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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Furious about her and Ruby being forced into an arranged marriage, Yang angrily asks Summer if the greater good is more important than her daughters and if Jaune is just leverage to her. It is downplayed: Summer knows Yang is morally right, but the threat of Salem means that Summer considers her actions to be NecessarilyEvil.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Furious about her and Ruby being forced into an arranged marriage, Yang angrily asks Summer if the greater good is more important than her daughters and if Jaune is just leverage to her. It is downplayed: Summer knows Yang is morally right, but the threat of Salem means that Summer considers her actions to be NecessarilyEvil.]]
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Furious about her and Ruby being forced into an arranged marriage, Yang angrily asks Summer if the greater good is more important than her daughters and if Jaune is just leverage to her. It is downplayed: Summer knows Yang is morally right but the threat of Salem means that Summer considers her actions a NecessaryEvil]].

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Furious about her and Ruby being forced into an arranged marriage, Yang angrily asks Summer if the greater good is more important than her daughters and if Jaune is just leverage to her. It is downplayed: Summer knows Yang is morally right right, but the threat of Salem means that Summer considers her actions a NecessaryEvil]].to be NecessarilyEvil.
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* BadassPreacher: Tyrian is a priest of the Cult of Salem, and Ren is training to be one. Both are also extremely skilled combatants, though Tyrian notes thst Ren is a lot better at actually being a preacher, while he mainly took the "screaming Salem's glory" approach.

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* BadassPreacher: Tyrian is a priest of the Cult of Salem, and Ren is training to be one. Both are also extremely skilled combatants, though Tyrian notes thst that Ren is a lot better at actually being a preacher, while he mainly took the "screaming Salem's glory" approach.

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* BadassPreacher: Tyrian is a priest of the Cult of Salem, and Ren is training to be one. Both are also extremely skilled combatants, though Tyrian notes thst Ren is a lot better at actually being a preacher, while he mainly took the "screaming Salem's glory" approach.



* DefectorFromDecadence: Saphron wants nothing to do with Aunt Salem and her cult and refuses to let any of them into her house uninvited. [[spoiler: She is upset when she realizes that by allowing Summer to care for Adrien, she de facto accepted a favor from Salem]].

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* DefectorFromDecadence: Saphron wants nothing to do with Aunt Salem and her cult and refuses to let any of them into her house uninvited. [[spoiler: She is upset when she realizes that by allowing Summer to care for Adrien, she de facto accepted a favor from Salem]]. Downplayed, as it is all but stated that the Arcs usually have very little to do with the cult and Salem's plans to begin with.



* NoodleIncident: Apparently, the book on parenting that Tyrian used while raising Ren and Nora got banned after the author was caught doing illegal Grimm research.

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* NoodleIncident: Apparently, the book on parenting that Tyrian used while raising Ren and Nora got banned after the author author (implied to be Doctor Merlot) was caught doing illegal Grimm research.
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* OnlySaneByComparison: Ren ''is'' a cultist for Salem, with the propensity toward violence that comes with it. But he’s also the only one of Salem’s followers who sees Jaune as a person with his own feelings and desires, rather than just an object of devotion and worship.

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* OnlySaneByComparison: Ren ''is'' a cultist for Salem, with the propensity toward violence that comes with it. But he’s also the only one of Salem’s followers who sees Jaune as a person with his own feelings and desires, rather than just an object of devotion and worship. In fact, he outright views Pyrrha's worship of Jaune as being heretical.
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* AManIsAlwaysEager: Averted. Jaune is genuinely devoted to maintaining his relationship with Weiss and balks at the idea of having a harem of girls. Ren assures Emerald that he isn't the kind of person who objectifies women. [[spoiler: He is extremely annoyed at being forced into a polyamorous marriage with Yang and Ruby, and assures Weiss that he was forced into it]].

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* AManIsAlwaysEager: Averted. Jaune is genuinely devoted to maintaining his relationship with Weiss and balks at the idea of having a harem of girls. Ren assures Emerald that he isn't the kind of person who objectifies women. [[spoiler: He is extremely annoyed at being forced into a polyamorous marriage with Yang and Ruby, and assures Weiss that he was forced into wanted nothing to do with it]].
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora count as this, considering they are minions of the Queen of Grimm, [[AffablyEvil albeit friendly ones]].

