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* CynicalMentor: Jack to Fisk, even Fisk says Jack warned him he'd ditch Fisk. And while he'd rather have Fisk on his side than not he doesn't actually care about him in any capacity.
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** Even more so because his first teacher Joins Bish is described purely as a burglar. So by the time he left home at thirteen Fisk probably only knew burglary and maybe a bit of pickpocketing. So in the four years he was with Jack he mastered at least four different criminal skills well enough to not get caught. It's a wonder they had any time to actually con anyone with how much Jack was teaching him in a short amount of time. This probably qualifies Jack for this trope too.
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** Even more so because his first teacher Joins Bish is described purely as a burglar. So by the time he left home at thirteen Fisk probably only knew burglary and maybe a bit of pickpocketing. So in the four years he was with Jack he mastered at least four different criminal skills well enough to not get caught. It's a wonder they had any time to actually con anyone with how much Jack was teaching him in a short amount of time. This probably qualifies Jack for this trope too.
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** Even more so because his first teacher Joins Bish is described purely as a burglar. So by the time he left home at thirteen Fisk probably only knew burglary and maybe a bit of pickpocketing. So in the four years he was with Jack he mastered at least four different criminal skills well enough to not get caught.
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** Even more so because his first teacher Joins Bish is described purely as a burglar. So by the time he left home at thirteen Fisk probably only knew burglary and maybe a bit of pickpocketing. So in the four years he was with Jack he mastered at least four different criminal skills well enough to not get caught. It's a wonder they had any time to actually con anyone with how much Jack was teaching him in a short amount of time. This probably qualifies Jack for this trope too.
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*TheAce: Downplayed a bit but Fisk is an incredible criminal. He's only seventeen at the start of the series but he's already mastered con artistry, burglary, pickpocketing, cheating at cards, forgery, and (according to Jack) rigging horse races. He's only ever been caught once. And even when his partner deserted him to take the fall for the crime he managed to escape. There were bounty hunters after him. He was probably sixteen at the time.
** Even more so because his first teacher Joins Bish is described purely as a burglar. So by the time he left home at thirteen Fisk probably only knew burglary and maybe a bit of pickpocketing. So in the four years he was with Jack he mastered at least four different criminal skills well enough to not get caught.
** Even more so because his first teacher Joins Bish is described purely as a burglar. So by the time he left home at thirteen Fisk probably only knew burglary and maybe a bit of pickpocketing. So in the four years he was with Jack he mastered at least four different criminal skills well enough to not get caught.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsaHammer...: Despite his insistence that he hates burglary Fisk finds a lot of excuses to break into stuff. And then finds a way to blame Michael for it.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsaHammer...: WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Despite his insistence that he hates burglary Fisk finds a lot of excuses to break into stuff. And then finds a way to blame Michael for it.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsaHammer...: Despite his insistence that he hates burglary Fisk finds a lot of excuses to break into stuff. And then finds a way to blame Michael for it.
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** In a non-romantic way he says this about his youngest sister too, noting that she got pretty at some point.
** Each book also starts with the POV the last one didn't. With the first one stating with Fisk's POV, Book 2 being Michael, and book 3 being Fisk again, and so on.
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* TalkAboutTheWeather: Farmers do. Noble's equivalent is horses; townsmen's, taxes.
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** Fisk is knocked out in an alley in book five and wakes up in a trash heap.
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** Averted hard with Fisk. In the last book Kathy has to tell him he doesn't have to work so hard to not be his dad and he realizes he purposely does the opposite of what his father would have done.
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** Fisk's claim to hate burglary. He blames Micheal for the sudden need to use the skill constantly but Michael continuously insists it's always Fisk's idea. After replacing Makejoy's offensive script he's very obviously having fun insisting he's a great burglar when they get out. In book four he starts the adventure by insisting he's not going to burgle Roseman's town house (which he does eventually do even while living in it) before they even have a reason to. At one point Kathy is even disappointed that she's not able to go with them when they go burgle something else.
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** Fisk basically since the day he was born. His father drove them to ruin in his attempt to earn a scholarship at a university and eventually he and his wife died leaving their kids completely destitute. Then he's kicked out of town and pennyless due to his own inability to accept help. He's noted to have had success as a con artist with even Michael being impressed by how much of his fine he was able to pay off by himself but the judicar sentencing him purposely rose the fine so it exceeded his savings leaving him once again with nothing and a debt to pay off. [[spoiler: Even in the very end he's still struggling. Buying a business for him and Kathy took everything he had.]]
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** Humorous example: book two ends with Fisk realizing all his work to cheer up Michael and remind him he's a hero means Michael is back to his cheerful, adventurous, and absolutely insane self.
**->'''Fisk (narration):''' "Good deeds carry a stiffer sentence than crimes. You'd think I'd learn, wouldn't you."
**->'''Fisk (narration):''' "Good deeds carry a stiffer sentence than crimes. You'd think I'd learn, wouldn't you."
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** A lot of Fisk's attention is placed on how out of character Michael is acting in book two. Going out of his way to introduce Michael as a Knight Errant repeatedly though he's called Michael crazy for doing the same thing and worrying that Michael is getting depressed over being unredeemed.
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* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Michael survives being tossed off a tall cliff by unintentionally causing the air around him to thicken and slow his fall. (He does cancel his magic out before landing, but by that point he's close enough to the ground that he only ends up winded.)
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** Both Fisk and Jack Bannister are noted to be this way intentionally due to their careers as successful con artists.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Michael survives being tossed off a tall cliff by unintentionally causing the air around him to thicken and slow his fall. (He does panic and cancel his magic out before landing, but by that point he's close enough to the ground that he only ends up winded.)
