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The first books were published between 1999 and 2002. After ''Midnight Predator'', Atwater-Rhodes took a break to write the ''Literature/KieshaRa'' series, but returned to ''Den of Shadows'' in 2008 with the release of ''Persistence of Memory''. Following the release of ''Promises to Keep'', she decided to take another break to write the Maeve'Ra Trilogy, the first book of which will be released in 2014. There's no word on whether or not she'll return to ''Den of Shadows'' after the last book of the trilogy is released in 2016.

These books take place in the same universe as the ''Literature/KieshaRa'' series, albeit several thousand years later.

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The first books were published between 1999 and 2002. After ''Midnight Predator'', Atwater-Rhodes took a break to write the ''Literature/KieshaRa'' series, but returned to ''Den of Shadows'' in 2008 with the release of ''Persistence of Memory''. Following the release of ''Promises to Keep'', Atwater-Rhodes announced that the series had officially ended, but that she decided to take another break would continue to write the Maeve'Ra Trilogy, the first book of which will be released books set in 2014. There's no word on whether or not she'll return to ''Den of Shadows'' after the last book of the trilogy is released in 2016.

Nyeusigrube.

These books take place in the same universe as the ''Literature/KieshaRa'' and ''Maeva'Ra'' series, albeit several thousand years later.



* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: Jaguar being Turquoise and Ravyn's employer.]]
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** Sarah is a blond, BookDumb, OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who spends her spare time hunting vampires [[spoiler: and falling in love with them]]. [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Any of this sound familiar?]]

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** Sarah is a blond, BookDumb, OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who spends her spare time hunting vampires [[spoiler: and falling in love with them]]. [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Any of this sound familiar?]]
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** Sarah is a blond, BookDumb, OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who spends her spare time hunting vampires [[spoiler: and falling in love with them]]. [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Any of this sound familiar?]]
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** Robert also qualifies, to a lesser extent.

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** Robert also qualifies, to a lesser extent. Caused by watching the aftermath of his sister's Break The Cutie, to a much greater extent.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Sarah and Adia respectively.


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* NiceGirl: Caryn and Erin.


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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Dominique calls on the Rites of Kin to kill her daughter, Sarah. But she doesn't succeed.]]
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* GoodIsNotSoft: [[ActionGirl Turquoise and Sarah and Adia]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Risika]] and [[TrueNeural Shevaun]] and [[ActionSurvivor Jessica]] and [[AscendedDemon Kristopher]] and... how about we go with every major protagonist in the series? Except [[DamselInDistress Erin]]. And [[BadassPacifist Caryn]].

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* GoodIsNotSoft: [[ActionGirl Turquoise and Sarah and Adia]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Risika]] and [[TrueNeural [[TrueNeutral Shevaun]] and [[ActionSurvivor Jessica]] and [[AscendedDemon Kristopher]] and... how about we go with every major protagonist in the series? Except [[DamselInDistress Erin]]. And [[BadassPacifist Caryn]].



** It also happens to Risika when [[spoiler: Aubrey implies that [[AndYourLittleDogToo he killed Norah.]]

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** It also happens to Risika when [[spoiler: Aubrey implies that [[AndYourLittleDogToo he killed Norah.]]]]]]

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* GoodIsNotNice: Every single protagonist the series has ever had, with the possible exception of Jessica.
* GoodIsNotSoft: [[ActionGirl Turquoise and Sarah and Adia]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Risika]] and [[TrueNuetral Shevaun]] and [[ActionSurvivor Jessica]] and [[AscendedDemon Kristopher]] and... how about we go with every major good guy in the series? Except Erin. And [[BadassPacifist Caryn]].

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* GoodIsNotNice: Every single protagonist the series has ever had, with the possible exception of Jessica.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: [[ActionGirl Turquoise and Sarah and Adia]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Risika]] and [[TrueNuetral [[TrueNeural Shevaun]] and [[ActionSurvivor Jessica]] and [[AscendedDemon Kristopher]] and... how about we go with every major good guy protagonist in the series? Except Erin.[[DamselInDistress Erin]]. And [[BadassPacifist Caryn]].
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''Den of Shadows'' (also known as ''Nyeusigrube'') is a series of vampire/shapeshifter/witch books written by AmeliaAtwaterRhodes. Although there are small crossovers among books, all of the books are stand-alone novels (with the exception of ''Shattered Mirror'' and ''All Just Glass''). Atwater-Rhodes wrote the first book, ''In the Forests of the Night'', when she was only 13, and published it when she was 15.

