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* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: The play Makejoye rights a play that's more or less about Michael and Rudy competing for Rosamund.
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* BarBrawl: One of the men on trail with Fisk in the first book was arrested for getting involved in one.
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* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: Most blatant in ''Player's Ruse'', where Michael diclares his plan to catch the wreckers a success in spite of having come within inches of dying during the whole fiasco. Fisk is not amused.
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* BreakTheCutie: Michael, in the beginning of ''Rogue's Home''. He gets better.
* CallBack: In ''Player's Ruse'' Burke mentions Aquilas, the drug that Michael and Fisk use in ''The Last Knight''.
* CallBack: In ''Player's Ruse'' Burke mentions Aquilas, the drug that Michael and Fisk use in ''The Last Knight''.
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: Catching a glimps of it in Fisk is what causes Michael to help have him spared in the first place.
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* ChekhovsGun: Aquilas
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Michael is alright with Gifts and magica plants or animals, but genuine human magic freaks him out.
* DoingItForTheArt: Nate Jobber, who was so dedicated that he even considered his forgeries to be works of art, and [[WhatAnIdiot hid his signature in them]].
* DoingItForTheArt: Nate Jobber, who was so dedicated that he even considered his forgeries to be works of art, and [[WhatAnIdiot hid his signature in them]].
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* JackOfAllTrades: Michael, due to making a living by stopping to help work wherever a spare hand is needed.
* SwordFight: After talking about being a knight and carrying a sword around for three books, Michael finally gets one in the climax of ''Player's Ruse''.
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* BadGuyBar: In ''Rogue's Home''. Fisk is on good terms with the people there.
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* DieOrFly: [[spoiler:When the wreckers throw Michael off a cliff.]]
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* FieryCoverup: [[spoiler:All the fires in ''Rogue's Home'' are to destroy financial records without drawing attention specifically to the building they're in.]]
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* PowerIncontinence: [spoiler:Michael's powers activate on their own on occasion in the third book.]] Fisk points out that pracitce would be the easiest solution here, but Michael refuses.
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* PowerIncontinence: [spoiler:Michael's [[spoiler:Michael's powers activate on their own on occasion in the third book.]] Fisk points out that pracitce would be the easiest solution here, but Michael refuses.
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* DarkAndTroublePast: Fisk [[spoiler:losing both his parents at a young age and having to turn to crime in order to help support his sisters. For bonus points, his master betrays him and his brother in law more or less banishes him for being involved in crime.]]
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* DarkAndTroublePast: DarkAndTroubledPast: Fisk [[spoiler:losing both his parents at a young age and having to turn to crime in order to help support his sisters. For bonus points, his master betrays him and his brother in law more or less banishes him for being involved in crime.]]
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* AdultFear: There is a scientist gathering mentally impaired children and running magic experiments on them
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* BarBrawl: One of the men on trail with Fisk in the first book was arrested for getting involved in one.
* BattleInTheRain: the climax of ''Player's Ruse''.
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* ChildrenAreSpecial: In a twisted version of the trope, only children are known to use full fledged magic because only the mentally impaired can be born with any magic in the first place, and they rarely, if ever, live to adulthood. [[spoiler:Since he obtained his magic artificially, Michael is an exception to this rule.]]
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* HopelessSuitor: Michael to Rosamund.
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* MagicEnhancement: Most objects the possess magic merely have enhanced properties as a result.
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* MakeSureHesDead: Subverted. Though the wreckers are ordered to confirm they killed Michael, they can't be bothered to check, and just pretend they did so.
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* DrowningMySorrows: How Fisk supposedly reacted to being dumped by his first love.
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* TheNondescript: Aside from Michael's scar, the two are perfectly average looking. One man who's tracking them gives up on asking if anyone's seen them and starts asking about their horses instead.
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* AmusingInjuries: Pretty much everything that happens to Michael while he's destroying magica plants to try and contact a savant who only comes when there's trouble.
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* BeleagueredAssistant: Fisk, in ''TheLastKnight''. He becomes more of an exasperated friend once Michael grows on him.
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* TheMagicTouch: [[spoiler:Michael can turn other things into magica.]]
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: In ''Player's Ruse'' Michael sneaks out of camp in the middle of the night in only a shirt trying to figure out where someone is going, and ends up chased around and having to slowly make his way home. He doesn't get back until everyone is up.
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* UnnamedParent: Nettie's Ma. When Michael asks her for her name she takes offense.
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* WhatHaveIBecome: Michael. [[spoiler:He became the only intelligent magic user.]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[spoiler:Considering he could already feel magic, being able to see it is only a slight step up. Even when Michael starts to seriously work magic, [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman the number of situations where it could come in handy are slim]]. It isn't until the third book that his magic really starts to look impressive.]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[spoiler:Considering he could already feel magic, being able to see it is only a slight step up. Even when Michael starts to seriously work magic, [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman the number of situations where it could come in handy are slim]]. It isn't until the third book that his magic really starts to look impressive.]]