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Michael survives being tossed off a tall cliff by unintentionally causing the air around him to thicken and slow his fall. (He does panic and cancel his magic out before landing, but by that point he's close enough to the ground that he only ends up winded.)
** When listing a number of enemies that might have sent an assassin after them in book six there are a couple of them that happened in between books.
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* [[OncePerEpisode Once Per Book]]: Somehow, for some reason, Fisk will have to commit a burglary. And he hates burglaring.
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* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Peebles]] is happy to submit to arrest and tell everyone why Hotchkiss had to die.
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** He's the only one who has a passable audition for the troupe. Even thinking that he's not really acting so much as coning the audience to think he's an actor.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Peebles]] is happy to submit to arrest and tell everyone why Hotchkiss had to die. And is declared unredeemed and allowed to keep her job so they can tell even more people why.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Peebles]] is happy to submit to arrest and tell everyone why Hotchkiss had to die. And is declared unredeemed and allowed to keep her job so they can tell even more people why.
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** Even taking down Roseman and preventing a civil war ends with him [[spoiler: accidentally driving children to murder and losing his best friend!]]
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** What Fisk assumes will happen if they lay down their arms when Meg's kidnappers demand they surrender.
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** This only works because Michael's Father gets her inheritance. Michael notes that they'll notice Kathy isn't grieving because Fisk warned her in a letter and figure it out.
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** The High Liege in regard to Rupert and Meg's relationship. [[spoiler: he gets over it though.]]
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** Played with in Players Ruse, Fisk's apparently burnt stew so many times he knows how to save it when Rosamund does it.
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** By the fifth book Fisk has decided he hates plans and you should never make them.
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* FamedInStory: After taking down Roseman, Michael and Fisk become minor celebrities to everyone in law enforcement.
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** The two gods. Particularly the orange Creature god. It does not care if you're the one that killed the dead magica animal or not. It'll kill you anyway.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Fisk's sisters call him Nonny, despite him having repeatedly told them he hates it. Michael, who similarly hates being called Mikey, uses this knowledge to blackmail Fisk into an agreement where neither of them use nicknames.
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** To the point that just being in proximity to a dead magica boar is enough to get a living magica boar to try and gore you and everyone around you. Even if you're not the one who killed it.
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** Averted with Fisk's first teacher though. While he does use kids to steal for him he does it because they get lesser sentences and Fisk notes he's oddly civic minded for a burglar. He's pretty willing to help Judicar Maxwell get his job back and he and Fisk are still on good terms, though they haven't seen each other in years.
** [[spoiler: Rudy from Player's Ruse had a master that cut off his apprentices toes if he was displeased with them.]]
** [[spoiler: Rudy from Player's Ruse had a master that cut off his apprentices toes if he was displeased with them.]]
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* DitzyGenius: Michael is the one with a formal education. He uses it so rarely that it's almost an InformedAttribute
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Michael is alright with Gifts and magica plants or animals, but genuine human magic freaks him out.
* DontCallMeSir: Michael dislikes being addressed in a way that adds distance, or that emphasizes a difference in social status.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Michael is alright with Gifts and magica plants or animals, but genuine human magic freaks him out.
* DontCallMeSir: Michael dislikes being addressed in a way that adds distance, or that emphasizes a difference in social status.
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** Rupert, the High Liege heir not Michael's brother. In a short amount of time Fisk goes from mocking for trying to assault a fortress with a rock to being impressed with his education and ability to debate.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Michael is alright with Gifts and magica plants or animals, but genuine human magic freaks himout.
out. [[spoiler: Especially when it's his. He slowly gets over this until he's able to magically save a man's life in front of witnesses.]]
* DontCallMeSir: Michael dislikes being addressed in a way that adds distance, or that emphasizes a difference in social status. And Fisk often uses it to tease him.
** Rupert, the High Liege heir not Michael's brother. In a short amount of time Fisk goes from mocking for trying to assault a fortress with a rock to being impressed with his education and ability to debate.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Michael is alright with Gifts and magica plants or animals, but genuine human magic freaks him
* DontCallMeSir: Michael dislikes being addressed in a way that adds distance, or that emphasizes a difference in social status. And Fisk often uses it to tease him.
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*** And on top of that Wheatman the assassin/serial killer in Lady's Pursuit hunts down unredeemed criminals and kills them. Regardless of their crime. You could steal a cup, not pay whoever bailed you out and have an assassin on your tail for it.
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* DeathByOriginStory: Fisk's father died from a cold caught be carelessly reading a book in the rain, and his mother died in an influenza pandemic that rocked their city.
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** Benton has to repeatedly give his landlady more and more of Kathy's money because he keeps inviting more and more people to his rooms. But she draws a line at the squirrels.
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** The orphan children in Tallowsport are the only ones Michael can think of that can't be bribed or threatened into freeing Roseman.
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** While the above is the most blatant example the whole series does this to Michael. If someone's going to get kidnapped or beaten up it's usually him. [[spoiler: Then there's the matter of getting unredeemed for doing the right thing, getting rejected by his childhood crush, being forced to let the orphans kill Roseman, getting an assassin/serial killer sent after him. He goes through a lot.]]
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** In The Scholar's Plot they both somehow managed to be this to each other since their in the middle of a contest over who gets to be the boss.
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* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Fisk initially took to being a burglar to support his sisters. And when he leaves then he keeps it up for this reason eventually adding a multitude of other criminal skills (primarily con artistry) even though he has the intelligence and skill set for a more stable legal job.
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** Judicar Thrope when his house burns down. He's a slimy jerk who tried to beat up a child for laughing at him and everyone hates him. But [[spoiler: the only reason the villain burned his house down is to make Michael look suspicious.]] Also it's noted that he's from a gifted line but it died out in his mom. Which which is how Fisk's family ended up poor.