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''Den of Shadows'' (also known as ''Nyeusigrube'') is a series of vampire/shapeshifter/witch books written by AmeliaAtwaterRhodes.Creator/AmeliaAtwaterRhodes. Although there are small crossovers among books, all of the books are stand-alone novels (with the exception of ''Shattered Mirror'' and ''All Just Glass''). Atwater-Rhodes wrote the first book, ''In the Forests of the Night'', when she was only 13, and published it when she was 15.
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* BullyingADragon: Risika does it to Aubrey at the end of ''In the Forests of the Night''. To be fair, he did [[spoiler: [[AndYourLittleDogToo kill her tiger.]]

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* BullyingADragon: Risika does it to Aubrey at the end of ''In the Forests of the Night''. To be fair, he did [[spoiler: [[AndYourLittleDogToo kill her tiger.]]]]]]
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* MonochromeCasting: There have been only two characters of color in the series, and both were relatively unimportant side characters.

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* SeventhEpisodeTwist: It's hard to say whether or not this really applies, since the books are so loosely connected. But there were three reveals in ''All Just Glass'', the seventh episode of the series. [[TheReveal The twists]] were that [[spoiler: Dominique killed Sarah and Adia's father]], [[spoiler: Zach was blood-bounded to Olivia]], and [[spoiler: Dominique was a rebellious teenager.]]


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* MidSeasonTwist: It's hard to say whether or not this really applies, since the books are so loosely connected. But there were three reveals in ''All Just Glass'', the seventh episode of the series. [[TheReveal The twists]] were that [[spoiler: Dominique killed Sarah and Adia's father]], [[spoiler: Zach was blood-bounded to Olivia]], and [[spoiler: Dominique was a rebellious teenager.]]
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* WorldOfActionGirls: Almost all of the women are some form of {{Badass}}, even if it's just a BadassPacifist (Caryn), or an ActionSurvivor (Jessica). The only two exceptions are Nissa and Erin.

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* ** WorldOfActionGirls: Almost all of the women are some form of {{Badass}}, even if it's just a BadassPacifist (Caryn), or an ActionSurvivor (Jessica). The only two exceptions are Nissa and Erin.
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* LeftHanging: ''Midnight Predator'' had an infamously open ending. ''Shattered Mirror'' did too, until ''All Just Glass'' cleared things up.
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* KissOfTheVampire: Aubrey bites Caryn in ''Demon in my View''. The process of it is described to be more like having sex than being bitten in the arm.
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* AlienBlood: Witches blood is intoxicating to vampires, which becomes a plot point when [[spoiler: Sarah attempts suicide by going to Dominique's house and she ends up sucking Adia's blood.]]


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* ClearMyName: Nikolas didn't do a lot of the things the Vida line accused him of in ''Shattered Mirror'', although he doesn't actively work to clear his name. [[spoiler: He's eventually forgiven.]] The same thing applies to Kaleo, except that he actually did a lot of the crimes he was accused of. [[spoiler: He was forgiven anyway, although Sarah wanted to kill him in the beginning of ''All Just Glass''.


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* FantasticDrug: Witches blood is intoxicating to vampires, [[spoiler: as Sarah learns the hard way.]] Some vampires are addicted to it, like [[spoiler: Olivia.]]

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* ActionGirl: Tons of them. There's Sarah and Adia in ''Shattered Mirror'' and ''All Just Glass'', Turquoise and Ravyn in ''Midnight Predator''.
** Also, Risika in ''In the Forests of the Night'', after she TookALevelInBadass.

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* ActionGirl: Tons of them. There's Sarah and Adia in ''Shattered Mirror'' and ''All Just Glass'', Turquoise and Ravyn in ''Midnight Predator''.
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Predator''. Also, Risika in ''In the Forests of the Night'', after she TookALevelInBadass.TookALevelInBadass.
* WorldOfActionGirls: Almost all of the women are some form of {{Badass}}, even if it's just a BadassPacifist (Caryn), or an ActionSurvivor (Jessica). The only two exceptions are Nissa and Erin.



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* TheKillerInMe: Christopher, Nikolas, Adia, and especially Sarah struggle with this.



** Also, ''Token of Darkness'' is the only book in the series to feature no vampires, witches, or shapeshifters.

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** Also, ''Token of Darkness'' is the only book in the series to feature no vampires, witches, or shapeshifters.shape shifters.
* TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Every single freaking savior in ''Shattered Mirror'' and ''All Just Glass''. Except Jay. Maybe.



* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Happens a lot throughout ''Shattered Mirror'' and ''All Just Glass'':
** Sarah [[spoiler: doesn't kill Christopher and Nikolas when she gets the chance because she thinks it's wrong.]]
** Then, Adia [[spoiler: [[StabTheSalad stabs the salad]] instead of killing Sarah.]]



* TwoActStructure: ''Shattered Mirror'' is act one, and ''All Just Glass'' is act two.
** The first four books could be called act one, and the last five could be called act two.