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* AllCrimesAreEqual: No matter what you did, if you can't meet the conditions set by whoever redeems you, you can be marked.
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* BadassBookworm: Fisk
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Fisk initially took to being a con artist to support his sisters, but mostly uses it later becuase coming up with stories on the spot is one of his better skills.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Fisk, in ''TheLastKnight''. He becomes more of an exasperated friend once Michael grows on him.
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Fisk initially took to being a con artist to support his sisters, but mostly uses it later becuase coming up with stories on the spot is one of his better skills.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: Fisk and Michael. Fisk can fight and Michael does have a brain, but Fisk is the smarter of the two and doesn't fight nearly as often.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Michael hates lying, but the one time Fisk convinces him to just tell a half-truth he ends up beaten by four men.
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* CoolOldLady: Nettie's Ma
* CrankyLandlord: Mrs. Inger
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* IAmAMonster: Michael, after [[spoiler:using magic.]]
* IAmAMonster: Michael, after [[spoiler:using magic.]]
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* IndyPloy: When freeing Michael from [[spoiler:Ceciel]] Fisk has a plan to get into her stronghold, but finding Michael and getting out are made up as they go.
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* WillNotTellALie: Michael. Which makes it all the more convincing the few times he does, such as [[spoiler:telling Lady Ceciel her potions didn't work on him.]]
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* WillNotTellALie: Michael. Which makes it all the more convincing the few times he does, such as [[spoiler:telling Lady Ceciel her potions didn't work on him.]]]]
* WouldntHurtAChild: Miss Ceciel. At least, not intentionally.
* WillNotTellALie: Michael. Which makes it all the more convincing the few times he does, such as [[spoiler:telling Lady Ceciel her potions didn't work on him.
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* ThereAreTwoKindsofPeopleInTheWorld: Used by Fisk when he's trying to explain that Michael's father is a climber, though he amends himself and says that there are probably over thirty different types of noblemen alone.
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* AmateurSleuth: Though unlike most examples they seem to be able to be capable of not encountering crime ''everywhere'' they go.
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** The legal system is actually a little broken. If you get into a bar fight and somebody redeems you, but you refuse to do what they say in order to repay your debt, you can be tattooed as a permanently unredeemed criminal and be forever outside the law.
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* StealthInsult: After claiming if they're clever enough one will never have to work hard, Fisk asks an unpleasent servant if she'd a hard worker. She doesn't catch on until after insisting that she is.
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*ObfuscatingDisability: Subverted with Long Tom. He keeps braces on hand to make it look like his legs are bad and get pity, but he really does have bad hands.
*OohMeAccentsSlipping: Invoked by Fisk. He starts off with an intentionally fake noble's accent and slowly transitions into what he describes as 'pure gutterling.'
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* JustIgnoreIt: Fisk's solution for the wreckers.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Ceciel has grand plans to make the world a better place with human magic, while Michael is able to think of the obvious problems that could come with criminals getting such power as well.
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* LeaveNoWitnesses: The wreckers kill anyone who sees them at work.
* LifesWorkRuined: Fisk and Michael trash Ceciel's lab, burning all the notes she's taken over the years on magic and destroying all her experimental potions to be extra thorough.
* LifesWorkRuined: Fisk and Michael trash Ceciel's lab, burning all the notes she's taken over the years on magic and destroying all her experimental potions to be extra thorough.
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* ShallowLoveInterest: Rosamund.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Fisk manages to make Michael appear genuinly freaked out by the sacrafice the two are faking as part of an escape by indicating, without having warned him first, that he's going to be castrated.
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* [[FlatEarthAtheist Flat Earth Atheists]]: A rare justified version where it seems ''everyone'' is an atheist but at the same time they all know gods exist it's just that those gods look out for the plants and animals while humans are on their own.
** Not so justified in ''The Last Knight'' when Fisk hardly believed in magica, something that manifests itself as never ending trouble for our heroes in all the books. One wonders how Fisk had survived in this world where [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Everything Magica Is Trying To Kill You]] without believing in it.
** Not so justified in ''The Last Knight'' when Fisk hardly believed in magica, something that manifests itself as never ending trouble for our heroes in all the books. One wonders how Fisk had survived in this world where [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Everything Magica Is Trying To Kill You]] without believing in it.
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* [[FlatEarthAtheist Flat Earth Atheists]]: A rare justified version where it seems ''everyone'' is an atheist atheist, but at the same time they all know gods exist exist, it's just that those gods look out for the plants and animals while humans are on their own.
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