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* HeroesWantRedheads: Heroes and villains.
** Locke is instantly smitten with Sabetha and soon afterwards learns that she has red hair, which he thinks is beautiful. When they're older, he tries to convince her that it's proof he loves ''the real her''. Unfortunately, he's unaware he's stepped on an internal landmine - there's a superstition in Jerem that having sex with a virgin red-head will cure all manner of illnesses. They're sometimes even raped to ''death'' by a line of the afflicted. For this reason, Sabetha usually keeps her hair dyed or covered. Locke's declaration is the very last thing she ever wants to hear from a potential lover.
** Later still, Sabetha worries that her hair might be all he really loves, because [[spoiler:the bondsmagi claim that he is the reincarnation of a mage who loved a red-headed woman. However, the reader knows that this isn't true because we see from his perspective that Locke falls in love with her ''before'' seeing her hair]].
** Locke is instantly smitten with Sabetha and soon afterwards learns that she has red hair, which he thinks is beautiful. When they're older, he tries to convince her that it's proof he loves ''the real her''. Unfortunately, he's unaware he's stepped on an internal landmine - there's a superstition in Jerem that having sex with a virgin red-head will cure all manner of illnesses. They're sometimes even raped to ''death'' by a line of the afflicted. For this reason, Sabetha usually keeps her hair dyed or covered. Locke's declaration is the very last thing she ever wants to hear from a potential lover.
** Later still, Sabetha worries that her hair might be all he really loves, because [[spoiler:the bondsmagi claim that he is the reincarnation of a mage who loved a red-headed woman. However, the reader knows that this isn't true because we see from his perspective that Locke falls in love with her ''before'' seeing her hair]].
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* RedheadsAreRavishing: Heroes and villains both think so.
** Locke is instantly smitten with Sabetha and soon afterwards learns that she has red hair, which he thinks is beautiful. When they're older, he tries to convince her that it's proof he loves ''the real her''. Unfortunately, he's unaware he's stepped on an internal landmine - there's a superstition in Jerem that having sex with a virgin red-head will cure all manner of illnesses. They're sometimes even raped to ''death'' by a line of the afflicted. For this reason, Sabetha usually keeps her hair dyed or covered. Locke's declaration is the very last thing she ever wants to hear from a potential lover.
** Later still, Sabetha worries that her hair might be all he really loves, because [[spoiler:the bondsmagi claim that he is the reincarnation of a mage who loved a red-headed woman. However, the reader knows that this isn't true because we see from his perspective that Locke falls in love with her ''before'' seeing her hair]].
** Locke is instantly smitten with Sabetha and soon afterwards learns that she has red hair, which he thinks is beautiful. When they're older, he tries to convince her that it's proof he loves ''the real her''. Unfortunately, he's unaware he's stepped on an internal landmine - there's a superstition in Jerem that having sex with a virgin red-head will cure all manner of illnesses. They're sometimes even raped to ''death'' by a line of the afflicted. For this reason, Sabetha usually keeps her hair dyed or covered. Locke's declaration is the very last thing she ever wants to hear from a potential lover.
** Later still, Sabetha worries that her hair might be all he really loves, because [[spoiler:the bondsmagi claim that he is the reincarnation of a mage who loved a red-headed woman. However, the reader knows that this isn't true because we see from his perspective that Locke falls in love with her ''before'' seeing her hair]].
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* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first scheme depicted by the Gentlemen Bastards functions as one of these. Locke and his crew successfully bamboozle a Don of the city into financing them through a complex scheme rife in RefugeInAudacity. They set up a series of false identities to get close to the Don, spin a fancystory about being the servants of a famous wine brewing house, and then enlope the Don in a scheme to finance a merchant fleet while they pocket the earnings. Things seem to get intense when the Don is visited at night by members of the SecretPolice of Camorr who inform him of Locke's scheme... only for it to be revealed to be none other than Locke and his gang impersonating them to further fool the Don. This establishes that not only are Locke and his crew master strategiests, actors and manipulators, but their schemes are successful mostly through their willingness to pull some truly risky stuff.
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* SuperDickery: The second book opens with Jean apparently betraying Locke. [[spoiler: It's a ruse to get the other men attacking them to let their guard down.]]
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* ''The Mage and the Master Spy'' (forthcominSharg)
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* ''The Mage and the Master Spy'' (forthcominSharg)(forthcoming)
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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: Locke and Jean pretend to be what basically amounts to lepers for a little while in ''Red Seas Under Red Skies''. In ''Lies of Locke Lamora'', he pretended to have Black Whisper (a virulent disease that only kills adults) in order to empty out a pub so he and his friends could rob it. [[spoiler:It's just too bad that the resulting panic/riot burned it down.]]
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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: YouDontWantToCatchThis:
** Locke and Jean pretend to be what basically amounts to lepers for a little while in ''Red Seas Under Red Skies''. In ''Lies of Locke Lamora'', he pretended to have Black Whisper (a virulent disease that only kills adults) in order to empty out a pub so he and his friends could rob it. [[spoiler:It's just too bad that the resulting panic/riot burned it down.]]
** Locke and Jean pretend to be what basically amounts to lepers for a little while in ''Red Seas Under Red Skies''. In ''Lies of Locke Lamora'', he pretended to have Black Whisper (a virulent disease that only kills adults) in order to empty out a pub so he and his friends could rob it. [[spoiler:It's just too bad that the resulting panic/riot burned it down.]]
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** Locke, literally- the Thiefmaker bought thirty orphans at the beginning of ''Lies'', and Locke attaches himself to the group without anybody noticing (aside from the Thiefmaker) or caring.
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** Locke, literally- Locke enters the service of the Thiefmaker bought by literally tagging along with a group of thirty orphans at the beginning of ''Lies'', and Locke attaches himself to the group without anybody noticing (aside from the Thiefmaker) or caring.he bought.