* WorldOfActionGirls: Almost all of the women are some form of {{Badass}}, even if it's just a BadassPacifist (Caryn), or an ActionSurvivor (Jessica). The only two exceptions are Nissa and Erin.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Lots of characters think this about a lot of different things. It rarely works out. For example...
** When Jessica publishes a book featuring the real lives of a bunch of vampires, general consensus from the vampire community is that she must be killed. Aubrey is originally sent to do it, but [[spoiler: it stops working out when he finds out that she's his AntiMagic and he falls in love with her.]] So Fala decides to do it herself. [[spoiler: This doesn't really work out either, although it comes pretty close.]]
** It's deconstructed in ''Shattered Mirror'' with Dominique a couple times. She thinks she has to kill Nikolas as punishment for his killing of Elizabeth Vida, so the Vida line hunted him down for years without much success. Then, [[spoiler: Sarah gets turned into a vampire and Dominique calls on the Rites of Kin to get her killed. Both cases result in Dominique being proven wrong, and neither Nikolas nor Sarah die.]]
** [[spoiler: Jaguar]] thinks this about Jeshickah, which is why he had Turquoise and Ravyn go into Midnight to kill her. Then, when Turquoise finds out that Jaguar is in Midnight, she takes a roundabout journey to decide that he has to die. [[spoiler: She actually succeeds, for once, and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu without even going through much trouble.]]]]

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* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Dominique, all in all.

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* ALighterShadeOfGrey: ADarkerShadeOfGrey: Dominique, all in all.


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* DontTellMama: Sarah (and later Aida) don't want to tell Dominique that [[spoiler: Sarah is in a SecretRelationship with Christopher.]]


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* OhCrap: Sarah gets an internal one when she realizes that [[spoiler: Nikolas is Christopher's twin brother.]]
** It also happens to Risika when [[spoiler: Aubrey implies that [[AndYourLittleDogToo he killed Norah.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Jessica writes a book that makes vampires look bad, not even knowing that the content of the book was real... so everybody tries to kill her.
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** She had it coming [[FridgeBrilliance when you think about it]]; she killed one of Aubrey's hunters and delivered his ashes directly to Aubrey in a plastic bag.


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* BullyingADragon: Risika does it to Aubrey at the end of ''In the Forests of the Night''. To be fair, he did [[spoiler: [[AndYourLittleDogToo kill her tiger.]]


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** [[spoiler: ''Demon in my View'' ends with Jessica turned into a vampire... yet she's still writing stories, and there are plenty of vampires that would probably like to kill her.]]


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* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Dominique's reaction to [[spoiler: Sarah dating Christopher.]] Gets HilariousInHindsight in ''All Just Glass'' when we find out that [[spoiler: [[GenerationXerox Dominique did pretty much the exact same thing.]]]]
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* GhostMemories: Erin has some hints of Shevaun's memories because of the way that they're linked to each other, such as how they're both good at foreign languages.

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* GhostMemories: GhostMemory: Erin has some hints of Shevaun's memories because of the way that they're linked to each other, such as how they're both good at foreign languages.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: We see a good bit of Risika's, and we hear about Turquoise's.


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* GhostMemories: Erin has some hints of Shevaun's memories because of the way that they're linked to each other, such as how they're both good at foreign languages.
** [[spoiler: Jessica's stories come from Siete, whose memories she gained because her mother was kept pregnant with her for twenty years due to his magic. (Ironically enough, Siete acts as TheGhost in ''Demon in my View''.)]]
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* ShownTheirWork: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes got a degree in psychology during the KieshaRa period, and it really shows in ''Persistence of Memory'' and ''Token of Darkness''.


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** [[spoiler: Played straight this time in ''All Just Glass'' when we find out that Dominique killed Sarah and Adia's father.]]


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* TykeBomb: All the witches that fight vampires, and some (but not all) vampire hunters.
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** BadassMindsThinkAlike: Played with in ''Midnight Predator'' with Turquoise and Ravyn; they never make any plans before going into battle, but they're only somewhat successful at first, and [[spoiler: they never kill Jeshickah together.]]


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* WorldOfActionGirls: Almost all of the women are some form of {{Badass}}, even if it's just a BadassPacifist (Caryn), or an ActionSurvivor (Jessica). The only two exceptions are Nissa and Erin.

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* RecurringCharacter: Caryn has never had a book focusing on her, but she made an appearance in ''Demon in my View'', ''Shattered Mirror'', and ''All Just Glass'' - more times than any other character in the series. (The only exception is Dominique, and she ''has'' had a book focusing on her.)



* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Anne.]]



* SelfProclaimedLiar: Sassy openly admits to being a compulsive liar.



* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: Hello, Sassy.



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A rare, intentional example. For most of ''Shattered Mirror'', Christopher's name is spelled with a 'Ch' at the beginning. However, when characters refer to him before around 50 years ago, it's spelled with a 'K' at the beginning (Kristopher).



* SurvivorGuilt: Turquoise has a severe case.