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Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora count as this, considering they are minions of the Queen of Grimm, [[AffablyEvil albeit friendly ones]]. ones]].
** Downplayed with [[spoiler: Summer, who in the fic sold out to Salem and is ruthless enough to force Jaune into an arranged marriage with her daughters. In her case, she is portrayed as a WellIntentionedExtremist who wants to protect her children from Salem's wrath.]]


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* IFightForTheStrongestSide: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler: After being imprisoned by Salem and being forced to beg to see her children again, Summer decided the best way to protect her family was to align herself with Salem, even forcing Jaune into an arranged marriage with Ruby and Yang.]]

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* AdaptationExpansion: Salem's following goes from a few followers in canon to a large network of cultists who worship her as a God and force of good.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Salem goes from a pure evil queen to one with some genuine fondness for Jaune. Tyrian himself is still Salem's crazy minion, but has genuine care for both Nora and Ren.

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* AdaptationExpansion: Salem's following goes AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In canon, Nora and Ren were orphans from a few Grimm-shattered village. In the fic, both of them were orphans who were adopted by Tyrian and raised to be loyal followers in canon to a large network of cultists who worship Salem and her as a God and force of good.cult.
* AdaptationExpansion: Salem's following goes from a few followers in canon to an extensive network of cultists who worship her as a God and force of good.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Salem goes from a pure evil queen to one an evil queen with some genuine fondness for Jaune. Jaune and his family. Tyrian himself is still Salem's crazy minion, minion but has a genuine care for both Nora and Ren.



** Emerald scouted out the cult early on, but dismissed them as too weak to be worth worrying about. Then Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora show up, and she realizes that the people she found before were just the rank and file who worship an immortal force of destruction when they get off their normal 9-5 jobs. The elites are a ''very'' real threat.

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** Emerald scouted out the cult early on, but dismissed them as too weak to be worth worrying about. Then Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora show up, and she realizes that the people she found before were just the rank and file who worship an immortal force of destruction when they get off their normal 9-5 jobs. The elites are a ''very'' real threat. Nora is the silliest of the bunch but still very violent to any perceived threat to Salem.
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* ReligiousBruiser: Ren is a Huntsman and a profoundly devoted acolyte of the Cult of Salem and its principles. Pyrrha questioning the texts leads him to get somewhat aggressive.
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* ChickMagnet: Played With. Jaune gets a lot of attention from Huntresses, but that's more due to circumstance than qualities Jaune possesses: [[DefrostingIceQueen Weiss]] has to be blackmailed into dating Jaune but does eventually come to enjoy his company; [[BodyguardCrush Pyrrha's]] devotion stems from him being at the center of a religion built around Salem, [[GoodBadGirl Yang]] attraction is because she thinks the former two are in some polyamorous relationship and wants in [[spoiler: and is annoyed when Summer arranges a marriage to Jaune against her will]]; [[ShrinkingViolet Velvet]] senses the power Jaune possesses and concludes he's some kind of demigod. Both Fox and Vernal are perplexed at Jaune getting so much attention.
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** Pyrrha is an odd example; she wants Jaune and Weiss to be a happy couple while dreaming[[ExoticExtendedMarriage of getting to join one day]].

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** Pyrrha is an odd example; she wants Jaune and Weiss to be a happy couple while dreaming[[ExoticExtendedMarriage dreaming [[ExoticExtendedMarriage of getting to join one day]].



** Terra, Sapphron's wife and Jaune's sister-in-law, wants Jaune to date Pyrrha because she wants to be related to a famous celebrity.

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** Terra, Sapphron's wife wife, and Jaune's sister-in-law, wants Jaune to date Pyrrha because she wants to be related to a famous celebrity.

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* BodyguardCrush: Pyrrha is Jaune's de facto bodyguard and is obsessed with joining his side. Blake, a fan of erotic novels, can see this type of relationship before her eyes due to Pyrrha's obvious interest in Jaune.



* ShipperOnDeck: Salem exaggerates this trope, believing her nephew should have a whole harem of girls. But she has a special preference for Pyrrha, since she is a genuinely nice and beautiful girl who loves Jaune’s cooking.

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* ShipperOnDeck: ShipperOnDeck:
** Pyrrha is an odd example; she wants Jaune and Weiss to be a happy couple while dreaming[[ExoticExtendedMarriage of getting to join one day]].
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Salem exaggerates this trope, believing her nephew should have a whole harem of girls. But she has a special preference for Pyrrha, since she is a genuinely nice and beautiful girl who loves Jaune’s cooking.

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