed with Sisi who is engaged to Oritz but in love with Bowman, while Oritz falls for Kestrel. Bowman and Kestrel in the middle of this are just trying to get back to each other and save their people. [[spoiler: Ultimately Mumpo/Pinto and Bowman/Sisi get together, while Kestrel goes off to save the world, and Oritz and Zohon are got rid of.]]

* MindOverMatter: What Bowman's Singer training involves, for example using his mind to cut into wood by imagining it as a softer substance. [[spoiler: Kestrel also shows a knack for it.]]

* CluelessChickMagnet: Bowman and Kestrel -- at least when it comes to Sisi. Vice versa in the Kestrel and [[spoiler:Ortiz]] scenario. She's not just clueless -- she's totally oblivious.

* LoveDodecahedron: In ''"Slaves of the Mastery"'' Pinto has a crush on Mumpo, who is pining for Kestrel. At the same time, Zohon is obsessed with Sisi who is engaged to Oritz but in love with Bowman, while Oritz falls for Kestrel. Bowman and Kestrel in the middle of this are just trying to get back to each other and save their people. [[spoiler: Ultimately Mumpo/Pinto and Bowman/Sisi get together, while Kestrel goes off to save the world, and Oritz and Zohon are got rid of.]]

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[spoiler: Mumpo and Pinto, towards the end of Firesong.]]

* MindOverMatter: What Bowman's Singer training involves, for example using his mind to cut into wood by imagining it as a softer substance. [[spoiler: Kestrel also shows a knack for it.]]

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Pinto attempts this while BrainwashedAndCrazy. Oritz is the hypotenuse of no less than three simultaneously overlapping love triangles. Guess what happens to him?

* RefusedByTheCall: [[spoiler: Blessed with psychic powers Bowman trains to become one of the Singer people and sacrifice himself to destroy the Morah. As he prepares to join the battle, Kestrel reveals that it was never his destiny to die - it's hers.]]

* AbductionIsLove: The Barra klin believe this and [[spoiler: kidnap the young Manth women to be their wives. Kestrel, Sisi and the others prove this is not the case, and all stab their new husbands ''on the wedding night''.]]

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Mumpo and Pinto, towards the end of Firesong.

%%* InLoveWithTheMark: Ortiz, although he doesn't know it.

%%* MindOverMatter

* AbductionIsLove: The Barra klin believe this and [[spoiler: kidnap the young Manth women to be their wives. Kestrel, Sisi and the others prove this is ''not'' the case, and stab their new husbands ''on the wedding night''.]]

* CluelessChickMagnet: Bowman -- at least when it comes to Sisi. Vice versa in the Kestrel and [[spoiler:Ortiz]] scenario. She's not just clueless -- she's totally oblivious.

* LoveDodecahedron: In ''"Slaves of the Mastery"'' Pinto has a crush on Mumpo, who is pining for Kestral. At the same time, Zohon is obsessed with Sisi who is engaged to Oritz but in love with Bowman, while Oritz falls for Kestral. Bowman and Kestral in the middle of this are just trying to get back to each other and save their people. [[spoiler: Ultimately Mumpo/Pinto and Bowman/Sisi get together, while Kestral goes off to save the world, and Oritz and Zohon are got rid of.]]

* RefusedByTheCall: [[spoiler: Blessed with psychic powers Bowman trains to become one of the Singer people and sacrifice himself to destroy the Morah. As he prepares to join the battle, Kestral reveals that it was never his destiny to die - it's hers.]]

%%* AbductionIsLove

* LoveDodecahedron: In "Slaves of the Mastery" Pinto has a crush on Mumpo, who is pining for Kestral. Meanwhile, Zohon is obsessed with Sisi who is engaged to Oritz but in love with Bowman, at the same time Oritz is in love with Kestral. Bowman and Kestral in the middle of this are just trying to get back to each other and save their people. [[spoiler: Ultimately Mumpo/Pinto and Bowman/Sisi get together, while Kestral goes off to save the world.]]

* BrokenAesop: Bowman, Kestrel, and their friend Mumpo spend the first book learning that if they work together, they can make things happen and nothing can hurt them. In the book's two parallel plots, the twin's father convinces downtrodden people that they need to stand up and peacefully insist on being given their rights, and their mother makes her views heard and gets the town to listen to her and consider her ideas. Then... the MacGuffin shows up and makes it all better. Or at least makes them happy for the remainder of the book.

* DecadeDissonance: The world appears to be quite out of whack technologically. Aramanth is implied to be rather technologically advanced in ''The Wind Singer'', as does the Mastery in ''Slaves of the Mastery'', yet the primary mode of transportation seems to be horse and carriage, with civilizations becoming ever-more ramschackle and sparse the farther out from Aramanth you go.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Kestrel and Sisi.