* TooPowerfulToLive: [[spoiler: Lord Daryl, both in the sense of his magical powers, and in his position as an important vampire in Midnight.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Risika in the end of ''In the Forests of the Night''.
* TookALevelInKindness: Nikolas does this rather suddenly.
* TroubledButCute: Christopher, so much.
* UnreliableNarrator: Risika in the flashbacks in ''In the Forests of the Night''. In the flashbacks, she has no understanding of the vampire world or what Aubrey is trying to do. There's also as subtle implication that there isn't as much of a caste system of strong vampires and weak vampires as she seems to think.



* VampiresAreSexGods: [[MrFanservice Aubrey.]]



* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Even though Sarah is a vampire hunter, she still goes to school.



* WeirdnessMagnet: Jessica has Caryn and Aubrey both stalking her at once.



* YourVampiresSuck: Subverted in ''Demon in my View''. In fact, it probably would've turned out better for Jessica if her vampire sucked - instead, they were so accurate that vampires tried to kill her for releasing personal information about their lives without permission.

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* YourVampiresSuck: Subverted Averted in ''Demon in my View''. In fact, it probably would've turned out better for Jessica if her vampire sucked - instead, they were so accurate that vampires tried to kill her for releasing personal information about their lives without permission.

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* MeaningfulName: Sort of. In ''Shattered Mirror'', it really matters whether or not they refer to him as 'Christopher' or 'Kristopher'. In ''All Just Glass'', they call him Kristopher the entire time.



* [[MrExposition Miss Exposition]]: Ather.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sarah does it in ''All Just Glass''. [[spoiler: Perhaps it wasn't such a great idea to go into Dominique's house begging to be killed.]]



* PartTimeHero: Sarah goes to school during the day and [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld fights vampires pretty much the rest of the time.]]



* PluckyComicRelief: Jay, at first.

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* IJustWantToBeFree: Turquoise in her slavery, although she had already escaped with Nathaniel by the time her book started.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Jessica, although it's pretty subconscious and [[spoiler: she already was sort of special.]]



* ImNotAHeroIm: Sarah in ''Shattered Mirror'', then Adia in ''All Just Glass''.



* ImportantHairCut: One of the times that Shevaun took over Erin, she tried to cut off Erin's long hair, due to Shevaun having shorter hair. Erin cut her hair to shoulder length and never wore it longer.
* InformedAbility: Turquoise doesn't actually kill many vampires or win many fights.

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* ImportantHairCut: One of the times that Shevaun took over Erin, she tried to cut off Erin's long hair, due to Shevaun having shorter hair. This resulted in some pretty bad cuts on Erin's neck. Erin cut her hair to shoulder length and never wore it longer.
* InformedAbility: Turquoise doesn't actually kill many vampires or win many fights.
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: For his first few teen years, he had no idea why he shifted into a hyena, and how he could control it.
* ItGetsEasier: Killing vampires started out very hard for Sarah, but until [[spoiler: she met Christopher and Nikolas]], it got easier and easier over time.



* LaughablyEvil: Shevaun gets some criticisms of this, despite the author's attempts to make her TrueNeutral.



* LivingForeverIsAwesome: The last line of ''Shattered Mirror'' has [[spoiler: Sarah]] happy that she can live forever.

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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: [[spoiler: Saves Jessica's life.]]



* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Bascially, the point of Single Earth is to ask this to everyone else.

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* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Bascially, Basically, the point of Single Earth is to ask this to everyone else.

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* DefrostingIceQueen: Jessica.
* DemotedToExtra: Nissa played a large role in ''Shattered Mirror'', but she's only present for a couple chapters in ''All Just Glass''.



* DistressedDamsel: Erin falls into it a couple times.



* DontYouDarePityMe: Turquoise.



* EmergencyStash: Sarah is shown to keep weapons ''everywhere''. Literally, everywhere where people won't be suspicious, she has weapons.

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* EmergencyStash: Sarah is Sarah, and presumably other Vida witches, are shown to keep weapons ''everywhere''. Literally, everywhere where people won't be suspicious, she has weapons.



* EmoTeen: Jessica, in a way.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Aubrey has Jessica, although we don't see it until he's no longer a bad guy.



* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Guess what Jaguar can transform into?



* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Sarah does this in ''All Just Glass'']]

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Sarah does this briefly in ''All Just Glass'']]



** Also, Fala, Moira, Aubrey, Kaleo, Lord Daryl, Jaguar, Jeshickah, Jessica, and Nikolas are all pretty accepting of their vampirism.

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** Also, Fala, Moira, Aubrey, Kaleo, Lord Daryl, Jaguar, Jeshickah, Jessica, [[spoiler: Jessica]], and Nikolas are all pretty accepting of their vampirism.



* GoodIsNotDumb: Caryn Smoke.

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